FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[diehardfan]

Pat, why don't you ever send ME internet porn?    8)

Seriously Pat... I didn't get any either.   

But that's a good thing... I probably would have assumed it was a stalker... and then it would have been the third strike and the end of me on posting up / post patterns. 

[evacuee]

Relax, Pat.  I know it wasn't you, which is why I said someone assumed your identity.  If you explained to me how it happened I probably wouldn't understand it anyway.  Don't worry as I know it wasn't your fault. 

[roocru]

A little late but this article was in the Sherman Democrat on August 4th:

Gage adds assistants to AC football staff

Austin College has announced four new additions to new head coach Ronnie Gage's football coaching staff this fall.

Bill Pietrosky, Eddie Brister, Chris Johnson and Scott Dunavant will join returning defensive coordinator Loren Dawson in rounding out Gage's staff.

Pietrosky has been hired as the Kangaroos' offensive coordinator after filling that same role on Gage's coaching staff at Lewisville High School from 1986-95 and again from 1996-2002. Together, Pietrosky and Gage won two Texas Class 5A championships with Lewisville.

Brister will take over the role of special teams coordinator. Brister, a 1972 AC graduate and a member of the 'Roos' football team, served as head coach at Texas A&M-Commerce from 1998-2004.

Brister began his coaching career as an assistant at Howe in 1972, and also was Sherman's offensive coordinator for two seasons.

Johnson comes to AC from Kansas State, where he most recently worked as a defensive graduate assistant. Johnson was a standout defensive lineman for the Wildcats and spent time with the NFL's Chicago Bears and the Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League. Johnson will serve as defensive line coach for the 'Roos.

Dunavant, a 2006 North Texas graduate, joins the staff as wide receivers coach.

[Pat Coleman]

I appreciate that, but since fewer than 8% of the posters were spammed, most don't know what you're talking about, and I have to keep the record straight.

[exmajor]

There does not seem to be a lot of news coming out of Jackson right now about the Majors.  I am not sure about how the freshmen class looks at this point, but here is a preview about 2006 I found on the school website:

http://www.millsaps.edu/athletic/pressreleases/06fballpreview.shtml

[Josh Bowerman]

(Also posted on ASC thread)

For all the fans and parents of ASC/SCAC players out there, here's a list of the games I'm planning to cover (photographically) for d3football.com this season:

09/09:     McMurry at Austin College

09/16:     Louisiana College at McMurry
              Linfield at Hardin-Simmons

09/30:     Austin College at Trinity

10/07:     Hardin-Simmons at Mary Hardin-Baylor

10/14:     Millsaps at Austin College

11/04:     Wisconsin-Whitewater at Mary Hardin-Baylor (tentative)

11/11:     McMurry at Hardin-Simmons

Due to the restructuring of the ASC schedule, Austin College's move to the SCAC, editorial needs for the site, my fall weekend work  commitments, and squeezing in some family time, I'm unfortunately going to miss shooting DePauw, Centre, Sewanee and Rhodes this season.  My apologies to all of the parents and fans of these teams--I can (unfortunately) only be in one place at a time.  I promise to try to get to your teams' games soon.

I do hope that fans and parents will check out the photo galleries after the game(s), and realize that purchasing prints from d3football.com goes a long way toward keeping this site up, running and free.

Please say "Hi" if you see me on the sidelines at one of these games, it would be nice to have faces to go with screen names. 

I can't wait for the season to open!

[scaccommish]

Trinity tabbed as favorite for 14th SCAC Football title
http://www.scac-online.org/football/06footballpoof.htm

In other news, the SCAC Presidents voted on Wednesday to play an eight-game, single round-robin schedule beginning in 2007 when the league expands to nine football-playing members (Birmingham-Southern and Colorado College join the current seven).

[Ron Boerger]

Thanks, SCACSID.  I'm glad to hear the conference will play a complete round-robin in '07 rather than some sort of split as some had discussed.

[Hawks88]

The round-robin does make more sense. With the odd numebr of teams meaning non-conference dates spread through the season, maybe it won't hurt Huntingdon's ability to schedule these nearby teams too much.

