FB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Tom Brady]

Glad you asked RFB (it gives me a reason to research instead of work).  I guess it will be an opinionated matter on who has better facilities, but lets just say I am right and you are wrong .
From what I can see, there will be a similar Aquatics center to the one at Redlands.  I guess the only difference will be that it is not directly on the street.  The baseball field will have to be kept up VERY well if they want to keep up with the Tiger Woods like grass at Redlands, but the surounding will be more of a "stadium" feel at Cal Lu.
Football=who knows.  From what I understand that will be the last thing done.  It sure will have to be nice to beat the Runner.
The GYM will be absolutely un-real.  I can't describe how sweet it will be but it is huge.  I slapped my hard-hat on and gave myself a tour when nobody was watching . One thing I do know for sure is that the roof will be high enough so no balls hit it.  Not too sure which one the weightroom was in there but if it is the one I thought, it was very big as well and looks out towards the baseball field. 
Softball doesn't look like it will be done any time soon, but what do I know, it could be done next year.
All in all, it will be a very nice place, not only for a D-III, but for any college.  It sure is nice that CLU finally took the time to make an improvement to their Eye-Sore facilities they had, or have in the case of the gym.

[Tezbaseball]

Speaking of Redlands. What's the lowdown on Frosh John Pearson? How does he look?

[Tom Brady]

One more thing, will Cal Lu ever put up new pictures of the new stuff to promote it?  I know it is oh so exciting, but the live web-cam really doesn't do it for me.

[RFB]

That's awesome that Cal Lu is making the big time commitment to athletics. They have the right model in place and a growing football program to lead the charge. A new football stadium will do wonders for Cal Lu. It will be interesting when all of the construction is finished.

[pomonaalum]

Thought CLU tightened up their admissions standards...Slimak used to have a ton of JC kids on the baseball team, back when they were the dominant program in the SCIAC.  Bell, Kiszak (sp?), etc - some good players with pitchers who threw some serious gas.

BTW - who's is going to be the football coach longterm at PP now that Caron is gone.  Where'd he go, anyways?

[RFB]

Not sure on John Pearson. I know he had a concussion late in the season that kept him out of some games. I look for him to contribute at wide receiver next season. Redlands loses two senior starters in Charles Coleman and Alex Ballard at receiver so he should get an opportunity next year if he works hard in the offseason.

[RFB]

When I was at Redlands(Mid 90's) Cal Lu killed everyone in baseball. They had some very talented players in their program. Admission standards have tightened at all SCIAC schools. Redlands is receiving record applications to get into the school.

[Tom Brady]

Pomonaalum- I would say that the admissions are getting tougher at CLU because the school is growing so fast in population, and there is not enough room.  Either way, there are going to be a ton of applicants due to the fact that it is a good school with a good academic reputation (which is always made fun of by other SCIAC schools  ) located in a beautiful city.  
In my opinion, the athletics program as a whole at Cal Lu has been very successful since becoming D-III.  There have been a lot of Conference Championships won by many different sports.
One question for you Pomonaalum.  I looked at the CLU baseball page and find it kind of funny that you said back when they were good.  Just wondering what you mean by that cause it sure looks like they have a lot of wins every year?  

[Tom Brady]

Wait, I think I took what Pomonaalum said the wrong way, my bad.
I know that this is the football message board, but I recently saw that former CLU baseball player Jason Hirsch is now on the Major League roster for the Astros.  Good news for Cal Lu and the SCIAC as a conference.

[pomonaalum]

Yeah, I said Cal Lu was the dominant program.  They won at least 5 or 6 straight titles before PP broke that in 2002, I think.  Back in those days, Cal Lu could come at you with 3 or 4 pitchers who threw high 80s-low 90s with nasty stuff.
I think there was a NCAA runner up, can't remember if it was CLU or LaVerne in the mid 90s.

There are some PP players floating around in the minors, too, I believe.  Jose Cortez, Jase Turner and Adam Gardner are names that come to mind.

Baseball is probably the easiest sell for the SCIAC in terms of the "major" sports, both because of the climate and the abundance of local talent.  For that reason, it's probably the sport where the SCIAC is strongest, top to bottom.  Think that level of play is much harder in a sport like football, because of both the numbers required and the strength of other conferences around the country.  Where the SCIAC would be very competitive (or better) with the UAA or NESCAC in baseball, it's a different story in football.

[Tezbaseball]

Not sure on John Pearson. I know he had a concussion late in the season that kept him out of some games. I look for him to contribute at wide receiver next season. Redlands loses two senior starters in Charles Coleman and Alex Ballard at receiver so he should get an opportunity next year if he works hard in the offseason.

Pearson will be a good player for the Bulldogs. He's a great young man. Good family.

[Gray Fox]

Oswald,

Can you give me my annual reminder as to what the Zinda award is for?

Also, who is (was) Zinda?

[scandihoovian]

I think CLU had two national runner ups in the 1990's and LaVerne may have had one as well.  My understanding is that many of the new facilities not already funded (softball, football stadium, etc.) is that they'll be built as funds are raised.

Has anyone seen the newly remodeled "supertents" (or Madonna's Bra - which cracked me up Brady because that's exactly what we used to call it - maybe everybody did and we thought we were being original)?  I heard good things about the remodel.

[Tom Brady]

Scandi- Yeah, I am one funny mother.  I actually had never heard it called that before but I am sure you were the only ones to ever call it that (insert ego boost) .
How in the hell can all that stuff not be funded?  They started all of this stuff back a few years ago!  What is going to happen with some of the facilities; Are they going to build half and then let them sit there and collect dust (for example- The baseball field).  Field is done, but no stands, scoreboard, press box........are they even going to play there?  Why not just re-model the current football stadium?  Put some field turf down and enclose it a little more.  It is a sweet setting (middle of campus) that is kind of an eye-sore because of the way it is kept up.
What the heck, put me in charge and this will get done faster

[Sabretooth Tiger]

The SCIAC Zinda award is for performance, sportsmanship, and academics.  If I remember correctly, John Zinda was a long time coach/AD at a SCIAC school . . . I'm thinking Claremont.