FB: American Southwest Conference

[minni]

Its true, its true we squeaked by with one today!!! 38-13. 

Justin Ollie was right!!!!

Whatever!!!!  We killed em.  Slow in the beginning but fixed and played well in the second half. 

[etbualum]

No doubt who is the best in the conference now....everyone else is playing for second.

Good game HSU

[Weak Safety]

I was impressed with ETBU's defense.  They held strong on several red zone opportunities.  They did seem to wear down as the game went on, but played very well in the first half.  I think team depth was the difference as HSU did their usual two (plus) deep rotation.  Good intensity from the Cowboys.  Looking forward to Saturday already!  Go Cowboys!!

[dballa]

mcmfan you were right finding parking was hard today.  Good win for HPU.  Not a good looking game though.  5 interceptions for each team.  Is that an ASC record for 10 combined? 

It didn't seem like either team wanted to win this one.

HPU had breakdowns in their coverage and McM missed out on some big opportunities deep in HPU territory. 

The only problem i have was late in the game when HPU had a 3rd down with :51 secs left in the game and they had a rushing play, the clock didn't start until our player was tackled which would have been at least 8 secs.  Then we get the punt off and McM gets the ball with 4 secs left and a chance to win the game.  Their last drive never should have happened.  But it was a good exciting game today.  It will be nice when they get that new turf because everybody was slipping around on that chewed up muddy field.

[dsc]

someone asked about the Mc M stadium name...

Shotwell Stadium

...in a hurry and on a laptop...

go cowboys...

[dballa]

The HPU/McM game today wasn't played at Shotwell it was played on campus at Indian Stadium.

[baddog]

Just some reflections -- with no offense intended to anyone:
Miss. College's win over AC is yet another farewell "gift" from the ASC to the Kangaroos. Congrats to Miss. College on the fiorst win of the season and for/with the new coaching staff.
HPU avoided a letdown after the upset of UMHB. Not the HPU of the past. Seems lkike they have more discipline than before.
LC seems to have found a rhythm, but TLU is just better and was at home.
I thought UMHB would really pound SRSU -- maybe to salve their wounds from last week. Maybe they were looking ahead to their vist to Abilene next week.
HSU did well against a pretty good ETBU team. Still, they must take it up a notch next week. Get ready, Cowboys, and win it at home!

[Ralph Turner]

dballa, I was following the clock on that last HPU drive very carefully.  McMurry used up its timeouts and then HPU was calling timeouts at the end of the 25 second clock.   HPU began its last drive with 1:40 left and the ball was being put in play correctly.  I saw at least 8-10 seconds run off the game clock after the player was tackeld before the 25 second clock was started.

I thought the time clocks were run correctly.

[dballa]

Yeah but Ralph I looked up at the clock when the play started and it said :51 secs then after the player was tackled the clock started up...because it wasn't a first down and no timeouts were called after that 3rd down play the clock was suppose to run even before the play clock is reset and started.  I guarantee if you look at it again you'll see that it didn't start. 

But even with that either way, both teams had a lot of turnovers and the game could have gone either way. 

[mcmfan]

I would say the key difference in the McM-HPU game was that the HPU o-line did a better job of protecting their quarterback than McM's did.  We sacked HPU only once, I think (though it was a big play and caused a turnover).  But Sellers, our QB, was constantly under pressure and got sacked repeatedly.  Some of his intercepted passes were clearly because he was scrambling to avoid the HPU pass rush, while HPU's QB had a lot more time to get his throws off (and even outran several of our rushers).

[Stephen1452]

So the commissioner of the ASC made a suggestion to the referees of UMHB's game on Saturday. The suggestion that the barrels in the couch cru not be hit once the 25 second clock is in play. I believe that this was b/c MC had a hard time of hearing when they were down by the couch cru. My opinion is that this is fan noise. The referees of the MC/UMHB game could have talked to the couch cru at any time, however they were never given any warning. Why would the commissioner make a suggestion to make up for a game that didn't really matter?

[Weak Safety]

"So the commissioner of the ASC made a suggestion to the referees of UMHB's game on Saturday. The suggestion that the barrels in the couch cru not be hit once the 25 second clock is in play. "


Maybe we should just start playing the games in big libraries.

[Ralph Turner]

There was similar warning given to the McMurry students in the South End Zone at the McMurry-HPU game.

[Ron Boerger]

The NCAA rulebook states:

Rule 9-2/Conduct of players and others subject to rules
SECTION 2.  NONCONTACT FOULS
UNSPORTSMANLIKE ACTS
ARTICLE 1.  There shall be no unsportsmanlike conduct or any act that interferes with orderly game administration on the part of players, substitutes, coaches, authorized attendants or any other persons subject to the rules, before the game, during the game or between periods.
a. Specifically prohibited acts and conduct include:
[laundry list]
b. Other prohibited acts include:
[...]
5. Persons subject to the rules, including bands, shall not create any noise that prohibits a team from hearing its signals (Rule 1-1-6).
PENALTY—Dead-ball foul. 15 yards [S7, S27] from the succeeding spot.

The question then becomes "are the Couch Cru [and other similar groups] subject to the rules?"  The NCAA rulebook states:

Persons Subject to the Rules
ARTICLE 6. All players, substitutes, replaced players, coaches, trainers, cheerleaders in uniform, band members in uniform, mascots in uniform, commercial mascots, public-address announcers, audio and video system operators, and other persons affiliated with the teams or institutions are subject to the rules and shall be governed by the decisions of the officials.

So, that might be why they're telling people to tone it down.   Certainly the intent of noise-making groups is to make it difficult for the opposing team to concentrate/hear what's going on. 

There are also general "crowd noise" rules, but this situation doesn't seem to fall under that set of rules.

[minni]

So tell the people own at Aggieland or at UT or anywhere else to pipe it down!!!!