FB: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[warhawkbabe]

Kirasdad. You are right if you want to contribute to the program you do what the coaches ask during the off season. I am just keeping it realistic, that it is all voluntary.
As far as who will be the successor if LL gets the GVSU job I think thye would look internally first either Borland or Zebrowski. I am not sure if they wil ever bring back the other coach Z. He burned a lot of bridges from my understanding, more so after not getting the job then before. He was a great person, had him as a teacher. Just to bad it didn't work out for him at WW. He was also a HC at Minnesota Morris before coming to UWW.
Hopfully we will have this stuff with GVSU and LL figured out by next week, so it can be either put to rest or the Hawks can start looking for the next head coach.

[formerd3db]

As far as recruiting the streak of five straight trips to the national championship and winning two of the last three stagg bowls. The recruiting will take care of it's self. It's division three football guys there is not much to the recruiting process. If I am going to UWW or any or WIAC school and I want to play football they really can't say no to me. Know if I suck they can cut me but they can't tell me NO. There are not letters of intent or verbal commitments at that level..

Agree with some of what you said, but I think recruiting has a larger role than you are portraying in your post.

I agree with kirasdad.  Admittedly, warhawkbabe, I don't know about UWW's recruiting process/practices and obviously you do.  However, I will say that recruiting for football does play a huge role for many DIII schools and certainly for our MIAA, despite it not being a scholarship process.  I agree with you that participation in football is a voluntary process, however, it basically is also at the other levels.  One can also make the case that why should players go to a school if the coaching staff is not interested in them.  That makes no sense for coaching staffs to have an attitude that basically suggests... the players will come and we'll make due with those who show up.  Kirasdad is right in that recruiting for football in conjunction with the academics at our DIII level - for most schools - does play a huge and important part.  Just MO.  

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

Happy New Year Everyone!  Later today I'll be able to say...

I'm On A Boat!

[badgerwarhawk]

Happy New Year Everyone!  Later today I'll be able to say...

I'm On A Boat!

LOL

[BoBo]

A couple more stories on the GVSU situation, HERE & HERE. Tuesday seems to be the day all this is expected to be settled.

[warhawkbabe]

Thanks for the info. The second article reminds me of when Brez retired,and everyone though coach Z should be hired as the new head coach successful coordinator, been there a long time and everything else. However UWW went a different way and they have won 2 Stagg bowls since doing so. Whether GVSU stays in house or not I am not sure, as thats up to the interview comittee.
As far as the recuriting stuff I have mentioned. Yes recruiting is important but it's not like at D1 where if you don't recruit the right 5 star athletes you will get fired. Which is basically my point with that it's important but not like it is at the scholarship levels.
Anyways good luck with the GVSU interview LL. If you get it congrats and thanks for what you have done in three years at UWW. If you don''t get it, welcome back,and lets win another one.

[formerd3db]

warhawkbabe:

I know what you mean about the DI recruiting and agree.  Yet, I would also just add that, unfortunately, that does happen at the DIII level and seems to be a little more prevelent than in the past and/or that some people want to admit.  While rare, there are some schools at DIII that if you don't win, you're gone, regardless of what you've done for the student-athletes and the school (it happened at Adrian this year as for one recent example I can relate).  Anyway, we'll await this week's announcements, if any!

[BoBo]

In those articles about the coaching vacancy at Grand Valley, it was reported that the ex-GVSU coach would become the new DB coach at Notre Dame. They make it sound like it's the worst kept secret. However, today, it's being reported in the Journal-Sentinal, that UW DB coach Kerry Cooks will be going to ND. Doesn't actually say Cooks will coach the DB's at ND, but since he was a DB at Iowa and has coached the DB's at UW the last four years and at Minnesota before that, I think it's safe to assume he will coach the DB's at ND. Curious what's going on down there.  

EDIT: THIS article has Cooks coaching linebackers at ND, so it all works out.

Another interesting article on the subject HERE.

[wally_wabash]

Just read the article about traveling UWW fans having to catch the Stagg Bowl at BW3 in West Lafayette...I wish I would have known y'all were in town!  I would have jumped over the bridge and taken in the game with the UWW crew.  That BW3 serves as my personal major sporting event headquarters....NFL playoffs, MLB playoffs, CWS games, most major NCAA football and basketball games, all 32 games of the first round of the NCAA hoops tournament every year (and the majority of the rest of the tourney as well)...and the occasional Stagg Bowl.     

Glad to read that the contigency plan worked out for those that traveled.  Congrats to the Warhawks on another title! 

[bleedpurple]

New post on my blog:

5 INGREDIENTS OF A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

www.uwwfootball.blogspot.com

[bleedpurple]

GVSU appears set to announce a press conference name a new head football coach as soon as Notre Dame announces hiring of Chuck Martin.

http://www.mlive.com/lakers/index.ssf/2010/01/grand_valley_expected_to_annou.html

[BoBo]

bleedpurple, have you read some of the GVSU message boards regarding their coaching position? A few examples:

335.1. Good to see
by lakerbacker, 12/31/09 16:40 ET
Re: Several Candidates by lakerbacker, 12/31/09
Glad they put together a solid candidate list. I like the Wisc-Whitewater coach best out of that list. Don't know much about MM so no slight on his part.

330. MM for Head Coach
by gvfan2010, 12/28/09 11:50 ET
For those who don't think MM would be a great HC obviously have not been around the problem these past years. Also, by bringing in someone out of house, there is the risk of losing continuity on the coaching staff. I would assume MM will continue as D-coordinator with Koehler probably moving to OC.
Also, I would hope Selgo would hire MM even without everyone bringing up the whole father-in-law/son-in-law issue. That needs to be put to rest... if you knew the program MM is the best candidate.

What do you think bp? Is he on his way to Michigan?

[KitchenSink]

WarhawkFootball.com, Jan. 2007:

Having tasted coaching at virtually every level of NCAA competition, Leipold comes to Whitewater with one goal in mind. To continue the success while bleeding purple as has been the case for Perkins and Berezowitiz.

"This is home," Leipold told those in attendance at Wednesday's press conference. "Everyone knows that this is one of the premier jobs in college football and I relish the opportunity to become the new head coach."

With Coaches Berezowitz and Perkins looking on, Leipold said that he wants to be able to sit in the crowd 20 years down the road when his successor is named.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ............

[02 Warhawk]

WarhawkFootball.com, Jan. 2007:

Having tasted coaching at virtually every level of NCAA competition, Leipold comes to Whitewater with one goal in mind. To continue the success while bleeding purple as has been the case for Perkins and Berezowitiz.

"This is home," Leipold told those in attendance at Wednesday's press conference. "Everyone knows that this is one of the premier jobs in college football and I relish the opportunity to become the new head coach."

With Coaches Berezowitz and Perkins looking on, Leipold said that he wants to be able to sit in the crowd 20 years down the road when his successor is named.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ............

that can still be true...

He'll be back next year, nobody worry...Bobo is descreetly pulling strings from Korea to sabatoge the interview process to keep Lance here.  

[badgerwarhawk]

I'm sure that he was sincere in saying that.  But that was then and this is now.  Time has a way of changing things.  He's a young coach and as much as I want to see him stay I can't blame him for wanting to advance his career.  It was inevitable that this would happen if the WARHAWK program continued to be prominent on the national scene.  At any rate it isn't a done deal at this point and there is stiff competition for the job.  Who's to say that Lance will be selected?