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Interesting things going on with Purdue regional campuses. Perhaps heading to D2. The GLIAC is in the process of losing six schools to a different D2 conference.

http://www.nwitimes.com/sports/college/purdue-calumet/the-final-countdown-for-purdue-calumet-and-purdue-north-central/article_482bea7b-ab6b-515f-9d5b-2e60867f3770.html

Mentioned right at the end......


http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/2015/06/02/purdue-players-iu-college-football-hall-fame/28369445/

http://www.thefumble.com/seattle-mariners/watch-seattle-manager-lloyd-mcclendons-epic-meltdown-after-ejection.html

Fixed!

http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2015/04/20/indiana-senior-boys-all-stars-2015-high-school-indiana-all-stars/26069547/

http://wbay.com/2015/04/14/source-uwgb-names-linc-darner-as-mens-basketball-coach/

Very successful in D2.

How many games have we played even or better in the first half only to get blown out in the second half. It appears we start games with a pretty good game plan but are being seriously out coached at half time. Game after game our opponents seem to make adjustments and we do not.

I was a big proponent of making a coaching change after three years of under 30% winning. Unfortunately, we remain in the same area and though there is some young talent you have to begin to wonder if their is a light at the end of this coaching tunnel.

Will Dorow get the 4 year Carlson plan or do we know what we have after 2+ years?

In yesterday's game #34 Brandon Slattery was listed as making 4 tackles. Interesting because we was dropped from the published roster weeks ago. Also interesting that he was a TE back when he was on the team. I am curious who #34 was and why our stats people don't know.

We still list guys on the 2 deep who don't seem to play.

Finally why is it that every other school lists a participation stat page but we do not. You have to go to an opponents website to see who played (or might have).

http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/butler/2014/10/02/butler-coach-brandon-miller-takes-leave-of-absence/16588013/

Some disappointments today....the football roster has been updated and we apparently lost 4 more recruits:

QB Conner Smith from Indianapolis
DB Javonta Swinton from Florida (Stetson)
DE Zac Wright from Tennessee
WR Patrick Zeller from San Diego

All these guys looked to have potential.

An update on the two recruits we lost earlier:
DB Christian Coleman is going to run track at Tennessee
OL Brendan Weis is at Arkansas State

[IUPUI hoops home schedule has plenty of intrigue]

Ron Hunter returns...the new venue is allowing better scheduling...

IUPUI hoops home schedule has plenty of intrigue
David Woods, david.woods@indystar.com 11:44 a.m. EDT May 14

Ron Hunter is returning to IUPUI . . . and bringing his college basketball team with him.

Georgia State, led by the longtime former Jaguars coach, is among five non-conference opponents announced Wednesday by IUPUI. The Summit League team is set to play its first home schedule at the newly renovated Fairgrounds Coliseum.

The Jaguars' home opener will be Nov. 14 against Indiana State. IUPUI's other opponents are Ball State (Nov. 22), Georgia State (Nov. 29), Eastern Kentucky (Dec. 13) and South Alabama (Dec. 20).

Hunter's Georgia State team is led by his son, R.J., a Pike High School graduate who was last season's Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year.

Eastern Kentucky is coming off an NCAA tournament appearance after beating Belmont in the Ohio Valley Conference tourney.

South Alabama is coached by Matthew Graves, a former player and associate head coach at Butler. Graves' staff includes Darnell Archey, another former Butler player who holds the NCAA Division I record for consecutive free throws made (85).

Call Star reporter David Woods at (317) 444-6195.

Butler's mens team had 5 players leave during and after this season.  The women's team just fired their coach after 4 players (including 3 starters) left immediately after the season.  They also lost one during the season.

http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/butler/2014/04/23/butler-fires-womens-basketball-coach-beth-couture/8061039/

Amazingly, since we joined the Horizon our women's tennis team has lost every conference match until this weekend's victory over Green Bay. With a loss the next day we sit at 1-51 career in the HL.  We are 13-134 overall in the same timeframe. 

http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20140328/BLOGS17/140329265/-1/blogs

With 4 games remaining Ron is 28 points from being the all-time leading scorer in the D League!

http://www.nasl.com/article/uuid/uxa787uf2aj111z2fviczvkuu/cosmos-add-goalkeeper-kyle-zobeck#.UzNfpI69KK1

Second Valpo player in the league

http://strikers.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=954:strikers-re-sign-stefan-antonijevic-and-justin-chavez&catid=9&Itemid=115

The Strikers play in Indy on August 8th.

http://www.valpoathletics.com/football/schedule/2014-15/

Finally someone is listening... we have 12 games including Missouri Baptist for homecoming.  This is will be their first year with football.

