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ATN Podcast 238: Time to get going!

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This felt like a long offseason, and there was a chance that D3football.com itself was never going to recover, that not only might there not be a podcast for the 2019 season, but there might not even be a website.

No kidding.

It’s been a rough year or so for the spirit of Division III, regardless of who’s defining it. But Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan are here to say that no, we’re not going to let the foolishness of the MIAC presidents beat us, and we’re not going to let it get to us when a certain purple power wants to big-time D3football.com.

No — we will treat Year 21 of D3football.com with the same fervor as we did the first 20.

But, that having been said, while we didn’t have a June or July podcast, we did interviews in June and July, and we bring those to you in this edition. Chuck Yrigoyen, commissioner of the American Rivers Conference, talks about the issues facing Division III sports in the upcoming years, why his conference presidents haven’t voted Wartburg out of the league, and whether the ARC would have any interest in adding a free agent school to the north of it by the name of St. Thomas. (You know, since the MIAC decided that St. Thomas was too good for them.) We also talk with Glenn Caruso, the St. Thomas head coach, about the news and what his team is focused on in 2019, and we chat with Buffalo State coach Christian Ozolins, as his program goes into a new conference where his school is now the one that doesn’t look like the others.

Pat and Keith talk about it all in the latest D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast. The D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast is a regular conversation between Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan and guests covering the wide range of Division III football.

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ATN Podcast 236: Spring just in under the wire

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Bet you thought we forgot. No, spring is here, spring practice is underway in many places and yes, there is/was a March podcast.

This month we start looking forward at the 2019 Division III football season, chatting with Gagliardi Trophy winner Jackson Erdmann of St. John’s about what’s ahead for the Johnnies this season, the state of his throwing shoulder and how he’s spending his time now that he needs just one class to graduate.

We’re also joined by William Paterson head football coach Dustin Johnson. A former Division III quarterback himself, Johnson is heading into his second year as the head coach of the Pioneers and talks about the challenges of turning around a program which hasn’t had a winning record since 1993. Plus Johnson played professional football, and talks about his experience and what guys have to do to get ready for playing football beyond college.

Wrapping it up, Keith McMillan talks about the research he did this spring for an unexpected writing assignment: picking the preseason Top 25 and writing a preview for Street & Smith’s football preview magazine. Yep, they write the articles for those things in March. What can you learn about a team six months before the season starts? Keith has the rundown.

Pat and Keith talk about it all, as well as the latest coaching changes in the latest D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast. The D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast is a regular conversation between Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan and guests covering the wide range of Division III football.

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ATN Podcast 235: Doing right, doing wrong, doing new

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February is 10 percent shorter than most months, so we’re getting this month’s podcast just under the wire. So while it’s a short month, we still have a full-sized podcast.

We’re joined this month by new Aurora coach Don Beebe, whom you might better know as a former NFL player, one who played in six Super Bowls and provided a quite memorable highlight in one of them. He talks about his new position, his first as a collegiate head coach, including how he watches film on recruits.

We also have Colten Bartholomew on this month’s show. Bartholomew writes for the La Crosse Tribune, and broke a story last month that was quite fascinating, where he found that a former offensive coordinator at UW-Whitewater emailed his team’s playbook to a Division III football head coach, who then forwarded it to yet another D-III head coach. We get the details.

Wrapping it up, we have a roundtable discussion about a proposal to change the regional breakdown in Division III football from the current and long-standing four regions to as many as six. Why is this necessary? What issues could it raise? We talk it through.

Pat and Keith talk about it all, as well as the latest coaching changes in the latest D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast. The D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast is a regular conversation between Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan and guests covering the wide range of Division III football.

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Colten Bartholomew’s piece: https://lacrossetribune.com/sports/local/college/tribune-investigation-uw-whitewater-defensive-schemes-sent-to-uw-la/article_b927a731-7744-5393-9fb8-ee6ae3909b03.html

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

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