2001 1-AA All-American Team (No SWAC Reps....


That's pathetic. How can a team finish in the Top 10 ranking, and also have one of the nation's top rated defenses and still not have anyone named to the All American team.

Is this retaliation for the league not being in the playoffs? This team has no credibility with me whatsoever. Oh well, most of these guys will never be heard from again...SAD!
 



This is sad!

This list is beyond sad....

Seriously folks....

Darnell Kennedy - not even on the list? How, he set records. And is a candidate for the Walter Payton Award.

Maurice Hicks - 3rd team? This man set records.

Calvin Spears - No one would even throw the ball his way, in 1-A that would get you to AA status.

Chris Brown - Had near double digit INT's, and is a candidate for the Buch Buchanan Award.


Robert Tayor, Elgin Andrews, The PV DB(name escapes me right now), I could go on......but what is the point. I'm not saying they all should have made it, but we should have had more reps than this.

Props to Bama St., JSU, A&T, & Howard for your picks! We will get our validation on draft day!

I guess when Hayes and Mack went down, they just said screw the SWAC.
 
Suga Bear and Biggs,

...it ain't a snub for youz guys chickenin' out on the playoffs, it's a simple level-of-competition thing. You can see that there were several HBCU playas, but from teams that play somebody and compete in a true championship at the end of the season, not a carnival in Louisiana.
The SWAC is probably more suited for something between 1-AA and DII. They've always been talkin' about a 1-AAA; maybe this is the SWAC's calling...?

Time has come to bow down, genuflect and kiss the feet of the superior football gods of the North and the West and the East.

Oh, and attendance is really good. For you. Got you a lot of attention in the post season awards, too, didn't it? All them high draft pix you're braggin' on don't get you anything, either, do they? They're all individual players who fly high in an obscure Southern conference and go to the league. What did it get you?

All Hail the Real 1-AA!

NI

:bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling:
 
Re: Suga Bear and Biggs,

Originally posted by Northern Iowa
...it ain't a snub for youz guys chickenin' out on the playoffs, it's a simple level-of-competition thing. You can see that there were several HBCU playas, but from teams that play somebody and compete in a true championship at the end of the season, not a carnival in Louisiana.
The SWAC is probably more suited for something between 1-AA and DII. They've always been talkin' about a 1-AAA; maybe this is the SWAC's calling...?

Time has come to bow down, genuflect and kiss the feet of the superior football gods of the North and the West and the East.

Oh, and attendance is really good. For you. Got you a lot of attention in the post season awards, too, didn't it? All them high draft pix you're braggin' on don't get you anything, either, do they? They're all individual players who fly high in an obscure Southern conference and go to the league. What did it get you?

All Hail the Real 1-AA!

NI

:bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling:
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Mane, you still here talkin? I thought you would be somewhere teaching your boys how to play with some dignity. I mean, spitting on everybody. That is just plain nasty. Giving cheap shots and everything. Is that what they teach you all when you all are losing? I bet Coop was your coach before, huh? Taught you all to "HIT EM" low when you're down.:smh:
 
Are you being ignorant to make a point or are you just being ignorant cuz that's just a reflection of your intellect? The HBCU players that you mention came from Howard. Howard finished last in the MEAC, so what's this crap about level of competition.

Apparently, Northern Iowa's level of competition wasn't so great after yall got you Richarded by Montana in the playoffs. Maybe the Gayway Conference ain't all it's cracked up to be.
Did yall have any one to make the All-American team? Hell, I lost interest when I saw some clown from Hofstra was the first team qb over Darnell Kennedy. Could you tell me again what all-star game he is playing in?

Just like you NI, this team is a big joke!
 
Biggs and BlacknRedfish,

There were two Northern Iowa Panthers on the first team. A few others down the list, too. Take a lookie and count all the Gateway people while you're thayuh......

No excuses for the unsportsmanlike shiznitt up in Montana, either. Shnit ain't right.

Northern Iowa can't afford to play a SWAC team next year. That would be another DII team on the schedule. That's what kept perennial power Youngstown out this year (next to losing to Northern Iowa and getting speelanked at home by Western Kentucky).

