Archive for category Division II

D2: Week 4 Recap/Week 5 Preview.

Well, I’m just doing this for my own gratification now. It might be a good time to let me know you actually get some benefit out of this, before it goes away.  Cold hard facts: my pageviews are off 90% from last year (despite the fact that last year, I wasn’t even tweeting links to new content), and given the amount of spam comments I have to trash each day, I simply don’t know whether there’s anyone actually READING this thing outside of a couple of guys who want to contribute, and there’s not much point letting them proceed for no reason.

I don’t mean to be butthurt here; I can accept not providing value for your entertainment $0.00, I just really would like to know if I’m just wasting my time here.  I mean, I could be killing zombies or watching Justified or hanging out in a local dive bar instead of doing this, if it doesn’t matter to anyone.  Or, put another way, it’s not butthurt… it’s desperation.

To be fair, I could probably be doing a better job pimping myself, but it’s not in my nature.  So if you really give a crap about what I’m doing… help me out a little.  If you like it, retweet or otherwise pimp.  If you’re ambivalent, tell me why, tell me how I can improve.  If you hate the site… well, shit, if you hate the site you’re not even reading this anyway.

Oh… right.  Football.

Games to keep an eye on:
#15 Pittsburg State at #1 Northwest Missouri State
#25 Ouachita Baptist at #6 Delta State
#9 Wayne State (MI) at 3-1 Northern Michigan
3-1 Western Oregon at #11 Abilene Christian
#13 Albany State vs 3-1 Kentucky State (at Indianapolis)
#24 Hillsdale at 3-0 Saginaw Valley State
3-1 American International at 3-1 Bentley
3-1 Winona State at 3-1 Minnesota State-Mankato

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D-II: Week 3 Recap/Week 4 Preview.

This week’s D-II preview will be truncated due to time issues; the upcoming games are not included in the post, but I will discuss the important ones. Next week, we should be on a proper schedule, especially since the realignment drama in FBS seems to have screeched to a halt. Last week, the reigning #1 fell, and five teams in the top 10 lost all told.
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DII: Week 2 Recap/Week 3 Preview.

Two upsets in the top 12, an epic clash in the lower half of the poll, and other than that a whole bunch of what you’d expect. Details after this brief clicky.
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D-II: Week 0/1 Recap/Week 2 Precap.

The gears grind slowly as the D-II season lurches into motion. The #2 team in the nation has a rude awakening, the bottom falls out of the top 25, and right in the middle of the rankings, someone got something wrong. All this and more… next.
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Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes (Part One).

With every off-season comes the inevitable reshuffling of teams between conferences and divisions.  A mess of them were announced last year, but we’ll go over what’s already changed, and who’s on their way out at the end of the season.

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Oh, Look, It’s 2011.

Before we get started on a new season of hijinks here at Those Other Guys, I have some mea culpas to offer.

I disappeared right after I posted the previews for the FCS semifinals and the championship games in the other divisions, meaning I never wrapped the other divisions, nor did I preview or wrap the FCS championship game or wrap the semifinals.

I think we can all agree that this was bad.

There were things going on here at home that ate up a great deal of my free time, and said things also contributed to a severe case of writers block. No excuse, but it wasn’t just because I stopped caring all of a sudden.

So, with that, congratulations to Eastern Washington (FCS), Minnesota-Duluth (D-II), Wisconsin-Whitewater (D-III), and Carroll (MT) (NAIA) on winning their respective national championships last December.

Last season, I picked a format and rolled with it, but I was never satisfied WITH that format. I felt like it worked against the very purpose I had in mind with this site; it was too stiff, too wordy, and was pretty much just as thick and hard to swallow as simply going to dedicated sites would have been. This year, I’m going to toy with things and see if I can’t land on something that feels organic and entertaining.

I also never did figure out what to do about basketball (despite actually having a couple of offers from people interested in helping cover it), and thus never even started it. Congratulations go out to Bellarmine (D-II), Saint Thomas (MN) (D-III), Pikeville (NAIA-I), Cornerstone (NAIA-II), Azusa Pacific (NAIA-I women), and Northwestern (IA) (NAIA-II women). I cannot guarantee that I’ll get to basketball this year either, but if I do manage to come up with a format for football which I’m comfortable with, I might manage it.

Next: what changed over the summer.

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Stuff and Things, Week 17.

A look at headlines from across all the lower divisions for this week, right after the ol’ jumpy dealy.

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D-II/D-III/NAIA Championship Saturday.

One division presents us with a changing of the guard; another presents us with the same old championship game. And, after a week off, the NAIA returns to the fray to decide their champion as well. Recaps of the Division II and III semifinals and previews of the championship games for D-II, D-III, and the NAIA, after the jump.
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Division II: Quarterfinal recaps/Semifinal preview plus news.

A loss to the D-II community puts a damper on things, and one team advances without four of its star players. Quarterfinal recaps, semifinal previews, bowl game results, and other things after the jump.

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Division II: Second Round recaps/Quarterfinal preview.

The Curse of Brian Kelly lives on, Division II gets its third 2,000 yard freshman running back ever, and another unbeaten team goes home. Second-round recaplets, regional final previews, and stuff and things (including announcement of a new conference) right after the jump.

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