FB: American Southwest Conference

[sthrncwby]

Where are you on the food chain with ol' sam?

[TXCowboy]

Still unloading and running my area, doing a manger/supervisors job but getting paid as a regular associate.

[pottsy]

Wow!  UMHB is doing the job today.  I think this is the team we expected earlier in the year.  I would think that McMurry is not as up as they were last week.  Plus, they are playing a lot better team today.

[Kelly Boggs]

Way to go Purple CRUsh! And how 'bout that Dominating D! Tuneup for the playoffs and take 'em one game at a time.

Started the season in Salem (OR.), now set your sights on ending it in Salem (VA.).

It would be wild to have a re-match with Linfield.

[Josh Bowerman]

Yeah, Pottsy.  Great teams go for it on fourth and goal from the one to push their margin of victory to 72.  That counts as greatness in my book every day.

[dballa]

HPU had a chance to score late in the game with the time running out, backup QB ran it to the one and just let the time run out...Coach Redwine won't intentionally run up the score on someone..


but the way i see it...if those guys doing the scoring were seniors and this being their final home game on senior day..let them have their fun on their last game at their home stadium in front of their family and friends.

[CruGuy]

UMHB had the third string qb taking knees on the 10...they could've scored again...I get tired of this running the score up talk every week...at the point when UMHB went for it on fourth and goal from the 3 the offense had yet to assert itself at that point in the game, the defense was the side that had everything in control and the UMHB offense was trying to get some momentum...in my book kicking feild goals is running up the score unnecessarily, try and run them over or give em the ball...and they did....they did turn the ball over there, they didn't "run the score up" in the first quarter. I would've done the same thing.

I think that UMHB showed today that it has one of best defenses in the country and will be a major force to be reckoned with by anybody. Ty Sellars had flashes where you could see his athleticism, but three turnovers in the first quarter killed his team. I really struggle to call him conference player of the year. Who are some other suggestions for that title ? One of the UMHB defensive players possibly, Ricky Lopez, Josh Kubiak ? Let me hear what yall think.

[CruGuy]

Sorry, I forgot about the drive there in the third quarter...you were right they did go for on fourth and goal from the one....with a third string running back and second string quarterback...and 9 other non-first string players on the feild. These guys practice day in and day out all season long getting beat up and they don't get to have their time in the sun too ? if UMHB doesn't let em play they transfer to TLU or HPU and come back to hurt us next season.....again I say the same thing, kicking field goals at that point in time is rediculous. A feild goal from the one is 3 points in the bank, going for it isn't.

Any for anyone still questioning that call I was practically on top of the play, the UMHB running back jumped over the line and was a good yard into the end zone and then got hit and the ball popped up...nice hit by the McMurry backer but well after he crossed the line.

[etbualum]

ETBU kicker Jeremy Seeton hit a 61 yard fg as time expired in the first half.  The NCAA record is 62. 

[dballa]

We heard about that one, he easily broke the conference record previously held by another ETBU kicker and UMHB's kicker which was 52 yds.

HPU broke the conference record for interception return yards in a game with 6 interceptions for 261 yds.

With 1 more interceptions in their game against MC they'll tie the conference record for the season which is now 28 held by UMHB but that was in 15 games last year.

[Ralph Turner]

Crukid, in the middle of the 3rd quarter, UMHB had a 51-0 lead and still had defensive starters on the field.  You also had Padron taking snaps deep into the 4th quarter.

It was Homecoming and you had an 8 TD lead by the 4th quarter.  UMHB has 150+ players on the roster on the web site.

There is no such thing as redshirting so we should have been seeing some of those 4th stringers.

How many does UMHB suit up for a home game?  Only 60?  Does that mean that there are 90 guys on the roster who have no chance of seeing action in a 72-0 rout at Homecoming in front of their parents?

Maybe that is the dirty little secret that high school players should know.  At the start of the season, you may be a 4th string player "and about a quarter of an inch" out of 2nd string.  Fellow, you're gonna get lost at UMHB.  There are probably several other schools where you can develop into a really good player.  Why take the chance of not even getting to suit out.  Look at some other programs in the ASC.  HPU beat UMHB. Someone else could use you to beat the Crusaders.

I stand by my post.  UMHB needed quality reps for Padron until the last series of the game, and UMHB was going to get him for him.

Good luck representing the conference!

[CruGuy]

yes, Padron, the second string quarterback (who hasn't played much if any in the last three weeks)...I'm sorry if people get their feelings upset when they get beat badly, but there were 8 minutes left in the game, you can't stop playing football, I stick by the fact that I think the players in the game at that point in the game have the right to play football and to try and play it well. I live with the third string quarterback, I think he should've been given an opportunity to score. He could've broken the school record for points in a game...I wonder what yall would've been saying about the class and dignity of UMHB then. (For anybody who is about to come on here and blast me no, I wouldn't really call plays in the last minute and a half in a 68-0 game.)

I also believe the defense has to come out in the third quarter and be prepared to play a full game. I think they also had the chip of not being able to get their shut out. ETBU and HSU both were able to ruin that for them and I think it was very important for them to ensure a shut-out this afternoon.

By the way that most posters talked on this board you would think that that McM offense was better than both the HSU and ETBU offense and as long as Ty Sellars is out there trying to run on us someone has to be out there trying to stop him from doing so.

In that 150 player roster many are playing on the JV on mon. night and their parents have already made a trek once this week. To my knowledge the Crusader policy is anyone can dress that wants to for home games, but if you're not on the traveling squad, do you really want to be that guy ?

Maybe you should make yourself a personal crusader and go to all this high school students and inform them of this dirty little secret.

[bcal]

"the objective is to win the football game, not to humiliate your opponent."    Coach "Buddy" Fornes, McMurry College late 60s.

[Ralph Turner]

I am glad Padron got his reps!  The stat sheet shows that 63 players got to play in the Homecoming game.  Another 90 guys didn't!

http://www.umhb.edu/sportsinfo/cfootball/mcmurry.htm

The UMHB defense is the quickest that McMurry has seen and there are probably no other defenses in the South Region with that speed.  That explains their success against Sellers.

UMHB has the talent and the capability to return to the Stagg Bowl.  I think that becomes the definition of a successful season.  Good luck.

[Toby Taff]

Yeah, Pottsy.  Great teams go for it on fourth and goal from the one to push their margin of victory to 72.  That counts as greatness in my book every day.

Josh,

I was at the game.  I there were still seven minutes on the clock.  Which is worse letting your freshmen and sophomores, who were being led by the 3rd string qb, go for it on 4th and goal or having the 3rd string qb take a knee with 7+ to go.  I think the latter is showing the other team up.