FB: American Southwest Conference

[Josh Bowerman]

Easy for you guys with lots of karma to say!   

[Warren Thompson]

OK, Josh, since some of us have so much karma, herewith some for you ....

[CamCat]

Congrats to MHBU for another great season.  Yours is one excellent program and barely allowed Linfield to get out of last years Stagg Bowl alive.  It could have gone either way and just happened to be our day.

I am amazed at what your team has done in it's short history of being a D3 team.  It truly is remarkable. 

Who knows but what we may meet again next season. 

[Bill McCabe]

Feels strange not to be going to a game tomorrow.  UMHB will have to replace several key players in the offensive and defensive lines.  Plenty of good players coming back to expect a good 2006.

[Ron Boerger]

Feels strange not to be going to a game tomorrow.  UMHB will have to replace several key players in the offensive and defensive lines.  Plenty of good players coming back to expect a good 2006.

PJ Williams will be missed, as will Rojo Johnson and Justin Bryson.

[Bill McCabe]

Ron, also 4 offensive linemen and Shawn Williams at defensive end.  They were all outstanding players.

[Ron Boerger]

You had already covered the OL's and DL's.   

[Ralph Turner]

Ron, Bill McCabe is just overwhelmed with the loss of the key people on the OL and the DL!

[Bill McCabe]

Oops!  Old QBs are always fond of the o line.  However, losses in the lines are usually the hardest to replace.  For the last 3 years, that has been the strength of the UMHB team.  I'll be the first to say it, I can't wait for next year!

[Warren Thompson]

The November 2005 "Campus Relocation Update" paints a nice picture of the institution's future. For details see below:

http://www.concordia.edu

Among the design principles under consideration is one interesting item [emphasis added]:

Designing an athletic complex to bring all sports programs on campus in one location with plenty of space to accomodate additional future programs (

e.g., football).

[Ralph Turner]

Warren, thanks for finding that.  The specific reference is to football is in update #6:

http://www.concordia.edu/siteselection/myfiles/update-6.pdf

My speculation is that the Concordia board needs to address some male: female ratio issues, and football is a quick way to do that.  I have heard that football adds 1.2-1.4 male students for every football player that matriculates.

That would replace the Austin College defecit.  Schreiner had football as a junior college before WWII.  Any word on Schreiner?  Any word on Ozarks?

[Warren Thompson]

Ralph:

And if Concordia also would add men's lacrosse, rugby, ice hockey, and Gaelic football* ... why, their men's enrollment would burgeon even more, wouldn't it?. 

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* The Tornados could be the first-ever Irish[-Wendish] football team in Texas. And that would be altogether appropriate, given that St. Kilian (an Irishman) converted the Wends to Christianity way back when, even before I was born.

[Ralph Turner]

We are seeing Lacrosse leagues pop up in the trendy North Dallas neighborhoods, the same way that soccer did in the late 1970's-early 1980's.  (Lacrosse practice occurs each weekend at the high school/community fields at the end of my block.)

I am wondering when Southwestern and Trinity add Lacrosse.  Having the SCAC as a source of games, (especially if the eastern schools, Sewanee, Centre, DePauw and Oglethorpe, add it), Concordia might see an opportunity to draw from that demographic group of students as a possible affiliate.  Currently UDallas is offering women's lacrosse.

Colorado College, which has been speculated to be invited to join the SCAC, also plays Lacrosse.

[Gray Fox]

About three schools in the SCIAC sponsor women's lacrosse.

[Ralph Turner]

Right Gray Fox, C-M-S, Redlands and Whittier.  With a 4th, the SCIAC could sponsor the sport, get UPS, Linfield, Colorado College and UDallas as affiliates and get an AQ!

http://web1.ncaa.org/ssLists/sportByRegion.do?sport=WLA&division=3