Norwich University is looing for 1 team to complete the field of the 2025 Ed Hockenbury Classic.  The tournament will be held on December 6-7, 2025.  We offer a generous guarantee, food after the first game, shirts and awards.

If interested contact Paul Booth at 802-485-2239 or pbooth@norwich.edu. 

Trinity College (CT) is looking for one game. Available dates include Nov 22/23/24/25 and Dec 3/4. Other dates available if needed. Please contact Pete King at 413-262-8308 or Peter.king@trincoll.edu if interested.

SUNY Canton

Actually taking a legitimately long, pre-conference, out-of-state, road trip for the first time in years as far as I can tell, traveling to PA to play Juniata and Mount Aloysius the second weekend of the season.  Considering SUNY Canton's record last season and the records of Juniata and Mount Aloysius, this may be a situation where a weak team in the NPI era may be in some demand for stronger schools looking to bolster their W-L record before conference play.  SUNY Canton, however, doesn't seem to be searching for easy wins with this schedule.  VTSU Johnson isn't on their schedule, nor is SUNY Delhi, which accounted for two of their three wins last season.

St. Mary's College (Maryland)

Only the home games are listed on this schedule, but it's definitely not a pushover schedule for a team that played Dickinson tight in the opening round of the NCAA tournament last season.  Washington College, Johns Hopkins, Stevenson, and Salisbury are return games, and they add Lynchburg.

Bethel (MN)

Added Grinnell, Wartburg, and Simpson for teams like Wheaton, NC Wesleyan, and Nebraska Wesleyan

Earlham

It seems like most of the teams Earlham lost to last season were replaced in this year's schedule except Wilmington, Spalding, and Indiana University East.  They kept Kuyper (who they beat) and added Beloit, Muskingum, Heidelberg, and Olivet.

Quote from: Riley Zayas on Yesterday at 01:00:24 PMFair points! I wouldn't mind seeing SRSU return to D3.

What I will say is that, as we all know, recruiting to SRSU is ridiculously hard. Let's be honest, building a winner in Alpine takes some recruiting ingenuity and a coach who builds a culture that makes players want to buy in. Winning conference championships just isn't the expectation there. Not from fans, administration, or those in the community. Winning is great and celebrated there, but there's real financial implications involved here that go beyond W/L records.

Going D2 as a public institution opens up your recruiting pool significantly more than in D3, and combined with shorter travel, saves money in the process. Now you have more interest from prospective student-athletes (because of the scholarships), which helps with retention. You don't have to drive to ETBU or LETU any longer, which cheapens the cost of bus fees and hotel stays. Getting non-conference games becomes easier because the LSC is so large, the majority of your games in all sports come in conference play.

If it was a private school, that'd be a different story. But the scholarship money is coming from the state. And the state will continue to fund those scholarships, whether they're having success or not. It's 1 trip per year (for football only) to the Pacific Northwest. Which is doable when you're basically staying on the western side of the state for the rest of your schedule.

I know this was discussed when Sul Ross made their decision but the travel thing seems to be a non factor at least with the current and future members of the ASC. Right now the average trip from Sul Ross to the LSC members is 334 miles but that is not counting the 2 schools that require a plane ticket. The trips to ASC members would be 389 but that average is highly influenced by the trip to ETBU.

As you implied Sul Ross is just far away from basically everybody so travel and recruitment are always going to be hard, at the end of the day they just have to see which set up helps them the best.

Adam Brazil completes an incredible career with 1st Team Academic All America honors to go along with consensus 1st team A-A honors.  Definitely one of H-SC's all time best!

UMHB WR TJ Rone enters the portal. Played in 20 games over 2 years in Belton, with 63 receptions for 625 yards between 2023 and 2024. First-Team All-ASC this past season.

https://x.com/TerrenceRone/status/1912165929779146908

Still a lot of good matchups for the SCIAC. Redlands looks to be in a good position. Pomona should also have a chance to move up if they can take the CLU series.

Fair points! I wouldn't mind seeing SRSU return to D3.

What I will say is that, as we all know, recruiting to SRSU is ridiculously hard. Let's be honest, building a winner in Alpine takes some recruiting ingenuity and a coach who builds a culture that makes players want to buy in. Winning conference championships just isn't the expectation there. Not from fans, administration, or those in the community. Winning is great and celebrated there, but there's real financial implications involved here that go beyond W/L records.

Going D2 as a public institution opens up your recruiting pool significantly more than in D3, and combined with shorter travel, saves money in the process. Now you have more interest from prospective student-athletes (because of the scholarships), which helps with retention. You don't have to drive to ETBU or LETU any longer, which cheapens the cost of bus fees and hotel stays. Getting non-conference games becomes easier because the LSC is so large, the majority of your games in all sports come in conference play.

If it was a private school, that'd be a different story. But the scholarship money is coming from the state. And the state will continue to fund those scholarships, whether they're having success or not. It's 1 trip per year (for football only) to the Pacific Northwest. Which is doable when you're basically staying on the western side of the state for the rest of your schedule.

THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY is looking for 1 more participant for our annual Greg Grant Classic for the 25-26 season. Conveniently located in Ewing, NJ, TCNJ is 1 hour from Philadelphia and 1.5 hours outside of NYC.

The dates will be November 14th and 15th. Game times are typically 5/7pm on Friday and 3/5pm on Saturday. Post game meals, tournament t-shirts, and all-tournament awards will be provided. Please contact Oliver Ortman at ortmano@tcnj.edu for more information.

Quote from: pradierguy on Yesterday at 11:55:17 AMMount released a "new" logo for athletics today. Yawn.

Screams of consultants getting paid for consulting and that is about it.

https://athletics.mountunion.edu/news/2025/4/15/general-mount-union-announces-new-athletics-logo-brand.aspx

I'd rather hire an Offensive Coordinator than paying a graphic artist to slap a sword on the generic purple M

hopefully they don't but it wouldn't shock me if Mount messes with one of college football's iconic helmets