Austin College will have a new head coach on the sideline next season, as Michelle Filander, who has more wins than any other coach in program history, has been named the next AD at the college.

I'm very excited to see what Austin College looks like next year, given how young the roster is, overall. Among the top 10 players with regard to minutes played, seven of 10 are sophomores and freshmen, and that's not counting a guard (Amarys Cuellar) who was All-SCAC as a frosh last season but is out this season with an injury, and the team has zero seniors. They have a chance to be very good next year. They're just inconsistent at the moment and have a lot of mistakes that you'd expect from such a young roster.

If they play the way they did against Trinity the rest of the season, I could see them being a team no one wants to play in the opening round of the conference tournament.

Great game in Sherman tonight between Trinity and Austin College, with the Tigers winning 87-83 in overtime. Austin College led by 10 at halftime but Trinity had a huge third quarter, and led by two with 0.8 seconds remaining, with the 'Roos tying it up at the buzzer. But Josie Napoli took over in OT, scoring 11 points for Trinity. One of the best women's games I've watched in a while, and the best I've seen Austin College play all year, which was great to see coming off of an unexpected loss to Schreiner last night. Free throws were the biggest difference tonight, with Trinity going 29-35 and the 'Roos just 7-15.

Nice start to the season for Austin College. Led ETBU by as many as 21 points, and after the Tigers cut it to two points late, held on for a 74-70 win. They were 20-20 from the free throw line, which certainly helped, to say the least.

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Quote from: D3Navy on October 20, 2024, 03:15:25 PMI discovered while watching last week that FloSports simply contracts with local production companies for individual events.  In other words, quality is very much hit or miss.  Last week, it appeared the production "company" covering the Trinity - Dallas soccer matches was just a couple of guys struggling to make the broadcast work.

I paid $29.99, suffered through the "production", complained and requested a refund, then received a refund for just under $7 since I had watched two broadcasts.  Not worth following up further.

This is a real bummer given the SCAC, SAA, and ASC are all FloSports conferences.

Flo doesn't contract with local production companies. It's the responsibility of each school, so the quality will vary based on what each school has in terms of resources (manpower, tech, etc). Some schools might find outside entities to help with the streams, but the onus is on the schools.

That was not the case for the U Dallas - Trinity soccer games in Dallas last week.  They specifically mentioned the production company broadcasting via FloSports.

The people doing the broadcast might have namechecked Flo, but I know with 100% certainty, that Flo does not have anything to do with the actual broadcasts. UD hired out, and they namechecked Flo. The schools are 100% responsible for figuring out how to stream, and Flo has no part in the actual on-the-ground infrastructure. The schools figure out how to stream it, and send it to Flo. Even if it means hiring an outside source to do the heavy lifting, it's still the school doing the outsourcing. Flo has nothing to do with that aspect.

(This isn't my opinion; I know this as fact.)

Quote from: D3Navy on October 20, 2024, 03:15:25 PMI discovered while watching last week that FloSports simply contracts with local production companies for individual events.  In other words, quality is very much hit or miss.  Last week, it appeared the production "company" covering the Trinity - Dallas soccer matches was just a couple of guys struggling to make the broadcast work.

I paid $29.99, suffered through the "production", complained and requested a refund, then received a refund for just under $7 since I had watched two broadcasts.  Not worth following up further.

This is a real bummer given the SCAC, SAA, and ASC are all FloSports conferences.

Flo doesn't contract with local production companies. It's the responsibility of each school, so the quality will vary based on what each school has in terms of resources (manpower, tech, etc). Some schools might find outside entities to help with the streams, but the onus is on the schools.

Good performance for Austin College to break through and get in the W column, 35-17 at Lyon. Lots of big plays, mostly from freshman RB Barrett Hudson, who had three touchdown runs of 71+ yards and finished with 240 yards on 11 totes. Lyon dominated time of possession, but AC was scoring so quickly that, obviously, they didn't really have any opportunity to grind out long possessions.

