FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[rooski]

... we lift you up Tex, trusting God for your healing and your peace through the struggle.

[Tex]

Ladies and Gents:

I present to you a modern miracle. A reasonably healthy 47 year old male is taken to near death by a simple killing machine called bacteria. The spider bite was simply the opening into the skin that allowed the killing machine in.

For you geeks out there, the final analysis turns out to be a combination of staph and strep that hit some sort of critical mass and started to feed off each other. Something about one of them being anaerobic and the other aerobic. Not sure about all that, but the outcome was nearly fatal and quite devastating of all the flesh it came into contact with.

Necrotising fasciiitis
http://www.gov.mb.ca/health/publiche..._fasciitis.pdf


None of my medical team can believe I am healing this quickly. This is where the true miracle is happening. The power of prayer. I'll leave it at that and give God all the glory for what is happening. I cannot even count the number of groups of family, friends and coworkers that have been praying for me. I can feel it though.

So, if you're one of those, please do not stop praying for me. I'm not 100% yet, but I have been told that my leg appears intact and my life appears to be still on loan from God.

Cheers and thanks to each and every one of you that took the time to intercede on my behalf.

Scott <--- the luckiest man in the world.

[D3_DPUFan]

None of my medical team can believe I am healing this quickly. This is where the true miracle is happening. The power of prayer.

No doubt about it.

[TigerDad]

Tex;
Thanks for the update ... very glad to hear good news.
The power of prayer is a mighty weapon in times of trouble.
We won't stop until we hear you're healed and home walking and leaping!

[Tex]

Well, they're about to take me off IV antibiotics.  Great thing.  I'm on a wound vac with the leg.  Probably be cutting me loose on Monday with about 6 weeks of home health care in my near future. 

Really glad to be alive.  Thankful for all the folks praying for me.  At last count, with all the congregations and such across the country with all my friends have told me about, I had at one point about 5000 folks praying for me.  Pretty cool. 

[Tex]

Guess who's sleeping in his own bed/home tonight? 

[LA Major]

Praise God who thankfully never rests or forgets.
Tex continue with a great recovery. We will continue to pray for you and your family.

[rooski]

I thought the D1 "national championship" game last week was exciting. Going into game the general consensus - at least in the part of north Texas where we live - was that the Big12 was thought of as an offense oriented conference in 2008 and that the SEC was more defense oriented.

Just for fun I'd like to poll you guys and gals for your opinions regarding the SCAC this past fall {or beyond for some of you long-timers}.

SCAC 2008 overall. Offense, or defense?

[Tex]

From my limited time here, I'd say SCAC is offense.


I thoroughly enjoyed the D-1 title game last week.  I thought it one of the most entertaining games i'd seen all year.  Tebow is just a stud.  That little jump shot TD pass was pretty slick at the end.  I guess when you're 6'5" you can do that sort of thing. 

Now that I'm home, I'm working thru some of my bowl game backlog on the DVR.  Watching the Insight.com bowl this AM. 

[Ralph Turner]

From my limited time here, I'd say SCAC is offense.


I thoroughly enjoyed the D-1 title game last week.  I thought it one of the most entertaining games i'd seen all year.  Tebow is just a stud.  That little jump shot TD pass was pretty slick at the end.  I guess when you're 6'5" you can do that sort of thing. 

Now that I'm home, I'm working thru some of my bowl game backlog on the DVR.  Watching the Insight.com bowl this AM. 

It's amazing the lengths that some guys will go just to lie around the house watching bowl games on his DVR! 

May you hang around to do it for many more years! 

[frank_ezelle]

Tex,

Just now looked at the football board for the first time in a long time, catching up on your posts from the beginning in regards to that nasty infection.  Glad to hear that the recovery is progressing so rapidly. 

The timing of your injury coincided with something similar to one in the Millsaps family.  In mid-December, former Millsaps president George Harmon fell off a ladder and scraped his arm.  No big deal as far as the fall was concerned but the scrape led to a blood infection and he passed away seven days later.  It's a very scary thing and a reminder to all of us to appreciate the time we have and to get to the doctor as soon as we think there might be some sort of problem.  Take care and continue with the speedy recovery,

Frank.

[D3_DPUFan]

The timing of your injury coincided with something similar to one in the Millsaps family.  In mid-December, former Millsaps president George Harmon fell off a ladder and scraped his arm.  No big deal as far as the fall was concerned but the scrape led to a blood infection and he passed away seven days later.  It's a very scary thing and a reminder to all of us to appreciate the time we have and to get to the doctor as soon as we think there might be some sort of problem.  Take care and continue with the speedy recovery,

Scary, indeed. I think we're all hearing, or experiencing, these types of things on a seemingly much greater scale. Underscores your point about getting to the doc...

[D3_DPUFan]

Just for fun I'd like to poll you guys and gals for your opinions regarding the SCAC this past fall {or beyond for some of you long-timers}.

SCAC 2008 overall. Offense, or defense?

I agree with Tex on offense. But what I like about the conference is how it, in my opinion, seems to be maturing into a league that offers competitive teams top to bottom. The top teams in the league can obviously throw the ball...Juan Joseph's ability speaks for itself. DePauw's Spud Dick and Trinity's Bryant Wilson put up huge numbers as well (and as a DPU fan I'm excited that Spud is back for one more year!) Receivers like DPU's Koors, Mulligan and Dahlstrom; Trinity's Curry, Millsaps' McCarty to name a few are top notch...so I think the league is blessed with lots of skilled players. And I have been impressed by a team like Austin, which a couple of years ago just wan't very good...but now has the makings of a strong team with a pretty tough ground game. Even Birmingham-Southern, which hasn't put up many W's is I think 4th int he league in total offense. The SCAC, perhaps because of its southern roots, is blessed with some pretty decent speed, on both sides of the ball...and that makes it a fun conference to watch, IMHO...





 

[DPU3619]

I agree that it's offense now, but I think it's kind of cyclical.  Go back a couple of years, say 2004 and 2005, and I think it's defense.  TU's Black Flag was nasty, DePauw was hanging their hat on #31 and one of the best and most talented defensive units in school history.  Centre and Rhodes were both great on that side (Rhodes still is). 

Now, go back a couple more years and I think you're talking about offense again.  Dan DesPlaines took Trinity to the Stagg.  Andy Yoder and Jason Lee were two of the most prolific passers in DePauw history (until this current guy came along).  Centre scored almost 40 per in 2001.  Rhodes scored 30 per in 2002.  So on and so forth.....  I could go on and on.

[D3_DPUFan]

I agree that it's offense now, but I think it's kind of cyclical.  Go back a couple of years, say 2004 and 2005, and I think it's defense.  TU's Black Flag was nasty, DePauw was hanging their hat on #31 and one of the best and most talented defensive units in school history.  Centre and Rhodes were both great on that side (Rhodes still is). 

Some good perspective, Wes...and while offense may have an edge, that's not to slight the current defensive efforts in the SCAC. Millsaps is a pretty impressive mix of size and speed; Trinity has some athletes on D; Rhodes as you mentioned and I think Centre can still be a pretty good defensive club with an all american LB and another backer that I think is just as good.