Eau Claire barely snuck by Concordia before getting stomped by 1,300 enrollment Coe this year. Stevens Point was lucky to put up 7 points against 1,500 enrollment Albion. Those are absolutely peers in college sports.
Peers are other "high enrollment public universities", not small privately funded schools. The WinconSIN "high enrollment public universities" are like AAAAA schools that have decided to play against small A schools because, as you say, it saves money and they have a better chance of winning. Legally then can make that choice, it's just embarrassing to be a fan who supports that decision.
You play in the division you want, everyone playing by the same rules. Enrollment is just not even close to the biggest factor in wins and losses in college sports. This isn't high school.
This is a really, really dumb take. Almost as dumb as your childish "WinconSIN" which is quite ironic considering that you spelled it wrong, starting the childish slur with the letters W.I.N.
Nice to see that at least one WisconSIN "large enrollment public university" has a bit of pride and is willing to compete with its peers. Here's to you Parkside.
I’ve only followed Wiac football for about a decade after going to a school in the conference. Between the close proximity to the twin cities, the top notch (new) facilities that are comprable to st Thomas, and the strength of the uw name tags I figured it was only a matter of time before river falls caught up. It’s a quieter campus but nice town and school too
How does it compare to the MIAC?
I watch North Central games on their Website. Impressive program with good run/pass balance. Fun to watch them.
St. Johns had like 29 yards rushing and almost lost to Augsburg.
River Falls is the smallest of the schools in the WIAC at 5,725 undergrads. This makes it around the size of schools like Bemidji and Moorhead. It is larger than two other UW schools - Div. 2 UW-Parkside, and UMAC member UW-Superior (neither of which have football teams.)
The press box looks nice, but it's got a track and the bathrooms require a hike. In the WIAC I'd put them ahead of Stevens Point and that's about it.
When st Thomas was in miac, I’d say they were evenly matched. St Thomas and St. John’s were comparable to whitewater and la crosse with frequent national title game appearances. Middle of the conference teams were comparable as well. Not id put wiac ahead but I suppose it’s not by much. Bethel has stepped up. Wiac usually has 3-4 teams in top 25 and miac has 2
SJU is the house John G built. Their sport facility was built in the 70's. The football program is living off his past glory. STU has moved on, not much competition in the conference anymore. STU would beat them by 40 points.
I believe, in the past, the type of D3 athletes that UST recruited are now landing on all the other MIAC teams and Augsburg is reaping the reward of having that type of player on the roster.
And they lost on a walk off 51 yard field goal.
Yeah tough day for the Dragons, came so close to knocking off the Mavericks. Coach Laqua was a little too aggressive with his decision to go for it on fourth down to take the lead rather than try a FG attempt.NSIC Scores today:
Sioux Falls 35 - CSP 28
Augustana 38 - SW Minnesota State 6
Wayne State 28 - UM Duluth 18
Minnesota State 24 - MSU Moorhead 21
Winona State 17 - UMary 7
Northern State 46 - Minot State 7
Awesome. UW Lax broke a long losing streak to whitewater (I think 16 games or something like that)
Nice to see the team with the homecoming game win...
In MN we've got hockey hair, but Colorado School of Mines has everyone beat when it comes to football hair.
Looks like Wisconsin teams are thriving, they had 20,000 people at a game this weekend.