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Ted Thompson
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Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/25/2017 11:48:38 AM

Use this thread to talk about anything game-related. For away games, we'll have a separate travel thread.

Date: December 29th, 2017 7:00 PM

Opponent: Northwestern Ohio (8-8)

Site: Convocation Center

TV: None

Radio: Ohio Radio or on TuneIn Radio

Webcast: None

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/25/2017 2:40:19 PM

NW Ohio is a member of NAIA Div 2, Wolverine Hoosier Athletic Conference. Interesting grouping of schools, some of them with fairly large enrollments. Cornerstone (MI) is currently #1 in the national poll.

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/26/2017 10:23:14 AM

Please Saul....no more of these games...just ridiculous.

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/26/2017 10:26:11 AM

My sister-in-law's boyfriend played baseball for Northwestern Ohio for one year, but he transferred to UC to be a non-athlete so he could have a real college experience.

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/26/2017 10:59:23 AM

According to the athletic department website:

The current athletic department was revived and rebranded in 2007-08, which included adding men's and women's basketball. They've only been a program for 10 years?

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/26/2017 11:38:19 AM

Fake Jeff tells me that this school has some real athletes who couldn't qualify academically at an NCAA school. He says don't take the Racers lightly or they'll run over you.

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/26/2017 11:50:58 AM

OhioCatFan wrote:

Fake Jeff tells me that this school has some real athletes who couldn't qualify academically at an NCAA school. He says don't take the Racers lightly or they'll run over you.

Joking aside, it is pretty cool that they have a Motorsports coach listed in their staff directory.

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/26/2017 12:01:09 PM

GoCats105 wrote:

OhioCatFan wrote:

Fake Jeff tells me that this school has some real athletes who couldn't qualify academically at an NCAA school. He says don't take the Racers lightly or they'll run over you.

Joking aside, it is pretty cool that they have a Motorsports coach listed in their staff directory.

Their racing programs are something else to watch over at Eldora. Definitely are a niche school with great potential I think.

Nonetheless, from looking at their roster of Ohio kids, I am not worried.....

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/26/2017 12:13:28 PM

Ohio athletics has introduced me to dozens of schools/teams over the years that without our creative scheduling, I wouldn't know even existed. Friday night I'll add to that list of schools I had never heard of after nearly half a century of living, until now.

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/26/2017 12:58:57 PM

GoCats105 wrote:

OhioCatFan wrote:

Fake Jeff tells me that this school has some real athletes who couldn't qualify academically at an NCAA school. He says don't take the Racers lightly or they'll run over you.

Joking aside, it is pretty cool that they have a Motorsports coach listed in their staff directory.

Agree. I know you're not making fun of folks who seek careers in applied technology, but others might misunderstand the value of the motorsports/diesel/auto tech studies.

My cousin earned a dual diesel/ASE two-year technical degree at this institution around 1980. He's had a great career in automotive technology and for several years owned his own gas station/repair shop until the franchise model changed. He's smart and hard working.

One of my high school classmates -- a collision tech career guy -- has a son there now on a 100% academic scholarship doing the same thing my cousin did.

We have a nephew who earned a two-year degree in automotive technology at an institution near Cleveland and he had no trouble finding good work during the last recession. He continues to advance in his career

There's definitely a market for motorsports and other technology-based advanced technical learning. These kinds of programs are especially good for those who have a blend of logical/mathematical and kinetic intelligence.

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/26/2017 1:56:23 PM

Chicken George wrote:

I wouldn't know this was even a school either if not for my step-brother who graduated from there with a degree dealing with heavy machinery/engines. It's a great school for the programs they have to offer since a lot of those trades are falling by the wayside unless you go the apprentice route.

Last Edited: 12/26/2017 1:58:08 PM by GoCats105

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/26/2017 2:00:19 PM

Joe McKinley wrote:

GoCats105 wrote:

OhioCatFan wrote:

Fake Jeff tells me that this school has some real athletes who couldn't qualify academically at an NCAA school. He says don't take the Racers lightly or they'll run over you.

Joking aside, it is pretty cool that they have a Motorsports coach listed in their staff directory.

Really any engine technology. They do agricultural and diesel programs as well.

