FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[DPU92]

Im a first time user, LOOOOONG time reader of this board.

I was looking over the DePaw Schedule and saw that they had 4 home games and 6 road games.  I understand why after the travel debacle least year to San Antonio, but is this going to 'reset' next year to be evened out at 5 and 5 or will they have 6 home and 4 away?

Cant wait for the season to start!

[evacuee]

I would be concerned as well if I were a DPU alumnus.  With 6 home games it seems more likely that Depauw can maintain its stranglehold on second place in the conference.   

When you write Depaw, I assume that's a typo...?

[DPU92]

Yea...DePauw...there's a liberal arts education for yah...

[Pat Coleman]

The SCAC schedule is likely to be changing quite a bit anyway. I understand the presidents only want to play six games among the nine teams. That's going to be a challenge for the conference office to come up with a solution.

Basically, nobody wants to have to travel to both Trinity and Colorado College in the same year ... which I can understand, but the presidents might have wanted to consider that before admitting CC.

[Ron Boerger]

The SCAC schedule is likely to be changing quite a bit anyway. I understand the presidents only want to play six games among the nine teams. That's going to be a challenge for the conference office to come up with a solution.

Basically, nobody wants to have to travel to both Trinity and Colorado College in the same year ... which I can understand, but the presidents might have wanted to consider that before admitting CC.

Those are going to be some interesting tie breakers.   I bet the coaches won't be all that excited about having to line up four non-conference games each year ... yeah, OK, it's what they do now.  Still. 

And only playing six games between nine teams begs the question why bother to sign up all these FB schools?  Sounds like the SCAC presidents want to have their cake (Pool A bid) and eat it too (only six conference games). 

[WLU78]

Tommorrow night at Finley Stadium at UT-C you can see several Sewanee recruits playing in the Georgia vs. Tennessee All Star game.

http://stumponsports.com/home.html

and

http://www.stumponsports.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=19792#post19792

Good luck to all the players!!

[evacuee]

Tie breakers, huh?

I just hope that they don't go the way of the Big Ten, who in the case of a co-championship, they send the Rose Bowl the team that has not been there longer.  That means that Trinity would miss out on the automatic tie in for 12 straight years!

Trinity should have their own division of the SCAC and Coach Mohr should decide which teams get to play them.  The rule should state that only an unbeaten team that played and defeated Trinity shall be given a conference championship.   

[Pat Coleman]

Tie breakers, huh?

I just hope that they don't go the way of the Big Ten, who in the case of a co-championship, they send the Rose Bowl the team that has not been there longer.  That means that Trinity would miss out on the automatic tie in for 12 straight years!

Not exactly -- say it worked out that DePauw and Trinity tied for the title under this system in 2009 and Trinity missed the playoffs because of it. In 2010, if DePauw and Trinity go to a tiebreaker, Trinity would win because it had not been to the playoffs since 2008.

Rose Bowl rule is in a lot of conference's tiebreakers for three-way ties. However, in a two-way tie, we'll have, what, a 58% chance of a head-to-head result and since there will be common opponents, that might be of use as well.

I recommend the league look into two options: The one used by the NCAC currently, where a power ranking separates the league into two strata and "ensures" the top teams always play each of the other top teams, or the one formerly used by the MAC, where it was split in two divisions and the winner of a head-to-head in-season crossover game determined the automatic bid.

[Ralph Turner]

The 6-conference game SCAC schedule works in several ways.

It provides travel-friendly games against independents like Huntingdon and LaGrange for the eastern teams.

It doesn't endanger the Monon Bell game for DePauw.

Trinity and Austin College can then schedule Texas opponents such as Texas Lutheran, East Texas Baptist or even UMHB/HSU.

The non-conference schedule for Colorado College can include games for the opponent-starved west coast teams.

The recent records by Colorado College and Trinity make me think that the Colorado College Tigers are the preferred cat!  You can easily build a schedule in which the team makes one road trip or another.

As an ASC fan, I think that I like the 6-conference game SCAC schedule.

[Werner99]

It looks like DPU has filled the openings on their staff:

http://www.depauw.edu/ath/football/index.asp?id=17670

[Pat Coleman]

Yep. You can find that release and other recent releases on the front page of D3football.com.

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[DPU92]

Are Coach Walker and Hreha sticking around?  It looks like the three new coaches are on the defensive side of the ball.

[Superfoot Wallace]

Bobby Jackson seems like a helluva hire.  Illinois played some damn tough defense in his years there, and the NCAC Tigers experience with Illinois db coaches bodes well for Depauw, expecially in the Bell given the dearth of wide receivers returning for the Little Giants.

Besides the kid coming in from Cathedral, at wide receiver I believe, how are the other offensive skill positions panning out for Depauw this recruiting season?  Have heard of several Qbs, but what about running backs?

best regards,
Zook McGarigle

[tigerdadplm]

as far as the skill positions go, they like wr's-bryan mulligan from chicago and chris cadle from indiana.  TE-they are trying to rebuild the position with P.Cartwright (chicago) and nik etzcorn (michigan).  RB-  I have seen Elijah Cambell (indy) on a couple of occasions and I think he will be a good one.

[tigerdadplm]

As far as the new hire's, I don't know much but what I do know is that they lost 2 assistant coaches (full time) in kazmierczak and nystrom and have announced the hiring of 3 coaches jackson, felton, zorbo....so either someone else has departed or been asked to depart or the administration in greencastle added another position.