FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[consultant]

History,

"Not yet crazy... but getting there fast!"

Some people might think you need to slow down.....

[consultant]

Any comments on the Trinity/Huntingdon game?  Seems to me that this is the most intriguing game of the week.  Can a Trinity team that is trying to work out the kinks get things straightened out at home to play a team that seems to have no kinks and is 3-0 against SCAC teams?

I like Huntingdon by a touchdown.

Millsaps   at Centre       Millsaps wins by 10.....why not?

DePauw   at Sewanee        DePauw wins by 14 on the Mountain despite Sewanee's recent success

Rose-Hulman at Rhodes       Rose-Hulman by 3 in a close one in Memphis. 

[Ron Boerger]

Any comments on the Trinity/Huntingdon game?  Seems to me that this is the most intriguing game of the week.  Can a Trinity team that is trying to work out the kinks get things straightened out at home to play a team that seems to have no kinks and is 3-0 against SCAC teams?

I'd like HC's chances better if they weren't primarily a running team.  TU's rushing defense is a strength and has held up well so far.   Doesn't mean the Hawks won't be able to run against Trinity, but they may not find the going as easy as last week.

The Hawks are a very young team (two seniors on the entire roster) so emotion will play a big part in the game.   TU will need to look out for the Hawks secondary (11 INTs in four games) to limit early turnovers and try to keep the emotion down.

People here may not be aware that Huntingdon defeated Rhodes even though Rhodes outgained them nearly 3:1.   Turnovers... so again, there is that opportunistic Huntingdon defense. 

I have to admit that I was very surprised to see the ease with which HC put down Millsaps, but Millsaps did have a QB starting his first-ever ball game.   Wish I could be there on Saturday ... I have other comittments and won't even be able to listen on radio.  Grr !!

What will these guys look like next season?  They don't graduate anyone (the two seniors aren't skill players, anyway).   If they don't get a Pool B this year, you'd have to think they'll be one of the major contenders next season. 

[smedindy]

History Major -

Take this as a life long enemy of DPU, one who has great antipathy for them everything they stand for.

You sir, are ludicrious if you think DPU 'ducked' Trinity because of the hurricaine.

If you are the typical Trinity fan, then I shake my head at what kind of institution has fans such as yourself, when you would declaim another institution from making a decision that affects the safety and well-being of their student athletes, knowing full well of the total unpredictability of gulf-based weather systems, and you sit here and say that they are ducking Trinity.

"I SAY GOOD DAY TO YOU SIR!"

Pat was right - you guys are nuttier than David Koresh. If you ever lose the SCAC - I'm afraid that you'd go on a mass killing spree claiming it's a conspiracy.

But of course, this is the same state that allowed Tom DeLay to DeDo what ever he DeWants, so I'm no DeSurprised at DeAll.

[Ron Boerger]

That's an awful wide brush you're painting with there, Smed.  Let's keep the unnecessary gratuitous insults to a minimum.  You have an issue with one poster's opinion,  fine.  Castigating everyone else associated with an institution based on that one opinion is not.   

[Pat Coleman]

They may not be typical of the institution, but I count three posters, not one. 

[smedindy]

If you look on the NCAC board, I'm always one decrying painting with a broad brush. And if you look, I said IF...but I've seen no real evidence to the contrary (mind you, being a message board the sample size is a bit low, for sure) that there's another side to the Trinity fans. Often times on the NCAC board I have to provide the antidote to the kool-aid. Who's serving that here?

And jeez...DPU fans...why does a Wabash man have to defend you?

[Ron Boerger]

If you look on the NCAC board, I'm always one decrying painting with a broad brush. And if you look, I said IF...but I've seen no real evidence to the contrary (mind you, being a message board the sample size is a bit low, for sure) that there's another side to the Trinity fans. Often times on the NCAC board I have to provide the antidote to the kool-aid. Who's serving that here?

I'm a Trinity fan (& alumnus) too, Smed.   I don't think the bulk of my posts here constitute the behavior you find objectionable.  And, as you say, why is someone from Wabash lecturing SCAC posters? 

