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ATN Podcast 342: No help for the bubble

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If you were are hoping your team can get some help in getting into the NCAA playoffs as an at-large team, we got so close to being able to give you what you wanted on Saturday. But in the end, a few places where teams were on the ropes turned out to be all about chalk and we’ll all be holding our collective breath for another week of what should be epic games.

Maybe, just maybe teams got some help when the status quo was preserved in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, and River Falls didn’t beat La Crosse and turn things into a potential mess. We chat with UWL coach Matt Janus and quarterback Keyser Helterbrand is our guest on Fast Five, talking about everything from playing behind a freshman backup center, to how he ended up at La Crosse in the first place and not some school closer to home.

We hear from Mount Union coach Geoff Dartt after his team got a comfortable win against John Carroll. It was perhaps Mount Union’s first big test of the year, and it didn’t come until Week 10, but it was a test which they passed. And Cortland aced the Empire 8 final, with Cortland turning the tables on Brockport and making its own defensive presence known.

This edition of the podcast is sponsored by d3photography.com, the licensed photography bureau contracted by D3sports.com.

Plus, we hand out game balls and spotlight the cool stats from Saturday and key stories in each region. Patrick gives us his take on the four at-large teams as the playoff picture stands right now. Greg predicts who will win the NJAC’s Friday night finales, and we break down the potential five-way tiebreaker in that conference. Yes, there is math. And bacon. And ginsu knives. And more.

Patrick Coleman and Greg Thomas discuss, in this edition of the podcast.

The D3football.com podcast is a weekly in-season podcast by Patrick Coleman and Greg Thomas, which was started in 2007.

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Photo: Darl Zehr Photography for Cortland athletics

 

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ATN Podcast 341: Epic endings

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The game between Johns Hopkins and Muhlenberg ended in a pretty epic way on Saturday. So did Belhaven’s unbeaten streak this season, at the hands of Maryville. And a 20-year long streak went by the wayside this weekend as well.

Matt Mitchell talks about getting back onto the field at exactly the right time for Hardin-Simmons in this edition of the podcast. Greg Chimera talks about the way his team pulled together when a field goal attempt to win the game went south. And we revisit a couple of other key blocked-field-goal-turned-touchdown moments in the past quarter-century of Division III football in this week’s podcast.

This edition of the podcast is sponsored by d3photography.com, the licensed photography bureau contracted by D3sports.com.

Plus, one quarterback says, “Hold my cheese curds,” Plymouth State wins on the unlikeliest of Hail Mary passes, Delaware Valley keeps its MAC streak alive in another improbable way, and Patrick and Greg … celebrate? … the impending arrival of the alphabetical regional ranking release in an interesting manner.

Patrick Coleman and Greg Thomas discuss, in this edition of the podcast.

The D3football.com podcast is a weekly in-season podcast by Patrick Coleman and Greg Thomas, which was started in 2007.

Hit play, or subscribe to get this podcast on your mobile device.

Full episode:

D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast [ 1:09:30 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

You can subscribe to the Around the Nation Podcast in Apple Podcasts, and many other places. You can also get this and any of our future Around the Nation podcasts automatically by subscribing to this RSS feed: http://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/?feed=podcast

Here’s how to find us on some of the major podcasting apps:

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Photo: Hardin-SImmons athletics

 

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ATN Podcast 340: A chat with the chair

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The season of regional rankings, mock brackets and things such as Pool C teams is upon us, and how better to get things started than by having a conversation with the chair of the Division III football championship committee?

We start every year with burning questions, and Northwestern (Minn.) head coach Matt Moore was kind enough to sit down and chat with Pat Coleman on campus earlier this week and give the most honest and open answers possible, considering not a single ranking has been made. But when you wonder, what does “results against regionally ranked opponents” mean, and how is it used, well, the answer wasn’t what we expected or what we had been told was reality by chairs in years and sports past.

This edition of the podcast is sponsored by d3photography.com, the licensed photography bureau contracted by D3sports.com.

If you want to hear the answer to what happens when a team plays zero non-conference games, you’ll get the best answer we can get so far this season here in this podcast. If you want to know whether the national committee would change a regional ranking if it doesn’t line up or make sense with the others, you’ll hear that answer as well.

And if you want to know how important strength of schedule is, you can get no answer more clear than Moore’s answer.

Pat Coleman and Matt Moore talk, and Pat and Greg Thomas discuss, in this edition of the podcast.

The D3football.com podcast is a weekly in-season podcast by Pat Coleman and Greg Thomas, which was started in 2007.

Hit play, or subscribe to get this podcast on your mobile device.

Full episode:

D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast [ 1:07:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

You can subscribe to the Around the Nation Podcast in Apple Podcasts, and many other places. You can also get this and any of our future Around the Nation podcasts automatically by subscribing to this RSS feed: http://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/?feed=podcast

Here’s how to find us on some of the major podcasting apps:

Theme music: Power 2 by DJmentos.
Photo: Ryan Coleman, d3photography.com