Offensive Coordinator Grant Rohach
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So Mike Woodley is the head football coach at Mount Marty now. Their program will have a distinctly ISU/Grand View U/UNI flavor to it.
https://www.mmclancers.com/sport/football/2019-20/coach
https://www.mmclancers.com/sport/football/2019-20/coach
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It looks like Mt Marty is just starting up their football program with this fall being their first season. Woodley started the amazingly successful football program at Grand View so he's a proven commodity. Could be that they threw a bunch of money at him to get him at Marty. Good luck to him and Rohach.
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The opposite. Mt. Marty needs butts in seats to pay tuition.
They built a new athletic complex recently with a football field.
If they’re pushing hard to be the ND of the GPAC, they aren’t doing a very good job (in the other sports at least)
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KidSilverhair
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As mentioned above, Mt. Mercy in Cedar Rapids has indeed built a dandy new sports complex, including a football field - even though as of now they do not have a football program.
(When I first saw them building the field, I assumed they'd use it for soccer ... but as you can see, they marked it as a football field right from the start. I have no knowledge of any football team actually using it, even a middle school, although maybe Regis has, I dunno).
(When I first saw them building the field, I assumed they'd use it for soccer ... but as you can see, they marked it as a football field right from the start. I have no knowledge of any football team actually using it, even a middle school, although maybe Regis has, I dunno).
I was at that game with my then-girlfriend-now-wife, my brother, and his then-girlfriend-now-wife (they lived in Pittsburgh for a time for some random reason).
I still refer to that game as the "cripple fight."
It was two awful teams on a freezing day playing for nothing but playing their hearts out so their seniors could end their careers with a win. It was glorious.
We were down 0-17 towards the end of Q1 before Grant went the length of the field against an inexplicably slow and flatfooted WVU defense.
Then back down by 17 with the score 7-24.
Then another WVU touchdown for it to be 7-31.
I was done. I was just laughing at this state of affairs. It was really cold, the girls in our party had retreated to the women's bathroom to warm up, and I was making sarcastic comments about it being "basketball season now!" to people in the crowd, who were wholeheartedly approving it (we were about to start the Kane year).
Then we started scoring a ton of touchdowns. I do not know what happened. Rohach turned into Tom Brady out there. WVU added one more touchdown, but it ended up at 38-38 before the start of the first overtime. The girls even came back!
We traded field goals the first overtime. We did the same for the second overtime.
Come the third overtime, Grant (in the game of his life) threw a touchdown to Justin Coleman (a former walk-on who earned a scholarship in fall camp after being made homeless when Nebraska-Omaha cancelled their football program, also having the game of his life in his last game) to put us up 52-44 going into the WVU possession.
That final sequence was amazing --
-- WVU 1st and goal on the ISU 3
-- run stuffed on first down
-- incomplete pass on second down
-- stuffed on third down... this is it, for everything
-- fourth down... this was right in front of us at the back of the end zone... it's a pass... the throw... into like triple coverage... popped up... WVU guy runs and grabs it... it's complete, oh no! but wait... as he turned up the field from the 2 or 3 to run it in, there's a tackle... Deon Broomfield dragged him down in the last play of his career!
Cyclones win a great one!
It's all over! We won! We won the greatest cripple fight of the century!
Great game with the right ending.
And during this somewhere the Kick Six happened. I watched it on my phone.
I talked to Jeff Johnson walking out of the stadium, who seemed a little lubed up and jacked up after the big win, about how much we hate Iowa.
My girlfriend fell asleep in the car driving back to Washington over the mountains as I listened to the WVU call-in show as they lamented their defeat.
Fun times.
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