FB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Gig Harbor Cat]

K4,
  Any way we all saw it it was one hell of a game.  Yea, parking was tight, our crew were at the top of the lot last row on the baseball field side.  Next time I will give you my cell so we can hook up.  Didn't bring ole Blue this trip.  Airport security was a pain the last time. 
  You guys will tear it up the rest of the way. 
Phone it in

GHC

[(509)Rat]

Ok, oxy's troubles make sense now...

Menlo runs over entire Oxy defense

[OxyBob]

Ok, oxy's troubles make sense now

I only counted 8 Oxy players who had a chance to tackle 24 on that play. Team effort.

Oxy tidbit in Eric Sondheimer's blog in the Los Angeles Times:

Football: Malcolm Jones is scheduled to visit Occidental College
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/varsitytimesinsider/2012/09/football-malcolm-jones-is-scheduled-to-visit-occidental-college.html

OxyBob

[MonroviaCat]

Ok, oxy's troubles make sense now

I only counted 8 Oxy players who had a chance to tackle 24 on that play. Team effort.

Yeah but that's because the other 3 all stopped playing before there was a whistle!

[WCAlum17]

What is with the SCIAC this year?
Redlands blown out by PacLU (uncharacteristic)
Cal Lu loses close to Linfield (but at home)
Oxy straight gets blown out two weeks in a row (wow)
If Whittier loses to Puget Sound then it is safe to say the APOCALYPSE is for sure on its way!!

[cludad]

 I will speak for CLU, it was linfield ,the cats arent ranked in the top 10 yearly for no reason,home or not the loss hurts, but nothing to hang their heads about . the sciac is the sciac some good years but mostly sub .500 as a league in football.The nwc i think is way up this year ,alot of good play by teams that have been marginal the past few years.linfield will have their hands full this year.

[DoubleDomer]

Ok, oxy's troubles make sense now...

Menlo runs over entire Oxy defense

Are you guys serious?  I'm the last one to come to Oxy's defense, but you're out of line to be mocking those players like that.  He didn't "run over" anyone until well downfield, and indeed got his lunch handed to him pretty roundly 4 yards off the line.  It was sheer chance that he happened to fall on his a** right on top of an Oxy DB--though admittedly a heady play to get up and keep going.

As for the tackling, sure the Oxy DBs didn't wrap up.  And you don't see that on every football field in the land, every single Friday and Saturday--and Sunday?  Even, perish the thought, in Thousand Oaks. (Though I'm sure it never happens in the rarefied air of McMinnville.)  Need proof?  Check out this clip at 1:24--and these guys are in a different universe, talentwise, coaching-wise, and every other wise: http://youtu.be/xhHufV9g4k4.

[madzillagd]

Ok, oxy's troubles make sense now...

Menlo runs over entire Oxy defense

Are you guys serious? 

No.

[MonroviaCat]

Ok, oxy's troubles make sense now...

Menlo runs over entire Oxy defense

Are you guys serious?  I'm the last one to come to Oxy's defense, but you're out of line to be mocking those players like that.  He didn't "run over" anyone until well downfield, and indeed got his lunch handed to him pretty roundly 4 yards off the line.  It was sheer chance that he happened to fall on his a** right on top of an Oxy DB--though admittedly a heady play to get up and keep going.

As for the tackling, sure the Oxy DBs didn't wrap up.  And you don't see that on every football field in the land, every single Friday and Saturday--and Sunday?  Even, perish the thought, in Thousand Oaks. (Though I'm sure it never happens in the rarefied air of McMinnville.)  Need proof?  Check out this clip at 1:24--and these guys are in a different universe, talentwise, coaching-wise, and every other wise: http://youtu.be/xhHufV9g4k4.

1)  509Rat is a Whitworth fan (again).  2)  What the heck is the point of that video you linked? 

[(509)Rat]

Ok, oxy's troubles make sense now...

Menlo runs over entire Oxy defense

Are you guys serious?

Yes.

[wartknight]

Ok, oxy's troubles make sense now...

Menlo runs over entire Oxy defense

Are you guys serious?  I'm the last one to come to Oxy's defense, but you're out of line to be mocking those players like that.  He didn't "run over" anyone until well downfield, and indeed got his lunch handed to him pretty roundly 4 yards off the line.  It was sheer chance that he happened to fall on his a** right on top of an Oxy DB--though admittedly a heady play to get up and keep going.

As for the tackling, sure the Oxy DBs didn't wrap up.  And you don't see that on every football field in the land, every single Friday and Saturday--and Sunday?  Even, perish the thought, in Thousand Oaks. (Though I'm sure it never happens in the rarefied air of McMinnville.)  Need proof?  Check out this clip at 1:24--and these guys are in a different universe, talentwise, coaching-wise, and every other wise: http://youtu.be/xhHufV9g4k4.

1)  509Rat is a Whitworth fan (again).  2)  What the heck is the point of that video you linked?

"What we have here is a failure to communicate"

[CamCat]

Great game between the Cats and the Kingsmen yesterday. Nice to see the Cats at #3. Regarding the Kingsmen, very rarely do we see a top ten ranked team lose and then go up in ranking!! That speaks volumes of respect for both CLU and Linfield football.

GO CATS!!

Calu does deserve to keep a high ranking and interestingly move up from #10 to #9 after the Linfield loss. That is showing great respect for Calu and deservedly so because even though Whitewater and Wesley both lost they are still above Calu in the polls. Calu only moved up because those voting thought they deserved it and having watch the game I agree.   

[DoubleDomer]

"1)  509Rat is a Whitworth fan (again).  2)  What the heck is the point of that video you linked?"

1) A fact in search of a purpose, but you get an A for accuracy.
2) Did you watch it? I understand that comparison often requires an act of imagination that probably leaves your gears grinding, but (listen closely now) the tackle was exactly the same tackle that the Oxy players executed. The point--and since generalization is a higher-order process, I'll help you out--is that the difference between hitting and tackling is part of the football vernacular in 2012, and making a joke of Oxy's defense because they display it is bush.

[DoubleDomer]

Yeah, Linfield did lose that game to Wesley and it stung.  I'm sure being a fan of CMS that you became numb to that losing sensation years ago.

Clever.  I bet you'd enjoy a piece that Michael Weinreb published on Grantland the other day: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8391106/lane-kiffin-usc-was-supposed-challenge-national-title-season-ran-stanford-again. Focus on this statement:  "these highbrow institutions [he's talking about Northwestern and Vandy, but feel free to substitute 'Pomona' and 'Claremont McKenna') are thrown into the mix to balance the equation, to lend some credibility to the otherwise irredeemable exercise in hypocrisy we like to call college football."

[CrashDavisD3]

Does Chapman upset anyone in SCIAC in their 1st year?

Hopefully Chapman football will do better that Chapman baseball did this year(.500 for the season)