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[snoop dawg]

Merry Christmas and Christmas karma to....almost everyone.

[OxyBob]

Merry Christmas and Christmas karma to....almost everyone.

And now here's the second most phony, ingratiating, insincere Christmas greetings of all-time by a would-be assassin:

Dear James Brady,

Merry Christmas!

Very truly yours,

John W. Hinckley, Jr.

OxyBob

[SCIAC Fan]

Good article about Brock Arndt being named a D3football all-American...
http://goredlands.com/sports/fball/2008-09/news/12_10_08_FB_D3football_AllRegion

There is also a nice piece about the Cal Lu guys who were named to the team...
http://www.clusports.com/football/news/5146/

Oxybob...as Jim Rome would say...epic blast

[D O.C.]

You guys!

I'm laughing but I do that at off color cartoons as well.

Merry Merry!

[Fear the Poet]

DAW and would like to wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas. Enjoy the weekend with your families.

Happy New Year!!

[wildcat11]

Merry Christmas my SCIAC brothers!  Looking forward to seeing some of you this fall.  Be safe out there.  Wishing you all great health and great times in 2009!

[Browneagle64]

Wishing all of you on this SCIAC board ( and D3 virtual world) a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Thanks again for all who make this board possible and for all of us who keep each other entertained during hard times at work or just in general. Take care.

[OxyBob]

Andy Collins news, courtesy of OurSports Central:

The Stockton Lightning of the arenafootball2 league have announced QB Andy Collins and OL/DL Manuel Wright have been assigned to the Lightning by the af2 League Office.
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Collins joined the Lightning last season on May 29 and amassed 1,689 passing yards, 35 passing touchdowns, a 60.3 completion percentage (146-for-242) and nine rushing touchdowns in just seven games played, helping guide Stockton to a 3-1 finish in the final four games of the regular season.

Collins, 25, began last season in the Arena Football League with the Los Angeles Avengers and Colorado Crush, adding duties on the defensive side at the jack linebacker position where he totaled 5.5 tackles between both teams.

The 6-foot-2, 215-pound signal caller was a three-time Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference "Offensive Player of the Year" and threw for 491-of-745 (64.9 percent) for 6,394 yards and 71 touchdowns during his three-year career at Occidental College (NCAA) in Eagle Rock, Calif. While with the Tigers, he never lost a conference game (18-0), led Occidental on a 26-game regular-season winning streak and advanced to the NCAA Division III West Region final in 2004. He added an ability to rush the ball as well, totaling 349 yards on the ground and four scores as a 2006 senior.

After graduating from Zillah (Wash.) High School, where he was a member of the football, basketball and track & field teams, Collins spent his freshman season at the University of Oregon in 2003, before transferring to Occidental.

In the summer of 2007, Collins participated in NFL mini-camp workouts with the New York Giants.
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The Lightning open the 2009 af2 regular season on Sunday, March 29 against the Central Valley Coyotes with a Week One road matchup at Selland Arena, starting at 7:00 p.m. Both teams face a Week Four rematch in the Lightning home opener on Saturday, April 18 at 7:00 p.m. at Stockton Arena.
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OxyBob

[Browneagle64]

Feliz Ano neuvo SCIAC posters, friends, visitors, moderators, and of course all you rock star gurus that add highlight/insights to any discussion on our D3 boards. Be safe and have a great one. 

[OxyBob]

Former Cal Lutheran head coach Bob Shoup, who guided the Kingsmen to the 1971 NAIA Division II national championship, is about to be inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame. Here's an article about Shoup's honor from the Los Angeles Daily News:

Former Cal Lutheran football coach Shoup's influence far-reaching

Bob Shoup is 76 years old, 38 years removed from coaching Cal Lutheran to its lone football national championship, a few days away from induction into the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame, and he sounds like a kid again.

There is a youthful exuberance in his voice, which is a bit weathered now.

But it's there.

It's there when he talks about family.

It's there when he talks about football.

It's there when he talks about his former players, 186 of whom became coaches, following in his footsteps. They check in every now and again; with the Hall of Fame announcement, the phone has been ringing off the hook.

"I got five phone calls today," said Shoup, who coached Cal Lutheran from 1962-89. "You reap what you sow, I think. I've always tried to live by the golden rule, and football coaches sometimes get placed into that role as taskmaster. I've always felt that you can lead by example or lead by trying to inspire."

He's inspired many, among them former Detroit Lions head coach Rod Marinelli, Cincinnati Bengals wide receivers coach Mike Sheppard and current Carlsbad High coach Bob McCallister.

Now McCallister, the former student, is a colleague. At 76, Shoup still coaches, at Carlsbad with McCallister, who is no youngster himself.
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Shoup's father was a football coach, and Shoup still has the actual notes his father scribbled at a clinic in South Bend, Ind., so many years ago. The notes could probably fetch a pretty penny these days, solely because of the speaker: Knute Rockne.

The old ball coach has taken those notes and the lessons he has learned from more than 40 years of coaching to create his own method. Fair and honest to every player, no matter the ability, no matter the position.

"The individual games are important, but I've always tried to put people first," Shoup said. "Fellow coaches and players who you're working with, you have to treat them right. That's how things work out for the best."

But he's also found another motivating technique, a bit more recently.

"When someone makes a great play for us now, he goes down to In-N-Out and gets them a shake," McCallister said. "The kids named them the Shoupy awards, and they're more worried about the Shoupies than anything else. One of our studs comes up, looking all disappointed, and says, `Coach, what do I have (to do) to get a Shoupy?"'

