FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[exmajor]

You could make a case that if all the other SCAC schools can be classed as NLACs, so could Trinity, because it certainly emphasizes undergraduate education.  Sewanee has a doctoral program; Hendrix, a graduate business program; Austin and Colorado College, a graduate program in Education; BSC, several graduate programs.  There may be others.  What I don't know is if 50+% of the degrees at TU are granted in the liberal arts.  

Just to be fair before we leave this subject, I have my MBA from Millsaps and the Business School for Millsaps is ranked highly from a regional perspective.

[Ron Boerger]

Just to be fair before we leave this subject, I have my MBA from Millsaps and the Business School for Millsaps is ranked highly from a regional perspective.

Graduate schools are ranked independently of undergrad 

[Pat Coleman]

The top 25 teams from our preseason poll are guaranteed those slots in the Kickoff 1-238. Nothing else is sacred.

[etg]

(El Tea Gray---re: Ron and D3DPUFan questions?)


Ron / D3 DPUFan:
I cannot give you "the" reason at this time; I was sworn not to discuss any details. Trust me, or as I've said before just "hide-and-watch". History was sworn also, but we both agree 2010 is a season for a great run to/thru the playoffs. The SCAC coaches seem to know nothing either?

                                                                   

[frank_ezelle]

The clues are obvious:  since it is "the" reason, it is obviously an individual, and since "2010 is a season for a great run", this person is obviously a running back.  Therefore, one can only conclude that Desmond Mays has found a way to play another year for yet another team.    I guess we'll just have to wait for confirmation of my theory since everyone is sworn to secrecy.

However, I'm not sworn to secrecy so I can mention that I watch a little of the Millsaps football practice this afternoon.  It looks like they have about 80-85 players evenly split between offense and defense.  Only four guys were wearing red jerseys unlike the dozen or so quarterback hopefuls that were looking to fill Juan Joseph's shoes last year.  

All I could tell from seeing the last 15 minutes is that it seemed like things were well organized and a lot of work was getting done.  During that brief period the defense had the upper hand, but that doesn't mean a lot.  My gut feeling is that the offense will probably have more changes than the defense this year, and Millsaps might have to rely heavily on the defense in the early part of the season.  

That's about all I have regarding practice.  I saw a few key players from last year and also didn't see some key players who were underclassmen in 2009.  I don't want to name names in either category.  Hopefully a 2010 roster will be posted on the Millsaps website in the next day or two and we can all have a better idea of who is back and the makeup of the team.

[Pat Coleman]

(El Tea Gray---re: Ron and D3DPUFan questions?)


Ron / D3 DPUFan:
I cannot give you "the" reason at this time; I was sworn not to discuss any details. Trust me, or as I've said before just "hide-and-watch". History was sworn also, but we both agree 2010 is a season for a great run to/thru the playoffs. The SCAC coaches seem to know nothing either?

                                                                   

Trinity does have some interesting transfers coming in, but you'll have to read Kickoff to find out.

[33Belly]

Millsaps possibly could be lower than fourth.  Losing DuBose is the main reason, but they have had some other good coaches that are not there either, mainly on the offensive side of the ball. At the same time they are not the ones on the field and they have graduated some very good football players.  With Galatas and Bowser returning there is no question they have some explosive players, but do they have the o-line and scheme to use them right?  Without a very deep d-line the defense may struggle as well.

[Ron Boerger]

(El Tea Gray---re: Ron and D3DPUFan questions?)


Ron / D3 DPUFan:
I cannot give you "the" reason at this time; I was sworn not to discuss any details. Trust me, or as I've said before just "hide-and-watch". History was sworn also, but we both agree 2010 is a season for a great run to/thru the playoffs. The SCAC coaches seem to know nothing either?

                                                                   

Trinity does have some interesting transfers coming in, but you'll have to read Kickoff to find out.

Well, given what happened last year with the highly-anticipated QB who bailed during camp, keeping things close to the vest is probably not a bad idea.  Looking forward to hearing about this and the details for all the teams in the conference next week. 

[Tex]

I'm pumped. Game time yet?

[Tacttm1]

Yes.  1 pm kickoff. Consult your local channel!! 

Millsaps has a inter-squad scrimage today....don't think that quite counts!

[frank_ezelle]

Tex, I'm right there with you on that one.  There's not much preseason information on any sports at any schools right now, making it hard to feed the sports news addiction many of us have developed since Al Gore invented the internet.  Here are links to SCAC football websites that have some sort of preview or the 2010 roster posted:

Centre College:  http://www.centre.edu/web/athletics/football/index.html  
Austin College:  http://www.austincollege.edu/athletics/football/
Birmingham Southern roster:  http://www.bscsports.net/roster.aspx?path=football&
Millsaps roster (posted within the last hour):  http://gomajors.com/roster.aspx?roster=41
Rhodes roster:  http://www.rhodeslynx.com/roster.aspx?path=football&tab=football
Sewanee football:  http://sewaneetigers.com/index.aspx?path=football&

[frank_ezelle]

Yes.  1 pm kickoff. Consult your local channel!!  

Millsaps has a inter-squad scrimage today....don't think that quite counts!

What time on the inter-squad game?  (My guess is that the 1 pm is referring to today's practice, but is my guess correct?)

[Tacttm1]

not sure exactly Frank.

can't get anyone on the phone but I think it will be part of practice.

[onthemountain]

Sewanee lost their SID also, so very little news coming off the mountain.  Personally, I think we need to hire Baghdad Bob just for SOME positive news for the upcoming season!!! 

[Tacttm1]

Bagdad Bob is still saying that Brett Farve will retire!

I am not bashing the Millsaps SID and am glad we have one now on board!  I looked at the roster that was linked by Frank and the players 'bios and stats' are all from last year, it seems.  I check a few returning players and the last info was from 2008 season.
I'm sure the info will be updated before the regular season starts.