FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[Ralph Turner]

In all seriousness...

I know this is only a feasibility study, and we're still a long way off from anything close to football at Hendrix, but I wouldn't be a big fan of it. 

If you throw another team on the conference schedule, every team would only play one non-conference game.  Doesn't that make it increasingly hard to schedule quality non-conf opponents?  DPU obv. has Wabash at the end, which if you beat those guys, it goes a long way to helping the case for a Pool C, but what does a Millsaps or a Trinity do if they don't win the conference and are looking to get a Pool C?  It's already bad enough that each team is only playing two non-conf teams.

Millsaps can play Miss College.  Austin College can play McMurry or ETBU or anyone.  Trinity can play TLU. 

Hendrix must be having a very big budget crunch, especially with the Walton (Academic) Scholarships that have been going to Fayetteville.

[Ron Boerger]

Conversely, the football stadium was better pre-Calgaard.  Bonzo, do you have any new word on that situation?  Maybe it will help keep Coach Mohr around. 

Sorry, no.  I'm pretty out of the loop these days.   

I remember the old EM Stevens, even with busloads of AF trainees on a six-hour pass ppl still rattled around in it. 

[Josh Bowerman]

In all seriousness...If you throw another team on the conference schedule, every team would only play one non-conference game.  Doesn't that make it increasingly hard to schedule quality non-conf opponents?   It's already bad enough that each team is only playing two non-conf teams.

Welcome to what the ASC has dealt with for a long time, now, DPU3619!

[PA_wesleyfan]

Ralph

Looks like Wesley picked up George Mason U. as their tenth game... The web site has been updated with that game Nov. 3

[DPU3619]

Millsaps can play Miss College.  Austin College can play McMurry or ETBU or anyone.  Trinity can play TLU. 

The only critique I have of your listing is that only one of those opponents finished .500 or better in 2006.  I am aware that is currently who is on the schedule for TU, Millsaps, and Austin teams. 

The issue I had was not with simply scheduling problems, it was scheduling quality opponents.  While those teams fill the schedule, it doesn't do a lot to help a SCAC team that does not win the championship in receiving a Pool C bid.  For example, can a Millsaps team that went 9-1 and lost to just Trinity hope to get a Pool C when the only non-conf win they have is 5-5 Mississippi College?  Add into this hypothetical that DePauw, Centre, and Rhodes were having a down year and those weren't that impressive of wins.  Is that a strong enough case?  There were 1 loss teams left out last season.

I just worry that adding a 9th conference game would weaken the schedule to the point that a team from another region would be awarded a Pool C and be shipped southward.

[Pat Coleman]

Oof.

George Mason is a club team. 

[Ralph Turner]

Millsaps can play Miss College.  Austin College can play McMurry or ETBU or anyone.  Trinity can play TLU. 

The only critique I have of your listing is that only one of those opponents finished .500 or better in 2006.  I am aware that is currently who is on the schedule for TU, Millsaps, and Austin teams. 

The issue I had was not with simply scheduling problems, it was scheduling quality opponents.  While those teams fill the schedule, it doesn't do a lot to help a SCAC team that does not win the championship in receiving a Pool C bid.  For example, can a Millsaps team that went 9-1 and lost to just Trinity hope to get a Pool C when the only non-conf win they have is 5-5 Mississippi College?  Add into this hypothetical that DePauw, Centre, and Rhodes were having a down year and those weren't that impressive of wins.  Is that a strong enough case?  There were 1 loss teams left out last season.

I just worry that adding a 9th conference game would weaken the schedule to the point that a team from another region would be awarded a Pool C and be shipped southward.

UMHB and HSU would probably rather play Trinity and Millsaps than Willamette,/UW-Whitewater/CNU and  UW-Stevens Point/Linfield/UW-Stout.

[PA_wesleyfan]

Pat..
I was wondering about that myself. I thought maybe they were competeing on 1AA level this year.

Oof.

George Mason is a club team. 

[Pat Coleman]

I see nothing here to indicate a change of status.
http://www.gmufootball.gmu.edu/

[frank_ezelle]

I hear that Chris Jackson of Millsaps signed a free agent contract with Pittsburgh this morning.  That's the extent of my information--a newspaper from his hometown called me asking for a few photos that they could use in a story.

Any word on other SCAC players who might get a shot with a pro team?

[Pat Coleman]

Frank,

I got a tip on that overnight and confirmation this morning, but that's all I know as well. I don't even know for sure if it's a contract or a tryout/minicamp invite.

[@d3jason]

Pat..
I was wondering about that myself. I thought maybe they were competeing on 1AA level this year.

Oof.

George Mason is a club team. 

Wesley is still looking for game 10, but will use the Mason as a contest if it doesn't materialize. I believe that Bridgewater and College of New Jersey have done this during the past few years.

[Pat Coleman]

Yes, and it counted just as little for them.

[@d3jason]

Yes, and it counted just as little for them.

Better to have 10 games for your students than 9.

[Pat Coleman]

That is basically the one benefit, yes. Good experience for your second string.