[exmajor]

"I have to admit that I was very surprised to see the ease with which HC put down Millsaps, but Millsaps did have a QB starting his first-ever ball game.   Wish I could be there on Saturday ... I have other comittments and won't even be able to listen on radio.  Grr !!"

Bedtime,

Millsaps baffles me somewhat this season as well, but in their defense, they did not have a starting QB and Tyson Roy was still out with an injury, two keys to moving the ball on offense.  As you said with HC, Millsaps is also a young team, and maybe they need another year under their belt before things really improve?  I wish this was their year, but before I speak anymore on it, they have not even played a SCAC game yet, anything could happen.

[smedindy]

Because the Dannies won't BFB. And some part of me has to speak up when someone is being accused of something ludicrous.

I didn't say YOUR posts were the ones I find objectionable. I DID call out the poster that I found objectionable. I think someone from Trinity should police their own - I do at the NCAC board when one our guys gets a little nutty. Otherwise, people think the whole school is nuts.

[Pat Coleman]

Maybe it's the fact that you "always fight"

Wabash Always Fights!

[Pacman]

I stand by what I said regarding Rhodes Football.  Hey Swanstrom, how can you not think the team underachieves.  Your senior year they went 5-5 coming off of a 7-3 season.  Rhodes should have been WAY better.  And take that 7-3 season; a great year, certainly, but still, three close, close losses.  Could have been 10-0 and in the playoffs.  My point is this: Rhodes is always competitive (most Trinity games not with standing), they just never find ways to win those close games.  At some point, its not bad luck, it is systemic.  That falls on the coaching staff, period. 

Rhodes should compete for conference titles every season.  They have a recruiting advantage over every school (Best academic school in the SCAC, rankings be damned, beautiful campus (now with new library), in an urban setting, etc.)  They should rake in great talent year after year, but they are not.  Pretty disappointing for Rhodes people I would think. 

[Pacman]

Hey coachr,

I couldn't give a sh*t what you think of my post.  Yeah, Steinert had a great game.  What the hell is your point?  He certainly didn't underachieve, but a team is far more than one player.  My post was refering to the program in general, not individual performances.  Get a clue.  Similarly, in my last post, my reference to Swanstrom wasn't to suggest he underachieved; he was always top notch.  I was instead refering to the program during his senior year.  He was not the problem. 

By the way, is there anything more cowardly than threats made by faceless posters on internet boards?  No chance.

[Ron Boerger]

I didn't say YOUR posts were the ones I find objectionable. I DID call out the poster that I found objectionable. I think someone from Trinity should police their own - I do at the NCAC board when one our guys gets a little nutty. Otherwise, people think the whole school is nuts.

Which is it?  Your broad brush says

... I've seen no real evidence to the contrary (mind you, being a message board the sample size is a bit low, for sure) that there's another side to the Trinity fans.

Your two posts are directly in contradiction of each other.  If my posts are not objectionable, then you have found "evidence to the contrary" that "there's another side to the Trinity fans."  That's the core of my objection to your recent posts. 

Every school has people who go a bit far (look at newbie "pacman," slamming Rhodes totally out of the blue).  I'm not HM's mother, and it's not my place to tell him what he can and cannot post.   I do wish that some of my fellow Trinity posters would exercise more discretion (including this specific case), but the same can be said of posters supporting schools all over the D3football.com boards.   The folks who you object to here are hardly alone in letting their enthusiam for a program carry them too far.   Let the DU folks carry their own flag - they're big boys.   They might even want to focus on a future (that includes an even more must-win against Wabash) rather than a past that can't be changed.

That's the last I'll say on this topic, though it's a free country bulletin board and you of course are welcome to respond.  

[smedindy]

I may have painted the brush a little broadly, but frankly, it's been a while and there's still allusions (directly and indirectly) pointed at DPU, which I think is ridiculous.

I had also thought that early on you were quite critical of the DPU decision. You were, but you retracted it and I forgot the retraction.

Hatched, buried. Moving on...