As is traditional, our final Around the Nation podcast of the season comes straight out of our Stagg Bowl XXXVII postgame show. In this week’s podcast, Pat Coleman, Keith McMillan and Frank Rossi talk about the Stagg Bowl (of course), debate and finally select the D3football.com Coach of the Year, Offensive Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year, then look forward to the 2010 season.

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Keith McMillan was in Alliance, Ohio, and Pat Coleman was in Whitewater, Wis., and while surely there are fans who probably are less interested in a Stagg Bowl with Mount Union and UW-Whitewater, those who are are in for a treat.

As we get ready for Stagg Bowl XXXVII (aka 37, since this particular set of Roman numerals is getting pretty long) Keith and Pat review how our two purple powerhouses got back to this point, with more challenging games in the semifinals than usual. They’ll talk about what they saw, what strengths and weaknesses were displayed on each side and get us started on the final Road to Salem.

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Almost anyone could have come out of the “West” bracket.

But those other three brackets, well, that’s another story. When we did our playoff predictions in Around the Nation, Mount Union, Wesley and UW-Whitewater were unanimous picks to win their brackets.

So, it could be that we just played 28 games over three weeks for the privilege of identifying the four national semifinalists. But we sure had some interesting games along the way, right?

Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan take a look at the four quarterfinals and the teams that emerged in this week’s Around the Nation podcast.

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