FB: American Southwest Conference

[Bill McCabe]

There's a lot of discussion on the Ohio Athletic forum about Ohio Northern being banned from the playoffs this year.  There is a press conference at 3:00.  Pretty discouraging for a Top 10 team, I'm sure.

[Ralph Turner]

Ron, geograhically, I see the TLU-McMurry game as the most vulnerable.  Matador Stadium is real grass, and I am sure that the Seguin ISD doesn't want the field torn up with a college ballgame in a torrential rainstorm.

As for Brownwood, anything that doesn't flood Underwood's Barbecue, is not crop-damaging hail or is not a tornado is okay.

[TUFilmGuy]

I was at Matador Stadium for a JV game last Monday.  Matador Stadium is artificial turf.  I think the TU-Depaw game is more vulnerable.

[Ron Boerger]

I was at Matador Stadium for a JV game last Monday.  Matador Stadium is artificial turf.  I think the TU-Depaw game is more vulnerable.

Hate to turn this into a weather report, but I got a "A" in Meteorology 101 at good ol' TU ...

The Express-News summarizes a local forecaster thusly:  "Hurricane Rita shouldn't bring more than a bit of rain and some gusty winds to the Alamo City Saturday if it keeps on its present path.".  Not sure I agree with that assessment.  It is true that people to the north and east of the center of a storm will get more rain, but it is also true that this is going to be a big storm by the time it hits, and it's not forecast to miss SA by that much.  That the storm has turned to a westerly course after yesterday's somewhat WWNW jog is not helpful for SA.   Or Corpus Christi, for that matter.   It all depends on how long this big high pressure ridge stays west. 

Ralph, I would agree that the 30 miles TLU is east of SA could make a big difference.  I would not expect either team to play on Saturday if the storm continues on its present track.  It has nothing to do with the condition of the field, but safety for the players and fans. 

The basic feedback I have gotten so far from the SIDs is that they are monitoring the situation and will make a call later in the week as things start to firm up.   Everyone is keeping their eyes *and* options open. 

[Ralph Turner]

My bad!  Thanks for the correction!

They are comparing this hurricane to Hurricane Carla in 1960 1961.  (Thanks to Warren Thompson.)    Paul Broxterman, a friend of mine who was killed in the Oklahoma City Murrah Federal Bldg bombing, and I rode our bicycles to school that morning.  The weather deteriorated so badly that my father picked us up from school.  The rain was so torrential that it literally washed the college football pennant decals (Minnesota, USC, California, Purdue) off the fenders of my bicycle as it remained on the bicycle rack sustaining the remnants of Carla.

[redhorn]

Hey Ralph - thanks for the welcome back on the pick-em board last week. My kid doesn't play in the ASC anymore, but I still like D-3 football & enjoy reading the posts here. I'll be checking in from time to time, mostly just reading though.

[Ralph Turner]

I mentioned the ASC all-time series earlier this week.

McMurry and TLU are playing for the 22nd time in series that began in 1957.  According to the Handbook of Texas,  Texas Lutheran became a senior college in 1947.

When did TLU start playing football as a senior college?  Are there any games of "TLC" as a junior college playing other ASC members? Any Texas Lutheran (Junior) College vs Schreiner, whom I know was playing football as Schreiner Institute before WW2?

[Toby Taff]

Ralph,

Where do you get this data?  Are you our own D3 "Able Danger" data mining operation?

[Bill McCabe]

Any word on the status of the UMHB-LC game due to Rita?

[baddog]

The Abilene paper this morning said that the McM-TLU game might be moved to Friday and a different location.
Anyone from either of those schools know anything about that?

HSU Folk -- What's the latest on Neal's surgery and prognosis?

[Ron Boerger]

Any word on the status of the UMHB-LC game due to Rita?

Last I heard (yesterday) was that they were looking at moving the game up, either earlier Sat or to Fri.  No official news yet.

The projected storm track has moved considerably east since yesterday evening. 

[Warren Thompson]

The TLU Web-site says that Friday classes are cancelled and students are urged to leave the campus. Those who are unable to leave can remain in their dorms, but only limited food service will be available. While Seguin is 150 miles from the Gulf, they are obviously taking Rita very seriously. As of this morning, NOAA says that Rita is the third most powerful Atlantic hurricane in history.

[Toby Taff]

Baddog,

I usually see Jordan around on Thursdays working on class stuff.  I don't know if he'll be around today since he had surgery yesterday but if he is I'll find out how things went. 

I can tell you that he showed me the xrays and his collarbone looked kind of like a backwards z.  He said the surgery would consist of them putting in a rod to straighten the bone and then wraping the bone with a dissolving suture around the breaks to help keep everything pulled together while its healing.  It was an out patient procedure and was only supposed to take about an hour for the actual surgery.

[cgmatch]

Here is an update on the LC-UMHB game:

http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050922/SPORTS/509220330/1006

When I find out for sure, I will be sure to post. 

[Warren Thompson]

As of now, per the TLU Web-site, Saturday's game v. McMurry is on as scheduled, 6 pm, at Matador Stadium in Seguin.