Agreed, especially with Trinity taking a bizzare loss in the opener at sad-sack Dallas.

Louisiana Christian used to be known as Louisiana College and competed as a member of the ASC until 2021 when they transitioned to NAIA.  Obviously they had their reasons - probably being able to sponsor fewer sports was one of them as they dropped XC, men's golf, women's tennis, and track. 

And if I'm another school the ASC is pitching, I'm asking for at least the same $4-4.5M the rumor mill (and Corey Hogue) says McMurry and Schreiner allegedly got.  Not sure the Baptist 4 or the donors who coughed up the original $8M have that much to contribute to the cause.

The very fact the SCAC was going to have a championship was news to me ... but the proposed 2025 football schedule (thank you Google) shows there will indeed be a 5x6 and 3x4 game in addition to the championship between the top two seeds.  So you're right, there could be a [th]rematch between the two.

Quote from: crufootball on March 28, 2025, 11:51:18 AMI didn't catch at first that AC and Centenary are playing each other twice as well. Since the SCAC has a championship game its going to be interesting if they manage to play each other 3 times in one regular season.

I really wish we knew if either of them or the ASC members even discussed the possibility of playing each other instead of doing this stuff.

Hard to say with the SCAC schedule switching to bring in Hendrix this year but not much to be gained by playing twice (or playing Worstgate once) - Austin wouldn't want to play HSU or UMHB but HPU and/or ETBU would have been better choices.

I think it's safe to say with TLU in the conference that the chance of a Centenary-AC (th)rematch in the championship is pretty darned slim.

Worstgate might actually give the Roos (5-34 last four seasons) a game.  Sad that AC scheduled them to get a tenth.

The Worstgate 2025 schedule also includes Centenary and Schreiner, so this year it's the SCAC doing what the ASC had to do last year.  Obviously the Schreiner game is JV. 

You'd think they'd have updated their own website by now ...

Quote from: uwwcontra2007 on March 26, 2025, 05:31:33 PMI was thinking it might be Keystone.  I can't find anything on them for this upcoming year, and they aren't showing up on any Landmark Conference opponents' schedules.  What's up with Keystone?

See https://www.keystone.edu/about/accreditations-and-authorizations/

QuoteKeystone College's current accreditation status is Non-Compliance Show Cause. The Commission's most recent action on the institution's accreditation status, taken on February 27, 2025, was to issue show cause.

They're fighting a battle to remain accredited and their future is still very much in doubt.

Dittmore has a son playing lacrosse at Centre.  Had a nice chat with him.

Actually closer to $2B ($1.8B) these days and I have no idea where it all came from.

St. Francis is 560th of the 669 schools in the NACUBO survey.  That there are D3 (and other) schools with smaller endowments only shows how desperate the situation is for those schools these days, because there is very little flexibility if things start to go south.  And just because a school says it has an endowment of size X doesn't mean there are actually that many dollars in their investment portfolio that are usable - have seen this repeatedly looking at audits of colleges that are in trouble.  Not saying this is the case for St. Francis.

Starting to see schools dump D1 for D3 (House is probably a big part of that) with St Francis (PA) being the latest to announce.  Wonder if any of the D1 barely-hangers on in this part of the country would consider it.

Wish them well.  Their endowment is tiny ($63.0M in the latest NACUBO report) and with 1639 undergrads (per the DoE Scorecard) they really had no business in D1.

That said, they should get a nice little check for making March Madness even though they lost their play-in game. 

I wonder how many schools have video of sufficient quality for reviews.

Trinity has beefed up their annual Christmas tournament, traditionally a four-team event, and the 2025 edition of the Leslie Robinson Classic will feature eight teams:  St John's (MN), UW-Stevens Point, Marietta, Mary Washington, St. Thomas (TX), Schreiner, Hardin-Simmons, and host Trinity.   The tournament will run Dec 20-21 in San Antonio.   

Mary Washington and HSU made it to the Sweet 16 this year; St. Thomas and St. John's, the round of 32.  Records for the season just completed:

HSU 20-10
Marietta 11-14
MW 15-15
St John's 25-4
St Thomas 26-3
Schreiner 20-7
Trinity 22-5
UWSP 18-9

Trinity's Jerheme Urban was named to the AFCA Board of Directors, where he will be the second D3 representative (the other is Jim Catanzaro of Lake Forest College, who serves as first VP). 

The SCAC had an unsuccessful experiment in the '10s with a four-team conference, doing the double round-robin thing the ASC was forced into.  They dissolved it after four years.   Could they talk the five remaining members (including Hendrix next season) into trying that out again, which would mean they'd only need to find two out-of-conference games?  I guess it's possible.  It's going to be TLU and the four dwarves for a while (though Centenary has potential to improve of the other schools) so TLU might be in the driver's seat. 

Ralph asked about space at St. Thomas - they can't hold soccer matches on-campus so I would think adding football could be a problem.  The only athletic facilities they house at the school are basketball/volleyball.  They can't even host tennis matches.