Any word on how the existing players are transitioning to the new coach?  Did we lose anyone at semester?

Robert Morris, then Temple...

http://www.wpxi.com/news/sports/college/robert-morris-university-eliminating-7-ncaa-divisi/nb93d/

http://articles.philly.com/2013-12-08/news/44908784_1_temple-university-the-inquirer-american-athletic-conference

We left 3 open scholarships this year so we began practice with 12 plus a walk on (kudos for that).  2 players are transfers and will not play this year.  3 more are hurt and 2 of those are apparantly out for the year.  1 is recovering from a concussion. We were down to 7 for the Illinois game.  This is sounding hauntingly familiar to 2 years ago.

http://www.franklingrizzlies.com/mens-sports/mens-football/coaching-staff/head-coach/

It seems that every week this is the same responses to the same questions.  I think Todd and coach even have the same clothes on each week.  Were these all produced at the same time? 

Shake it up.....changes sides, do it somewhere else...how about asking about the development of the recruiting class.  This class was trumpted as a good one and it seems like only about 5 are contributing today, why? 

Check this out...this website actually ranks all college football teams and has us 589 out of 752.  Perhaps not so positive...hopefully the football schedulers will see this and get us 3 preseason wins next year.

http://www.sports-ratings.com/college_football/power-rating-all-divisions.html

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1786731-indiana-pacers-training-camp-2013-full-preview-and-roster-projections

I had basically stopped paying attention to our football team. When Carlson was named coach I decided to try to follow it again.  It is incredibly hard to follow this team and I am not even talking about the wins and losses.

There was no legimate preview ever published on this years team.  I do not count the coach and a few players talking.  The weekly preview is a joke and it basically is the same each week.  Players disappear from the roster, players are missing for games at a time with never a mention. 

I actually monitor the weekly 2 deep to see who is where.  This staff can't even publish a legitimate one. It can't be that hard.  A few examples from this year.  They have listed 2 guys as #2's on the DL who by all accounts haven't played yet. For the St Joe game our punter was not listed as #1 or #2 and finally one of our starting OG's was hurt and not dressed but was proudly listed as starting.

If we can't even do this I guess it should not be too surprising the product on the field.

Mercer won again last night.  That is 2 victories in 2 games which compares to our 2 victories in 36 with Carlson.  They will be playing their third brand new football team next week and will pick up win #3.

Looks like Clay held his own in the first scrimmage the All-Stars played last night..

http://www.southbendtribune.com/sports/highschoolsports/sbt-high-school-basketball-indiana-seniors-rule-20130611,0,640173.story

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51404720/ns/local_news-indianapolis_in/

Hopefully this bodes well for Clay making the All Star team as only 10 of the top 15 are seniors.  Davidson made High Honorable Mention.

http://www.championshipsubdivision.com/fcs-schedules/2013-fcs-football-schedules/pioneer-football-league-2013-schedules/

31-Aug   at North Dakota (Aug 29)
7-Sep   at St. Joseph's
14-Sep   William Jewel
21-Sep   Bye
28-Sep   Campbell
5-Oct   at Marist
12-Oct   at Mercer
19-Oct   Morehead State
26-Oct   at Drake
2-Nov   San Diego
9-Nov   at Butler
16-Nov   Dayton
23-Nov   Bye

We should have beaten St Joe (D2) last year, William Jewell (D2) was 2-9 last season and we have beaten Campbell twice in a row.  Could we start 3-1?

Butler is playing 12 games this season, are we headed that way?

Has anyone seen it? 

