FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[TigerDad]

dpuinaz:
All trashing aside, we hope you (and others) will make the trek safely to San Antonio on Sept 23.  If you do, be sure to stop over on the home side (the only concession stand, I'm afraid) during halftime.  Maybe we can introduce ourselves in person ... I might try to make the trip to Indiana next year myself.  Here's wishing DPU the best of luck this season (except against TU, of course.)  May your players stay healthy and your coach have much success in his first year.

[dpuinaz]

Thanks, Tdad - good luck to your guys, too.  Is your son on the team?

[historymajor]

Wabashcpa... I'm in!!! 

Are you going to tally weekly or are we just trying to make our best (homer) guesses?

I know from personal experience that CPA's love building and maintaining (and showing off) their spreadsheets!!!  Ha!

[wabashcpa]

I'll keep a tally - as of noon Saturday there are a whopping seven entries, so I doubt a spreadsheet will be necessary. 

[Ron Boerger]

Centre beat Bluffton, 21-6.
Sewanee upset (IMO) Hampden-Sydney, 42-35.
Texas Lutheran pounded Austin College, 45-0.

[tu_lb53]

Trinity beats ETBU 41-0: payback, just 3 years too late. Sounded like a great day for the passing game, not so much for the ground game, but if I'm not mistaken there's a lot of fresh blood on that O-line - they'll get it together.

Swinny, I knew that voice sounded familiar - not a bad job; is that all you're doing these days or do you do some honest work, too?

[wabashcpa]

Sewanee upset (IMO) Hampden-Sydney, 42-35.

WOW!  Not just your opinion, Ron. 

[tTU719803]

Trinity looked good, but ETBU looked very flat.  They had no fire, looked as if they were at a scrimmage.  Did they go to the riverwalk Friday night?  That has been the downfall of many a team traveling to S.A. 

I think the Trinity offense has a long way to go, but the defense looked great.  ETBU had great speed, and TU kept up with them.  The TU O-line looked inexperienced, as they are, but played above what I expected.  That unit should come along nicely.  A good win for TU but next week should be a true test of this year's team.

[roocru]

I was at the AC/TLU game on Saturday and wanted to post my observations.  I will talk about Austin College here and put my thoughts about TLU on the ASC board.

First, it is obvious that AC still does not have the skill people to play with the upper level teams in the ASC.  AC was forced to play zone pass coverage because they could not cover TLU man to man and the talented receivers still were able to hit the seams in the zone before the AC secondary could get there.  The LB's played pretty well and I was very excited about the play of their three down linemen, especially the senior nose guard #97.  The only real running plays to hurt AC were cutbacks and draw plays where the more talented TLU running  backs get into space against an AC defender.  More traditional straight ahead runs were basically shut down and there was a pretty decent 3 man rush on most passing attempts.

On offense think about installing a whole new offensive scheme in only the time allotted by DIII mandates.  There were numerous mistakes in blocking assignments on the triple option which often left them with all options covered.  There were also a lot of penalties, especially illegal procedure that Coach Gage will see are worked out.  They were however surprisingly effective in running the ball against TLU with an inside power sweep and some other more basic plays.  I really feel that their offense will get a lot better as the bugs are worked out of the triple option.  The real benefit was in ball control as the defense did not stay on the field as much as last year. The QB's must work however on avoiding interceptions.

Overall I was impressed with the tenacity of the team and noticed that both teams appeared in good shape as there was no cramping by any of the players even with a noon start in the hot sun.

I still think AC will do alright in the SCAC if yesterdays scores were any indication.  Millsaps was beaten soundly by Mississippi College which has had little success in the ASC and Centre beat a 3-7 team last year by two TD's.  Time will tell.

[evacuee]

Trinity with an inexperienced offensive line rings 41 points in their first game.  That's pretty good, I think.  You know they're going to get themselves together or at least get better by late in the season.  Better than 41-0 is probably going to be very good. 

[Tigerpop]

In regard to the inexperienced O-Line, the starting unit allowed only one sack in over 31 passing plays, and that was with an All-American at defensive end for ETBU.  On many of the passing plays, Barmore had time to pick out secondary receivers.  With regard to rushing offense, I agree that it was a bit spotty, but these kids are smart and well coached.  They'll be okay.  The real issue, in my opinion, is staying healthy.  ETBU was very tough and physical and there were some kids that got banged up.  If most of them recover for next week, they'll give TLU all they can handle.

The TU defense played a tough, experienced ETBU offense to a "goose egg," so they really played up to expectations.  In short, I was impressed with TU play on both sides of the ball.

[4thANDaLONG4]

I enjoy this message board for one major reason, if we post something it stays posted not deleted (unlike other other "scoop" boards.  I think, rather I hope a few administrators from the wonderful University in greencastle read this.   I thinki it is very sad what a few people have done to a wonderful school.  I find it ridiculous that more Alums haven't spoken up over the FIRING of Tim Rogers.  Yes, FIRED, he didn't resign.  As sooon as the players and alums find that out, a few people will have some explaining to do.  As most of us know, Walker is a decent guy, granted over his head, but a good guy who I hope isn't being used as a pawn.  Other than that, I wish HIM good luck.

[DPU_radio_guy]

I find it ridiculous that more Alums haven't spoken up over the FIRING of Tim Rogers.  Yes, FIRED, he didn't resign.

Have anything else on that?  That's a little... odd... to throw that out there and not have a little support for it.


I've heard several times that there were some disagreements about some sensitive issues regarding hirings, but to the best of my knowledge, he wasn't forced out.

I also wasn't aware that Coach Walk was in over his head.  That's news to me, too. 

[scotty]

I find it ridiculous that more Alums haven't spoken up over the FIRING of Tim Rogers.  Yes, FIRED, he didn't resign. 

in the words of an old song..."no one knows what goes on behind closed doors"  it seemed like from the beginning, it wasn't going to be a good fit...it will be interesting to see how the baseball/football situation plays out...a good guy 

[Ron Boerger]

I find it ridiculous that more Alums haven't spoken up ...

I find it ridiculous that an allegation like this comes from someone who's never posted here before.  Given the number of DPU alumni who post here regularly, I'll take this seriously should one of them confirm it.  AFAIK you're a troll from another school who just wants to make DPU look bad.