Montana is a great team and Northern Iowa probably isn't at their level of competition yet. But, the difference between UNI and Grambling is that the Panthers will at least work to get in their league AND have the courage to take them on in the playoffs.

You fellas are absolutely right, I've discovered. Best for the SWAC to stay out of the playoffs. Stick to the Buy You Carnival game and such.

Still love you guys and JR is still taking me to the Classic next year. Aintcha, boss man?

;) ;)

NI
 
As I've said many times, we have put our hand on the ground across from much better competition that what Northern Iowa or any other of the other "playoff" participants have to offer. Playing you would not benefit us in the least, other than to shut up one more misbeliever.

If you would check the record, you would find that GSU always participated in the playoffs prior to the NCAA declaring that our conference wasn't eligible. It was not the SWAC that made the change, it was the NCAA that made the mistake of thinking that we would forego our biggest money maker to play in this joke of a playoff tourney.

Ask yourself why the NCAA changed the date of the playoffs. It was done at the behest of envious D1AA programs that couldn't draw flies to an outhouse. Simply put, most of these programs could never get a cumulative total of all games to equal the BC attendance.
 
Biggsy

...looks like old NI's got ya on some serious roller skates there! Kinda thinkin' the NCAA complicity is bogus, though.....

Hey, if 35,000 people will pay to see "Barney On Ice", they'll pay to see a lowly SWAC game. I'm glad you get all those people. Doesn't make a bit of difference up north. As I said many times before, NI is probably one of maybe 1000 people living north of Nashville that knows the SWAC plays every Saturday in the fall (except, of course, December ;) ). We don't need the attention, because, OBVIOUSLY, as the1-AA All-American teams seem to indicate, we're getting the sweet end of that talent stick! The kidz and transfers know where to go in 1-AA to win games and championships.

Did some counting for you and Sweatybengal:

Number of Gateway Conference playas on the1-AA All-American FIRST TEAM:

6

Number of SWAC playas on the 1-AA All-American FIRST TEAM:

0

SWAC (Simply Wideouts And Cornerbacks)

Sent with love,

NI
 
I'm sure the SWAC football players will take making NFL rosters over the D-IAA all-star teams anyday.

The scounts know where the talent is in D-IAA and who has the real credentials.

Regards.
 
Re: Biggsy

Originally posted by Northern Iowa
...looks like old NI's got ya on some serious roller skates there! Kinda thinkin' the NCAA complicity is bogus, though.....

Hey, if 35,000 people will pay to see "Barney On Ice", they'll pay to see a lowly SWAC game. I'm glad you get all those people. Doesn't make a bit of difference up north. As I said many times before, NI is probably one of maybe 1000 people living north of Nashville that knows the SWAC plays every Saturday in the fall (except, of course, December ;) ). We don't need the attention, because, OBVIOUSLY, as the1-AA All-American teams seem to indicate, we're getting the sweet end of that talent stick! The kidz and transfers know where to go in 1-AA to win games and championships.

Did some counting for you and Sweatybengal:

Number of Gateway Conference playas on the1-AA All-American FIRST TEAM:

6

Number of SWAC playas on the 1-AA All-American FIRST TEAM:

0

SWAC (Simply Wideouts And Cornerbacks)

Sent with love,

NI
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Northen Ikea HO. Who do you all play? Portland St? Deleware St? Straight Life Christian College? Who?? Pls give me a complete run-down of you all's schedule.
 
Re: Biggsy

Originally posted by Northern Iowa
As I said many times before, NI is probably one of maybe 1000 people living north of Nashville that knows the SWAC plays every Saturday in the fall
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Allow me to reciprocate! The only reason we even know of your existence (you, your team, or your league) is because JR left the dayum gate open. Then just like that, "guess who's coming to smack":D Oh well, now that your azz is here... Tell JR, some of us need to speak with him about his "associations"!

On the real, you seem to think that it matters to us about the playoffs. It doesn't! We did not abandon the NCAA playoffs, it was the rival leagues that amended the NCAA bylaws to state that you must have a certain number of teams eligible on the Thanksgiving weekend in order for your conference to participate.
This was well after (many years) the Bayou Classic had been established. When Alabama State joined our league, they were not willing (nor should they be) to give up their big traditional game againat Tuskegee.

