FB: American Southwest Conference

[Ralph Turner]

cgmatch, it is good to have solid fan from LC providing us with updates from that part of the conference.  Thanks for the hyperlink.

Several fans have done so in the past, but you have taken the yoke this year and are pulling your fair share.  It is good to see local articles about players as well.

Good luck thru the Hurricane and stay safe.

[mcmfan]

We just got the following campus-wide email at McMurry from Jerry Larned, our AD:
"Football game with Texas Lutheran University WILL be played as scheduled @ 6:00 p.m., in Seguin, Texas."

[dballa]

Ralph looks like Underwoods and Brownwood will stay fairly dry, much to your disappointment  So the HPU/SRSU game should still be on as planned but may get some showers during gametime.  Good thing is with the new turf it won't be mud bowl 2005.

[Ron Boerger]

As far east as Rita is now apparently going, the Trinity and TLU games should be dry (not to mention HPU).

See the latest forecast plot.  Tried to post it here but it kept getting shrunk way too much.

If the storm ends up landing here, HSU-MC will probably get more rain than any of the games scheduled in TX. 

[Warren Thompson]

Central Texas might be OK, but it appears that the Houston/Galveston/Beaumont/Pt. Arthur area will be walloped.

[Ron Boerger]

Central Texas might be OK, but it appears that the Houston/Galveston/Beaumont/Pt. Arthur area will be walloped.

Yep, and a lot of refineries down there, not to mention natural gas facilities.  Fill your tanks today, folks in the rest of the country; prices back over $3/gallon after the weekend, if not sooner. 

Galveston might be relatively OK; if Rita comes in to the east, they'll be on the back side and won't get the storm surge.  Houston and points east, though ... not good.  A lot of my co-workers who live down there can't get out because the roads are jammed and the city is literally out of gas.

[Pat Coleman]

UMHB/LC has now been cancelled.

[Warren Thompson]

BfB:

There are folks in Houston who can't get out because the [FEMA-promised?] busses
aren't there [can't get there?].

Altogether, things ain't shaping up very well for deep southeast Texas ....

[Toby Taff]

So Pat,

How will a cancelled unrescheduled conference game effect conference standings?

[Ron Boerger]

This is an important question that would prolly have to be resolved by the league office.  Imagine the following scenario:

- HSU beats UMHB
- TLU beats HSU

TLU, UMHB, HSU otherwise win out.  You end up with this:

T1.  TLU 8-1
T1.  HSU 8-1
3.  UMHB 7-1

which would send TLU to the playoffs as the Pool A winner, leaving HSU and UMHB to fight for a pool C.   Might get two given the ONU situation, but not a good situation at all.

I don't say this is likely ...

[Ralph Turner]

The biggest fans that Willamette has must be UMHB fans.  If Willamette makes the playoffs as a Pool B, then UMHB has another check mark on the primary selection criteria.  (I suspect that the win over 2004 Pool B Willamette team was the difference in the 2004 Pool C bid for the Cru!)

[Toby Taff]

I'm pulling for an 8-0 conference schedule.

But if that happens, how do you call it.  It still seems kind of silly to me.

[umhbex_98-01]

its entirely possible that a cancelled, non rescheduled conference game could be beneficial for umhb in the event that they finish the season with 1 loss. in '01 the umhb/mcm game was cancelled due to 9/11 and the fact that umhb did not play a poor mcm team helped their power ranking and lent to umhb's first pool-c playoff bid. as a former crusader i hope that the cru can finish 9-0, but a cancelled game does not mean the end of the playoff hunt even with one loss.

[hsusid]

The HSU game with Mississippi College has been changed to an 11 a.m. kickoff.

[Josh Bowerman]

Anybody out there?  I've been at Houston/Bush Airport since 7 a.m. and am kinda getting bored.  At least they have WiFi hotspots all over the place.   

And I WILL make my 9 p.m. flight!   8)