[Ralph Turner]

The round-robin does make more sense. With the odd number of teams meaning non-conference dates spread through the season, maybe it won't hurt Huntingdon's ability to schedule these nearby teams too much.

Hawks, you have the 9-member SCAC, the 9-member ASC which is kinda far, and the 8-team USAC.

With LaGrange also trying to get games, I can see a shake-up occurring. 

There are 2 non-conference dates for each of the SCAC and ASC teams.  There are 3 non-conference dates in the USAC.

I still think that the best option is for the GSAC to merge into the USAC, (after Shenandoah gets invited north to one of the MAC's and then CNU gets invited north into the Capital as well, but that is conjecture  ).

[DPU92]

Does that mean in 2007 the SCAC could get more than one team into the post season?  I know it is a lot more complex than that, but will this increase our (the SCAC in general) chances?  Say if we have two teams with 8 plus wins.

[Josh Bowerman]

I'd think so.  It will still come down to one team getting a Pool C bid, which is contingent upon the second team's QOWI, among other things.

[Ron Boerger]

Does that mean in 2007 the SCAC could get more than one team into the post season?  I know it is a lot more complex than that, but will this increase our (the SCAC in general) chances?  Say if we have two teams with 8 plus wins.

I'll beg to differ with Josh on this one.  The two FB schools joining the SCAC over the next two years have pretty unexciting teams.  I think a quality in-region non-conference win this year would be more valuable than a "eh" conference win next season.  All having eight conference games does for you is guarantee one more in-region game.   

I am going to be very interested to see what Ronnie Gage does at AC.  That program should be on the rise with the staff he is assembling.   

[Werner99]

Evidently, there doesn't appear to be much love lost between some of the DPU players and Coach Rogers.  Please see the link below for an article in the student newspaper (second article listed on the home page).

Based on the quotes in the article, it appears that the players are more than ready to move forward under Coach Walker.

http://www.thedepauw.com/

[roocru]

LAZ index is up for 2006 season.  www.lazindex.com  Top 25 listed below:

RANK    SCHOOL    RATE    W    L    POWER       
   
1    Mount Union    0.924    0    0    92.39    
2    Linfield    0.900    0    0    90.04    
3    UW-Whitewater    0.870    0    0    87.01    
4    St John's MN    0.852    0    0    85.22    
5    UW-La Crosse    0.840    0    0    83.96    
6    Mary Hardin-Baylor    0.806    0    0    80.63    
7    UW-Eau Claire    0.789    0    0    78.93    
8    Capital    0.787    0    0    78.69    
9    UW-Stout    0.783    0    0    78.29    
10    Concordia-Moorhead    0.775    0    0    77.51    
11    UW-Stevens Point    0.771    0    0    77.15    
12    Augustana IL    0.755    0    0    75.53    
13    Wheaton    0.752    0    0    75.20    
14    Ohio Northern    0.746    0    0    74.60    
15    Hardin-Simmons    0.736    0    0    73.64    
16    UW-Oshkosh    0.735    0    0    73.50    
17    Bethel MN    0.731    0    0    73.12    
18    John Carroll    0.725    0    0    72.49    
19    Whitworth    0.712    0    0    71.16    
20    Baldwin-Wallace    0.711    0    0    71.10    
21    UW-River Falls    0.707    0    0    70.71    
22    Wartburg    0.704    0    0    70.39    
23    North Central    0.704    0    0    70.38    
24    Willamette    0.701    0    0    70.13    
25    Rowan    0.701    0    0    70.12

Other schools in ASC and SCAC:

29       Trinity       0.693   0   0   69.26
34        DePauw   0.676   0   0   67.58
49       Howard Payne   0.655   0   0   65.48
56       ETBU     0.636   0   0   63.61
89     Texas Lutheran   0.582   0   0   58.20
94      Rhodes     0.571   0   0   57.12
102    Centre     0.550   0   0   54.98
115     Louisiana College     0.535   0   0   53.5
120     McMurry     0.528   0   0   52.76
132     Sewanee     0.499   0   0   49.86
136     Miss. College     0.494   0   0   49.41
142     Sul Ross     0.487   0   0   46.88
150     Austin College     0.467   0   0   46.70
166     Millsaps     0.442   0   0   44.88