I don't want to use race, but it seems that the "good ole boy" network expect us to be sooooo happy that yall invited us to your little shindig. But we know who makes the money from these things. The NCAA may want us to have a sharecropper's mentality, but for all intent and purposes they can read between the lines and figure out that we're telling them to kiss our azz!
 
Hey Mike Bigg,
I actually wish I could take credit for leaving the gate open. Ole NI found the board by himself. I guess all that SWAC bragging I was doing got him intrigued. Hey remember it's a Grambling hat he wears around here in Michigan. LOL That's what he does goes to all these 1-AA conference boards and talk ish.

NI knows those biased- picked 1-AA All-Americans will not parlay most of them a NFL career. The SWAC as do other conferences in 1-A gets some snubs from these east coast and northern media. We see that bs in the Heisman votes every year. SMH@ biased azz media. Still just looking at one area. That's probably why Howard had a person on there. Definitely isn't about competition. Unless SWAC players put up monster numbers like Hayes did last year, then they don't notice. Even at that they still had Hayes on the 2nd team last year if I am not mistaken.
 
Yo, BlacknRedfish

.....Northern Iowa was picked to finish FIFTH in their league before the season. Because you're ign'ant, I'll give you some highlights on what actually happened:

1. Beat MAC West Co-Champion and 1-A Ball State (at Ball State. Remember that Ball State beat #23 ranked Toledo a couple weeks later ;) ). Grambling didn't play a 1-A team this year.

2. Beat 1-AA #2 Youngstown State, 30-11. Grambling didn't play a single ranked team. Northern Iowa played SIX.

3. Beat 1-AA #10 ranked Western Kentucky, 24-23, a their house, for the conference championship.

4. Took down #12 ranked Western Illinois at their Homecoming, 17-14.

5. Beat Cal Poly (at our house) who spanked Alcorn State (at their house).

6. Lost a big one to, but lined up against, the Big XII's Iowa State. The day a SWAC team plays a Big XII team is the day I will die.

7. Beat #3 ranked Eastern Illinois at their place in the first round of the playoffs.

8. Beat #16 ranked Maine in the quarterfinals of the playoffs.

Now don't you feel better for askin', so's you're not ign'ant of the facts? NI is kinda glad you asked because he likes tellin' the story!

NI
 
Re: Yo, BlacknRedfish

Originally posted by Northern Iowa
.....Northern Iowa was picked to finish FIFTH in their league before the season. Because you're ign'ant, I'll give you some highlights on what actually happened:

1. Beat MAC West Co-Champion and 1-A Ball State (at Ball State. Remember that Ball State beat #23 ranked Toledo a couple weeks later ;) ). Grambling didn't play a 1-A team this year.

2. Beat 1-AA #2 Youngstown State, 30-11. Grambling didn't play a single ranked team. Northern Iowa played SIX.

3. Beat 1-AA #10 ranked Western Kentucky, 24-23, a their house, for the conference championship.

4. Took down #12 ranked Western Illinois at their Homecoming, 17-14.

5. Beat Cal Poly (at our house) who spanked Alcorn State (at their house).

6. Lost a big one to, but lined up against, the Big XII's Iowa State. The day a SWAC team plays a Big XII team is the day I will die.

7. Beat #3 ranked Eastern Illinois at their place in the first round of the playoffs.

8. Beat #16 ranked Maine in the quarterfinals of the playoffs.

Now don't you feel better for askin', so's you're not ign'ant of the facts? NI is kinda glad you asked because he likes tellin' the story!

NI
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Let's anaylize this, Northern IkeHo.

Let's see....Youngstown State...ok. Western Kentucky....????? Western Illinois.....????? Cal Poly.....?????? Iowa State...Yeah, I know I know them. Eastern Illini........????? Maine....????? Didnt know Maine had a team. Just thought they were famous for seafood. Huh.

