The Week that Was: Week 2

Oh, what a wild and crazy week we got to witness in Week 1 of UMAC play. You just never know what you will get week to week in the UMAC. Oh wait... that's not true at all. Greenville and Scholastica win again. Crown and MacMurray lose again. And everytime Eureka wins a game their fans send out 8 million tweets at UMAC Central. Deja vu all over again... Here's a brief recap of the Week that Was:

Much to the delight of Red Devil Nation and fans of underdogs everywhere, the Eureka Red Devils marched up to Minnesota and beat the Eagles of Northwestern quite handily. In doing so, they got off to their first 2-0 start in 15 years (Yikes! Don’t think I would be bragging about that if I were the school's SID) and most importantly got the satisfaction of proving the writers of UMAC Central wrong while shoving our faces in it all week. We may be opinionated here at UMAC Central, but we have never been ones to be sore losers so we will graciously endure all criticism thrown our way from the players and fans of Eureka. Congratulations, you have earned it. We definitely underestimated your team coming into the season and you should enjoy a big road win. Now it is time to get back to work. You have got Greenville coming to town this week and I have a sneaky suspicion the writers of UMAC Central may pick against you yet again (You will have to stay tuned tomorrow to find out for sure, though).

Iowa Wesleyan got bum rushed by St. Scholastica while allowing the Saints to rack up a program record 427 rushing yards. Welcome to the UMAC IWC. I did some research and figured out what the Tigers problem on defense was. If you look at this picture found on the CSS athletic website, you can

clearly see that the defender is making a classic error in tackling. He is taking the kneel-on-the-ground while crawling after the runner approach. In my experience, it is far more effective to stand up when attempting a tackle. I chalk this up as a simple rookie mistake. Once IWC adjusts their defensive scheme to have fewer players lying on the ground … watch out UMAC!

I think Northwestern may have fooled us all into believing they would be good again. Not only did they lose to Eureka at home, but even their week 1 loss to St. Olaf is looking worse. Last week St. Olaf lost to Luther College by a score of 20-13. In week 1, Luther College lost to…. wait for it… Presentation College (that’s the school that got kicked out of the UMAC because they couldn’t put 11 players on the soccer field at one time). Suddenly UNW sticking with Olaf for 3 quarters doesn’t look too impressive.

After reading a comment left on our Week 1 Power Rankings I realized that there is a lack of understanding as to what power rankings actually are amongst some of our readership. It’s ok, we understand this stuff is probably over the head of the Phy Ed majors so we figured we would help out. Power Rankings are a reflection of what has already happened – when you lose you drop lower and when you win you move up higher, kind of like the AP Top 25 in Division 1 Football. Have you ever noticed that sometimes teams with worse records can beat teams with better records? How can that be?? Sometimes, and try to stay with me here, teams play bad one week and good the next. Our predictions are what we expect to happen in the future. Do you remember how both of our writers predicted 4 out of the 5 games last week correctly? So, please at least think about what you are saying before you write asinine comments on our blog.You can hate on us for not picking Eureka but not for correctly predicting the other 4 games.

This week’s silly social media post comes from a Eureka fan yet again.

I have no problem with the tweet about us sucking and Eureka proving us wrong. But I did have a problem with a few other things. 1) Durleys should not have an apostrophe. It is simply plural, not a possessive (The Durleys don’t own anything) 2) I’m not sure what ‘prove the UMAC boys’ means. Seems like somebody had boys on the brain and had a Freudian slip 3) Don’t ever hashtag #eurekafetish. When  you click on that hashtag you can see that no one in the history of twitter has ever hashtagged that phrase before. There is a reason for that…. 4) Finally, don’t end anything with a colon-parentheses smiley face unless it is 2003. At least use an emotji. Come on, bro.  

That about does it for me. Stay tuned for more exciting UMAC action this Saturday.