The amount of information that can be found out about our football team is sad.

Looks like Green Bay, UIC and Youngstown have already accepted bids into the CIT.

http://www.bankrollsports.com/blog/cit-bracketology/

Why do we show the women's tennis score vs Marquette as a 0-7 loss when the recap shows we lost 0-9.

This weekend Northern Illinois played U Indy and won according to their website 7-0 while U Indy's website says it was 0-9.

Is this a D1 thing where they only score 5-2 instead of 6-3?

[DT Brandon Doepke Madison, WisconsinWest 6'3" 270 N/A N/A N/A Signed with Valparaiso!!!]

Time will tell if any end up with the Crusaders...

Search results
         
DB Alex Campbell Ellsworth, Wisconsin
Ellsworth 6'2" 185 4.5  N/A N/A list
Signed with Minnesota State

QB Nick Cieslak Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
Kettle Moraine 6'3" 170 N/A  N/A N/A
Signed with Northern Illinois


OL Aidan McNamara Madison, Wisconsin
West 6'4" 285 N/A  N/A N/A
Signed with Wisconsin

RB David Gaydosz Ona, West Virginia
Cabell Midland 5'10" 186 4.5 2 stars 5.2 N/A
Signed with Akron

OL Garrett Strohmaier Carmichael, California
Jesuit 6'4" 290 N/A  N/A N/A
Signed with Dartmouth

QB Francis Kanneh Robbinsdale, Minnesota
Robbinsdale Cooper Sr. 6'2" 203 4.5 2 stars 5.2 N/A
Signed with Southern

OL Bruce Hall Leslie, Michigan
Leslie 6'5" 255 N/A  N/A N/A
Signed with Brown

DB Austin Mullins Powell, Ohio
Olentangy Liberty 6'0" 192 4.6  N/A N/A
Signed with Dayton

RB Caleb Stennis Matthews, North Carolina
Jireh Prep 5'9" 170 4.4  N/A N/A
Delaware (medium)
Delaware State (medium)
Old Dominion (medium)
Richmond (medium)
Valparaiso (medium)
Wake Forest (medium)
West Virginia (medium)
Western Illinois (medium)
Wofford (medium)

DT Steven Ospina Deland, Florida
Deland 6'1" 260 N/A 2 stars 5.2 N/A
Charleston Southern (OFFER)
Elon (medium)
Georgetown (medium)
Jacksonville (medium)
Pennsylvania (OFFER)
Rice (medium)
Valparaiso (OFFER)
Yale (medium)

WR James Staten Towson, Maryland
Loch Raven Sr 6'4" 190 4.6  N/A N/A
Signed with Albright

QB Ben Diedrick Kimberly, Wisconsin
Kimberly 6'2" 190 N/A  N/A N/A
Signed with St Cloud State

ATH Stephen Ezekoye Kensington, Maryland
Albert Einstein 5'9" 175 4.5  N/A N/A
Bryant (OFFER)
Dartmouth (medium)
Georgetown (medium)
Harvard (medium)
Pennsylvania (medium)
Princeton (medium)
Valparaiso (OFFER)
Yale (medium)

DT Ximi Asani Madison, Wisconsin
La Follette 6'1" 265 N/A  N/A N/A
Signed with Syracuse

QB Kyle Hopewell Newport, North Carolina
Croatan 6'2" 242 5.0  N/A N/A
Central Connecticut State (medium)
Columbia (medium)
Delaware (medium)
Indiana (medium)
James Madison (medium)
Massachusetts (medium)
Minnesota (medium)
North Carolina State (medium)
Princeton (medium)
TCU (medium)
Valparaiso (medium)

OL Calvin Kempken Burlington, Wisconsin
Catholic Central 6'4" 270 N/A  N/A N/A
Signed with Minnesota State

DB Patrick Bookman Canal Winchester, Ohio
Canal Winchester 6'0" 188 4.6  N/A N/A
Signed with Alderson-Broaddas

WR Michael Colubiale Port Orange, Florida
Spruce Creek 6'3" 205 N/A  N/A N/A
Signed with Central Florida (preferred walk-on)

