FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[D3_DPUFan]

I've been told that any public announcements of scrimmages might be perceived as a "game",,, all I know is that TU and TLU will hold a controlled scrim in SAT on Sat.  AM I think.

Pat, or Ralph, do either of you know the rules about announcing/publicizing a scrim?

Don't know that I've seen DePauw or Franklin go out of their way to announce or publicize the scrimmage...but certainly has been no secret that it takes place...usually gets a nice crowd...nice atmosphere...Coach Leonard runs a class program at Franklin...

[Navidad]

Geez ... I hope no one ever confuses a scrimmage with a game. 

[Pat Coleman]

I've been told that any public announcements of scrimmages might be perceived as a "game",,, all I know is that TU and TLU will hold a controlled scrim in SAT on Sat.  AM I think.

Pat, or Ralph, do either of you know the rules about announcing/publicizing a scrim?

A scrimmage is not to be publicized, by Division III rules, but I don't have chapter and verse from the Book of Indy on me.

[onthemountain]

Once again the Sewanee preview....


http://sewaneetigers.com/news/2010/8/23/FB_0823103719.aspx

I am not positive, but I think the Great Wall had a shorter building program than we have had.   

In truth, I think we might surprise at least one team this year.  I hope so anyway...great bunch of kids who have paid way too many dues.

[Ron Boerger]

Hope so too, onthemountain, though of course I hope it's someone besides Trinity.  Coach Black seems like a stand-up guy and it would be great to see the team have some success this year. 

While we are all on Kickoff watch, you might want to read this story about the north Texas school district that's spending $60 million on a football stadium.  For their ONE high school football team ...   The weight room alone will cost a million dollars.

The Allen ISD is located in Collin County, the most affluent in the state.  They refuse to build more than one high school despite rapid growth, so you have nearly 6000 kids, almost 600 in the band, and so forth.

[wabashcpa]

Once again the Sewanee preview....


http://sewaneetigers.com/news/2010/8/23/FB_0823103719.aspx

I am not positive, but I think the Great Wall had a shorter building program than we have had.   

In truth, I think we might surprise at least one team this year.  I hope so anyway...great bunch of kids who have paid way too many dues.

Your first game will be a great opportunity for a win - Earlham is no world beater.

[wabashcpa]

For those interested in doing Pick-ems this year, the Week 1 games are posted in the Pick-ems link under "General Football".  First games are September 4. 

[@d3jason]

Hope so too, onthemountain, though of course I hope it's someone besides Trinity.  Coach Black seems like a stand-up guy and it would be great to see the team have some success this year. 

While we are all on Kickoff watch, you might want to read this story about the north Texas school district that's spending $60 million on a football stadium.  For their ONE high school football team ...   The weight room alone will cost a million dollars.

The Allen ISD is located in Collin County, the most affluent in the state.  They refuse to build more than one high school despite rapid growth, so you have nearly 6000 kids, almost 600 in the band, and so forth.

Can they get their own classification?   What would 6000 students be, 6A?

[Ron Boerger]

Can they get their own classification?   What would 6000 students be, 6A?

5A is currently as big as it goes in TX, and obviously having 3x the students as some of your smaller opponents gives you a huge advantage in most sports (and other competitive areas).

There is a proposal to add a 6A and rejigger the conference alignments - in which case Allen would "only" be 2-2.5X the size of the smallest school in its conference.   Proposals to put all the 'supersized' schools in their own conference always fail due to the extreme travel that would be required.  

[onthemountain]

Coach Black is a good guy and an excellent representative of the school.  However any coach with his record does have his distractors.  My own personal feeling is that he tries too hard to put square pegs into round holes, that is, trying the same things over and over without enough regard for the talents or talent limitations of his players.  But, much easier to coach from the stands....isn't it??     

Hopefully, this year will be different and we will be competitive.

And yes, I do have my hopes up for the Earlham game.

[Ron Boerger]

For those that want to do a little more investigating into the new folks on Trinity's roster, the current roster has been posted to the school athletics website.

What new folks?  Kickoff will tell you.  

[frank_ezelle]

For those that want to do a little more investigating into the new folks on Trinity's roster, the current roster has been posted to the school athletics website.

What new folks?  Kickoff will tell you.  

Another option is to wait until mid-September and then check the box scores to see who is contributing what on the playing field.   

(Okay, I'll admit to doing Google searches on the newcomers at Millsaps during the pre-season.  I haven't gotten to the point of searching on newcomers from other teams as a way of scouting the opposition.)

[Ron Boerger]

C'mon, Frank, it's all about encouraging folks to buy Kickoff.  :-)

It looks like the SA Express-News has decided that with Incarnate Word and UTSA playing football (next year in the case of UTSA) that there's no need to bother covering Trinity any more.   There has yet to be anything about TU while there have been numerous articles about both of the others. 

The only articles about Trinity have been written by a contributing writer in the E-N's regional "north central news" - today there was one about WR Caleb Urban.

[awadelewis]

Hopefully, this year will be different and we will be competitive.

And yes, I do have my hopes up for the Earlham game.

I'm thinking we may surprise one or two of the teams coming to the Mountain this year.   Key is going to be if we get any improvement from the offense this season; we never seemed to be able to put together any sort of sustained drive in any of the games I watched last year.  That should change with some better talent coming in on the o-line.

[D3_DPUFan]

First chance to see the 2010 version of the Tigers today...scrimmage with Franklin College.