FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[Patriot_Pride]

Pat Coleman and the group at d3football do a tremendous job and thant includes in choosing the All American team. Do great players get left out? Of course. It's the nature of the beast. But I don't know of too many people who see more games or are exposed to more coaches, SIDs, etc. than Pat and the folks at D3. Their perspective is much more representative than the narrow interests of most of us on this board. I also hate to see the discussion denegrate to calling out players and wondering why Johnny didn't make the team and Bobby did. Seemed more like the discussions we used to hear after the high school all-state teams came out.  

This is a message board, right? Complaints and compliments are part of it. I'm not going to kiss everyone's butt all the time. If something bothers me, I'm going to rant about it, not just let it go. I've noticed everyone bites their tongue on here and never stirs up controversy. That's part of the game. And just because I don't agree, I get docked karma points from everyone which is pretty funny.

So, please just take my comments with a grain of salt as I know it's just my opinion.

[frank_ezelle]

Pat Coleman and the group at d3football do a tremendous job and thant includes in choosing the All American team. Do great players get left out? Of course. It's the nature of the beast. But I don't know of too many people who see more games or are exposed to more coaches, SIDs, etc. than Pat and the folks at D3. Their perspective is much more representative than the narrow interests of most of us on this board. I also hate to see the discussion denegrate to calling out players and wondering why Johnny didn't make the team and Bobby did. Seemed more like the discussions we used to hear after the high school all-state teams came out.  

Very well said.  As a Millsaps fan who doesn't travel to away games, I see the Millsaps players about 5 times a year.  I see the players on other SCAC teams every other year.  As for other D3 teams, I see MS College once a year and sometimes a team like Louisiana College or Huntingdon.  It's a very narrow look at D3 football in general.

And while I don't get to see many of the other teams in other leagues, I do notice that many other teams and leagues do better than the SCAC when it comes to the NCAA Playoffs.  Therefore, they must be playing some high quality football with high quality players on their roster.  I'm always very pleased to see SCAC players make the Team of the Week or the All-Region team and this year two players made 1st team All-American--that's impressive.  At the same time, I'm never surprised when a quality SCAC performer doesn't make the list.  Being the best in the SCAC is a fantastic achievement but that doesn't always equate to being one of the top two or three in the nation.

[Ralph Turner]

One other thing to consider about D3football.com "All-everything" teams is that they are really teams.

You don't have 6 OL's, 7 WR's, 3RBs, and 2QB's on the first team and another 19 players on the second and third teams.

The rare thing about this year's team was Bryson Tucker from UMHB at "All-Purpose".  This season, he had 7 rushing TD's, 558 yds rushing, a TD reception, 43 tackles and fumble return and punt return for TD's.

Tucker frequently played both ways.  In his career at UMHB he scored TD's 6 ways: passing, rushing, reception for TD, fumble recovery, punt return and Kickoff Return.

http://www.cruathletics.com/sports/2009/7/30/FB_0730092416.aspx?path=football

[bashbrother]

Congrats to Alex Koors on his 1st Team All-American honor.  One that he definitely deserved.   

[D3_DPUFan]

Congrats to Alex Koors on his 1st Team All-American honor.  One that he definitely deserved.   

Ditto...thanks, bashbrother.

[Li'l Giant]

Congrats to Alex Koors on his 1st Team All-American honor.  One that he definitely deserved.   

Agreed. Koors is a helluva player. Congrats to him and DePauw. 

[evacuee]

This is for INS_Major:

I agree completely with your claim that nobody wants to or welcomes controversy on this board, and I get so sick of all the pats on the back and politically correct nonsense.  I used to contribute a lot more before I figured that out.  I keep reading for the sake of the news, but I sometimes feel compelled to pipe in, like now.

You sound like a total whiner.  Your team has experienced success on a level that the school hasn't seen in some time.  Unless you're a bandwagon jumper, I would think that the group's performance over the last four years compared to what it had been previously would be enough for you to not get so bent out of shape because some guys didn't get individual honors.  Appreciate the work they did as a team and congratulate the guys who won.  NORTHERN BIAS??  Give me a break- why not just call them racist?  It would be just as credible.  Despite the rise of schools like UMHB and to a LESSER EXTENT, Millsaps, the north has a monopoly on d3 football.  There's simply a lot more choices up there.  The politically correct move would have been to give the award to a SCAC player when in doubt to assure that everyone gets their turn.  I appreciate the site's best efforts and don't care if my team ever shows up on there again as long as we win.

Or could it be...

That the 2009 Millsaps failures as a team has to be rectified somehow by individual honors?  7-3 was I'm sure disappointing, but the team was still very good in 2009.  However, the future in Jackson is definitely uncertain and it may be that you're trying to salvage as much pride as you can from this program in case they fall off the map again.  In case they do, will you still be there to support them?   

Again, I disapprove of overdoing the positives, but you're way out of line to keep coming back to this. 

[D3_DPUFan]

Anybody else see that the Trinity-Millsaps lateral fest made Sportscenter's plays of the decade?

[historymajor]

Yep,,, short but sweet!  Will be shown one more time...ET  1/2 ESPN2 9:30pm-11pm

[Tacttm1]

Awww....why'd you have top bring that up!!!!

LOL

[D3_DPUFan]

Awww....why'd you have top bring that up!!!!

LOL

Sorry!

[TigerDad]

Never get enough of that "Miracle in Mississippi"?   

Hop on over to www.trinitymiracle.com for a walk down memory lane.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, Y'ALL.

[Patriot_Pride]

Never get enough of that "Miracle in Mississippi"?   

Hop on over to www.trinitymiracle.com for a walk down memory lane.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, Y'ALL.

I figured a 56-27 beatdown the year after would have silenced the crowd?! What was it, a 13-year streak of some sort?

Hop on over to http://gomajors.com/news/2008/11/4/FB_1104085944.aspx?path=football for a trip down memory lane.

[D3_DPUFan]

Happy New Year to all on the board.

May your 2010 be filled with success, health and lots of victories, except, of course when you're playing DPU:)

[evacuee]

I used the root word "whine" to describe INS_Major a few posts back.  I would have to replace that term with "sour grapes."