In 1962, when Shoup started coaching at CLU, Shoupies were hard to come by; In-N-Outs were hard to come by. And perhaps it showed.

That first team at CLU, which Shoup started from scratch after years at North High in Torrance, went just 3-4. The team's first game was an 8-0 loss to the Occidental College freshman team. Shoup thought his team was ready, thought he'd handled the adjustment from high school coaching to college coaching quite well.

He hadn't.

"We sat in the stands after the game was over, and watched the Occidental varsity play and said that's where we want to be," Shoup said. "Those were the kind of programs we wanted to identify with. We saw how hard it was and how far we had to go.

"That first year was just a disaster. We had to come from behind to beat Cal Tech, we got physically beat down by La Verne, and we're not talking about two big programs. That last game, down at Pomona College, they just beat up on us."

Within two seasons, though, a foundation had been set.

The 1964 CLU team pulled off a major upset at Colorado College, beating the Tigers by two touchdowns in a game Shoup considers the program's first key victory. With the Dallas Cowboys spending their training camps at the CLU facilities in Thousand Oaks, the Kingsmen began to get better recruits, and the program was well on its way.

A year later, a one-loss CLU team was ranked nationally for the first time and rated No. 1 in the country in total offense.

"The key years were probably 1964 and 1965," Shoup said. "We had gone through two seasons of really mediocre results, and there was a group of players who'd been with me at North High School, and they were now juniors. We brought in some really outstanding transfers, and we got a feeling for the offense and we began to win. That '65 team was the real pioneers, and by then, the Cowboys were beginning to be competitive in the NFL. We were kind of walking through those proving-ground years together."

It culminated for both teams in 1972, when CLU won the NAIA championship and the Cowboys won their first Super Bowl.
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"I watch other institutions go through turmoil - and every place has some drawbacks - but the thing that helped keep me at Cal Lutheran was that there was this city growing up literally at the same time," said Shoup, whose induction ceremony will be Sunday in Nashville, Tenn., at the annual American Football Coaches Association convention. "They had dreams here, and I was fortunate enough to be able to put some energies into these projects."

They will remain his legacies long after he is gone, but not his entire legacy.

And his legacy is not the 182 victories or the Coach-of-the-Year honors or the national championships or even making the Hall of Fame.

His legacy is his coaching tree - his family tree - which will continue to flourish.
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OxyBob

[Browneagle64]

Not sure if this was posted on this board during the winter, but, both of these Tiger absolutely deserve some props, Congrats to both of these Tigers in representing the West.

The Division III All-West Region Football Team was announced today and a pair of Tigers appeared on the First Team with Sam Emerson earning a spot on the offensive side of the ball while punter Alex Groh was named as a defensive player.

Emerson is a four year starting guard for Occidental who played a huge role throughout his career. The Oxy quarterbacks were sacked just eight times during this season in large part to Emerson's blocking. His presence on the front line was solid during the entirety of his career, with this season especially standing out. Emerson was always on his man and protected Justin Goltz in the pocket while opening up holes for the Tigers' running game. He was awarded a First Team All-SCIAC recognition in 2008 and was a Second Team All SCIAC recipient in 2006.

Groh was the nation's leading punter a year ago and has continued to play a key role for the Oxy special teams this season. He punted in each of the 10 games this year and averaged 43.1 yards per punt, which leads the conference. Until the post season junior punter was ranked second in the nation (43.1 yards per punt) with his longest at 61 yards. After the post season he fell off the charts as his season totals do not meet the minimum requirements for ranking purposes. Groh put the ball inside the 20 yard line 16 times and had five touchbacks. He also added a 55-yard kick off this season. During both of the past two seasons he earned First Team All-SCIAC honors.

Occidental finished the season ranked #15 after posting a 9-1 record, going undefeated during the regular season, with a 6-0 SCIAC mark. The Tigers claimed their fourth conference title in five years.

 

[Sabretooth Tiger]

Oh there we go, resting on our laurels, living in the past . . . what has Tiger football done for us lately? Only 228 days to the season opener . . . and 235 days until we host the Linfield Wildcats on Patterson field.

Advantage Oxy . . . the 'Cats may be confused by sunshine and warm temperatures!  (OK, never too early to get the conversation going eh?)

Let's all send good karma to Coach Widolff for an outstanding recruiting class!

Io Triumphe!

[CalCat]

Dear Sabretooth Tiger:

"Advantage Oxy . . . the 'Cats may be confused by sunshine and warm temperatures!  (OK, never too early to get the conversation going eh?)"

No problem with sunshine...7pm kickoff...the 'Cats like to prowl at night...Sept. average temp Pasadena 89 degrees McMinnville 77 degrees no problem there
(Nope...I guess its not too early to start conversing)

[Sabretooth Tiger]

Oh, I know it's a night game . . . but I figure that the 'Cats get a gander of the sun and warmth during the day . . . that the confusion as to the elements coupled with the blissful state induced . . . may give the locals an advantage . . .

right . . .

looking forward to hosting 'Cat nation.

[CalCat]

Oh, I know it's a night game . . . but I figure that the 'Cats get a gander of the sun and warmth during the day . . . that the confusion as to the elements coupled with the blissful state induced . . . may give the locals an advantage . . .

right . . .

looking forward to hosting 'Cat nation.

It will be fun...and we look forward to being hosted ( hosted not toasted)