FB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Klopenhiemer]

Quote from: Klopenhiemer on Yesterday at 10:36:31 pm
Quote from: OxyBob on April 20, 2008, 11:56:42 pm
OK, Klopenheimer and Snoopy, you can continue now with your scintillating repartee.

OB another example of how you make me laugh out loud on many occasions.  Scintillating repartee...that killed me


Whew, and here I was afraid that you'd say that my comment was low, uncalled for, and deserved smiting.

OxyBob

No no no OB, I just bow and skip to your keyboard whips. 

[EastCoastStag]

http://www.walterfootball.com/emmitt.php

Good Lord. Read and enjoy. This is just painful.

[Jack Parkman]

I believe I am dumber for reading that article.  Thank you EastCoastStag for ruining everything I have ever done in school.

[EastCoastStag]

I believe I am dumber for reading that article.  Thank you EastCoastStag for ruining everything I have ever done in school.

I've done my job.

[Knightstalker]

http://www.walterfootball.com/emmitt.php

Good Lord. Read and enjoy. This is just painful.

My head hurts.

[scandihoovian]

C'mon now, ECS!  Have we not been chastened previously for our academic snobbery (AKA assuming people know how to write/speak our native tongue)?

I am pretty sure we've been told such snobbery is the reason we fail to win national championships.

[wildcat11]

[Scandi Places on Tee]

I am pretty sure we've been told such snobbery is the reason we fail to win national championships.

[/Scandi places on Tee]

[WC11 knocks it out of ball park] Naw...it's more of the lack of national championship level talent. [/WC11 knocks it out of ball park]

[scandihoovian]

WC11-
You're welcome!

And thanks for the clarification, Bob and I were becoming increasingly sure that the real problem was all of the traveling...

[Sabretooth Tiger]

Oxy incoming frosh Randall Hook is a legacy.  His dad is Louis "Big Lou" Hook, one of the alums featured on the Oxy Football alumni website:  http://www.oxyathletics.com/sports/fball/alumni/index

Hook, a 1980 graduate who received his M.B.A. from Harvard in 1984, says that the best aspect of Occidental Football "wasn't the high glamour you find at big schools, it was interpersonal things like teamwork and friendships."

tooth

[stealth]

Stealth out of the hanger with the latest in missle technology. Locked and loaded. Hope all is well with most of you  
True about the signing misnomer. It's the parents who sign and sign and sign,  checks that is.
 

GAAAAAHHHHHH

You don't "sign" at the DIII level... when will papers and coaches and players stop saying this.

[EastCoastStag]

[Scandi Places on Tee]

I am pretty sure we've been told such snobbery is the reason we fail to win national championships.

[/Scandi places on Tee]

[WC11 knocks it out of ball park] Naw...it's more of the lack of national championship level talent. [/WC11 knocks it out of ball park]

WC11-
You're welcome!

And thanks for the clarification, Bob and I were becoming increasingly sure that the real problem was all of the traveling...

Eh... truth be told only maybe 20 teams in all of DIII have championship talent. It is sad that the SCIAC doesn't have MORE talent. I think it is a relatively talented league. However, the league isn't really recognized that much in Southern California and needs to do a better job keeping the talent that is in SoCal. I don't know what the recruiting rules are for DIII (anymore) and I never knew what the rules are for the SCIAC. However, the lack of success recently (sans Team Collins, I mean Oxy), means that if it is possible, it might be time for the SCIAC to start caring about success in the playoffs. Just an idea. SoCal is incredibly rich in talent, SCIAC teams should be able to retain more of the talent on a consistent basis.
Back to the original point, there are very few teams who consistently have the talent necessary to make a run. If I could figure out how to build a team like that... with short term success and longevity, I would already be a Head Coach.... that or GM and Manager of the Yankees (Hank Steinbrenner can kiss my a$$).
Whoever figures out the formula to doing more than just winning the SCIAC every year... he'll be much beloved by all of us who want to see the SCIAC succeed.

[Pat Coleman]

This is the football board? I'd say fewer than 20 teams have championship talent.

[EastCoastStag]

Eh... truth be told only maybe 20 teams in all of DIII have championship talent.

Maybe
May"be\, n. Possibility; uncertainty. [R.]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Maybe - at most, at best, at their most lucky/perfectly executed day - 20 teams have the ability and complete talent level to legitimately think about a run at a title. Out of the plethora of DIII teams, I would say that is a very reasonable statement. Now, let us throw in things like injuries, schedule, and pure happenstance... maybe even effort and passion... and well look here, it isn't 20 teams. Talent does not always live up to ability - New England in the Super Bowl; and talent does not always live up to expectations - think of all those 1st round draft busts.

[Pat Coleman]

I think 20 is twice as many as the highest end of reasonable estimates. Not sure what New England or first round picks have anything to do with Division III football, but to suggest that anywhere near 20 teams have championship talent indicates a lack of having seen the top teams in Division III play.

[OzJohnnie]

I think 20 is twice as many as the highest end of reasonable estimates. Not sure what New England or first round picks have anything to do with Division III football, but to suggest that anywhere near 20 teams have championship talent indicates a lack of having seen the top teams in Division III play.

Teams that have the talent to win?  In any given year the most is four, I would say.  Then the next question is how many schools have the ability to attract the talent for consistent runs at being one of the four?  Six to eight.  And how many inconsistent runners or Cinderellas?  Maybe add another three or four to that number.

And then, of course, there is MUC.