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Post by ag87 on Jan 24, 2023 21:15:07 GMT -8
And it's a blast from the past - msubeavers.com/news/2023/1/24/football-minot-state-welcomes-ian-shields-as-beavers-new-head-football-coach.aspx. I've actually spent a little time in Minot. It was January, 14 years ago. We had a huge intermodal construction project in Stanley. That's about 40 miles from Minot. One of our guys had an emergency at home (Southern California). So I went to Minot because I couldn't get a motel in Stanley. There is an entirely new definition of cold that I learned that week. Byrd, Shackleton, and so on gained new respect from me. |
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Post by spudbeaver on Jan 24, 2023 21:41:48 GMT -8
Why not Minot?
Ha ha
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Jan 25, 2023 0:25:13 GMT -8
And it's a blast from the past - msubeavers.com/news/2023/1/24/football-minot-state-welcomes-ian-shields-as-beavers-new-head-football-coach.aspx. I've actually spent a little time in Minot. It was January, 14 years ago. We had a huge intermodal construction project in Stanley. That's about 40 miles from Minot. One of our guys had an emergency at home (Southern California). So I went to Minot because I couldn't get a motel in Stanley. There is an entirely new definition of cold that I learned that week. Byrd, Shackleton, and so on gained new respect from me. Ian Shields. Shields was born in The Dalles and graduated from Oregon City. Shields was a three-sport athlete, earning All-Oregon honors twice in basketball and baseball. Shields did not excel in football until his senior year. But Shields was named the best football player in the State of Oregon. Shields was recruited to Oregon State to play baseball. Shields pitched and played second his freshman year. Shields started 21 games at second base, and pitched in five games. Shields' slash line was .225/.300/.296, and he had an ERA of 15.00. When Pettibone was hired, Shields redshirted in baseball and came out for football. Ed Browning, who returned from the 1990 team returned, and started the first four games. The plan was for Browning to start with Shields backing him up and Mark Olford redshirting, as the quarterback of the future. However, Browning did not live up to Pettibone's expectation, and Pettibone burned Olford's redshirt in the Wazzu game. Olford started the next three games before suffering a knee injury, missing the next three weeks. Shields became the starting quarterback for the next two games. In the Arizona game, Shields rushed for 98 yards, which was a Pettibone Era single game record. Shields broke his big toe in the California game and missed the Washington game but returned for the Civil War. Shields became the first starting quarterback to beat Oregon in Eugene in 18 years in a 14-3 win. Shields pitched 5 1/3 innings in 1992 but quit to play Spring Football. Shields could have returned to the diamond afterwards but sprained his knee so bad that he required surgery. Olford started all 11 games in 1992 and Shields backed him up. Don Shanklin split some time with Shields in two games before injuring his knee so bad that Shanklin required season-ending surgery. Shields started the first four games of 1993 before being supplanted by Don Shanklin, who missed the first two games with an injury. Shanklin suffered a season-ending injury in his first start against Arizona State, so Shields took over again, only to suffer a career-ending injury in his first start against Pacific. Rahim Muhammad finished out the regular season as the starter. Shields coached the next three years as a graduate assistant at Oregon State. After Pettibone left, Shields became an offensive coordinator at Eastern Oregon, St. Mary's, and Bucknell. After those three stops, Shields was the offensive coordinator at Cal Poly. In 2005, Shields helped Cal Poly to Cal Poly's best season, since their 1980 Division II National Championship and Cal Poly's best FCS season, since Cal Poly joined the FCS in 1994. Cal Poly went to the FCS Tournament as basically the 12-seed. Cal Poly beat Montana in Missoula before losing to Texas State by a touchdown in San Marcos. After two seasons as head coach at Eastern Oregon, Shields quit to return to become the associate head coach and offensive coordinator at Cal Poly. Cal Poly jumped out to a 20-7 lead over Wisconsin in 2008. The 20 points were a result of a missed extra point. Cal Poly missed the next extra point, which enabled Wisconsin to tie the game at 29 with 1:42 left. Cal Poly missed a 46-yard game-winning field goal with