FB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Lights On]

The conference winner gets an automatic playoff bid...so where's the logic in playing an extremely difficult non-conference schedule? Sure, you gain experience through the increased level of competition; but you also run the risk of injury, getting your team pounded and you have less time to iron out the kinks prior to the first conference game since you're preparing for better athletes and are forced to open up the playbook earlier than expected. The pros and cons could go on forever, but does it really matter who you play prior to the real season beginning? I salute the cupcake schedule Oxy plays.

As for the Oxy game yesterday, it was a battle. But they got the victory and that is all that matters. One week at a time, right?

[Gray Fox]

The Whittier site has a box score of the game with Oxy.

The stat that stands out is that Oxy had three punts and averaged only ten yards per punt. 

[Pat Coleman]

The logic is that you have some vague recollection of playoff-level competition when you finally face some.

Nobody says you have to play three games against Top 25 teams but it would be nice if you played one against a Top 100 team.

[wildcat11]

The logic is that you have some vague recollection of playoff-level competition when you finally face some.

Nobody says you have to play three games against Top 25 teams but it would be nice if you played one against a Top 100 team.

Pat,

5 star post!

[LigerLover]

Whittier really prepared well for OXY....hats off to them. OXY now has some time to really practice hard and get better over the next couple of weeks with a game against Colorado College and a bie week before a BIG game vs. Redlands OCT 22 !

[Tom Brady]

a game against Colorado College and a bie week

Wow, I hope thats not an Occidental education at its finest

[Pat Coleman]

Wow, I hope thats not an Occidental education at its finest

The word is that's.

[scandihoovian]

and I thought the comment was going to be about how Colorado College is the equivalent of a bye week...

[LigerLover]

okay, I messed up there....this thing needs a spell check

Good to see OXY climbing up the rankings to #6 !!!!! washington & jefferson and the ohio northern game sound like big upsets ! Hopefully this will motivate the tigers to bust their ass for the next two weeks in preparation for RFB's "DAWGS" - should be a battle.

[Tom Brady]

Dang, now I look like the idiot.   Oh well, if that's the biggest mistake I made today, it must have been a pretty good day.

[scandihoovian]

Nice to see that the Cal Lu offense was back on the field Saturday.  It's interesting to me that the Kingsmen seem to have an easier time with PP in Pomona than when the Sagehens come up to Thousand Oaks.

Interesting as well that Whittier pushed Oxy - I wonder what teams like LaVerne and Redlands (who I'm sure was watching that game in force) will learn from what Whittier did.

[Browneagle64]

Hope all the teams has a good weekend.

Sounds like a lot of people feel that Oxy has a cupcake schedule. Well, who cares. As long as they are taking one game at a time, that is fine.

About the saturday game against Whitter, like i said in the past, whitter was suppose to turn heads and do well. Just like i had mentioned about U.L.V. THese teams are really trying their best to do well on the field. This is why Whitter was having success against teams like menlo and the others they beat. Overall, it appears that they gave Oxy a good game. However, the team that was better prepared for one game at a time did pull out with a "w" and the shoes.  SO congrats.

The game against Colorado will be another game that the tigers have to prepare. Hopefully, oxy improves any mistakes they made on saturday and learn from their individual grades that they received for the game they played. Indeed, they will fix any kinks (Ahla USC against Arizona State this weekend). Anywho's, Colorado is a good school, so oxy should be ready for them and enjoy the win up in colorado springs( gosh, that was a good place to play football on a saturday afternoon).

Anyways, sounds like the tigers will do just fine. I'm Pretty sure RFB just can't wait for the Oxy-Redlands game at the Rock. Well, just like a a child waiting to get candy at a candy store, stop stressing and take one game at a time.

[Browneagle64]

One last thing,

That's pretty pathetic that Fans would jump other fans because their team had lost. I find that those type of fans are usually those that really suck in football and never made the team. So they have to try to pull it off somewhere else. That's just embrassing and pathetic. I hope that doesn't go on at all the S.C.I.A.C schools. Let the teams play will dignity even if they lose.

[rbaikie]

I don't want to burst anyone's bubble, but think about this :

In the past decade or so, Menlo has beaten Whittier almost every year except this one. Even when Menlo has had a down year, it has been when Whittier has been down even lower. This year was the exception - Menlo is having a down year, Whittier is actually playing better. Whittier is not a world better though. They have some good talent and they run their offense fairly well - however, it is a fairly simple and predictable offense - I saw it against Menlo and I was calling their plays right about 50+% of the time - not bad for somebody who hasn't coached or called plays for over 10 years.

I think Whittier prepared well for Oxy and caught them by surprise. I don't think Oxy will take this lightly - as the Who says "I won't get fooled again!"

I think the games against ULV and UOR will be reasonably close, but both being at OXY, on the new field, with the lighting the way it is (at least for the UOR game) (if it hasn't been upgraded) throws a couple of things OXY's way.

I'm not really an OXY fan but I don't see them losing in the SCIAC - they may get pushed a little, but not on the final scoreboard.

I also think Whittier will finish in the middle of the pack in the SCIAC - they have improved but they still are not that good - a .500 team at best.

[scandihoovian]

Oxy's new field turf is great, and the scoreboard and sound system have also been upgraded.  Alas, the lights have not...  It still seems dark in the end zones and spectators still find themselves looking directly into the light standards - which Oxy may have to keep low in order to make their neighbors happy.  Just a guess on that score.