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ATN Podcast 373: Down to four

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Touchdown or no touchdown? Hold or no hold? Should the game have been over?

So many questions, and not the ones we would prefer to be asking about a game in the Division III football national quarterfinals. And yes, there were many questions about the final moments of the Bethel-Susquehanna game, and whether they should have been the final moments, so to break it all down, we talk to someone who was there on the sidelines taking it all in. Frank Rossi will have opinions, which shouldn’t surprise anyone, but they may not be the opinions that others share. He’ll talk us through the questions from the closing plays of Susquehanna’s 24-21 win, one which sent the program back to the national semifinals for the first time since 1991.

Plus, how hard-hitting was that North Central-Springfield game? Not just who got thrown out, but who got knocked out? How quickly can one adjust to seeing the spread option or triple option offenses up close and person like that, compared to in practice, and how did Mount Union practice and prepare for seeing it in Salisbury? And we welcome Keith McMillan back into the podcast as he went to Johns Hopkins and chatted with coach Dan Wodicka and some of the key players afterward.

Plus, we hand out game balls as we go through all four games and give our thoughts on three questions from listeners. three reader questions. Including the NESCAC, team GPAs, and more.

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ATN Podcast 371: Measuring the fallout

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Now everyone in the playoffs has played at least one postseason game, or if you look at it another way, more than 60% of the playoff games are already over. And people are in a hurry to dismiss the WIAC, and they’re in a hurry to crown NPI, because higher seeds have won 21 of the 24 games. (Of course, higher seeds have been at home in 23 out of 24 games, which might be a factor.)

What did we learn from these games? Of the remaining high seeds, which ones improved their standing, improved their chances of going deep into this bracket, and which ones’ chances are diminished? Patrick and Greg go through it all in this edition of the podcast. And most importantly, if the Texas Lutheran-Linfield game was dessert, what kind of dessert was it?

We hear from coaches and players involved in second-round games on Saturday, and we sit down with Johns Hopkins coach Dan Wodicka to talk about his team’s heart-stopping finish against Grove City, their defensive prowess and their offensive adjustments as the season has progressed. Wodicka, who played for and coached under the late Jim Margraff, talks about how playing at JHU made him want to coach there, and reminds us how the program is carrying on Margraff’s memory.

Plus, who is leading the staff pick-em contest that is better known as Quick Hits? Stay tuned to hear about whose picks are doing the best, and to hear a tribute to his performance so far. 

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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ATN Podcast 370: Much to be thankful for

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When you’re on the road on Thursday, Friday or Saturday, tune us in. We talk with North Central coach Brad Spencer about how his team adjusted to having a bye week at the beginning of the schedule, we hear from about a third of the coaches remaining in the bracket both about what they’re thankful for this Thanksgiving season and how they’re handling Thanksgiving with their players, and we have a special guest.

Mike Gutelius, the head coach at Catholic U., was diagnosed just before the season with an incurable form of cancer, a glioblastoma in his brain. But he didn’t give up coaching his team — not all of it anyway. He has been getting the care he needs and still was on the sidelines for the vast majority of the Cardinals games, and he talks about it and his prognosis and treatment and … well, thankfulness, on this edition of the podcast.

Plus, which of Saturday’s second round games is the main course, which is the dessert, and which is the green bean casserole? Those are the questions that catch our eyes when we put out the call for the mailbag. We take that question and more, plus Patrick and Greg roll out their score prediction for every game in the second round. You won’t want to miss it. (By the way, they do not agree on who will win each of the 16 games.)

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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Photos by Catholic athletics; Sofia Ammirati, Cortland athletics; North Central athletics