FB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[Nate Riley]

https://www.news-herald.com/2025/12/16/john-carroll-football-hits-jackpot-in-transfer-portal/

hopefully the old school belief of the transfer portal at Mount Union is dead and gone.  The portal sucks, but its the new way of D3 football.  How gross is that?  But the Raiders better load up on transfers this off-season

What makes you think UMU has an old school mindset about the portal? Two of our best receivers this year were transfers, we've also always had big time transfers in the past, even before the portal... Pierre Garçon was the most notebable

We can talk about reasons for not getting as good of top tier transfers as we should be but I don't think it's an old school mindset issue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2DmtpCB00w

around 19-20 min in

GD "I dont even know how to log into the transfer portal huh huh.....we're not actively going into the transfer portal and picking guys out..."  March '24

The 13 national titles and being the only name brand in D3 bring in the transfers, always have.  Pierre sent his own tape to Mount, he recruited Mount not the other way around. 

While Mount is still the only household name D3FB program, but the days of transfers lining up to come to Alliance are probably done for now.  Hopefully Dartt has figured out the portal log-in and is actively going after difference makers. 

Mount is still "a" household name but it's not the "only" household name in D3FB.

sure thing bud....NCC is the king of the mountain right now but nobody outside of Chicagoland could tell you where North Central is and what it is north and central of.  You might be able to find some football folks that still think UWW is a power, but Mount is the national brand at the D3FB level.  There's a reason that anytime Mount drops a game it shows up on Sportscenter and d3football's web traffic doubles. 

First, my name isn't bud. It's spelled out clearly. Secondly, There are so many different ways I can attack you on your position but I'll let you be since apparently you're still grieving. Again, Mount is "a" household name in d3fb but it's not the "only" household name.
So please don't choke on that pill if it's too tough for you to swallow. Regurgitate and carry on.

[D3fanboy]

https://www.news-herald.com/2025/12/16/john-carroll-football-hits-jackpot-in-transfer-portal/

hopefully the old school belief of the transfer portal at Mount Union is dead and gone.  The portal sucks, but its the new way of D3 football.  How gross is that?  But the Raiders better load up on transfers this off-season

What makes you think UMU has an old school mindset about the portal? Two of our best receivers this year were transfers, we've also always had big time transfers in the past, even before the portal... Pierre Garçon was the most notebable

We can talk about reasons for not getting as good of top tier transfers as we should be but I don't think it's an old school mindset issue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2DmtpCB00w

around 19-20 min in

GD "I dont even know how to log into the transfer portal huh huh.....we're not actively going into the transfer portal and picking guys out..."  March '24

The 13 national titles and being the only name brand in D3 bring in the transfers, always have.  Pierre sent his own tape to Mount, he recruited Mount not the other way around. 

While Mount is still the only household name D3FB program, but the days of transfers lining up to come to Alliance are probably done for now.  Hopefully Dartt has figured out the portal log-in and is actively going after difference makers. 

Mount is still "a" household name but it's not the "only" household name in D3FB.

sure thing bud....NCC is the king of the mountain right now but nobody outside of Chicagoland could tell you where North Central is and what it is north and central of.  You might be able to find some football folks that still think UWW is a power, but Mount is the national brand at the D3FB level.  There's a reason that anytime Mount drops a game it shows up on Sportscenter and d3football's web traffic doubles. 

First, my name isn't bud. It's spelled out clearly. Secondly, There are so many different ways I can attack you on your position but I'll let you be since apparently you're still grieving. Again, Mount is "a" household name in d3fb but it's not the "only" household name.
So please don't choke on that pill if it's too tough for you to swallow. Regurgitate and carry on.

If you are talking about Mount Union consistently having disappointing seasons in the past handful of years, attack away, I really doubt that you'll come up with anything new around these parts.  you sound very tough and intimidating, but even though NCC is currently the top d3fb program going, they are not a national name/brand. and that is ok, winning championships is more important than just being the only D3FB program known by ESPN viewers. 

"My position" is that the current football administration at Mount is wasting 40 years of the greatest college football dynasty known to man.  The gigantic plus that would be for recruiting/portal is being eroded each and every year.  It has nothing to do with NCC, or UWW or UMHB or whatever other d3fb program shows up for a handful of years or even a decade

[Nate Riley]

https://www.news-herald.com/2025/12/16/john-carroll-football-hits-jackpot-in-transfer-portal/

hopefully the old school belief of the transfer portal at Mount Union is dead and gone.  The portal sucks, but its the new way of D3 football.  How gross is that?  But the Raiders better load up on transfers this off-season

What makes you think UMU has an old school mindset about the portal? Two of our best receivers this year were transfers, we've also always had big time transfers in the past, even before the portal... Pierre Garçon was the most notebable

We can talk about reasons for not getting as good of top tier transfers as we should be but I don't think it's an old school mindset issue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2DmtpCB00w

around 19-20 min in

GD "I dont even know how to log into the transfer portal huh huh.....we're not actively going into the transfer portal and picking guys out..."  March '24

The 13 national titles and being the only name brand in D3 bring in the transfers, always have.  Pierre sent his own tape to Mount, he recruited Mount not the other way around. 

While Mount is still the only household name D3FB program, but the days of transfers lining up to come to Alliance are probably done for now.  Hopefully Dartt has figured out the portal log-in and is actively going after difference makers. 

Mount is still "a" household name but it's not the "only" household name in D3FB.

sure thing bud....NCC is the king of the mountain right now but nobody outside of Chicagoland could tell you where North Central is and what it is north and central of.  You might be able to find some football folks that still think UWW is a power, but Mount is the national brand at the D3FB level.  There's a reason that anytime Mount drops a game it shows up on Sportscenter and d3football's web traffic doubles. 

First, my name isn't bud. It's spelled out clearly. Secondly, There are so many different ways I can attack you on your position but I'll let you be since apparently you're still grieving. Again, Mount is "a" household name in d3fb but it's not the "only" household name.
So please don't choke on that pill if it's too tough for you to swallow. Regurgitate and carry on.

If you are talking about Mount Union consistently having disappointing seasons in the past handful of years, attack away, I really doubt that you'll come up with anything new around these parts.  you sound very tough and intimidating, but even though NCC is currently the top d3fb program going, they are not a national name/brand. and that is ok, winning championships is more important than just being the only D3FB program known by ESPN viewers. 

"My position" is that the current football administration at Mount is wasting 40 years of the greatest college football dynasty known to man.  The gigantic plus that would be for recruiting/portal is being eroded each and every year.  It has nothing to do with NCC, or UWW or UMHB or whatever other d3fb program shows up for a handful of years or even a decade

I have to much respect for the history of MT football to go back and forth with you. You made a statement that I disagreed with nothing more or less. The only program that I've mentioned is Mount. You've mentioned NCC, UWW, MHB which tells me you don't even believe Mount is the "only" household name in d3fb. The facts are this, since MT started winning stagg bowls in 1993 until there last in 2017 there was NEVER a period between championships where 3 or more different programs won the stagg before Mt could win it again. 1 or 2 different programs got their taste of walnut and bronze sandwiched in between Mounts titles but never 3 or more However, since 2017 that has already happened with (MHB, NCC, & Cortland) in just 6 soon to be 7 seasons. So "ESPN pundits have had more than just Mounts name rolling off their tongues lately. Couple that with the incredible surge of social media, there is no way MT is the "only" household name in d3fb. 

Btw, NORTH Central COLLEGE is located in Naperville IL (population of 150K) which is 7 times the size of Alliance OH. NCC is north centrally located within the city limits of Naperville. About 30-35 miles west of Chicago. You can't say you don't know where it is anymore.