FB: American Southwest Conference

[Ralph Turner]

cgmatch, that is a good article.  The Town Talk does a good job of covering LaCollege sports.

[Ron Boerger]

HPU QB Adam Johnson was named regional player of the week by the Dallas Morning News.  Better late than never, I guess!

[minni]

HSU played pretty well today.  I had talked to some of the players earlier in the week and they told me practice had been a little shakey all week.  Had trouble completing passes among other things.  Offensively Jordy played well.  Didnt make any big mistakes.  If he got trouble he either ran the ball or threw it away.  Also no interceptions this game.  First time all year and the penalties were also limited.  Running game struggled a but today at times but they did get the yards needed.  Defensively, D-line was wrekin fools.  From big hits to helmets being kicked around.  Secondary allowed a few passes by them but i thought the front seven played really well. 
HPU was out of it before the game started.  Im not talking physically but mentally.  The couch crew was in their head before the game even started.  The couch crew is successful when the players are talking to them instead of warming up.  this something Ive noticed even as a player about them.  They always seem to worry about other things instead of a rivalry game.  if you want to call it that.  Also an incident in the 4th quarter that made me laugh.  HSU is running a play on the goalline and one of the players is jawing with a fan in the endzone,  news flash, you will not win a conference championship with players like this. 
Overall well done Cowboys, celebrate tonight and be ready on Monday time for a Lobo.

[dsc]

Thanks, minni!

Enjoyed your recap!

Go Cowboys!

[roocru]

I was in Belton this weekend visiting with crualum39 and attended the UMHB game.  What can I say except dominating.  I must admit after seeing to MC/HSU score I did not know what to think (what with the weather and all).  Special teams (especially punt returns) were awesome.  The MC punter averaged 45 yds per punt but punted straight down the middle everytime.  When the wind was behind him, he outkicked the coverage and boy did P. J. Williams take advantage of that.  NCAA and ASC records were 285 yards and two TD's and the longest two punts in ASC history of 87 and 80 yards.  UMHB also had a great fake punt in first half to set up a score. 

The reason for all the punts was the UMHB defense.  Out of 17 possessions, MC went three and out 12 times.  The remaining five possessions were 9 plays/49 yards, 9/52, 6/19, 5/11, and 2/12.  These five possessions ended in three punts, a fumble and the last possession of two plays was at the end of the game.  MC had    one yard rushing and 196 yards passing.  139 of their total yards came on seven plays.

UMHB offense was predominantly rushing again (64 attempts, 461 yards, 5 td's and 7.2 yds/attempt) although Padron was 6-11 for 102 yards and two TD's. Great job by the Crusaders !!

As far as my 'Roos,  jmnaseum may have been right but I haven't given up hope.  I plan to go to Homecoming in two weeks and will get my first real look of the year.  From the outside, it appears that the defense has been playing well for them, but it sure sounds like they are hurting on offense.  Maybe they can find something that works and still upset somebody.   

Go Roos !!  Go Cru !!

[Toby Taff]

I was glad to hear HSU played well.  I also had some concern expressed over some rough looking practice time.  Jordy and crew did a good job congrats!  3 more weeks til the big game and everyone's record needs to be x-0!

Also, great job CRU!  See ya'll in Abi Tex in 3 weeks.

[Toby Taff]

Here's a link to Killeen Daily Herald story about the UMHB-MC game.  By all accounts that I've read, the team looked rusty in the first half, but managed to be up big because of special teams and defense.  PJ Williams performance certainly was impressive.  I wonder if he's still cleaning buildings on campus as his worl study job?

http://www.kdhnews.com/sports_5.html

[Bill McCabe]

Why would MC keep kicking the ball to PJ?  As far as looking rusty, I don't think off weeks really help a team very much.  When you prepare all week and then don't get to play is a huge let down.  I'll be in Brownwood next week to see the CRU. 

[Toby Taff]

Bill,

I'm supposed to be helping out in Stanford doing flood clean up, but if those plans change I will too.  It's only an hour and half away.  I'll let you know if I make it.  I'd like to meet the people I meet on here.  If not, I'm probably going to be helping out with the HSU-UMHB tailgate.  (I offered the use of my yard/house if necessary).  Maybe I can meet up with you and some of the others from the board there.

[crualum04]

P.J. had a great game on saturday. I was very impressed with the defense. MC only had 1 yard rushing. MC punted the ball 14 times. That is a pretty impressive performance. The special teams played to their potential. The offense looked a little rusty but got the job done. Overall I think when a team wins 61-0 and their offense looks rusty is very scary. I know the guys are very excited about playing HPU and their UMHB transfer they have playing runningback. I think it will be another impressive performance by the defense. Expecially the D-Line. mhb8904 im sure he is.

[CruGuy]

Yes P.J. still has a work study job buffing the floors in the mabee center at night. i see him tues. and thrus. nights when i'm leaving classes. looks like something in that line of work makes you good at running fast. coach fred sure didn't sound like he was happy with their performance so i'm sure they won't come out looking as rusty next week. i'm also sure that they won't throw half as many passes in the first three series as they did this week. at the beginning of the game it looked like the cru had abandoned their running game, and i really wasn't sure who that was on the feild but it wasn't much of a crusader offense.

[Toby Taff]

Crukid,

I met PJ for the first time on a Monday night.  He was buffing the carpet, working hard, and I was waiting for class to start.  I had no idea that he was a football player or even a student for that matter, but as we talked, I found out he was an athlete and student.  I thought he was a bball player for a long time because he kind of looks like one, boy am I glad he's a football player.

[Josh Bowerman]

Just my opinion, here, but...

I'm not so keen on discussing specific financial aid packages any kid, from any DIII college is getting on these boards--even passing references to it.  It seems a bit disrespectful to the kid, for starters--I mean, would you want someone writing about your financial aid package in a public forum?  Not to mention that discussing it is also very close to encroaching upon some issues the NCAA and member institutions consider very private stuff. 

It also opens up a whole can-'o-worms that a lot of people don't understand or know a lot about.  And that could easily lead to questions and accusations that are baseless.  Better that we just don't go there in the first place.

Just my humble .02 here, but it seems like this is a subject that might be inappropriate for discussion in this forum.

[Toby Taff]

I understand what your saying josh, and i agree.  my intent wasn't a discussion of the financing of anyone.  i was just talking about the circumstances of meeting PJ.  Truthfully, I didn't and don't know if PJ's job was work study or work duty or just a job to help pay the bills.  What I know about PJ is that he used to play minor league baseball and decided to play football when he came to UMHB.  I don't know if he came to play or decided to play after coming.  My real point was that when I met him he was very unassuming and nondescript, and doing janitorial work at the school (it still makes me shrug when I think about him cleaning carpets with a floor buffer).  Very un-prima dona, very down to earth.  And much like Jordan Neal or any of the other players I've met or had classes with at DIII schools he is a good, solid, decent person who also happen to play football really well.

[Toby Taff]

Should also add much props for PJ based on his performance this past weekend.

http://d3football.com/pressreleases.php?release=747