So, I guess these rankings that you are speaking of are the rankings in YOUR division or conference?:confused:
 



Originally posted by Northern Iowa



2. Grambling didn't play a single ranked team. Northern Iowa played SIX.

Now don't you feel better for askin', so's you're not ign'ant of the facts?
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FYI: THE ICON DID PLAY A RANKED 1AA TEAM THIS YEAR. ON SEPT. 22 PLAYED PORTLAND SU. YOU CAN CHECK THE WEEKLY RANKING TO SEE FOR YOURSELF.


now don't you feel better of askin', so's you're not ign'ant of the facts!!!:lmao:
 
Originally posted by MACHIAVELLI


FYI: THE ICON DID PLAY A RANKED 1AA TEAM THIS YEAR. ON SEPT. 22 PLAYED PORTLAND SU. YOU CAN CHECK THE WEEKLY RANKING TO SEE FOR YOURSELF.


now don't you feel better of askin', so's you're not ign'ant of the facts!!!:lmao:
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That is typical Northerner Idaho logic, Mach.
 
Pull of that Dayum Hat:redhot:

I don't want you up there trying to pass yourself off as Mike Bigg


Honey at a Bar in Michigan: Hey Big Boy, where you get that Hat and what's your name?

NI. "Ah, er, ahem, my name is Mike Bigg and I'm er, ah, you see I like to get contagious

After NI makes the mistake of exposing hisself...

Honey at Bar: You ain't Mike Bigg, you just some big old dude in a hat...they don't call him Mike Bigg cuz of his (body) size! Chile judging from what you're showing, there's no way you're Mike Bigg

NI (crying as he leaves the bar, embarrassed and hurt)... It's true, it's true...why couldn't I have been blessed too. Some folk have all the luck: Dayum dem Grambling men, Blessed in sports and blessed from birth!
 
Biggs,

Again,

LMPWAO!

:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

:lmao:

:lmao:

The SWAC is a proud conference with good teams. It's all smack.

NI
 
Re: Biggs,

Originally posted by Northern Iowa
Again,

LMPWAO!

:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

:lmao:

:lmao:

The SWAC is a proud conference with good teams. It's all smack.

NI
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Of course, it's been good smacking withcha.

How's the basketball teams in the Gateway Conference? Which team is the traditional power up there?
 
Biggs

There is no Gateway basketball conference. It's actually called the Gateway Football Conference and is an off-shoot of the Missouri Valley Conference. The basketball teams are Bradley, Creighton, UNI, Wichita State, Drake, Illinois State, Southern Illinois, Southwest Missouri, Evansville and Indiana State. Northern Iowa's on top right now, but it's early. Traditional powers ahve been Creighton, Bradley, Illinois State, Southwest Missouri and Southern Illinois. Those are the ones who have made the tournaments in the past several years.
The other teams in the GFC are hoops members of some pretty obscure conferences: AMCU-8, Mid-Continent, Horizon, etc.
Though I play basketball, I don't really follow it.

NI
 
Reply to Northern Iowa & others

First off...the GFC is proud of our teams. We are a football only conference. However Northern...I like how you talk basketball and the MVC...then discount the Horizon (which YSU is a member of)? The Horizon League is the new name for the MCC, we boast such perrenial basketball/sports traditions as Butler, Detroit, Loyola, Chicago and Cleveland St., . Formerly had Xavier, DePaul, Dayton & Cincinati as well. SO what's this "Minor" conference crap? Last year Butler advanced to the sweet-16 & Detroit made the final 4 in the NIT. I don't think UNI's 2 games against Horizon teams have been very successful this year. No insult inteded UNI & Indy St have great programs. Please..... not to insult the MVC...but be serious. Also, GFC member Western Kentucky plays in the Sunbelt & a very powerful team this year...ask UK. (that "1" next to Kentucky's 9 came from WKU)

Now, back to football.... UNI did very well this year & we are proud of them. We are equally proud of WKU & YSU. YSU was 8-3 & did not make it. W. Kentucky lost to Furman by 2 (a very solid showing). YSU proved that they are good with a great game against Marshall...but threw the INT with :31 seconds left & lost (this is a top-20 IA team [well was at that time & I willl admitt I doubt they belonged there]. Still held leftwich to his lowest output of the season (208yds) & also held Watts to his lowest ever with 3 catches for 24 yards. Traditionally, we have Western Illinois & Illinois St as powerful members as well.

