FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[roocru]

Ron,

+k for your help with the D3 Kickoff!!

[Fripp52]

Has anyone seen DePauw practice over the last 2 weeks ?  I get updates from my son, but they are focussed on his progress and not the team overall.  I will be attending the scrimmage this weekend against Franklin. 

[DPU3619]

Scrimmage is at Franklin this year, correct?  You have a start time for that, Fripp?

[Fripp52]

DPU - I believe it is at 1 and it is at Franklin.  My son told me they run it a bit different than a traditional controlled scrimmage.  They apparently practice together for a period of time.  Then they break off into a scrimmage.  His schedule indicated 3 hours long so it should be over around 4.

[DPU3619]

My son told me they run it a bit different than a traditional controlled scrimmage.  They apparently practice together for a period of time.  Then they break off into a scrimmage. 

Thanks for the assist.  If it's anything like past years, they'll run a few blocking drills, some 7on7 and a little 9on7 before they actually scrimmage a half of football.

[Fripp52]

DPU - I confirmed last night the scrimmage starts at 1 at Franklin.  It looks like they get there at 1130.  I presume with dressing out and stretching, etc, they would be ready around 1215 or so.  I assume they practice with Franklin until around 1 and then go into the scrimmage until 4.

[Bubba the Petrel]

I noticed that you mentioned BSC being near a bad part of town.  Isn't every good liberal arts school located near the ghetto?  I'm pretty sure it's the measuring stick.

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Ogelthorpe - Near College Park...

It just seems that since these schools are all so old, a majority of them were in once thriving communities that have now suffered since the Suburbanization of the past few decades.  The one exception.  Sewanee.  Let's just face it, it's in the middle of nowhere.

Oglethorpe University is in the Brookhaven area of DeKalb County, which is nowhere near College Park - you don't know much about Atlanta, do you?

[scaccommish]

2007 SCAC Predicted Order of Finish released:

http://www.scac-online.org/football

[FerricMajor82]

Nope, nor do I care.  I care about three things in Atlanta.  The parking lot that was the Launching Pad, the wall commemorating the April 8th, 1974 blast, and Turner Field. 

[frank_ezelle]

As is usually the case, the preseason poll is almost exactly like the final standings from the previous year.  Millsaps and Trinity captured all of the first place votes but some other team or teams received some of the 2nd place votes.

Millsaps opens play in less than a week with a 6:59 kickoff next Thursday against MS College. 

[DPU3619]

I figured the count would be close between Millsaps and TU, but Millsaps would get more 1st place votes after last year's final score. 

DPU snuck at least a couple second place votes in there, frank.  I suppose a very good recruiting class does have to warrant some consideration.

[Ralph Turner]

I invite you SCAC fans including Ron Boerger (the 2003 Tri-Champ), Ex-major (the 2004 leading amateur), and historymajor, who has played all five years, to participate in the 6th Annual ASC Pick'em contest.

We will have one SCAC game of the week, a South Region GOTW and a National GOTW.  The contest runs thru the final week that an ASC team is still standing.

Good luck.

2007 ASC Pick-em Contest

[Ron Boerger]

I figured the count would be close between Millsaps and TU, but Millsaps would get more 1st place votes after last year's final score. 

DPU snuck at least a couple second place votes in there, frank.  I suppose a very good recruiting class does have to warrant some consideration.

Here is one possibility, though probably not the correct one.  9 voters, 1st place=8 points since CC not included in the vote:


Millsaps:  6-2-1-0-0-0-0-0 = 68  [this is the only one that is definitely correct]
Trinity:   3-4-2-0-0-0-0-0 = 64
DePauw:    0-3-2-2-2-0-0-0 = 51
Rhodes:    0-0-2-3-2-1-1-0 = 40
Centre:    0-0-1-2-2-3-0-1 = 34
Austin:    0-0-1-0-2-2-3-1 = 27
Colorado:  0-0-0-2-1-3-1-2 = 27
Sewanee:   0-0-0-0-0-0-4-5 = 13

[benbraddock]

DPU - I confirmed last night the scrimmage starts at 1 at Franklin.  It looks like they get there at 1130.  I presume with dressing out and stretching, etc, they would be ready around 1215 or so.  I assume they practice with Franklin until around 1 and then go into the scrimmage until 4.

Read DPU3619's post above.  He has it right.  They'll take longer than that to get ready and everything should start at 1 (they won't be out on the field for 4 hours).  Skill guys will do 1 on 1's i believe.  Linemen will do 1 on 1 pass rush.  Then 7-on-7 and 9-on-7, and finally a short half of scrimmage.  This is the way it has been done the last couple years. 
All of my info is just from what was done a couple years ago with this scrimmage format so it could have changed slightly.

[Jawbreaker]

Nope, nor do I care.  I care about three things in Atlanta.  The parking lot that was the Launching Pad, the wall commemorating the April 8th, 1974 blast, and Turner Field. 

That's funny.  My son is a freshman at Millsaps.  Every time that we have gone to see the Braves he has wanted to get his picture made next to "the Wall" going up and robbing a home run or just runnig the bases (in the parking lot).