FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[Tex]

The internet broadcasts have been awesome guys.  I've enjoyed a couple of games this year.  The announcers do a great job as well. 

I never really thought about it being limited by the local access where you are.  Makes sense that colleges are well-wired, but that Belton stadium...  hmm... 

My son and his team played there two weeks ago.  It's one of those older artificial turfs where instead of using the little ground up black rubber pellet stuff, they use ground up gravel and sand.  The players need to go the extra mile and tape their forearms and elbows.  Lots of our guys came away very cut up from this turf. 

[historymajor]

Update... I have been in contact with a local internet supplier in Belton who will test a wireless link tomorrow for necessary band-width,,,  he thinks it's a 'go', and I told him we'd give them kudos for 'making it happen'.  Hey Ralph, Bo's the big 30 on Saturday,,, can you believe it?

[historymajor]

RE: Team Capsules.... W&J "they'll have to prove they can beat an ASC team"....  I would edit that to say TEXAS team!  Go Tigers,,, represent the "Miracle"!!!!!!

[Rick Akins]

 Tex:

I do not know much about turf, but I know the Belton H.S. turf  was installed only 3-4 years with a substantial financial assist from UMHB, I believe $50,000 a year for  ten years to pay in effect 50% (or more) of the initial cost. My numbers may not be exactly accurate, but I know UMHB contributed a lot and it was not that long ago. It is disappointing to hear the turf is "bad"--it is certainly not old.

Hope you can make the wireless work--maybe UMHB needs to offer to pay a lot of that upgrade too!

[frank_ezelle]

I'm in the midst of burning about 270 DVDs for Millsaps football so I have plenty of time to think football and I'll be tied to my computer all weekend and can keep up with the playoffs.  Tonight I was thinking about just how close we came to having a Millsaps-MC rematch in the first round of the playoffs this year.

It has been well documented on just how close Millsaps came to winning the Trinity game and the AQ for the SCAC.  For MC, the game that kept them out of the playoffs was the heartbreaking 45-42 loss to Hardin-Simmons.  Is there any doubt that a 9-1 MC team would have been matched up with a 9-1 Millsaps team in the first round of the playoffs?  That would have been an exciting, big money, low expense game.

It just goes to show how small the difference is between being a ranked NCAA playoff team and being a team that has packed it up for the season. 

[golden_dome]

I'm in the midst of burning about 270 DVDs for Millsaps football so I have plenty of time to think football and I'll be tied to my computer all weekend and can keep up with the playoffs.  Tonight I was thinking about just how close we came to having a Millsaps-MC rematch in the first round of the playoffs this year.

It has been well documented on just how close Millsaps came to winning the Trinity game and the AQ for the SCAC.  For MC, the game that kept them out of the playoffs was the heartbreaking 45-42 loss to Hardin-Simmons.  Is there any doubt that a 9-1 MC team would have been matched up with a 9-1 Millsaps team in the first round of the playoffs?  That would have been an exciting, big money, low expense game.

It just goes to show how small the difference is between being a ranked NCAA playoff team and being a team that has packed it up for the season. 

That would have been an incredible college atmosphere with all of the talk surrounding the first game. I wouldn't have been surprised to see 10,000 fans trying to cram into the stadium.

[Ralph Turner]

RE: Team Capsules.... W&J "they'll have to prove they can beat an ASC team"....  I would edit that to say TEXAS team!  Go Tigers,,, represent the "Miracle"!!!!!!

I guess that the 1994 W&J win over Trinity still counts. 

[Pat Coleman]

Indeed -- it's as if I was paying attention.

[historymajor]

I meant that one way or another it'll be a TEXAS team, and of course I'm a TU guy!

[Tex]

Tex:

I do not know much about turf, but I know the Belton H.S. turf  was installed only 3-4 years with a substantial financial assist from UMHB, I believe $50,000 a year for  ten years to pay in effect 50% (or more) of the initial cost. My numbers may not be exactly accurate, but I know UMHB contributed a lot and it was not that long ago. It is disappointing to hear the turf is "bad"--it is certainly not old.

Hope you can make the wireless work--maybe UMHB needs to offer to pay a lot of that upgrade too!

Wow, I'm really shocked.  3-4 years old?  I was standing on that field in 05 and this year in 07.  (I have been shooting photographs for my son's team for 3 years).  I guess one of the reasons it looks old is the "sheen" that is on it.  If they get the broadband thing going, you'll see what I mean.  Honestly the knap of the field reminded me of one that had been several years old.  They really chose a weird shade of green as well.  Darker than most other fields. 

The issue is that most of the new fields being put in are the "Field Turf" stuff that has the little rubber stuff shreaded up and worked into the surface.  Players seem to prefer the Field Turf over whatever the fine folks at Belton ISD came up with. 

[TigerDad]

Wow ... just got finished reading the D3 bracketology and Keith's ATN. There's simply no love for the Trinity Tigers yet this season.  Apparently TU is underqualified to match up with the Crusaders ...

hmm ... I'm thinking lateral.   

GO TIGERS.

[Pat Coleman]

The Rhodes game might say something.

[DPU3619]

Yeah, I'm pulling for Trinity as bad as the next guy, but the best wins they have are 8-2 Millsaps and 8-2 DePauw.  Not that the UMHB resume is that much stronger.  The best teams they beat are 8-2 Miss. Coll and 6-4 Hardin-Simmons.  But, they've beat everybody in such a manner that it leaves no question.  Nobody south of the Ohio River can stop them. 

Trinity got a mudhole stomped in 'em by a 6-4 football team.  The list of teams in the dance who have that kind of blemish on their record is rather short.  And none of them are favorites to win this weekend.  UMHB did have the same thing happen, but it was to the #2 team in the country. 

[LA Major]

Also,if it wasn't for a miracle TU is 8-2 and at home this weekend. Regardless I am hoping for another TU upset but with less drama. The SCAC needs a playoff win so I will pull for TU to stop the run and Barrmore to find time to throw. Humility is very low cal just not to tasty.

[HunterT]

The Rhodes game might say something.

I agree that this could be a big reason for why the Tigers are sitting where they are in the bracket. You take that game away and suddenly you have a whole different scenario. It shows how important every play is, since that game was won on big plays alone in my opinion.

sorry my boys had to be spoilers... kinda.