Hi Tigerdad, I am the father who gave your son my fire works for him to enjoy that night. He had played such a great game and it was such a great win for any team, I figured he should enjoy them in celebration. What a game to be at, as a football fan, and father of a player # 19 WR/QB I wish Millsaps had won but we did not and you guys did so enjoy it, because I would have..I hope that your son pays this forward to someone else  without regret. Burt Pereira

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Quote from: scacsid on August 16, 2005, 05:32:46 AM
The 2005 SCAC Football Preview is now online.

http://www.scac-online.org/football
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Quote from: frank_ezelle on September 03, 2007, 09:39:50 AM
Pat--We'll never know if a 9-1, 2nd place SCAC Millsaps team would have gotten an at-large berth this year.  You know far more about D3 sports than I, so I absolutely respect your opinion, but for what it's worth, here's my theory on why they wouldn't have gotten an at-large bid:

The 2006 Millsaps football season was either remarkable or a remarkable fluke.  In 2005 Millsaps was 2-7 overall, 1-5 in the SCAC, next to last in scoring offense and last in scoring defense.  Coach DuBose gets promoted to head coach too late for any spring training or to do much recruiting, he goes 1-3 to start 2006 with a defense that still appears to be anemic, and then he wins 6 straight SCAC games and the defense is rock solid.  How does one figure out a season like that?  There are two ways to look at the Millsaps program and the 2006 season:

The glass half full theory:  If DuBose, the Millsaps staff, and the Millsaps players can come so far, so fast, then they will be fantastic in 2007.  They will have a full season under the system, spring training, and a stronger recruiting class.  This team will be much stronger in 2007, one of the better teams in America.

The glass half empty theory:   Don't get so excited about the 2006 Majors.  They lost to two average ASC teams and a 6-4 Huntingdon team.  Leading up to the championship game, they beat SCAC foes Centre, Austin, DePauw, Sewanee, and Rhodes, teams with a combined overall record of 23-27 in 2006.  Then they lucked up and had an All-American performance by senior Chris Jackson to beat an overconfident Trinity team in a down year for Trinity.  The 0-21 playoff loss proves that Millsaps really wasn't that great in 2006.

My guess is that most will take a wait and see approach.  The most knowledgable preseason poll, D3Football.Com, has Trinity ranked 21st with 5 times as many votes as Millsaps, leaning towards the half empty theory.  That tells me that most people want affirmation from the 2007 season before deeming Millsaps as a football powerhouse.  I think that's a fair and justifiable approach.  If Millsaps wins the SCAC again and gets into the playoffs, then they might be turning into a national power.  If they don't win the 2007 title, then most will feel like 2006 was a fluke season with one good win, and Millsaps isn't a program worthy of one of the 7 at-large bids.

That's my logic which may sound totally illogical to everyone else.  It wouldn't be the first time.