But to compare the two conferences is not fair....equally the number of GFC members in the NFL is just as high for the SWAC. However, most SWAC stars are in skilled positions & you hear of them. There is only 2 or 3 well-known GFC players, the rest are lineman & LB's. Look at Western Illinois...who puts more players into the NFL than they? Yes, the SWAC does pass though.
I remember the Play-off game with Alcorn & McNair threw for a record against us. (over 500 yards as I recall). However, he was the whole team & could not get the ball in the end zone on the ground...so we won 73 to 20. They could not stop our ground attack & we picked McNair off for TD's 2 or 3 times and the SWAC does not have a clue what a "red-zone defense" is. However, Kurt Warner did not get anywhere's near as many yards against us as McNair & we won National titles both years. The MEAC...well NCA&T was little more than a high-school club when we played them...but Hampton was tough & FLAMU was the biggest team I ever saw!!

Attendance...the GFC has 3 teams in the top-20...but we still pale as a conference in comparison.


I did not know this board is still up...thanks for the info Cap'. Please come to the GFC board at http://www.thegatewayconnection.com any time ....we are always happy to talk football.
 
Aw isht! Just when we were getting used to NI, here comes another GayWay Conference dude to tell us what we really don't give a rat's azz about knowing. Looks like we're stuck with yall now...Dayum you Bill Thomas! If you hadn't gotten your Texican azz kicked, the GateKeeper would still be around. Dayum you Hughes! If your azz wasn't so dayum clueless, GR would be over here running off these GayWay crabs instead of punking the entire MEAC board. Last of all, Dayum you Doug Williams! Yeah that's right... If you wouldn't have kicked so much azz this year, i wouldn't have gotten bored smacking Annie Mae, The JeHOnets Witnesses, and Greg Tarver's shower mates. I never would have responded to TWC, NI or any of these other GayWay lames.


In the immortal words of "Billy Joe" Evans...DAYUM DAYUM DAYUM . Oh somebody please come get these flukes and fakes...LC Cole, George O'Leary Send Help!
 
Biggs

Man, it's like theyz busin' all us white dudes in to meet some quotas or something! Maybe Kenn is under some pressure from the Justice Department to integrate!!! ;)

The reality is that this is a really good place to kick it around. It ain't the same up north. There's little challenge any longer. We have our boards, but the posters aren't nearly as colorful as those on the SWAC board (and NI don't mean what you're thinkin', either, some a youz!). I invited people like 1-AA Fan to check it out. He's just a fan like you and me. He's an administrator from one of our boards.
Hey 1-AA Fan, what do you think about starting a Gateway smack board alongside the Gateway Connection? I'm sure the folks in the SWAC would take up a collection for us! The quicker we start up, the quicker they're back to normal. Secretly, though, I think they enjoy this little intermingling of the cultures.....:)

ALL HAIL THE SWAC!
ALL HAIL THE GATEWAY!

Here's to some games down the road!

NI
 
Re: Biggs

Originally posted by Northern Iowa
Man, it's like theyz busin' all us white dudes in to meet some quotas or something! Maybe Kenn is under some pressure from the Justice Department to integrate!!! ;)

The reality is that this is a really good place to kick it around. It ain't the same up north. There's little challenge any longer. We have our boards, but the posters aren't nearly as colorful as those on the SWAC board (and NI don't mean what you're thinkin', either, some a youz!). I invited people like 1-AA Fan to check it out. He's just a fan like you and me. He's an administrator from one of our boards.
Hey 1-AA Fan, what do you think about starting a Gateway smack board alongside the Gateway Connection? I'm sure the folks in the SWAC would take up a collection for us! The quicker we start up, the quicker they're back to normal. Secretly, though, I think they enjoy this little intermingling of the cultures.....:)

ALL HAIL THE SWAC!
ALL HAIL THE GATEWAY!

Here's to some games down the road!

NI
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I'm down for some interconference matchups...We're equal opportunity azzkickers!
 
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