eight seconds left. The game went to overtime, and Cal Poly missed their third extra point. Wisconsin won the game on a converted extra point, 36-35. Cal Poly had the best offense in FCS and the best scoring offense in FCS, while suffering the fewest turnovers. Cal Poly would basically be awarded the five seed but lost to Weber State in the first round. Army hired Shields to serve as co-offensive coordinator before becoming associate head coach and sole offensive coordinator beginning in 2010. Army was 3-9 in 2008, but Army went 7-6 in 2010 with Army's sole bowl win between 1985 and 2016 in the Armed Forces Bowl. In 2011 and 2012, Army led the nation in rushing, which is the first time that Army had done so in consecutive seasons since the end of World War II. The bottom fell out in 2013 with Army going 2-10 and the entire coaching staff was fired. Despite that fact, Army never finished worse than 16th in rushing in any of Shields' five years. Shields was named head coach of Lenoir-Rhyne. Lenoir-Rhyne led Division II in rushing and finished the regular season undefeated but lost in the first game of the playoffs to Valdosta State to end the season 11-1. Lenoir-Rhyne finished first in rushing in 2015, but Shields quit to coach at Jacksonville (not Jacksonville State). Shields coached at Jacksonville for four years before the football program was discontinued. With COVID-19, this was bad timing. Shields was hired on by UNLV as a defensive analyst before moving on as an offensive analyst the past two seasons. |
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Jan 25, 2023 11:00:43 GMT -8
Freezin's the reason. The Tragic City. It gets very cold in North Nowhere in the winter. Before the Bakken era, which greatly re-populated western North Dakota, the stretch of US Highway 2 between Minot and Williston was one of the bleakest in the country. You did not want to break down there. There were maybe 1,000 people in Stanley. OTOH, the desolation of pre-Bakken western North Dakota only added to the absolute spectacularness of the Badlands and the Little Missouri River Valley. The north unit of Teddy Roosevelt National Park was a thing of beauty before Bakken. Ian's a great guy. Best of luck to him. Minot State actually had an alum who was a starting QB in the NFL for several seasons, Randy Hedberg. It's also the alma mater of longtime MLB umpire Gary Cederstrom and longtime college basketball coach Dale Brown. |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Jan 25, 2023 14:09:06 GMT -8
Freezin's the reason. The Tragic City. It gets very cold in North Nowhere in the winter. Before the Bakken era, which greatly re-populated western North Dakota, the stretch of US Highway 2 between Minot and Williston was one of the bleakest in the country. You did not want to break down there. There were maybe 1,000 people in Stanley. OTOH, the desolation of pre-Bakken western North Dakota only added to the absolute spectacularness of the Badlands and the Little Missouri River Valley. The north unit of Teddy Roosevelt National Park was a thing of beauty before Bakken. Ian's a great guy. Best of luck to him. Minot State actually had an alum who was a starting QB in the NFL for several seasons, Randy Hedberg. It's also the alma mater of longtime MLB umpire Gary Cederstrom and longtime college basketball coach Dale Brown. Of more import, Mary Sherman went to Minot State. She dropped out to become a chemist at Plum Brook Ordinance Works munitions factory. During World War II, with workers working 24 hours per day, the Plum Brook Ordinance Works produced more than one billion pounds of nitroaromatic explosives (TNT, DNT, and Pentolite) for the war effort. (An interesting fact is that the Plum Brook Ordinance Works munitions factory was operated by the Trojan Powder Company. The Trojan Powder Company used to own the Trojan nuclear reactor site. The reactor is named after the Trojan Powder Company.) After the War, Morgan worked for North American Aviation and married to become Mary Sherman Morgan. At North American Aviation, Morgan invented Hydyne, which was the first stage rocket fuel that the United States used to launch the first five Explorers and the first Beacon (sometimes called the sixth Explorer) into orbit in the first ten months of 1958, the United States' response to the first three Sputniks. Only Explorers 1, 3, and 4 were successfully placed into orbit, but the first stage rocket was successful in each of the six launches. Better rocket fuel replaced Hydene a little more than six weeks after the Beacon 1 failure. |
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