FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[Ron Boerger]

Here's the SA Express-News' preseason writeup on Trinity:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/localcolleges/stories/MYSA082607.12M.FBCSect.TrinityStory.en.1ae6c92.html

Funny how their SCAC "projection" (like the ASC one) matches up perfectly with the preseason coaches' poll.  LOL!

[Ralph Turner]

Thanks for the article, Ron.

As I looked at the URL, I tried to break down the "code".   

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/localcolleges/stories/MYSA082607.12M.FBCSect.TrinityStory.en.1ae6c92.html


"http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/localcolleges/stories/" -- That is clear.

"MYSA082607." -- My San Antonio with today's date

"12M.FBCSect.TrinityStory." -- something to do with a Trinity Story in the football section.

"en." -- written in English

"1ae6c92.html" -- the rest of the URL, html, Amen. 

[Pat Coleman]

12M sounds like a page number, for what it's worth.

[Fripp52]

Did anyone see the scrimmage on Saturday ?  DPU did not look all that good.  Franklin looked more determined and a bit better.  I have it 2 TDs and a field goal to none.  One of the Franklin TDs was on a bad punt snap over the freshman punter's head.  He should have kicked it out of the end zone, but he just kind of stood there.

To be fair to DePauw, they have a lot of injuries to starters.  I counted over 15 kids in gray shirts on the sidelines and talking to the trainer before the game, he said they have a lot of injuries.  Lots of freshman got prime time play.  I counted 3 OLineman of the starting 5 and 2 of the starting 4 Dlineman as freshman.  And probably another dozen got significant time.  I have no idea what Franklin was facing as far as injuries were concerned.  Marks only played a series or so.  My son indicated the coaches were not happy after the game.

Time well spent if they get it fixed now.  They have a final tune up with an inter squad scrimmage on Saturday.

[oldmoose]

Announced yesterday:  BSC will scrimmage Maryville 1 PM Wednesday at Legion Field.

http://www.bscsports.net/News/football/2007/8/20/practice%208-20-07.asp?path=football

From the article it looks like the first week of practice has been a bit of a struggle ... which is only to be expected.

This article has been removed from the B-SC site so it looks like the scrimmage has been cancelled. 

I don't know why BSC removed all mention of Maryville from their press releases, but the scrimmage did take place.   They had BSC's offense and MC's defense at one end of the field and MC's offense and BSC's defense at the other, so there were two scrimmages taking place at the same time.  For a team that existed for a week and a half, BSC looked very good.  Their offense scored about a dozen times while MC only scored twice.  Here is the article from the B'ham news: http://www.al.com/bsc/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/sports/1187857143101220.xml&coll=2 

and the BSC website: http://www.bscsports.net/News/football/2007/8/22/scrimmage%208-22-07.asp?path=football

[Pat Coleman]

Well, there are rules about publicizing scrimmages, so that probably had something to do with it.

[roocru]

Just a note to say I will be attending the AC vs. SWAG game in Sherman this week.  I will try to post my thoughts sometime next week.

Any other AC fans on the board or am I the "Lone Stranger"? 

Josh Bowerman, will you be in town Saturday?

[Josh Bowerman]

I'll be there too, roocru--camera in tow covering the game for d3football.com!

[Ron Boerger]

Just a note to say I will be attending the AC vs. SWAG game in Sherman this week.  I will try to post my thoughts sometime next week.

Any other AC fans on the board or am I the "Lone Stranger"? 

Josh Bowerman, will you be in town Saturday?

Roocru, since I'm planning on seeing several SCAC games already in Sherman this season AND my wife will be out of town too, if I go to a game it will be the one in Marshall between ETBU and Trinity.

[TigerDad]

... if I go to a game it will be the one in Marshall between ETBU and Trinity.

Bonzo, my family and I will also be in Marshall ...  I hope to get to meet you there ... if not before the game, stick around afterwards.  GO TIGERS .. of the Trinity variety, of course! 

BTW, there's WAY too many Tiger games this year ... ETBU 9/1, CoCo 9/22, DPU 10/13, and UOS 10/20.  That's 40% of the schedule.  What's up with that?  And 60% are CATS!

[Ron Boerger]

Welcome to the Tigeric Collegiate Athletic Conference.  There has to be something in the bylaws that says schools get preferential treatment if they have feline mascots. 

Cool news about the live AV broadcasts.  I knew they were working on it but didn't want to let the cat out of the bag [/obligatory cat reference].

[DPULefty22]

Personally, I think all the SCAC Tiger teams should play for the nickname on a yearly basis, kind of like the service academies play for the Commander In Chief's Trophy. Winner gets to keep the nickname for the remainder of the sports schedule.

[TigerDad]

Maybe the winner of the TCAC playoffs could be crowned the Survivor and earn the exclusive right to use the theme song for the rest of the school year.



Yo, that would be a Rocky road to the championship ...

[Ralph Turner]

Personally, I think all the SCAC Tiger teams should play for the nickname on a yearly basis, kind of like the service academies play for the Commander In Chief's Trophy. Winner gets to keep the nickname for the remainder of the sports schedule.

For what accolade would you be contending?  The cat's meow.   

[frank_ezelle]

You know you're having a bad day with your deceased grandmother leaves $12,000,000 to her dog and nothing to you (http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070829/helmsley_s_pooch.html?.v=1)

But back to football, it looks like a last minute deal was struck and Millsaps football will be on the air again this year (sorry Pat, but it's the same guys that you hated last year).  I believe we have a group of Millsaps parents who stepped in and helped make the broadcasts a reality--thanks to all of you who made that happen.

The plan is to broadcast all of the games, both home and away, with the first game coming tomorrow night at Mississippi College.  The opening kickoff is at 6:59 and I'm sure there will be some sort of pregame show.  I don't know when that starts.  There will be a weekly coach's show and the schedule hasn't been set for that at this time.  Here's the link to the radio station:

http://www.espnradio1240.com/listenlive.php