FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[Bill McCabe]

frank, it sounds like they are set for another good season.  Recruiting should benefit from their success this year.

[D3Navy]

I think had Trinity won the SCAC they would have progressed further in the playoffs than Millsaps.  Millsaps crushed them in Jackson, no doubt.  But emotion, and an unprecedented home field reaction (as mentioned in previous Millsaps supporter posts), played a huge role.  This is a lesson not lost on the players returning to TU next year.  I'm confident TU will recover next year.

[Ron Boerger]

If memory serves Trinity loses a lot of their D to graduation.  Offense should be in decent shape with most of the skill positions and line returning. 

BTW there is apparently some very mature person out there getting his jollies by dinking my karma every 24 hours.  WTG d00d. 

[Pat Coleman]

BTW there is apparently some very mature person out there getting his jollies by dinking my karma every 24 hours.  WTG d00d. 

The most ridiculous thing is that it's one of your fellow Trinity fans. Talk about mature.

[frank_ezelle]

I think had Trinity won the SCAC they would have progressed further in the playoffs than Millsaps.  Millsaps crushed them in Jackson, no doubt.  But emotion, and an unprecedented home field reaction (as mentioned in previous Millsaps supporter posts), played a huge role.  This is a lesson not lost on the players returning to TU next year.  I'm confident TU will recover next year.

I guess we'll never know how Trinity would have done but we also will never know how well a healthy Millsaps team would have done against Trinity in that final game or against CMU in that first playoff game.  Look at the numbers for Tyson Roy in those two games as he tried to play with his ankle injury.  Against Trinity I think it was 3 plays for 40+ yards and against CMU it was 1 play for almost 20 yards before he reinjuried the ankle and had to sit out the rest of the game.  The Millsaps offense literally limped through the final portion of the season and certainly weren't at their peak in the last few games.

I'm sure Trinity will use this season for motivation and it will make them a better team next season.  I'm also sure that Millsaps will be a better team next year on both offense and defense, plus they will have more team depth than they did this season.  Juan Joseph and the receivers should be much more comfortable in the offense and the defense returns a bunch of talented seniors.  They should be a team that is hard to score on and hard to stop and I think the seniors will be motivated to get back to the playoffs and wins some games in their last season.  It looks likewe'll have a fun and interesting season in the SCAC in 2007.

[Bill McCabe]

Are Trinity and Millsaps set to battle it out each year for the title or has the tide turned and someone other than Trinity will be there?  How does DePauw figure into things next year?  And Roocru, what about the Roos?

[evacuee]

I would urge the Millsaps faithful to be careful about expectations.  Once you've had some hard-fought, inspired success, it's pretty easy to lose a bit of your edge.  I'm pretty sure they aren't thinking about beating Centre as much as they're thinking about playoffs next year.  When DuBose had his big season at Alabama(1999), they brought everyone back in 2000 for a dud of a season.  When Trinity finally broke through in 1994 with a 10-0 season, they followed it up with an uninspiring 6-3 season in 1995.  It all depends on how talented the Majors actually are, how DuBose addresses this issue, and what their locker room leadership is like.  Following up on a great year is one of the most difficult tasks in all of sports.   

[exmajor]

Well, it is early to be predicting the SCAC finish for 2007!  I am hoping that Millsaps does not lose three or more non-conference games and the SCAC can put more than one team in the playoffs next year!

[Hawks88]

Well, it is early to be predicting the SCAC finish for 2007!  I am hoping that Millsaps does not lose three or more non-conference games and the SCAC can put more than one team in the playoffs next year!

With 8 conference games next year that leaves only two non-conference. Don't know if that will help increase someone's chance at a Pool C bid or not. Anyone who wins those two definitely should.

[frank_ezelle]

I think I've mentioned several times that I expect Millsaps to be better next year and they will need to be better to match this year's success.  They had the advantage this year of a great home schedule and probably being overlooked by some of the other teams.  Their success was primarily due to their play on the field, but the above mentioned things did help.

