FB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Tom Brady]

Desertcat-  Those names sound like you found them on a beach somewhere way down south in Texas .  At any rate, I like the "Natural Blondish" color hair you described.  You don't find too many natural blondes in So Cal.

[desertcat1]

Desertcat, you're big on twins huh?   If I could get out of class and avoid my wife  learning of these twins that would be a great substitution for being at the Catdome on a rainy autumn Saturday.

RC,

 Not much can be better than the Catdome and playoffs . Even the twins come in second to that.  
I think you better leave all the twins to me I don't want you  to get  scalped by MRS. RC on the war path .



Tom B,   Try Blacks beach(nude)  near Del Mar were the surf meets the turf. 

[Tom Brady]

I am on my way to Del Mar

[Sabretooth Tiger]

Tom B,   Try Blacks beach(nude)  near Del Mar were the surf meets the turf. 

With all due respect, I'd recommend Cardiff, Swami's or San Onofre where you can enjoy a good social beachs scene while you check out the cool wahines riding their longboards on some tasty waves . . .

[Sabretooth Tiger]

Alright, where's the "modify" button so I can edit my post?  It's a "beach" scene not a "beachs" scene.

[scandihoovian]

Sabre-

You should be able to see it when you're logged in (but only for your posts).  It's in the upper right hand corner of your post.

[Gray Fox]

You may well be right RFB, I think teams in CLU's current position often have no choice but to try and put up big numbers where possible in order to impress the selection committee.  It doesn't generate warm and fuzzy feelings with opponents but they just have to deal with it.  I can remember a few times in the 1990's when Redlands had to put up some extra TD's in the days before the SCIAC got an auto bid.  It was a bummer when your team was the one they were doing it to, but I remember understanding why they needed to do it.

I think that that was one of the reasons UMHB beat McMurry 72-0 last week in the ASC to assure themselves a good bid and seed.

[D O.C.]

Great PR for OXY and D3 football.....the recognition is well deserved! 

Ditto!

A copy of the TIMES sports section should be sent to the faculty at Lewis and Reed Clark who are contemplating (between navels) the future of the well-rounded male student and the Northwest Conference at their institution.

[scandihoovian]

Great point on the L&C comparison, they are indeed very similar institutions - with very different football situations.  Oxy has been fortunate that Widolff chose to make their football program his calling.  That's the kind of consistency you get, the kind that helps weather the inevitable storms that come with administrative changes.

[rockcat]

As a NWC guy living abroad in SoCal maybe one of you can help answer a question for me.  Why isn't Chapman in the SCIAC?

[RFB]

From my understanding, Chapman tried for some time to get into the SCIAC. Not sure as to why they were denied, but I think it had to do with academics. They might as well be in the SCIAC, they play every school in all sports.

[scandihoovian]

I've found it hard to keep track of why they aren't in the SCIAC.  Some people say they prefer to be indendent because the SCIAC has additional recruiting and practice regulations and sometimes you have a better shot getting into the post-season as an independent.  Others as RFB mentioned, say it's a matter of the SCIAC not wanting Chapman.

Not only do almost all of the SCIAC schools play Chapman in football, but in most other sports, like basketball, schools play "home and home" with them - just like you would a regular conference opponent.

[Gray Fox]

Oxy has been fortunate that Widolff chose to make their football program his calling.  That's the kind of consistency you get, the kind that helps weather the inevitable storms that come with administrative changes.

A few years ago I went to see La Verne play Howard Payne here in Texas.  After the game I got to talk to one of the La Verne assistants who had been at Oxy.  This was near the end of Oxy's down years.  He told me that the Oxy admissions / administartion had not been giving athletes a break.  But that had just changed and Widolff had just got some good linemen as freshman.  It has been interesting to follow the slow but steady improvement in their program.  

It is too bad that schools like L&C and Mac have such an elitest attitude about academics vs "jocks" and other real people.

[Gray Fox]

I think it is the Cal Tech factor.  It is an eight team league.

Anything that somehow would work against Cal Tech is really not in the best interest of Cal Tech, the SCIAC, or the D3 philosophy.

[desertcat1]

You may well be right RFB, I think teams in CLU's current position often have no choice but to try and put up big numbers where possible in order to impress the selection committee.  It doesn't generate warm and fuzzy feelings with opponents but they just have to deal with it.  I can remember a few times in the 1990's when Redlands had to put up some extra TD's in the days before the SCIAC got an auto bid.  It was a bummer when your team was the one they were doing it to, but I remember understanding why they needed to do it.

I think that that was one of the reasons UMHB beat McMurry 72-0 last week in the ASC to assure themselves a good bid and seed.

Gray,
Do you really think so?   The some of the  umhb boys said ,  not so, but looks pretty fishy to me?  Check out the last SJU score too?  They are the  real experts at running it up .  8)