Trinity's Tyler Huettel took the AFCA's 1st Team All American Kicker award!

Berry's Brandon Cade was 2nd Team RB and Tony Garcia was 2nd Team OL

Region 3 had a good amount of players receive honors

https://www.afca.com/currys-montie-quinn-and-bethels-matt-jung-headline-the-2024-afca-division-iii-coaches-all-america-teams/

Congrats CRU! Beat the Cowboys again! If not for the bye week last week, that's 3 first round exits in 3 years for HSU 

Welp, guess we're cheering for Centre, UMHB, and Maryville this weekend. 
Also keeping eyes on TLU. Hope the team that showed up the first 59.5 min vs Southwestern missed the bus.

Was cool to see when Kyle King, KJ Miller, Brandon Jordan, Aphonso
Thomas transferred. The process worked well for them and UMHB. I mean basically the entire Offense was transfers, but they transferred within the ASC, or down a level...or two. Anyways, They stuck together, developed, Won a Natty. Pretty sure they all got some looks after college too.

I'm not knocking the ETBU kids for trying to test the portal, but they had some early success this year. If they stuck it out maybe they could built on that over next year or two and been really electric.

Best way to make it to a higher level is game film. If you're good enough they will find you. The more quality reps you can show on tape, the higher chance you have to get a look from the next level. Next level as in being post college.

All this NIL and musical chairs of transfers is getting ridiculous. Used to, a transfer would have to sit out a year and lose a season of eligibility unless they transfered down. At some point the "student" in student athlete needs to mean something to the coaching staff and admissions departments.

I'm not arguing against the transfer process, you shouldn't be married to a school if it's not a good fit, especially when paying out of your pocket (D3), but the odds of playing meaningful snaps when transferring up doesn't happen much; At least from the standpoint of getting familiar with a system that works for a player to showcase their talents for more than a season.

If a school doesn't have your major, I can see transferring after taking some entry level courses, when finding a passion for a future career. I just don't get the switching schools every year... It's not the NBA. If you want to walk on at a D1 and run out the tunnel, cool. Most guys would rather play with their best friends for 4 years and make memories while actually getting to play and travel.

On the flip side, I also don't get the lure of bringing in a bunch of transfers either. A couple here and there I understand. I'd just be shy about going to the portal every year over developing recruits. Less time and less chemistry. Also, what keeps them there and not transferring a second or third time? How do they gain confidence and growth in a system?

Anyways, that's a lot of production lost from this season of play for ETBU. I Didn't know if they were leaving from having a little conference success or changes in the program.

Why are so many  guys leaving?

You kick it. When you have an All American kicker, take it to overtime. It's college overtime not NFL. Trinity made a FG prior to that long CRU game winning drive.

As we've seen already...You never know when a defense comes up with a pick, then take a mid range FG for the win.

Not here for a pissing match but Rabson not winning the DPOTY award is like leaving John Wayne out of the conversation for best actor in western movies. The kid dominated all year and played a huge game today. Outside of Soecial Team blunders Trinity is giving HSU hell next week.

Good job to all the other players, but the fact Cade didn't get the award is BS. Maybe I'm a fan ~ Homer, whoooooo cares cause his stats back it up. His play is even better. He will go down in the history books for his STs play in his blocks. The fact he didn't get the award is a null point pint now , but he kept the game a one possession game. Loved watching him play I his first year starting after Harmel graduated.

R3 did well. 20% of the bracket are our teams. In a perfect world it would have been nice if they could have done a real 1-40 bracket $eeding to see how the teams match up amongst out of regions teams. I do like the NPI this year because it worked well for R3. The old system would surely have only sent the 4  Pool A teams to the dance.

I'm up for keeping the fan vote going as well.

Quote from: jknezek on November 22, 2024, 08:55:23 AMSorry guys. Been a busy week. Last regular season poll. We may do one after the playoffs. Kind of depends how it goes. Most years it's pretty obvious how it will end up and I don't bother, but we have a fair number of playoff participants this year. Might be more interesting.

