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Congratulations John! John Gagliardi: 2007 Liberty Mutual Division III Coach of the Year
There is a big problem in NCAA D-III athletics. It’s not that there are booster programs run amok, or cheating scandals, or that athletes are being paid to play college sports. Rather, the problem is that D-III itself may be too big.
Huh?
To explain we first need a little history lesson.
It isn’t exactly common knowledge that […]
» Read “Curing the Cabin Fever: Splitting hairs—and splitting D-III?”
Here cometh the Esq’s annual telling of the tale of the BC-SJU rivalry. Yes, I did mean to say BC and not BU; no, the contents of the tale may not be 100% verifiably accurate and accounted for. But it certainly makes for a good story.
Thus far, the weather has been beautiful for the majority of the season, and the Johnnies are perched atop the MIAC standings at 9-0. Who could ask for anything more? Well, I could, for one. The Rat Pak, a key piece of the Johnnie game day experience, began a downward spiral under former dean of students Jason Laker. Many thought that the Rat Pak of old would return upon Laker’s departure, but the enthusiasm brought to Johnnie games by this wacky group has been relatively silent for too long.
John Peloquin
Its the Johnnie bye week and while Coach Gagliardi worries about Bethel University for the next 11 days we’ll take some time out to enjoy the 2007 Homecoming reflections of ‘57 grad John Peloquin. Congratulations John on 50 years!
Johnny “Blood”
Shake Down The Thunder, The Creation of Notre Dame Football is a book chronicling the beginnings of college football, football history and the mecca that has evolved on the South Bend, Indiana campus. On a smaller scale but in a parallel enviroment another catholic university was planting it’s own seed of college football immortality. It was the beginnings of the MIAC that brought football back to campus. But even then, it almost didn’t happen.
» Read “Shake Down the Thunder… From Johnny “Blood” McNally to the MIAC!”