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/26/2017 3:26:04 PM

GoCats105 wrote:

Chicken George wrote:

I grew up 15 miles from the opponent school, and have a cousin who graduated from the automotive school. That particular school of focus, and Buck to Bob mentioned, is a niche school where UNOhio does exceedingly well. They place guys into NASCAR and Indycar teams, as well as dirt racing teams. That program is elite in it's field.

As for playing them in hoops...yeah....I'm on board with the idea of not doing this game ever again. I'd rather see the guys get beat at Duke by 40 than play this game, and I'm not a fan of scheduling those kinds of games.

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/26/2017 3:55:46 PM

This game will not be on ESPN3 and the reason(s) have previously been discussed here on BA. However, I'm still a little confused as to why other colleges are able to broadcast their games on ESPN3 when students are on break while Ohio is not. Not so much a big deal with this matchup, but Ohio has 2 homes games in early January before the students return and that I assume will not be on ESPN3. That makes for about home 5 games, or about 1/3 of our home games, not on ESPN3.

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/26/2017 4:12:29 PM

I grew up 25 miles from there and never heard of them until I googled them and found out they used to be the Northwestern Business College. A couple of my high school classmates went there for accounting classes, etc. I agree that you don't take any opponent lightly or they'll bite you. I don't think Saul will let the team overlook them. We should easily put up 100 on them and win by 50 or more. Of course, now that I've said that....

I really hate these lower-division games as part of the regular season. I wonder how much of that's attributed to the "P"s expanding their conference schedule, leaving more open dates for the rest of us to fill in however we can.

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/26/2017 4:26:49 PM

One of the schools in their league is Lourdes, in Sylvania, OH. I'll have to admit I had barely heard of Lourdes.

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/26/2017 8:48:10 PM

This game is a joke.

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/26/2017 9:59:16 PM

Probably part of the reason why when you look at the MAC rankings in Ken Pom it is so poor. The Mac and Ohio have got to do better than this.

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/26/2017 10:35:07 PM

Casper71 wrote:

Probably part of the reason why when you look at the MAC rankings in Ken Pom it is so poor. The Mac and Ohio have got to do better than this.

These games are totally disregarded by KenPom so they have no impact.

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/27/2017 9:25:37 AM

Jeff McKinney wrote:

One of the schools in their league is Lourdes, in Sylvania, OH. I'll have to admit I had barely heard of Lourdes.

I'm right there with you Jeff. But it looks like Lourdes is playing at BG tomorrow night.

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/27/2017 11:46:57 AM

Some insight as to why non-D1 games sometimes show up on the December schedule: http://www.toledoblade.com/College/2017/12/26/Lourdes-men...

It's telling that EMU has to schedule four just so they can get the minimum number of home games. NOBODY wants to play in front of the friends and family crowds in Ypsi.

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/27/2017 12:01:44 PM

Eagle66 wrote:

Jeff McKinney wrote:

One of the schools in their league is Lourdes, in Sylvania, OH. I'll have to admit I had barely heard of Lourdes.

I'm right there with you Jeff. But it looks like Lourdes is playing at BG tomorrow night.

Yeah I saw that!

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/27/2017 12:15:19 PM

Jeff McKinney wrote:

Eagle66 wrote:

Jeff McKinney wrote:

One of the schools in their league is Lourdes, in Sylvania, OH. I'll have to admit I had barely heard of Lourdes.

I'm right there with you Jeff. But it looks like Lourdes is playing at BG tomorrow night.

Yeah I saw that!

Are they called the Apparitions? (Ohhhhh, mea maxima culpa, y'all!!)

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/28/2017 10:12:16 AM

oldkatz wrote:

Jeff McKinney wrote:

Eagle66 wrote:

Jeff McKinney wrote:

One of the schools in their league is Lourdes, in Sylvania, OH. I'll have to admit I had barely heard of Lourdes.

I'm right there with you Jeff. But it looks like Lourdes is playing at BG tomorrow night.

Yeah I saw that!

Are they called the Apparitions? (Ohhhhh, mea maxima culpa, y'all!!)

Is their women's team the Lady Lourdes?

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RE: Official Game 12 Thread: Northwestern Ohio

Posted: 12/28/2017 10:45:27 AM

Apparently, Jay Bilas hasn't looked closely at MAC schedules.

Every team in the Mid-American Conference has a winning record in non-conference play. Pretty impressive, considering MAC schedules.
— Jay Bilas (@JayBilas) December 28, 2017

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