FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[Pat Coleman]

Schreiner is starting up football as well.

[Ron Boerger]

Lyon and Schreiner (tho I haven't seen much evidence of the latter getting a program going) as well as McMurry, TLU, Austin.  Supposedly 4 teams next year and six by 2026.

I would not be surprised to see St. Thomas add football at some point given the trajectory their men's sports programs are on.

[Ron Boerger]

I went looking for any kind of information on Schreiner's web site regarding their nascent football program and found nothing other than the initial announcement detailing that they intended to start play in 2025.  I did find this site detailing a campus master plan for athletics of which a new football stadium would be built in phase 4.  It's the same firm that worked with Trinity on their expansion of the Bell Center/Calgaard Gymnasium a few years back, but the scope of this work is much larger.

[BSCpanthers]

SCAC starts playing football next season, correct???  This will really open up some schedules for more out of conference games, hopefully teams don't have a problem getting those schedules filled. 

[Ron Boerger]

If they do what they did the last time they had four teams (all that committed to start in 2024 in the initial announcement) it will be a double-round robin so the participants will have four non-conference games each to fill. 

[Ralph Turner]

If they do what they did the last time they had four teams (all that committed to start in 2024 in the initial announcement) it will be a double-round robin so the participants will have four non-conference games each to fill.

... which in this part of the country is challenging.

[Ralph Turner]

With Centenary resuming varsity football next season, I thought would share this link. Centenary is in the NCAA record book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Texas_Tech_vs._Centenary_football_game

[Ron Boerger]

Two future SCAC foes faced off this weekend and it was Centenary's JV team coming out on top of Lyon, 27-10, at Lyon. 

Going to be interesting to see Centenary and McMurry battle it out for the renewed SCAC championship next year.

[Ron Boerger]

The SCAC will have five teams next season, not four as TLU comes home a year earlier than expected:

https://www.texasfootball.com/article/2023/11/21/texas-lutheran-football-to-join-the-scac-for-the-2024-season

Will make non-conference scheduling easier for the SCAC schools who will only need two - but a mess for the remaining ASC schools.

[Ralph Turner]

The SCAC will have five teams next season, not four as TLU comes home a year earlier than expected:

https://www.texasfootball.com/article/2023/11/21/texas-lutheran-football-to-join-the-scac-for-the-2024-season

Will make non-conference scheduling easier for the SCAC schools who will only need two - but a mess for the remaining ASC schools.

So, how much arm-twisting would it take to convince Schreiner to start up in Fall 2024?

[Ron Boerger]

They don't even have a coach yet.  Pretty impossible given the way schools recruit now.  The SCAC release says "2025 or 2026" and the former is a year sooner than the original plan if it comes true.

[crufootball]

Obviously things are not good in the ASC but what is the incentive for TLU to leave a year early?

[Pat Coleman]

Rather than that, what's the incentive for them to stay? They are SCAC in everything else and the ASC is a dead end right now in football.

[crufootball]

Rather than that, what's the incentive for them to stay? They are SCAC in everything else and the ASC is a dead end right now in football.

Well I admit that I had forgotten that the SCAC was doing the round robin schedule so TLU won't have the scheduling difficulties of the ASC anymore but then they have no direct path to the AQ. Add to that there has been almost as much info on the future of the ASC as there has been about the future of the Schreiner football so that direct path may or may not be coming soon.

[Pat Coleman]

They don't really have a path to the AQ in the ASC, though.