FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[depauwtigers1]

DPU Guys,
  The Defense of 2006 is equally gifted if not better than the 2005 personnel.  The whole secondary (except Pruitt who is a great talent at D3 level) was all conference last season (1st,2nd,HM).  Hertel / Davilla both returned.  The interior players (Grant and Mike) have better movement skills than last years inside players.  They are also stronger and match up with with Ht. and Wt.  The linebackers are the same guys minus Key - so the LB's are a push.
  Way I see it, this defense should out-perform last seasons defense because of experience and physical development. 

  So, why are they not living up to the standard?

[depauwtigers1]

To my fello posters,
  If my passionate posts offend any, sorry.  I just believe it is important
to understand the actions of a few sorry individuals, that led to putting
a damn good football coaches family out on the street, and unemployed.
And why? Because he wanted to push the program to make it more productive
and hire the type of coaches he could trust, and make the team better.
Two of the individuals are pegged, but I believe there are two more.  Time will
disclose the others, but I have a hunch who they are.

[frank_ezelle]

What about the Rhodes/Millsaps matchup this weekend.  I'm hearing that both teams are a little banged-up after last week's games.  If Oliver is healthy Rhodes has a GREAT chance to beat the Majors, but without him they are sure to struggle.  On the other hand Juan Joseph may not be able to go this week for Millsaps, and they are sure to hold him if his health is questionable for the Trinity game.  Any thoughts?

I know the Millsaps players want a shot at an outright SCAC crown and if they lose this weekend the best they can do is a co-championship with Trinty.  Therefore,  I think they will be ready to play.

If Juan Joseph is anything less than 100% I hope the coaches hold him out.  Juan missed the Huntingdon game along with the top Millsaps receiver (Chris Jackson) and Burt Pereira stepped in and completed 19 of 26 passes for 287 yards (plus he ran for 29 yards).  I don't think the coaches will have any hesitation in using Burt this week if Juan needs a week of rest.  By the way, this week's game was originally listed on the Millsaps schedule as a 1:30 start time but that has been moved up to 1:00.

In other Millsaps news, Marcus Harris has made the D3football defensive team of the week and the SCAC defensive POW for the 2nd straight week (it was a tri-POW award in the SCAC this week).  He topped his 2 interception game against DePauw with 3 interceptions against Sewanee.

[DPU92]

Is there a DPU/wabash post anywhere?  It is about time to get it started!

[DPU3619]

So, why are they not living up to the standard?

My thoughts here aren't intended to be argumentative, and I'm not trying to out-coach you.

The defense, actually, isn't that bad.  Third in the conference in scoring behind TU and Rhodes.  Third in rush defense at 128.9.  Third in pass defense at 163.5.  The rush number is nearly identical to 2005, and the pass number is about 20 yards more per game.  The problem is: teams are also scoring 4.9 more points/game than 2005.  Here's why:

DPU is allowing almost a full two yards more per completion.  The turnover numbers are probably going to be better this year than they were last year.  With two games left, it looks like the sack number will be higher this year than last year. 

McNelis is nasty.  He has more sacks at one tackle position than everybody who played that postion put together last year.  Grant Wright is a good player and Andy Brandstatter has been playing fantastic football.  So why not so good?

Curran Clark isn't there anymore.  Scherer/Sprengnether haven't really done the job that Clarky did. 

The defense isn't playing all that bad, folks.  I'll tell you this, Key was pretty darned good in pass coverage from my vantage point.  Curran Clark also played a great safety position.  Not having those fellas sure hurts.

My thougts are that the reason the team has lost thrice isn't the D's fault.  It's because they're scoring consdierably less, almost 8 pts/game.  The O is doing less with the same amount of opportunities.

Last year's team finished  +9 in turnover margin.  This year's team is currently +4 and it ain't the D's fault. 

If this DePauw offense scores its season average from last year in every game, they win every game except Millsaps, in which, if they score 30, they don't turn it over five times.

I know that's not a great way to look it, but score the football. 

[dputigs3]

To my fello posters,
  If my passionate posts offend any, sorry.  I just believe it is important
to understand the actions of a few sorry individuals, that led to putting
a damn good football coaches family out on the street, and unemployed.
And why? Because he wanted to push the program to make it more productive
and hire the type of coaches he could trust, and make the team better.
Two of the individuals are pegged, but I believe there are two more.  Time will
disclose the others, but I have a hunch who they are.

That's why this shouldn't go away.  Footballscoop.com kept sensoring the posts.  Life/college football isn't always a warm and fuzzy picture of wins and losses; there's a lot more to it than that.  This public forum talks a lot about football, that's great for D3 football - that's its original intent.  But this public forum is also being used to inform people about injustices.  I applaud Pat and d3football.com for allowing that to continue.  We're talking about people's livelihood and way of life, that's real - it's going to get heated.  I have my thoughts on who was/is involved, as do others.  The reality of this lawsuit will be known in the upcoming months and then we'll all see.

In case you didn't see it: http://www.thedepauw.com/media/storage/paper912/news/2006/10/27/News/Former.Coach.Sues.University-2407077.shtml?norewrite200611011019&sourcedomain=www.thedepauw.com

Until then, g'luck to Millsaps.

[Ron Boerger]

One thing that needs to be factored in, 3619, if you're comparing last year to this is that there are fewer plays per game in '06 than in '05 thanks to the clock rule.  So ... allowing more yds/game is not good.  At the same time, since games are shorter teams may be passing more due to the fact that there's not as much time available to put points on the board.  I think the first factor is larger than the second but it's a consideration.   Less time also = fewer turnovers [?] but that would go both ways.

Re Rhodes v. Millsaps ... unless Rhodes finds an offense between last week and this they won't be able to stay with the Majors.  The Millsaps passing game is IMO more explosive than the Trinity attack and both TU QBs were able to find receivers in the 2.5 quarters when the game was still in question.   Millsaps is going to give up some yards but DuBose is going to have that team fired up.

[DPU3619]

DPU is allowing almost a full two yards more per completion. 

Actually, that number isn't right.  They're almost identical.  Forgive me.  My math education came in a Putnam County High School.

[Ron Boerger]

C'mon folks,


Let's have

some posts

here so that

the one causing

the screen wrap

to be ugly

will be on

the previous page.

[roocru]

Here you go, Ron 

[roocru]

Go Roos !!  Beat DePauw !!!!   

[roocru]

Is this board the same way every year when the Monon Bell game gets close ?  Everyone else lets the DePauw and Wabash posters take over for a while?   

[roocru]

I did my share to scroll the board !!!   

[Ron Boerger]

Is this board the same way every year when the Monon Bell game gets close ?  Everyone else lets the DePauw and Wabash posters take over for a while?   

There usually is a lot of banter between the DPU and Wabash folks, that's for sure.

It's actually pretty calm this week, wait until next week. 

[Josh Bowerman]

Next week they'll have to share with the Trinity/Millsaps folks, Ron!