FB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[rockcat]

I actually went to Linfield.  If you've ever been there and seen the athletic fields and complex you'll understand why a prospective athlete might be sold by them.  The baseball field is as good as you will find at the d3 level.  The field house is also a great addition.  I've been to a ton of d3 schools around the country and I'm not sure if any that I've been to can compare across the board with Linfield's.  Speaking of Wheaton, there athletic complex is actually very nice.  Mount Unions is impressive too, but that may have more to do with the national championship shrine located at the entrance of their field house.  You can check out Linfield's facilities here:

http://www.linfield.edu/sports/venues/index.php\

[RFB]

Linfield has very nice facilities, top notch. I would say that Redlands has the best overall facilities in the SCIAC. Cal Lu could take the honor when they are done building everything.

http://www.redlands.edu/x1064.xml

The pictures of Ted Runner stadium are without the new all-weather track.

[rockcat]

Amazingly I haven't been to Redlands.  I planned on getting out there for a game this fall but never made it.  Maybe I'll catch a basketball game this winter sometime, I'd like to check it out.

[Gray Fox]

I hope that Dr Dorsey at Redlands ( the new Pres) will have the same outlook as Dr Appleton.  Appleton came from USC, so you know he was committed to athletics.

[pomonaalum]

So, RFB, how often is it as clear as those pictures show?  If there was a place with worse smog than Claremont, it would have to be Redlands.  The facilities are nice, though.

Always loved landing at the Ontario airport through the brown/yellow haze...good times.

[RFB]

Redlands basketball is very entertaining, they run a crazy version of run and gun hoops. I would definitely recommend catching a game.

Gray Fox,

Dr. Appleton is not going anywhere, he is now Chancellor. He will still have his hands involved in Redland's future. He is just not running the day to day operations anymore. I am also pretty sure that the trustees brought in a pro-athletics President.

[RFB]

Pomonaalum,

You're dead right about the smog, Redlands gets the worst of it. I had to practice in that crap for four years. During the wintertime it is the best when the rains clear everything up, but that is true for all of the Inland Empire and LA.

[frank uible]

rockcat: The Linfield athletic facilities appear to be at least top 10% based on a view of the website you provided. Linfield placed 68th in the 2004-2005 standings for the DIII Director's Cup. Are its facilities running ahead of its athletes in terms of quality? If so, why?

[scandihoovian]

Since we're telling Redlands smog stories...

I was a camp counselor in the mountains east (?) of Redlands - every day we got to watch the smog roll in.  It is a bummer because the IE on a clear day is a beautiful place  - especially in the winter when there's snow on the mountains.  Recruiting might get a lot easier at Redlands as the federal vehicle emission standards get tougher 

[rockcat]

There are definitely a few programs that consistently don't pull there weight, especially some of the women's teams.  I also know that last year was a down year for a couple of usually strong programs like men's soccer and basketball.  Soccer in particular rebounded and had a good year.

I'm not exactly sure how the scoring works in the director's cup.  If a school doesn't field a team in a certain sport do they just lose those points?  I know that the NWC schools don't have some sports like men's and women's Water Polo that I know the SCIAC has.  Some of the schools in the midwest and east coast compete in some things like wrestling and equistrian (believe it or not).  I'm not even sure if Linfield's women's lacrosse team would qualify because it doesn't play a full schedule against  varsity opponents.  I know that the NWC all-sports trophy will never been won by Pacific, George Fox or Whitman because they don't compete in enough sports.  This is just a guess.

I just looked at the NWC all-sports standings through the fall.  Right now Linfield is in fourth place, pretty much because the women's soccer team was real bad this year.

[OXY Oswald]

Oxy's All SCIAC team:

Honorable Mentions-
Ryan Gonzales - RB
Matt Andersen - RB
Jack Collier - OL
Jared Charity - OL
Victor Lopez - DL
James Sabo - DL

2nd Team-
Caleb Small - WR/DB
Anthony Ostland - OLB
Scott Ferguson - DL
Robert Theofanis - DL
Mark Bohnstedt - OL

1st Team-
Derek Turban - DB
Joe Zackary - ILB
Alfredo Gamiz - OL
Thomas Joraanstad - K
Josh Jones - WR
Ric Fukushima - WR

Zinda Award - Ric Fukushima

Defensive Player of the Year - Mike Bryant

Offensive Player of the Year - Andy Collins

[OXY Oswald]

Great year for the Tigers, don't know the rest of the conferences results.

[rockcat]

That's quite a list.  Congrats to the all-conference kids.

[Tom Brady]

On the facilities issue here.  I will have to say that CLU will by far have the best facilities as a whole (when they are all actually finished).  I took a few minutes of my oh so precious time the other day and drove by and took a good look at them.  Amazing.  The baseball field is georgous, with the exception of no dugouts yet.  They better get a move on if they plan on having them by the spring.
Redlands= Very nice facilities....crappy air quality.  That whole campus is very "clean" looking.  Always a pleasure going there.
La Verne=Uhhhhh.....hmmmmm....baseball field real nice? I am going to pass on that one.  At least it doesn't look like Madonna's bra. 
All in all, things could be much worse...we could all live in Iowa or South Dakota

[RFB]

Cal Lu will need to have a superior football venue and a very nice aqautics center to overtake Redlands. Redlands has no weak spots when it comes to facilities. The sports fieldhouse/fitness center is state of the art. The womens softball field is as nice as they come. Redlands golf teams count Redlands country club/PGA course at Oak Valley as their home courses. I know Cal Lu facilites are going to be sweet but how are they top to bottom including womens?