FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[coachr]

RC is just miserable.  Another close loss.  It seems like every season, aside from Trinity, all of Rhodes' losses are very close games.  They can never get over the hump so to speak.  I think that kind of consistent losing is a direct byproduct of the coaches.  Some people are winners, others just never seem to find ways to win in dog fights.  Rhodes plays a sloppy brand of football, full of mistakes.  I think they are the most underachieving team in the SCAC year in and year out. 

Hey Pacman,

I guess it is real easy to be an anonymous internet coward who can freely criticize people. Go look at the SCAC website and see what team had the defensive player of the week, underachievers my a**. What the write up  doesn't tell you is that on the two pass breakups, the wide receivers had to leave the game and both of those were in the 1st half, they never threw over the middle again, probably a smart move to not put any one else out of the game. There are those of us who will follow Rhodes college and their coaches and support them, I would very like to meet you someday, let me know if you ever follow a team that plays in Memphis. It can be tough when you have to play your 3rd QB because the first two are out with injuries, oh forgot, internet cowards don't probably know that. Hey, do me a favor and dress out for a game against Rhodes and run a crossing pattern over the middle about 3 -7 yards off the line of scrimmage, we won't hear your whining again.

[wuapefkcud]

Just wondering why historymajor deleted his post from last night?  I thought he made a good point.


When faced with a situation of considerable importance, why is it necessary to hastily make a decision?  I left out wrong decision just so you would focus on the fact that the decision to cancel the game was made on Thursday afternoon. 

I agree about being concerned for everyone's safety.  That should be first and foremost, but let us deal with the full picture.  DePauw's flights departed and arrived as scheduled.  Would airlines risk flying if they did not feel it was in the better judgment to do so?  No, they waited until they received further weather forecast and understood the movement  and projected path to realize that the flight was safe. 

San Antonio thrives on tourism.  Why does that matter?  Maybe it has something to do with the fact that there are over 180 hotels in the San Antonio area, and 24,726 hotel rooms in the City of San Antonio (27,728 in the San Antonio Metropolitan Area).  I think the reservations would have held.

As for the tiebreaker argument, you must be from DePauw to think that it would be presumptuous to have a contingency plan in place.  Most schools like to have their AQ parameters set in place.  Although, if DePauw followed your wait-and-see attitude and waited until at least Friday to cancel we wouldn't be in this predicament. 

[consultant]

Per the SCAC's automatic bid, the Trinity faithful should beware the Huntingdon Hawks before they get too excited.  Sewanee, Rhodes, and Millsaps are all victims of a good Huntingdon team.

[smedindy]

wua...

Hindsight is always 20/20 - and I'd rather be safe than sorry.

(And again, I'd can't believe I'm defending the Dannies!)

[wabashcpa]

Good point, consultant.  Interesting twist.  As of today, DePauw's opponents have a better winning percentage than Trinity's.  The way Welsey and Wabash have been going, that will likely be the case at the end of the year as well (although Huntingdon actually helps Trinity in this area).  So if Huntingdon were to upset Trinity, and neither Trinity nor DePauw loses to other conference opponents, DePauw would win the tiebreaker with a Bell game victory.  A Bell game loss would give them two losses and probably end their season.  All or nothing.

[B/L Tiger]

I am in total agreeance with wua.  I really hope that we don't see an onslaught of angry DePauw folk crying about the tie breaker scenario.  While the situation was an unfortunate one for DePauw to deal with it was their choice not to come.  The tie-breaker plan does seem to ignore DPU's strength of schedule, but as the saying goes, the DPU Tigers have made their own bed and are going to have to lie in it.

[DesertLynx]

Coach R,

What is the QB situation for this weekend and what is the RB situation? 

DL

[Werner99]

I think the tiebreaker is fair to all involved.  I don't know of a better solution.  This is in all likelihood a one-time event where two conference teams won't go head-to-head. 

However, the season is less than half over.  While it is intriguing to think about these scenarios, there is still a lot of football to be played. 

