FB: USA South Athletic Conference

[kickerdad]

It's not official yet, but I've been told Guilford will open at Southern Virginia next year (instead of Ferrum) and will play Methodist in Fayetteville for the 2nd year in a row.  For several years now, the Quakers have been on an odd schedule of four home games one year and six the next.  This tentative schedule is an attempt to equalize the slate at five home and five away each season.

Do you know if Averett is playing Guilford again this year. I was looking at open dates and Averett was looking for someone to play in 2007 on the date that they would normally play Guildford.

[hasanova]

It's not official yet, but I've been told Guilford will open at Southern Virginia next year (instead of Ferrum) and will play Methodist in Fayetteville for the 2nd year in a row.  For several years now, the Quakers have been on an odd schedule of four home games one year and six the next.  This tentative schedule is an attempt to equalize the slate at five home and five away each season.

Do you know if Averett is playing Guilford again this year. I was looking at open dates and Averett was looking for someone to play in 2007 on the date that they would normally play Guildford.

Hey kickerdad - The only things I heard through some unofficial sources about 2007 were that Guilford was not going to play Ferrum, was going to pick up Southern Virginia and would play at Methodist for the 2nd year in a row to get to get a balanced 5-5 home & away sequence.  Other than that, I'm positive we go to Greensboro College and play the normal 6-game ODAC slate.  As far as I know, Averett is still coming to Guilford in September - but they could be trading dates with someone such as SVU since we played Ferrum on opening day the past few years.  It's all just hearsay, so I don't have anything certain to back it up. 

[PrideFan1986]

I havent seen anything on the Greensboro yet. I just hope that the season turns out better than it did this season.

[Smith Reed]

I've been off the board awhile but I still read the posts and I'll
say it now, I expect NCWC to make a run at the USA football title
in "07 Catch the fever NOW!!!

[kickerdad]

From what I saw when Averett played them in Rocky Mount this past season,  I would be shocked if they weren't in the top two going into the final half of the season. The offense looked real strong as did the defense, just not up to date on how many holes they need to fill from graduation.

[abnrgr]

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[AdmiralPapi]

ABN,

I'll shoot you an email when I get into work tomorrow.

Narch, anything going on in Monarch camp...I know you've been down there spying 

GO HEELS!!!!

[NCWC DAD]

NCWC only graduates 2 players, a OL and a DB! Everyone else returns.

[kickerdad]

NCWC only graduates 2 players, a OL and a DB! Everyone else returns.

Sounds like NCWC is going to be a force to reckon with this coming season. I wish I could say the same for Averett, but right now there are too many holes to fill (QB, RB, FB, WR, DB x2, LB, 2 or 3 line positions on both sides). Dunlevy has his work cut out for him on the recruitment end and getting these positions established early on in training camp. Dunlevy is a very good coach and he has excellant assistants and staff. They have a lot of good talent returning but these key positions that need to be filled will over shadow the returns early on.

[D3Newbie]

I havent seen anything on the Greensboro yet. I just hope that the season turns out better than it did this season.

I believe it will.  I think things look much better now than they did at the start of last year.  I expect the improvement to be at least as last years improvement over 2005. JMO.

[Matt Barnhart (kid)]

Not sure if someone already posted this here, but Shenandoah's Lamont Moore is playing for the Huntington Heroes of the AIFA.

[abnrgr]

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[SU97]

Not sure if someone already posted this here, but Shenandoah's Lamont Moore is playing for the Huntington Heroes of the AIFA.

Cool, do many guys in our conference or the ODAC go on to play arena ball? 

[Ryan Tipps]

NCWC only graduates 2 players, a OL and a DB! Everyone else returns.

Sounds like NCWC is going to be a force to reckon with this coming season. I wish I could say the same for Averett, but right now there are too many holes to fill (QB, RB, FB, WR, DB x2, LB, 2 or 3 line positions on both sides). Dunlevy has his work cut out for him on the recruitment end and getting these positions established early on in training camp. Dunlevy is a very good coach and he has excellant assistants and staff. They have a lot of good talent returning but these key positions that need to be filled will over shadow the returns early on.

I have to agree with you there. An early (and probably not surprising prediction): Averett is going to slide backward in a similar fashion that Ferrum did after the '05 season.

I don't see the Cougars breaking .500 this coming season. Losses to MUC, CNU, NCW and MVC seem like sure things. And I'm guessing there will be at least one more in there. I'm a fan of Dunlevy's coaching as well, but I don't think he has the depth returning to handle this season very well. Too many skill positions are being vacated.

OK, now I might be getting a little ahead of myself here, but I couldn't help but mention this:
-- A year after SU was co-champ in 2004, the team tanked into a 1-9 season.
-- A year after FC was co-champ in 2005, the team tanked into a 2-7 season, the worst drop-off of any D3 team in the country, as document in ATN and other columns.
-- A year after AU was runner-up in 2006 ....

Well, you can probably guess where that last part was headed. How is it that non-CNU teams can burst onto the scene one year and the slide back the next? This isn't intended to be a CNU rah-rah post about the team's staying power, rather it's something that kind of bothers me.

NCW is going to be a big dog this coming year. If they're top guys return as expected, there's a conference ring in their future. I can't help but wonder, though, if we could see them again in 2008? This Bishop team has a lot of solid young players. I think they have a good chance of breaking the "co-champ curse" of recent seasons.

But as I said...the season isn't quite here yet, so maybe I'm getting ahead of myself. 

[Smith Reed]

Fellas, let's keep USA football talk going 24/7 - 365
GO NCWC!!!!!!!!