LB Quashae Hendryx Princeton, New Jersey
The Hun School 6'1" 235 4.7  N/A N/A
Army (medium)
Connecticut (medium)
Duke (medium)
Georgia Tech (medium)
Marshall (medium)
North Carolina State (medium)
Penn State (medium)
Temple (medium)
Valparaiso (OFFER)

LB Brandon Lynch Norfolk, Virginia
Lake Taylor 6'1" 189 4.5  N/A N/A
Monmouth (medium)
Stetson (medium)
Valparaiso (medium)

DB Graham Resseguie Lincoln, Nebraska
Lincoln Pius X 5'11" 180 N/A  N/A N/A
Signed with South Dakota

DT Brandon Doepke Madison, Wisconsin
West 6'3" 270 N/A  N/A N/A
Signed with Valparaiso!!!

WR Jack Wrangler, Warren MI
Warren 6-2, 180 N/A N/A N/A
Signed with Michigan (preferred walk-on)

LB Kyle Searloss, Lewisberry PA
Red Land 6-2, 225 N/A N/A N/A
Signed with Penn State - run-on

Laura Richards, who probably played more minutes in a season than any player in Valpo history last year, has not played in 3 games. I have read nothing to explain want the problem is.

I was at the Butler game and she was there though in street clothes.   

http://www.nba.com/dleague/fortwayne/ron_howard_returns__the_mad__2012_10_10.html

He has had a nice run with the Mad Ants

We are weeks into the fall schedules and football, volleyball and the soccer Interactive Recruiting Guide, formally the Media Guide are all from 2011.  What gives?

No surprise, Stephanie Lang is not on the roster.  We did add a quick point guard out of Michigan who was headed to Ferris State but followed the coach to VU.

OK, Oakland, Murray State and Belmont were runaway winners of who we thought the HL should add.....who will actually join?  Pick 3

The fact that the HL has announced nothing to date is disappointing.  With all of the conference changes happening you would have thought a plan would have been in place.  Everyone knew that Butler could leave at any time. 

Ron Howard's Tryout with the Fort Wayne TinCaps

I was looking on Racer nation to see if Murray State fans were discussing a possible HL move but I did not locate one thread.

The Robert Morris board mentioned it but it quickly died out after a handful of posts.

Is anyone beyond Oakland interested?

Lots of opinions....lets record them.

Greg Tonagel has been a very successful NAIA coach at Indiana Wesleyan for the past seven seasons.  I wonder if he would be interested in switching to the women's game.

Steve Brooks, the women's coach at IWU, has an unbelievable record over 13 seasons including an NAIA Championship.  He has been coaching for 25 years so he may not be the perfect candidate. His primary recruiting is in Indiana.

Western Kentucky fired their head coach today.  Check out her history over the past few seasons. Are we next?

http://espn.go.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/7662683/western-kentucky-hilltoppers-fire-mary-taylor-cowles-10-seasons-women-coach

You do not have to look to hard to find a major error in the story.  Still, these two have been major contributors to our success.

http://www.nwitimes.com/sports/college/valparaiso-university/experience-pays-off-for-valpo-transfers/article_ec5f7662-fef0-5143-ad41-32ead9596aeb.html

It is early in the season but the women's tennis team is 3-3. Doesn't seem like that great of an accomplishment until you consider in the past 4 seasons they were a combined 5-81. They are playing a bunch of freshmen....even if they do not win another match, it is the best season in at least 5 years.

http://posttrib.suntimes.com/sports/10837624-556/senior-walk-on-shelton-is-valparaisos-unsung-hero.html

My nephew plays basketball in Latvia, so I spend some time on eurobasket.com.  I found this recap of Valpo players


http://www.usbasket.com/team.asp?Cntry=USA&Team=758&Page=4

http://beyondthearc.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/if-you-can-beat-a-team-by-100-points-why-are-you-playing-them/related/

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/basketball/ncaa/12/19/todd.obrien/index.html

Why does our athletic website have a section for media guides if they are not updated? All the fall sports are still 2010 versions. If we are not planning on having these (though every D1 school seems too) then pull them.