The bottom line is this: DePauw needs to focus on winning every game convincingly in order to prove that they are worthy of a Pool C bid.  If Trinity loses along the way, then so be it.  But if DePauw loses again, then all of this discussion about the tiebreaker, cancelled games, and soft schedules is moot at this point.

Appreciate all of the Wally interest on this topic.  Having never made the playoffs while I played at DePauw, I can't speak to the importance and excitement of a playoff game.  But, I do know that it couldn't mean more to this player than the Bell game.  The crowd, intensity, and simply knowing that you will never again strap on the pads after that game is over can not be topped.  I would expect making the playoffs would be something that you would grow to appreciate even more later in life when you look back at what you accomplished in a more rational manner.  Emotionally, the Bell game is the Playoffs on steroids.

Look forward to seeing you boys in Greencastle.

[evacuee]

Somebody on page 24 said that DePauw would be "jacked out of their cleats"  to play Trinity after two close losses the last two years and that TU is lucky they don't have to play DePauw.  Wrong.  Trinity is in their heads.  They don't believe they can beat the San Antonio Tigers as much as they would like to do so.  They might get "jacked out their cleats," but getting that "jacked" is not always a good thing because you can spend all your energy in the first quarter. 

Even if they had played, it's too bad for DePauw that they have that head case because TU is at its most vulnerable right now.  Coach Mohr's group is not performing like the number 10 team in the country and I can't figure out why they keep moving up.  It hurts me to say it, but I think a handful of lower ranked teams would have scorched RHIT last weekend and had their backups play the whole 4th quarter.  It is my hope that they finally feel threatened this weekend and show up for four quarters.  I can't stand the thought of an upstart group coming in and sweeping our conference. 

[Pat Coleman]

TU2698, unfortunately teams above Trinity lost last week. I have Ithaca and UW-La Crosse ahead of Trinity on my ballot, but I'm just one voter.

[dpuinaz]

That was me.  They definitely believe they can beat Trinity.  They haven't yet, but they definitely believe that they can.  Please don't misunderstand me -- Trinity is not 'lucky' the game was not played, but they did have more to lose in playing that game, and significantly less to gain.

[oldrosie]

TU2698;
  I was at this weeks game in Terre Haute and I must agree, TU really isn't the team its been in the past. RHIT is nursing a D-line problem and still trying to
get its passing game into high gear. TU rolls in at the number 12 spot in the nation and gets scored on first and blanked in the forth quarter. I'm aware
a win, no matter how ugly, is a win but they moved up in the ranks to boot.
I found its rise in the ratings a bit odd since RHIT was picked to finish last in
the SCAC this year. This could turn out to be a very interesting season .

[evacuee]

I guess you're right, Trinity had a lot to lose because they pretty much have it all.  But I think DePauw is to Trinity what the Colts are to the Patriots.  NOt only does TU have slightly better players, DePauw has a mental block. 

[dpuinaz]

Trinity has long been the front-runner, yes.  They are a very well-coached program.  DePauw's guys are excited to beat them, though.  And the fact is that many non TU fans predicted this to be the year that it would happen (I also  suspect that many TU followers feared this, as well).  In the end, we don't get to know the outcome, so it's easy for TU fans to speculate about DPU being scared to play them and spout off (ad nauseum) about our administration being frightened by the team, not the hurricane.  Give me a break. 

Look, my feeling is that if you are a fan of Trinity AND participating in discussions on this site, you either went there, go there or are related to someone falling into either the former or latter group.  If this is true, you probably also have a mental capacity high enough to understand that your team is frankly not that frightening.  Good?  Yes.  Beaten us steadily for over a decade?  Yes.  Worth cancelling a trip over?  Not  a chance.  You're simply not that good.

[historymajor]

INAZ,,, Maybe the intense, prolonged heat has affected your senses.... DPU could NOT afford to lose to TU.  It was a home game for TU, away for DPU.  If they had come to San Antone and won.... there was still the possibility that they wouldn't win out....  TU is rebuilding/reloading and some things are coming together faster than others,,, but until you beat TU,,, you're pi$$ing into the wind and by taking a pass... you dribbled on your own legs!
You CHOSE to take a pass and now it's 1-love TU.
SERVICE?