Coach DuBose has talked often about building a football program, not just a successful season.  At this point in time I think one would still have to consider Trinity the most successful football program in the SCAC and DePauw would be second.  Hopefully in a few years it will be Millsaps with the top program and they will be turning out top teams year after year.

A lot can happen between now and next season, but next year looks really good for Millsaps in terms of returning talent.  The big challenge to establishing a football program will be the 2008 season when they lose this great junior class, but that is getting way too far into the future.  For those who are interested in returning player, etc., here are links to the 2006 Millsaps and Trinity rosters:

http://www.millsaps.edu/athletic/football/roster.shtml

http://www.trinity.edu/departments/athletics/Football/roster.htm

[Ralph Turner]

Well, it is early to be predicting the SCAC finish for 2007!  I am hoping that Millsaps does not lose three or more non-conference games and the SCAC can put more than one team in the playoffs next year!

With 8 conference games next year that leaves only two non-conference. Don't know if that will help increase someone's chance at a Pool C bid or not. Anyone who wins those two definitely should.

From this season, we saw that Pool C will allow, maybe, one in-region loss.  Both Franklin and Cortland State had good numbers and did not get a Pool C bid.  Thus a team must 8-1 or 9-1 in South Region games.  Also, it will help to have good wins over quality opponents.

As for Huntingdon, I am suspecting that the "Presidents AC" Pool B bid will move over to Pool A in fall 2007.  Therefore there will be only 3 Pool B bids.

In fall 2008, we should pick up one more Pool B bid, while the Northern Athletics Conference is establishing itself as a football sponsoring conference (from the teams in the Illini-Badger Conference.)  In 2008, the Northwest Conference moves to Pool A tho'.  I do not see a change in the number of Pool B bids (3 total).

Take home message is that at-large bids only go to one-loss teams.

[roocru]

You've probably seen this on one of the other boards, but just for fun!!!

Victory chain from Austin to Southern Cal for 2006

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Austin beat
Kalamazoo who beat
Tri-State who beat
Olivet who beat
Albion who beat
Butler who beat
Dayton who beat
Robert Morris who beat
Central Conn St who beat
Georgia Southern who beat
Western Carolina who beat
Eastern Kentucky who beat
Western Kentucky who beat
Southern Illinois who beat
Indiana who beat
Western Michigan who beat
Toledo who beat
Kansas who beat
Kansas St who beat
Texas who beat
Oklahoma who beat
Washington who beat
UCLA who beat
Oregon St who beat
Southern Cal

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Traversed 24 teams on this chain

[frank_ezelle]

I think that chain needs one more link.  Could you add that Millsaps beat Austin at the top of the list and therefore Millsaps should be in contention for the BCS Championship!!!!

Thanks for posting the above and I do expect Austin to get into the SCAC hunt in the future.  I look forward to the SCAC becoming more competitivie and that competiion leading to a stronger league that produces good playoff teams year after year.

[HoosierQBScout]

Austin beat
Kalamazoo who beat
Tri-State who beat
Olivet who beat
Albion who beat
Butler who beat
Dayton who beat
Robert Morris who beat
Central Conn St who beat
Georgia Southern who beat
Western Carolina who beat
Eastern Kentucky who beat
Western Kentucky who beat
Southern Illinois who beat
Indiana who beat
Western Michigan who beat
Toledo who beat
Kansas who beat
Kansas St who beat
Texas who beat
Oklahoma who beat
Washington who beat
UCLA who beat
Oregon St who beat
Southern Cal

Beautiful...and so appropriate this time of year.

[etg]

(El Tea Gray---re: Trinity vs. Wesley---whenever?)

Will we ever "again" see how that great (really) Wesley O stacks-up against the Black Flag? I was at the 2000 First Round Playoff game and watched Wesley score a total of 3 points; the Tigers managed to score 21 themselves. These two teams should play each other sometimes soon; regular season or playoffs, doesn't really matter to me, does it?