Region 3 (South Atlantic-Ish) Fan Poll Week 11

Conferences: ASC, ODAC, SAA, SCAC, USASAC

Rank			School			Points			Weekly Change			Voter Breakdown
1			Hardin-Simmons (5)			35			0			1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1
2			R-MC			27			0			2 , 2 , 5 , 2 , 2
3			Berry			20			0			6 , 4 , 4 , 3 , 3
4			TLU			17			0			4 , 3 , 7 , 5 , 4
5			Trinity (TX)			15			0			5 , 6 , 2 , 6 , 6
6			Centre			13			1			7 , 5 , 6 , 4 , 5
7			UMHB			11			-1			3 , 3 , 7

Also Receiving Votes:
Maryville (TN) (2)

Newly Ranked: None
Dropped Out: None

1 = 1st Place Vote, 7 = 7th Place Vote in Voter Breakdown
Special Thanks to the Voters: jknezek, BSCpanthers, Cowboy2, Ralph Turner, Hawks88

Playoff Pairings:

Berry (3) hosts Maryville (RV) 11/23
Centre (7) at Carnegie Mellon 11/30
Hardin Simmons (1) hosts -- Winner of Trinity(5) hosting UMHB(6)  11/30
R-MC (2) hosts Washington and Jefferson 11/30
TLU (4) at Linfield 11/30
Trinity (5) hosts UMHB (6)  11/23

Other South Region Teams in Games:
Washington and Lee vs Wilkes (Salem, VA) 11/23
Shenandoah vs Moravian (Salem, VA) 11/23

Thanks for all the hard work and manning this up for the R3 fans every week!

So which one of you came and threw the card table upside down?? I can't make much of this but I love the rigor of trying to figure the R3 bunch out this season. It's going to be a fun back half the season with more "who beat who" this year.

Back to the drawing board.

Ballots should be interesting this week...

We just have to win each week and let the cards fall where they lay.

Love the tenacity of the young Tigers today and the resiliency to finish the game amongst a top 25 program. Brandon Cade did his part, but our Black Flag defense and Ryan Beck and Co. had their say to give our AA Kicker a chance to solidify greatness this afternoon.

I lost my voice cheeering lol.


Good job Trinity.

Both Bridgewater and Shenandoah are 4-1 so it should be a good matchup this week. Shenandoah's loss looks better to me, but if you are giving little forgiveness to week one losses, then you need to consider other results; point of margins, their one common opponent, and quality of loss taken.


Shenandoah lost to RV R-MC by 1pt in week 5. R-MC is 4-1 and has only lost to current #25 Berry (4-1) by a score of 28-24 in wk3. Berry's only loss was to current #13 DePauw 33-0.

In common opponents They beat Ferrum 42-20, but it was 35-6 at half 

Bridgewater got thumped @ current #8 Susquehanna 41-7 in week one. Susquehanna is 5-1 and has only lost to current #2 Cortland (5-0) by a score of 40-38 in wk3.

In common opponents They beat Ferrum 41-15, but it was 13-6 at half 

Both of these teams are pegged higher on my board and come in at 7 and 8 respectively. Shenandoah's only loss looks a tad better than Bridgwater's only loss. Susquehanna may be better than R-MC, or maybe not, but R-MC is still the semifinalist representative for R3 last year. I know, I know, Susquehanna was the only team to beat Cortland last year.

McMurry (4-1) lost to Southwestern (3-2) in week 1. Their only quality win is over TLU (4-1) who's only quality win was week 1 against a young (3-2) Trinity team; who's only losses are to TLU (4-1) and Centre (4-1).

Going into this weekend I'd have Shenandoah 7, Bridgewater 8, McMurry 9

Should have bought a lotto because I hit on all of them.

Another string is

TLU beat Trinity
Southwestern beat McMurry
Hendrix beat Southwestern
McMurry beat TLU
Rhodes beat Hendrix
Southwestern beat Rhodes

Trinity plays Rhodes this Saturday.

Take it a step further and look at the millsaps scores amongst common opponents vs SAA ODAC USAS, and then Scores of the games listed above, you'll see it's anyone's guess after spot #1 this year.

Well the whacky season across D3 continues. Like the old gunsmith in the movie SHOOTER says – "THE MOMENT YOU THINK YOU GOT IT FIGURED, YOU'RE WRONG."

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