FB: American Southwest Conference

ETeller · September 03, 2005, 02:04:36 PM

GO COWBOYS!! Let me hear back from some HSU fans!

Erik Teler

Zmotion10 out on 2 · September 03, 2005, 03:33:47 PM

Go Cowboys! Listening to the game.

Ralph Turner · September 03, 2005, 03:38:26 PM

Please post any scores, updates or in-game analyses on the ASC In-game update boards.

Thanks!

baddog · September 03, 2005, 07:51:49 PM

Some interesting posts on the WIAC board. They will need all their cheese to go with their "whine."

When did the Cowboys leave on the trip? If they didn't fly out of Abilene, they would have had to drive to DFW either Thursday or verrrrry early Friday. That would have made for a very long travel day. (And I'll bet they could not afford to take their usual depth.)
To recover from that kind of schedule and win the way they did is pretty impressive -- especially against a team from "the best D3 conference in the nation." What a joke.

minni · September 03, 2005, 10:27:03 PM

Great Job Cowboys!!!! Way to go up and handle buisness today. Dont take the off-week lightly. You know the results when you do that. Keep it rollin into the home opener. Cant wait to watch my first game from the stands. Or can I? Oh well. Public service Annoucement to any HSU fans we will be tailgate partying before the game next Sat. The more the merrier.

roocru · September 04, 2005, 01:44:14 AM

jmnasuem,

After today's games, do you think my AC 'roos might move up a little in your predicted order of finish?

Ralph Turner · September 04, 2005, 02:08:15 AM

McMurry's article in the AR-N.

http://www.reporter-news.com/abil/sp_fb_coll_univ/article/0,1874,ABIL_8000_4054916,00.html

Ralph Turner · September 04, 2005, 02:30:05 AM

The ASC home page has the hyperlink to the D3football.com scoreboard page.

Great job to both the ASC homepage and D3football.com!

http://www.americansouthwestconf.org/

Josh Bowerman · September 04, 2005, 07:56:24 PM

Looks like yesterday was a nice win for the Cowboys--way to go, guys!

Looking at the stats and reading the write-ups, it looks like the game could have easily been more lopsided, but for some issues HSU had holding on to the ball. I'm choosing to assume that these were typical first-game-of-the-season issues, and that Coach K will get them worked out in the off week.

I'm really looking forward to being back on campus for the LC game, and hope that the Cowboys put on a nice show for me--I'll be photographing the game for our favorite d3 website!

Anyway, congrats to the HSU guys on a nice win over a decent UWSP team.

Josh Bowerman · September 04, 2005, 07:58:26 PM

And congrats to McMurry on a nice win over Menlo, too. (My wife wanted me to add that!)

Ralph Turner · September 04, 2005, 08:17:19 PM

Josh, thanks for the nice words from your lovely bride.

I was pleased with the way that the Abilene teams performed for the sake of the conference. AC also looked good. I hope that TLU took good notes!

I was sad to see LC lose the lead in the 4th quarter. That loss doesn't help us in the relative scales of the conferences.

The MC and Millsaps postponements are interesting. I hope that Thomas More doesn't take credit for making the Millsaps-Huntingdon game possible.

I really hope that UMHB has a good week at Willamette, and especially HPU vs. UW LaCrosse.

Bill McCabe · September 04, 2005, 10:05:00 PM

How do you think the TLU-Trinity game shapes up?

Josh Bowerman · September 04, 2005, 10:30:46 PM

My opinion, here...

It's always double-tough on a team this time of year opening up with an opponent that has a game under it's belt. From my observations over the past several seasons, there's a tremendous "learning curve" (for lack of a better term) that goes on with teams--especially the better teams--between week 1 and week 2.

So, historically, I think the Tigers have to have the edge going into the game.

Having said that, they certainly didn't look too good against AC based upon what I'm seeing from the Saturday write-ups. TLU should have enough talent to get it done if they play up to their abilities.

This should be an interesting tiebreaker game in the pick-em contest; assuming that's what Ralph has in mind.

Don't yet know who I'd pick--I may have to consult the Kickoff for this one!

Josh Bowerman · September 04, 2005, 10:46:02 PM

Week 2 poll is out...

Bill McCabe · September 05, 2005, 07:49:43 AM

I've always heard that teams make the most improvement between their first and second games, so I would think that will help Trinity. Last year, I think it definitely helped Willamette when they played UMHB. I guess the same could be true this year. Sounds like Willamette didn't fair too well against Western Oregon.