FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[RLW]

250-500 RB,s only one ranked #1 by NCAA Marquis Barrolle

[TLU02SA]

250-500 RB,s only one ranked #1 by NCAA Marquis Barrolle

Hear hear!

[Pat Coleman]

250-500 RB,s only one ranked #1 by NCAA Marquis Barrolle

The NCAA doesn't rank players, they just list statistical averages.

[Gray Fox]

Not sure where to post this.

  http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2014/10/five_best_high_school_football_stadiums.php

[Warren Thompson]

Not sure where to post this.

  http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2014/10/five_best_high_school_football_stadiums.php

After looking at these high school stadiums, the hackneyed words, "wretched excess," sadly, come to mind.   

[Ralph Turner]

Not sure where to post this.

  http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2014/10/five_best_high_school_football_stadiums.php

The last three seem utilitarian to me, being a parent who has been to Mesquite (supporting 5 high schools) and John Clark in Plano (supporting 3 high schools) and my having run at Farrington Field in high school (supporting 10 FWISD  high schools)  way back in the day.

Both Mesquite and John Clark were full for our games.

I believe that Allen High School marching band marches more than 800 members some years.  That alone is at least 2000 parents/step-parents plus siblings and grand parents who need seats.

[Ron Boerger]

This discussion would probably generate a lot more traffic in the ASC board, since football there tends to be more in the Texas "bigger is better" model than the SCAC, with its four teams with modest little stadiums (or no stadium at all, in the case of Southwestern).

[Warren Thompson]

This discussion would probably generate a lot more traffic in the ASC board, since football there tends to be more in the Texas "bigger is better" model than the SCAC, with its four teams with modest little stadiums (or no stadium at all, in the case of Southwestern).

I suspect you're correct. Does Southwestern play home games at the Georgetown High School stadium?

[Ron Boerger]

Yep, and they draw pretty well for a brand-new program (averaged 2200 fans last year, it's only a 1400 student school, and they do charge admission for non-students/faculty).   Georgetown has really adopted them, which is nice to see.

No plans to build on-campus that I've seen.

[Pat Coleman]

Yep, and they draw pretty well for a brand-new program (averaged 2200 fans last year, it's only a 1400 student school, and they do charge admission for non-students/faculty).   Georgetown has really adopted them, which is nice to see.

No plans to build on-campus that I've seen.

I would put Southwestern's on-campus stadium more along the lines of "aspirations" rather than "plans" at the moment, yes.

[tigerguy]

So just to generate some offseason chit chat - I know that there is a message board dedicated to ranking the top "South" teams of all time, but my question for the thread is directed specifically to SCAC teams, both current and past. The SCAC has historically been a Trinity dominated conference but we have seen years (sometimes several in a row) where other teams have been better. Rather than asking people to decide and rank who the best SCAC teams of all time are, I'd like to get an opinion on what some of the best offenses/defenses were. I know it would be a quick answer to throw out the offense and defense for Trinity during their dominance in the late 90's/early 2000's, but how do people think those offenses stacked up against Juan Joseph and the Millsap's offense of 2008? What about defense? I know Trinity and Centre's 2011-2012 squad's were pretty formidable but how do they compare to some of the older teams?

I must admit that my history of other SCAC schools is rather limited, so I would love some input on what people think were the best Rhodes/Austin College/TLU/Centre/Depauw/etc teams as well.

[GillCJ1]

Yep, and they draw pretty well for a brand-new program (averaged 2200 fans last year, it's only a 1400 student school, and they do charge admission for non-students/faculty).   Georgetown has really adopted them, which is nice to see.

No plans to build on-campus that I've seen.

This is very interesting to me.  I'm only 20 minutes or so north of Georgetown.  In fact, I had looked at job openings at Southwestern a few years back.  It's good to hear they are generating a lot of interest in football (relative to their size).

[Ron Boerger]

Trinity announced yesterday that fundraising is now underway for a 2800-seat football facility on the site of the current field.   The limited space precludes anything larger on campus; from what I've seen, the surrounding historic neighborhood would be uninterested-to-hostile towards any campus expansion, even if the university had any interest (which is highly doubtful). 

http://trinitytigers.com/sports/fball/2014-15/files/Football_Brochure_as_pdf_8.5x11.pdf

[Ralph Turner]

I like it!

[TLU02SA]

TLU posted their 2015 schedule here: http://tlubulldogs.com/news/2015/3/26/FB_0326153028.aspx.  Same schedule from last year except the home/away is reversed.  It appears the toughest stretch of the season will be three straight road games (broken up by their bye week) at ETBU, at UMHB, and at Trinity. 

I may be misremembering but I thought I read somewhere that the SCAC would go to a six game conference schedule with each football member playing a home/away series against the remaining SCAC members.  Is that right and, if so, what year will that start? 

I don't want to dismiss something before it is implemented but I am not sure I am a fan of that scheduling quirk.  It will certainly help develop better rivalries between TLU, Trinity, Southwestern and AC.  However, I think it will make it more difficult for the SCAC champion to get an at-large playoff bid.  One, it is difficult to beat the same team twice in a single season.  Two, and more importantly, I am afraid the playoff committee will view such scheduling as a weakness.