FB: American Southwest Conference

[02 Warhawk]

UMHB will be dangerous in the ASC. If that is the #4 team in D3 then UMHB is a dark horse at 0-3 to make some noise. Young and athletic. A Team like that, what they displayed today, shows they can play with anyone. Stay faithful CRU and don't worry about the rankings. That was a tough gauntlet for pre-conference. Goodluck. Tough loss, but that was tremendous growth against a tough top 5 opponent.

Ask SJU how the #4 is

[Ron Boerger]

Lost the turnover battle 2-0 with Phe forcing passes (remember also the one the defender dropped the previous drive) as he did against Trinity last week and still in it to the end.  If he can clean that up this is going to be one very dangerous team. 

[Ralph Turner]

My worst nightmare as an ASC fan...

UMHB wins out, gets that AQ and HSU fails to get a Pool C bid with a 9-1 record.

UMHB then gets sent to Trinity for a 1st round game.

[UMHB03]

This was the first time since last year's Bethel game that the Crusaders showed any life. They made way too many mistakes, but if they can clean those up, I saw enough potential to believe they can compete with HSU in late October.

[tigerguy]

Does the "no first round matchups against opponents you played in the regular season" rule only apply to conference teams? Can't remember and too lazy to dig into the rules.

[Ron Boerger]

Does the "no first round matchups against opponents you played in the regular season" rule only apply to conference teams? Can't remember and too lazy to dig into the rules.

Right now you want UMHB (or someone) to beat HSU because if not (and Trinity gets in) they would go to Abilene.  And the NCAA would happily send the Cru to San Antonio should they win the ASC and Trinity win the SAA.  Or maybe they would send HSU if they got a Pool C, but in that case a 9-1 HSU would be higher in the rankings than a 7-3 UMHB so the Cru still probably would get matched against Trinity in the first round. 

[The Third Division]

I think we should settle whether Harmon should get out of the press box and be a head coach or not.

[Etchglow]

All I've gotta say is if I see that cursed qb sneak again I'm going to vomit...

[zipmac22]

How does one justify the head coach sitting up in press box and not down on the field?

[umhbalum]

Did not realize the HC sits in the press box. Forget that!

[brewhawk]

UMHB will be dangerous in the ASC. If that is the #4 team in D3 then UMHB is a dark horse at 0-3 to make some noise. Young and athletic. A Team like that, what they displayed today, shows they can play with anyone. Stay faithful CRU and don't worry about the rankings. That was a tough gauntlet for pre-conference. Goodluck. Tough loss, but that was tremendous growth against a tough top 5 opponent.

Cowboy...

They may be dangerous, but now there is 0 margin for error. Every week in conference is must win.

[umhbalum]

UMHB will be dangerous in the ASC. If that is the #4 team in D3 then UMHB is a dark horse at 0-3 to make some noise. Young and athletic. A Team like that, what they displayed today, shows they can play with anyone. Stay faithful CRU and don't worry about the rankings. That was a tough gauntlet for pre-conference. Goodluck. Tough loss, but that was tremendous growth against a tough top 5 opponent.

Cowboy...

They may be dangerous, but now there is 0 margin for error. Every week in conference is must win.

In all fairness, most years in ASC there's little margin of error

[CRULive1845]

Not sure if you UWW underperformed, considering their second half performance against SJU last week, or if The CRU took another major stride forward this week, but as a homer, I will choose to believe it is option number two haha

If option number two is correct, I believe this sets The CRU up with a legitimate shot to challenge HSU for the ASC title as per usual except not being the favorite.

I still believe this team's ceiling is second round / quarterfinal round of the playoffs at most.

[Cowboy2]

UMHB will be dangerous in the ASC. If that is the #4 team in D3 then UMHB is a dark horse at 0-3 to make some noise. Young and athletic. A Team like that, what they displayed today, shows they can play with anyone. Stay faithful CRU and don't worry about the rankings. That was a tough gauntlet for pre-conference. Goodluck. Tough loss, but that was tremendous growth against a tough top 5 opponent.

Cowboy...

They may be dangerous, but now there is 0 margin for error. Every week in conference is must win.

Well
According to most in DIII every week is a must win in the WIAC...so what's the difference?

[Cowboy2]

UMHB will be dangerous in the ASC. If that is the #4 team in D3 then UMHB is a dark horse at 0-3 to make some noise. Young and athletic. A Team like that, what they displayed today, shows they can play with anyone. Stay faithful CRU and don't worry about the rankings. That was a tough gauntlet for pre-conference. Goodluck. Tough loss, but that was tremendous growth against a tough top 5 opponent.

Ask SJU how the #4 is

Looked pretty good after half 28-21 until the sails
Quit catch up wind.

Not having 3 of top 4 WR threats, and some holding calls changed the 3Q. STJ is a lot closer than that game showed. Why bring R6 to R3? Need an ego boost or something?