Sewanee is not having any trouble today with Westminster with the score 42-0 with just over 6:00 minutes left in the game.

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Both Young and Thomas are back this year and we have two more kids on the depth chart at QB.

The tailgating scene on our campus has gotten better in recent years.

Quote from: BSCpanthers on August 09, 2024, 03:06:53 PMIs your QB returning from last year?  That kid was a monster on the field.  One of our few wins last season, and the only time our offense showed up, otherwise, you guys would have won walking away.  I'll miss my trips to Sewanee, what a beautiful campus.  Also, last season was family day on the mountain, and even though many of those people had no idea there was a football going on, the tailgating was the best I had ever seen in D3.

Just about three weeks out from the start of season means I think it's time to look at the Week 1 match-ups.

We have:

Belhaven at Millsaps (Sept 5th)
Centre at Hanover
Sewanee at Maryville
Berry at Huntingdon
Hendrix at Centenary
McMurry at Southwestern
WashU at Rhodes
Texas Lutheran at Trinity

Looking forward to see the Purple and White come out strong on our trip to Maryville. Time to see if Coach Mac can start building a winning tradition on The Mountain.

Am interested in seeing what the first games look like for Berry and Trinity. Huntingdon and TLU are good opening opponents for those teams.

Per updates from College Football News Daily on X, legal teams have found a loophole in the original SEC charter that any founding member of the conference is free to rejoin the conference if they ever leave.   The door is still open for Sewanee but I don't think we will be leaving the SAA anytime soon.

It's a good addition to the conference.  Maryville already has history with a bunch of the schools in our league.  A bunch of our games with them over the years have been quite chippy and them joining our league adds a little extra spice to our opening game this year at Maryville.

That video has generated a reasonable amount of laughter in our alumni social media channels.   They certainly hit the stereotype.

Quote from: wally_wabash on June 20, 2024, 05:39:02 PM

Quote from: IC798891 on June 20, 2024, 09:20:54 AM"Each 3 credit hour course is only $190...Each course provides 10 hours of lecture, study guide, and exam. You can expect to invest a couple of hours two days a week to complete one course per month."

That is not a legitimate college education, bible college or not. 10 hours of education per course? Are you kidding me? I don't know how it is at your colleges, but at Ithaca, in class time per 3-credit course is about 35 hours over 14 weeks. That doesn't include the work you do outside of class or the final exam.

Yikes.  At the school I currently work at, our 3-hour course equivalent would require 10 hours of work (in and out of the classroom) per week for 15 weeks. 

Double yikes... as my understanding is the accreditors like SACS COC and HLC require a minimum of 40 contact hours in a course in their standards.  Per Westgate's web page, they are accredited by the National Bible College Association and not one recognized by the US Dept. of Education.  That web site is pretty explicit about telling prospective students to not expect their credits to be recognized by other institutions.

Quote from: Ron Boerger on May 24, 2024, 07:43:16 AMOn today's episode of "people you didn't know went to SAA schools," it would appear Anson Mount, who (nerd alert!) plays Captain Christopher Pike on "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds", attended Sewanee.

https://twitter.com/ansonmount/status/1793762454943744303

Yep... remember him as a freshman the year I moved from Sewanee to Atlanta.  His father, also a Sewanee graduate, was the one of the original contributing editors at Playboy in late 1950s/early 1960s.  You'll see him and his wife and kids on campus every now and then as they still own a farm up in the far Nashville suburbs in addition to properties in NYC and LA. 

Sewanee's 2024 schedule now available:

09/07 @Maryville
09/14 Westminster
09/21 @Guilford
09/28 Millsaps
10/12 @Trinity
10/19 @Berry
10/26 Rhodes
11/02 Southwestern
11/09 Hendrix
11/16 @Centre

Quote from: cush on April 30, 2024, 11:45:34 AMWould it be crazy for Alabama A&M to just move to Birmingham and for University of Alabama at Huntsville take over the current Alabama A&M campus ?

Not something they would do... this is an expansion play on AA&M's part.    Wouldn't surprise me to hear them start describing themselves as Alabama's flagship HBCU with campuses in Huntsville and Birmingham.   Would be another tweak at their friends at Alabama State down in Montgomery. 

I'll admit to some surprise hearing they would like to buy B-SC's campus... working in higher education in the HSV region, I would have never thought their administration was the sort willing to take on that kind of risk.  Good on them, and hope they are able to pull it off.

Purchasing the B-SC campus would be a good move on AA&M's part as there isn't a public HBCU in that area.  Will be interesting to see what the reaction will be from other schools around Birmingham, particularly UAB, Samford, and Miles.   The purchase would have to be approved by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education (ACHE, the most aptly named state agency) and then accredited by SACSCOC.

The news reports from here in Huntsville report that AA&M would run the campus as a separate independent branch campus.   I wonder what they will do with athletics and if they would be a D3 school or join one of the HBCU-oriented D2 conferences in the region.

Quote from: Ron Boerger on October 08, 2023, 09:17:40 PM

Quote from: BSCpanthers on October 08, 2023, 12:58:41 PM
BSC finally brought the offense to the game with them.  It was parents day on the mountain, they were having an inter squad baseball game, and football.  If all the parents tried to go into the stadium, it would have been double capacity, but most of them had no idea what was going on with football.  It was a beautiful weather day for football and thankfully BSC receivers learned how to catch this week.  The QB for Sewanee is a stud and has completely changed that program over last year.  What felt like a high school game experience last season on the mountain, this year had a great crowd and atmosphere.  Sewanee is always a nice trip, and of course is nicer when you bring home the win.

Helped to have your QB1 back; without him I don't think the Panthers win.  But Sewanee is definitely a team on the rise and may represent the toughest challenge remaining on Trinity's schedule.  Congrats on the win.

We're seeing a lot of younger players getting time on the field.   Talent level has gone up because of that and all of our guys are putting a lot more work on and off the field.   Means we're not getting out-talented on the field like we have been in the past.   The big rivalry game for us this year is upon us with the trip to Memphis to play those people by the Zoo. And word is the recruiting is looking well for next year.   

Family Weekend definitely influenced the turnout but success is attracting more people to games rather than having them to going off to the fraternities or drinking societies.  Tailgating hasn't been a thing on the Mountain until after people starting coming back after Covid.   The Trinity game occurs on Party Weekend (known to the non-Sewanee people as "Homecoming")  this year so I expect a crowd for that one.

Quote from: Pat Coleman on October 02, 2023, 06:25:19 PM
This all may be true, but a non-conference schedule of Huntingdon and LaGrange might not be enough to separate them from other at-large teams when you only have four at-large bids.

Who at this point in the season do we think will be the other team looking to get a Pool C bid?

I lost the feed from Hendrix in the middle of the 2Q so didn't get to see the entire game.     I'm thinking we will be competitive in four of our remaining 6.  Any wins Sewanee picks up in the rest of the season will have to happen on the road as the rest of our home schedule has us playing B-SC,  Berry, and Trinity with away games at Rhodes, Centre, and Southwestern.

The big thing program-wise is that we've got a bunch of freshmen out on the field this year getting experience.

Both Trinity and Berry should win-out the rest of their schedules.  It that happens,  hoping that Berry is in the running for a Pool C bid.