North Central vs UW-Whitewater D3 Title
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Saint Xavier University won a National Championship like 5 years ago.
Yes
They Beat Carrol College of Montana. SXU is the winningest College Football program of any college in Illinois.
As far as NCAA football championships, might be the first since Augustana in the 1980s (which might also be the last time a CCIW won the D3 title). I seem to recall Southern Illinois won the I-AA title back in the 80s, but don't recall exactly what year.
Coach was allowing his QB to get the Division III all-time career passing record. He just needed 12 more yards at the end there.
NCC could and should be a sleeping giant. Great school, fantastic facilities, spectacular coaching staff across the board, and a pretty decent night life a block or two from campus. There’s plenty of local and regional talent to feed the beast.
Not really sleeping. They just won a national Championship
One championship doesn’t make you a giant. They are awakening, for sure. They need to obviously replace Rutter but the talent around the next QB should be enough to make a decent run next year.
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They are not a sleeping giant no more. The cats out the bag now! Lol
Congratulations to NCC! Awesome team and very dominant! Very impressive to beat both Mount Union and White Water, no easy task,
He was the QB in ‘13 and ‘14. 2013 he had Mikey Dudek as his top target and they made it to the quarters. ‘14 the team went 6-3 and lost in the first round. They weren’t very good at wideout so Broc’s numbers dropped.
Congrats to North Central College, National Champions. They have been knocking on the door for several years. It all started when John Thorne took over as head coach. Now his son, Jeff, has lead them to the promised land. The Thornes were responsible for turning around Wheaton Central a little over three decades ago. Super happy for these kids!
No reason why NCC can't become the next Whitewater or Mt. Union. More talent locally than either school and you are in downtown Naperville.
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Totally agree. Tons of talent in Illinois. Who said that Illinois can’t complete with the rest of the country.
Most people say so. That’s why illinois kids are winning D3 championships not FBS championships.
Well, my point is that a school located in the 3rd largest metro area in the nation should have enough of a talent base to hang with a program from Wisconsin or rural Ohio.
I wouldn’t call Alliance, OH rural. It’s pretty much smack dab in the middle of Cleveland, Akron, Canton, Warren, and Youngstown. Extremely fertile recruiting area. I’d argue that is exactly why they are a powerhouse. Whitewater? Probably because of the talent located here. No reason why NCC couldn’t take that pipeline over.
Winning the D3 Championship doesn’t even count. It’s like winning 5A.
See, class, that’s how it’s done. An early Christmas gift. Hat tip for a proper troll.
I have been to Mount Union. Nice campus. Alliance is a decent sized town, but it is completely surrounded by farmland. Definitely small town America.
More than half of their roster is from outside of Ohio, and most of those out of state kids are from states that do not border on OH. I'd argue they are a powerhouse because of outstanding coaching and recruiting on a national basis.
Rumor around here was Steven Frank was going to go there before committing to EIU. I've also heard a couple other Oswego guys were transferring to NCC.
They are absolutely a national powerhouse right now. But in the 90s with Larry Kehres they built their foundation with local kids.