FB: American Southwest Conference

[Kelly Boggs]

Pat mentioned in Triple Take that Silvio Diaz might miss Saturday's game. Anyone in or around Belton have a word on this news? Sure would hate to have him on the sideline in the biggest game of the season. 

[Toby Taff]

Thinking about coming by the tailgate area to meet some folks tomorrow. Who'll be there and how can I meet you?

[couchcru11]

Pat mentioned in Triple Take that Silvio Diaz might miss Saturday's game. Anyone in or around Belton have a word on this news? Sure would hate to have him on the sideline in the biggest game of the season. 

I've tried to use my contacts within the program to tell me what is going on, but no one is allowed to talk. Which tells me that he is out. Unless this is a stunt to try and throw off UWW, but I doubt it.

[bleedpurple]

Pat mentioned in Triple Take that Silvio Diaz might miss Saturday's game. Anyone in or around Belton have a word on this news? Sure would hate to have him on the sideline in the biggest game of the season. 

Competitive advantage or whatever aside, I really hope Diaz can play too. I think of all the hard work these kids put in all year and to miss a game like this really hurts. However this game turns out, it will create lifetime memories for these kids. Here's hoping all the players are healthy for both sides!

Go Hawks!

[bleedpurple]

Pat mentioned in Triple Take that Silvio Diaz might miss Saturday's game. Anyone in or around Belton have a word on this news? Sure would hate to have him on the sideline in the biggest game of the season. 

I've tried to use my contacts within the program to tell me what is going on, but no one is allowed to talk. Which tells me that he is out. Unless this is a stunt to try and throw off UWW, but I doubt it.

I doubt the UMHB coaches would bother messing around like that. We do what we do. It won't change based on a d-lineman playing or not, even a dominant one. 

[Pat Coleman]

I don't think Saturday can come fast enough for any of us!  Since it will be a good 12 to 14 hours until Triple Take comes out (our next D3football fix), I thought I'd take a run at "Predicting the Predictors". 

Here is my guess as to how the Triple Take contributors will predict Saturday's games:

(Of course if any of them read this before coming up with their own projected scores, it will pretty much assure my predictions will be wrong.) 

NCC AT MOUNT UNION

Ryan
North Central 38
Mount Union  35

Keith
Mount Union 42
North Central 31

Pat
Mount Union 45
North Central  42


UW-W AT UMHB

Ryan
UMHB 17
UWW  14

Keith
UMHB  24
UW-W 20

Pat
UMHB 24
UW-W 13

Wow -- interesting exercise.

[Toby Taff]

I don't think Saturday can come fast enough for any of us!  Since it will be a good 12 to 14 hours until Triple Take comes out (our next D3football fix), I thought I'd take a run at "Predicting the Predictors". 

Here is my guess as to how the Triple Take contributors will predict Saturday's games:

(Of course if any of them read this before coming up with their own projected scores, it will pretty much assure my predictions will be wrong.) 

NCC AT MOUNT UNION

Ryan
North Central 38
Mount Union  35

Keith
Mount Union 42
North Central 31

Pat
Mount Union 45
North Central  42


UW-W AT UMHB

Ryan
UMHB 17
UWW  14

Keith
UMHB  24
UW-W 20

Pat
UMHB 24
UW-W 13

Wow -- interesting exercise.

and not bad guesses

[Kelly Boggs]

Wheels up & flying low -- ETA for Belton, 8ish.

Up with the Purple!

[umhb2001]

Pat mentioned in Triple Take that Silvio Diaz might miss Saturday's game. Anyone in or around Belton have a word on this news? Sure would hate to have him on the sideline in the biggest game of the season. 

Just read the 2Deep chart myself on the UMHB website and did not see his name mentioned! 

[bleedpurple]

I don't think Saturday can come fast enough for any of us!  Since it will be a good 12 to 14 hours until Triple Take comes out (our next D3football fix), I thought I'd take a run at "Predicting the Predictors". 

Here is my guess as to how the Triple Take contributors will predict Saturday's games:

(Of course if any of them read this before coming up with their own projected scores, it will pretty much assure my predictions will be wrong.) 

NCC AT MOUNT UNION

Ryan
North Central 38
Mount Union  35

Keith
Mount Union 42
North Central 31

Pat
Mount Union 45
North Central  42


UW-W AT UMHB

Ryan
UMHB 17
UWW  14

Keith
UMHB  24
UW-W 20

Pat
UMHB 24
UW-W 13

Wow -- interesting exercise.

and not bad guesses

Thanks Toby. Pat, it was fun. I listened to every podcast this year and read every triple take. I basically took the following into account:

1. My perception of your (meaning all three of you) perceptions of the teams.
2. Human nature. Two things here. I believe people are slow to change their perceptions of reality unless almost overwhelming evidence causes them to do so. I also believe that when a person makes a prediction, they are slow to come off that prediction when there is still a chance for it to come true. Which makes a lot of sense if they had strong convictions about their original predictions.

If nothing else, it got me through until Friday! 

[CruAlum58]

http://vimeo.com/81745252#
Awaken Cru-Nation
This is a pretty awesome video

[jaypeter]

Excited for the morning and looking forward to a great day of football.  Have my route planned, and snacks packed.  It should be fun at the CRUthedral, but I'm also disappointed not to see Mount Union play.  Oh well, if all works out right, I may get to see them next weekend.

See you in Belton.

[Ralph Turner]

Channel surfing tonight and saw a special that had a segment on Dallas Huston, the voice of Brownwood (and HPU) sports for 51 years.

I have always enjoyed listening to him paint a picture of a game with his careful and pleasant tones. Yes, his voice is characteristic, but he reminds me of "old-time" radio where the verbal description was almost as accurate as the image on the TV screen.

(Not many readers will remember the dean of SWC football, Kern Tips, who had that quality.)

I would love to hear Dallas Huston, possibly the dean of Texas non-professional football, do the Stagg Bowl.

I think that he did 4 Brownwood HS football state championships. I wonder if the Stagg Bowl is that big.  Not trying to be pejorative to our championship, but I remember a pro player who played his high school ball at Plano Senior High School, who was asked if winning the Super Bowl was the biggest thing in his life. The guy thought a minute and said, "No, winning the State Football Championship with my friends back at Plano High was."  I guess the Super Bowl was his job.  The State High School championship was his love.

Perhaps that is the same in D-3.  Maybe one or more of the introspective CRU players will have the chance to "blog" about that.

Good luck tomorrow.

[Jerry Bawcom]

That's a really nice "AWAKEN"!  Nice job Lauren!  Now let's go CRU.  Do  I really have to wait until 2:30?

[umhbalum]

Well finally made the decision to drive in from North of Dallas today for the game. Leaving the wife and daughter home to shop and taking my son. This could be an expensive football trip...