I am surprised to see the lack of respect for MUC and the overall lack of D3 football knowledge from many of the east fans. History is a great teacher, and some of you seem to already forget the accomplishments of MUC. When I think of a D3 football dynasty – there are only a few: The Augustana teams of the mid 80’s is one, and the incredible run MUC is on right now is another. It is great to be gung-ho about the playoffs and your team, but I wouldn’t talk trash about MUC or their conference, until you go into Alliance and beat them.

I am a former IC Bomber player from the mid 80’s and I bleed Bomber blue. I said OH NO when I saw the brackets, but then I said, if you want to be the best, then you have to play the best. What a great test for IC to have to travel and play MUC. Coach Welch will have the bombers ready – they will have to play a perfect game to win, but they are hot right now. I will be rooting very hard for them Saturday. In my days, we played 2 x D2 games each year, to make us better and to keep us successful in the playoffs. If you look at the current non-conference schedules for the teams in the east, it is not impressive at all. The only way to get better is to play better competition. Why couldn’t the east teams schedule W&J, Trinity, MHB, UWW, Central, Salisbury….& there are many more to choose from. This would help the east in the later rounds of the playoffs. At least from what I read SJF is doing a home and home with MUC over the next 2 years – right? If this is true, nice job.

SJF has made alot of progress in the east in a short period of time (awesome facilities too), but they need to first take care of their first round game (another hot team). And if you get the chance to go play MUC, then let’s see how that game turns out, before you start talking trash. You have a really good program and I hope you get a chance to revenge your loss to MUC, but let’s at least try to act like you have been there before – with some class. Nothing personal….

I congratulate all of you for your D3 football passion. Good luck this week.

Bombers798891: Nice insight on the blog, you know your history.
Go Bombers!!!!!

I concur. This is fun….cheering on your favorite school while having the utmost respect for all those in the playoffs and the fans that support them. These great teams are there for a reason. Good luck as well kind sir.

It is kind of funny, I “bleedpurple” as well, but with a little bit of Gold in there. It will be a great Saturday. I look forward to cheering on my Crusaders live against Trinity and coming home to check the scores on D3Football.com afterwards. Gotta love it!!!!!

Cool … someone that posts something BESIDES a Mount Union / SJF debate !! It’s been the same stuff from the same 5 people for 5 days !! Give it a rest !! You are correct … who’s to say Franklin wins in OT. But after coming from two scores down in the final minutes there was some FC momentum. I, of course, would have loved to have had the opportunity to play extra. Kudos to the Little Giants for a great season that might have been spoiled on that one on-sde kick. What’s Huff doing in there anyway ? The Wabash fans that day were great … best we saw all year — even in the rain. I do have to question the “average day” by Huff …. he set the Wabash records that day that Jake Knott had owned for both passing yards and total yards. That my friend is NOT just an “average day” for anyone !! Let’s take care of business and I’ll be looking forward to seeing the red and white again — hopefully in a few weeks !! Until then – Wabash Always Fights … and GO GRIZ !

Grizfan – Yes you lost to Wabash by a 2 point conversion, but if (and that is a big IF) you would have made that and, if it would have been tied, then Franklin would NOT have tried an onsides kick and the LG would not have lost their QB, that was “Having a career day” your quote not mine. We at Wabash think it might have been an Average Day. And whos to say Franklin would have won in OT. That is “Why you play the game” – Herm Edwards. As it turns out, we are not as bad off as it seems with missing Huff, now we know who our QB will be for the next 2 years. Lets hope that the re-match can happen at the Regional Finals @ C’ville. But first we both need to be 1-0 on Sunday.

I think you’re missing the point of the debate regarding MUC. There are plenty of teams who WANT the trophy, but no-one seems to be ABLE to beat them, as the 4 losses in 13 years would point out.

The basic question isn;t whether or not MUC is doing anything wrong or if it’s unfair–because I don’t think anyone here could say that. The question is, on the whole, for D-III football, is one team winning year after year a good thing? If MUC wins this year, that’s nine titles in 12 years. For a sport that functions on the outside of most sports’ fans minds, the Stagg Bowl is the only D-III game to get press (This year’s Williams’ game nonwithstanding) If that game almost always features the same team, at what point do you risk sending a message of “The rest of our teams aren’t good enough to compete?” Sure, most of us onthis board know of all the talent at schools like St. John’s, etc. But the general public and media at large don’t because pretty much every year, MUC is polishing off another 14-0 or 15-0 season with a championship. At some point, it reaches a stage where the story is the same each year and people can lose interest