FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[BashDad]

Ron Boerger:

I echo your concerns about the danger/impact of Katrina
as d3 teams in the eastern third of the country (bottom to top!) begin to gear-up for the opening weekend.  Millsaps is one of the closest to the coast, but the rain and wind will clear out there pretty quickly.  Points north and east will not be so lucky.

Best of luck to all teams as the season gets underway.

[scotty]

any words of wisdom from the Depauw faithful?...

[etg]

tu_lb53,

"A bad dress rehearsal means a good first performance."

[tu_lb53]

hah - let's hope so

[B/L Tiger]

Indeed.  The last season that started with a Monterrey Tech bashing didn't turn out too well.

[Hawks88]

http://www.huntingdon.edu/athletics/mens_athletics/football

Huntingdon vs. Millsaps has been postponed to Oct. 1 because of Hurricane Katrina. Since there are questions as to when Jackson will have power restored and concerns about players' families and both teams still had the open date in common this was an easy call I guess. As a season ticket holder I actually got a phone call from the Huntingdon athletic department telling of the change also.

[consultant]

News from Millsaps in aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

I spoke with an athletic department representative this afternoon.  Millsaps has cancelled classes for the remainder of the week.  The campus received minimal damage from the storm.  However, the school has no power and no running water.   The campus is being evacuated today.  Most of Jackson is without power and the entire city is under a boil water notice for those fortunate to have running water.  Good news is that Millsaps is on the same power grid as some of the hospitals in the area, so the school should have power restored in the next day or so.  

No word on whether the football team will play at Huntingdon this Saturday.   I'll keep you informed.  

[consultant]

Millsaps report:

Just received word that the Millsaps-Huntingdon game has been postponed until Oct. 1.  This means that Millsaps first real game will not be until Sept. 24 vs. Belhaven.  The Majors' first "game" will be against Concordia-Selma on the 17th of September.

[frank uible]

Ron: Chaminade is a Catholic boys school with an enrollment of about 900, grades 6-12. Its football schedule includes some of the better teams in greater St. Louis high school football, but Chaminade has been generally inferior (from a football standpoint) to most of the schools on its schedule. Greater St. Louis high school football, in my judgment, is not as good as that of many similarly sized cities such as Cleveland, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Chaminade's enrollment is drawn disproportionately from the upper middle class - perhaps accounting for the relatively high number of its graduates on the DePauw (an expensive college) football roster.

[scotty]

interesting...

[historymajor]

Hmmm... Chaminade, STL?  Just wait til vouchers come out!  Small, Catholic, disproportionately upper middle class.... Sounds like a 'prep school' that could do some serious damage!  Have them look into applying at Trinity!  Ole'

[Ron Boerger]

Frank, thanks (as always) for your insight.  I wasn't trying to say that DePauw was trying to pull anything funny, it just seems unusual to get four kids from the same school in a single year.  DePauw's not the easiest place to get into, either.  I wonder if the kid deom Chaminade who went there last year got on the phone to his buddies and did some recruting.   

[frank uible]

Ron: We aim to please.

[smedindy]

It's not that unusual. Wabash has three freshmen football players on the roster from Indianapolis Roncalli this season. No big deal - they all looked at the school and decided it was for them and they'd play together.

[Josh Bowerman]

Ron--

Any insights on how the Seahawks adding malcontent Peter Warrick yesterday will impact Jereme Urban?