I only saw a bit of the TLU/AC game, but I do think it's clear that AC is improving pretty steadily as the year goes on. Which makes sense, given how young they are at so many key positions, particularly on offense. Their QB is also finally getting healthy after suffering an ankle injury in week one, and it's showing as his numbers are getting back to what was expected after he was one of the ASC Newcomers of the Year last season. Their top two RBs are both freshmen, and their top receivers are pretty much all frosh and sophomores. They have a chance to be a really high octane offense in a couple seasons, potentially.

Quote from: Ron Boerger on September 25, 2024, 07:48:06 PMYeah, they have an "increase" because if you want to see broadcasts for dozens of schools you have no choice. 

Yep. Honestly, the fact that it's only 37% with the number of schools that have gone behind their paywall feels lower than I would have expected.

What a weird game in Sherman tonight with Centenary coming out on top 36-17. It was 3-3 at halftime, and then the Gents had not one, not two, but THREE fumble recoveries returned for touchdowns (including a 60 yarder and a 90 yarder), and that ended up being the difference. Two came on back-to-back possessions in the third, and the third came early in the fourth.

Austin College is similar. I don't know the overall numbers but I think it's around 40%, and this year's freshman class is about 50% student-athletes.

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Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on July 19, 2024, 07:50:48 AMEach school is still responsible for all production of events to a very basic standard laid out in the contract.  When I did my piece for d3hoops, it was pretty clear to me this is an okay deal for schools who already meet the broadcast standards and probably not a very good one for schools who will have to use the money to invest in upgraded broadcast capabilities.

Thanks.  I had not caught that previously. So, Flo is only providing the platform through which events are broadcasts?  Each school is still responsible for providing cameras, announcers, graphics, mics and other on location equipment?

Exactly. Each school is responsible for every aspect of the broadcast except for where it winds up being broadcast to. Which, obviously, some schools can handle pretty easily. Others are not. The Lone Star Conference (D2) is apparently on the verge of making the move, and sounds like even they are worried about being able to handle the requirements, at least at some of the schools.

Quote from: Ron Boerger on July 01, 2024, 05:54:06 PMAnd Treschitta updated his Twitter profile.  https://x.com/CoachTreschitta

Couldn't find the SCAC mention on Twitter or Insta, but probably just me. 

Yeah I found it through their stories on Facebook. Glad that things seem to be moving forward with their program after all; it feels like it's been a bit of a struggle, but it's going to obviously be extremely helpful.

Quote from: Ron Boerger on July 01, 2024, 04:14:14 PMWelp it's 3PM and no announcement ...

The SCAC shared a graphic on their social media from Schreiner welcoming the coach to Kerrville. Schreiner also does not currently have a full-time SID, so that could be part of the delay.

Quote from: Ron Boerger on June 13, 2024, 10:56:01 AMAccording to Robert Rochelle, who runs the excellent D3vbwest blog, the SCAC has already decided to go with a two-division model for volleyball next season.  He says (after talking to Commissioner Hanberry) "[e]ach division will play home and away within their division and then play two pods where the divisions cross play."

The divisions next season (for volleyball; Ozarks doesn't offer the sport) will be

• ("Blue") Austin, Centenary, Colorado College, Dallas, McMurry, and St Thomas
• ("Gold") Concordia, Schreiner, Southwestern, Texas Lutheran and Trinity

Further details in this blog entry.  Obviously with SW and Trinity leaving, and LeTourneau and Hendrix joining, these will have to be reworked in 2025.

If they're doing this next year in volleyball, I imagine they'll do it in other sports, which might account for how much time it is taking to see the SCAC schools post schedules in other fall sports. 

I know they're definitely doing it in basketball; not sure yet about soccer, especially given the women's side doesn't have as many teams with Colorado College being D1 in women's soccer. Also not sure about baseball/softball.