FB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Oxy Fan]

OMG, If you're gonna to bring L&C and Principia into a comparative scores argument, you're gonna lose.

I know, I know . . . but it was the only way that I could get C-M-S and Pomona-Pitzer into the equation.

[CalCat]

Daily Bulletin reported today that Dan Selway is indeed out with broken foot which occured late first half against Whitworth.  Jones named starter against La Verne.

[Browneagle64]

First off, thanks ECS et al. for all your insights into where to hang out in San Francisco. Sorry I wasn't able to catch up with you guys at the Whitter-Menlo game ( thats what I get for staying up late on a friday night in Mt. View, CA).
Secondly, I hope all of you had a great weekend catching up on this game and hearing about the Oaks coming up big. I'm sure the Poets will try to rebound from this lose. And finally, Sounds like the Pups will need to fill in some big shoes with the (edit:) losing of Mr. Selway. Hope that he does in fact recover from such injury and that this will not effect his team. If so, expect the decline of UoR stock in the D3 national polls.

Go dodgers.

Edit: Of course, we wont see Danny for a while on the football field. But, such injury like that is just a horrible way to end your season. (i.e. Oxy's Taylor Paopao back in 2003')

[Gray Fox]

I know a ton of variables make this very unscientific, but to promote discussion, I thought that I would post this very rough graphical comparison of the SCIAC with common opponents (point differential rounded to the nearest 5)

Willamette                                              Redlands                      +15                            Cal Lutheran                                                                                                        +30                                    Whitworth  +5                      +45          +10       Chapman                           La Verne                                                                              Occidental                                     +10   +25                                      Menlo      C-M-S   Pomona-Pitzer                                                                                   +20                                 Whittier             +25                                   Lewis & Clark                                                                                                                                                                                      +40           +35                            Principia

 

[wildcat11]

Sounds like the Pups will need to fill in some big shoes with the temporary lose of Mr. Selway. Hope that he does in fact recover from such injury and that this will not effect his team.

I'm not an orthopedist, but doesn't a broken foot take at least a couple of months to heal, if you stay off it and you're lucky and don't need surgery? Seems to me that we won't see Dan Selway playing football for awhile. Maybe one of the Redlands fans can get us a prognosis.

OxyBob

Maybe there is a former Redlands QB with some eligibility that could get an emergency transfer BACK to Redlands to save the day? 

[Browneagle64]

Who, RFB? Haha.

[downtown48]

I don't think that's who he's talking about, but his brother played at USC.

[OXY Oswald]

I don't think that's who he's talking about, but his brother played at USC.

This guy?

[scandihoovian]

No, I think the person WC11 is referring to is likely to stay where he is...

[D O.C.]

Andy Kaufman? He can't play football. He has more than a broken foot.

I was taken back a bit this weekend when I spoke to several people about the then 'unbroken' injury news (not that I was quite Chicken Little):

*at 1:15 PM I asked a LaVerne official (wearing a badge) what the big news in the conference was. He drew a blank. I mentioned what I thought it was. He drew a blank.

*I mentioned the major story to a Willamette assistant coach at app. 2:30PM because my opinion 48 hours earlier was that Redlands and Willamette had better prepare to meet on the West Coast in November. He was not aware of the player.

*Hours later at 7:15PM I told some Whitworth fans the still unconfirmed news of the broken foot and two responded, "who's that?" (were I a BDog person I could have responded, "The guy who orchestrated your whuppin' last time you left Washington State.")

*Pomona coaches and players were in the stands (they play Chapman this week) and they had no wind of the situation. One coach shrugged and the corners of his mouth turned down. A player remarked, "Their second guy is pretty good."

This is a big deal in my eyes folks. A ranked team without

Dan Selway, the reigning SCIAC Offensive Player of the Year

I expect this:

The Bulldogs were ranked in three national polls, the highest being a No. 19 by the American Football Coaches Association.

I am sorry for a guy who works hard, sticks with it, and starts his peak only to crash violently but it happens frequently. Get better, I say.

[Bearcat Press]

*I mentioned the major story to a Willamette assistant coach at app. 2:30PM because my opinion 48 hours earlier was that Redlands and Willamette had better prepare to meet on the West Coast in November. He was not aware of the player.

I think I can partially explain this, in that we've got our own injuries to worry about.  It sounds like Kyle Johnson, who had three touchdowns against Concordia-Moorhead and scored the first TD against La Verne, might be joining Ryan Whitcomb on the "out for the season" list.

Also, we've got a couple of teams we need to beat in order to be playing anyone past November 15.

[D O.C.]

Of course.

What's nice about KICKOFF?

Know your enemy.

[Fear the Poet]

L-R: EastcCoastStag, Lucy (DAW), Ricky (Fear the Poet) 

aside from the game, we had a great time up north. It was a pleasure meeting c-dad and ECS.

My Poets need to put together four quarters of football. We have a tough stretch coming up against Cal LU, Chapman and Redlands. 

[Fear the Poet]

Cal Lutheran item from the Ventura County Star:

Back in action: Fresh off its bye week, the Cal Lutheran football team (1-1) opens SCIAC play on the road against Whittier on Saturday night at 7.

The Kingsmen spent last week healing injuries and giving the younger players more work to re-evaluate the depth chart.

"We are heading into this week almost completely healthy, which is unheard of at this point of the season," CLU head coach Ben McEnroe said. "And we have got a good idea of who we can count on to help us out down the stretch."

The trip to Whittier is CLU's only night game of the season, but McEnroe believes the players will adjust fine.

"It is one of those things I don't even address," he said. "We just try to keep the routine close to game time the same no matter what time we're playing."

Although some coaches recruit more aggressively during bye weeks, McEnroe gave his staff the weekend off.

"I wouldn't have it any other way," he said. "As much as I love what I do, it's just a job. My family makes a lot of sacrifices for me to be able to do this and every opportunity to be with them, which is my true passion, I jump at. I want to make that available to our coaches as well."

OxyBob

McEnroe is a class act.  

[OXY Oswald]

Whitworth mentioned in TMQ

The amount of wealth being hoarded by the top few schools in the U.S. now borders on obscene. Harvard has a $37 billion endowment -- that figure exceeds the Gross Domestic Product of Kenya, where 40 million people live. That figure exceeds the GDP of Iceland and Honduras combined. Yale has an endowment of $23 billion. Stanford had a $17 billion endowment last year, and is expected to soon announce an increase. (Fiscal 2007 endowments for all colleges are here.) Princeton, MIT and the University of Texas system also have ginormous endowments of many billions. Yet Whitworth University, to cite a typical liberal arts school, has an $87 million endowment. Harvard holds $425 for every $1 Whitworth possesses. The kinds of colleges that serve people of average means have still less. Appalachian State University has a $52 million endowment, Concordia University (Nebraska) has $28 million, Averett University has $24 million, Worcester State College has $12 million, to cite a few of many underfunded schools. Yet the rich keep giving to Harvard, Yale and Stanford, which already have too much. Give to underfunded schools where the donation might change someone's life!