FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[Ron Boerger]

Looks like DPU found another way to lose this game.  Give credit to the TU Tigers for their special teams play and ability to make DPU pay for their mistakes.

Any idea why Marks was not in the game during the three-and-out series in the 4Q?

Well, that seems a bit harsh.  These guys probably didn't hit the sack until after midnight, again in a strange place, etc.  etc.

I was wondering about Marks as well.  You don't take your #1 weapon out without a reason.  Hope he is OK.

Kudos to the DPU administration and staff for all they had to do to make this game happen today. 

[DPULefty22]

It's been what, 8 years now, and Depauw has found a way to lose this game every single time.  Whether it be by the ol' fashioned woodshed whoopin' variety, or the classic "snagging defeat from the jaws of victory" variety, Depauw has found the path to defeat.

Remember when the Seahawks couldn't beat the Rams? As a Hawks fan myself, I sure do. I guess my point is that certain statistical trends have a way of reversing themselves on occasion. No better time than the present - with all due respect to the Black Flag, these ain't your older brother's Trinity Tigers.

It's not your older brother's Trinity Tigers, but Depauw is still Depauw. 

See you on 11/11. 

Oh, believe me, I can't wait for that one - we'll see what Jeremiah can do against that glorified scout team D the Wallies have been running out there.

9-1 might still get us a Pool C... but it would have been nice if we could have made a freaking kick today.

[DPULefty22]

Kudos to the DPU administration and staff for all they had to do to make this game happen today. 

In regards to this... apparently, nobody on the DPU side knows exactly how or when they'll be returning to Greencastle. At least they didn't as of last night - hopefully they have a plan and they get the guys home safe.

[Li'l Giant]

Kudos to the DPU administration and staff for all they had to do to make this game happen today. 

In regards to this... apparently, nobody on the DPU side knows exactly how or when they'll be returning to Greencastle. At least they didn't as of last night - hopefully they have a plan and they get the guys home safe.

I had assumed that they would have agreed to stay and play the game only if they had guaranteed flight changes etc.

Wow. I hope they're not stuck here for too long.

[Ron Boerger]

                                    | Team   Player          AttCmpInt Yds TD Lg
                                    | DEPAUW Spud Dick       10- 5- 1  122  0 56
                                    | DEPAUW Abe Winkle       6- 3- 1   41  0 20
    DEPAUW..  3  6  0  6 - 15       | TRINIT Blake Barmore   32-23- 2  235  1 37
    TRINITY.  0 13  0 13 - 26       |
                                  DePauw University         Trinity University
           DEPAUW  TRINITY | ----RUSHING---- #-Yds TD  |----RUSHING---- #-Yds TD
1st Downs    9        24   | Jeremiah Marks 20-132  1  |Greg Bielski   22-67   1
Rushes-Yds 30-124   43-125 | Dorrius Ford    5-12   0  |Blake Barmore  14-53   2
Pass Yds    163      235   | Abe Winkle      2--9   0  |J. Plotnick     2-9    0
Passing    8-16-2  23-32-2 | Spud Dick       3--11  0  |Ben Douglass    1-3    0
Plays      46-287   75-360 |                           |B. Marynowitz   1--1   0
Avg/play    6.2      4.8   | ---RECEIVING--- #-Yds TD  |TEAM            3--6   0
Kick ret    3-40     1-17  | Jeremiah Marks  3-77   0  |
Punt ret    4-59     1-19  | Nick Etzcorn    2-37   0  |---RECEIVING--- #-Yds TD
Int ret     2-15     2-37  | David Araiza    1-20   0  |Matthew Weldon  5-60   0
Fumb ret    0-0      1-0   | Chris Gasbarra  1-16   0  |Anthony Hicks   4-15   0
Fumb-Lost   3-3      2-2   | Bryan Mulligan  1-13   0  |J. Plotnick     3-52   1
Penalties   6-54     4-35  |                           |Greg Bielski    3-26   0
Punts      3-35.0   4-37.2 |                           |Zach Byars      3-24   0
Possession 27:02    32:58  |                           |W. Kuhlmann     2-24   0
3rd-Dn Eff  2/10     5/11  |                           |Riley Curry     2-24   0
4th-Dn Eff  0/1      1/2   |                           |Ben Douglass    1-10   0

Defensive Leaders:
DPU:  Dustin Hertel (11 total tackles/5 solo), 3.0 TFL (18 yds), 1 INT, 15 ret yds/TD, 2 fumbles recovered; Greg Sylvester (9 tackles/6 solo); Eric Lewis (8 tackles/6 solo), 1.0 TFL (1 loss)
TU:  Dylan Nealous (11 tackles/2 solo), 0.5 TFL (1 yd), 1 INT, 31 ret yds; Tyler Flynn (8 tackles/3 solo); 0.5 TFL/Sack; 1 INT, 6 ret yds; Dustin Allen (7 tackles/1 solo), 1 TFL, 1 QBH


Qtr Time  Team       Scoring play                               V    H
1st 02:36 DEPAUW     Brendan Smith 41 yd field goal 4 plays, -5 yards, TOP 2:19    3-0
2nd 12:45 DEPAUW     Dustin Hertel 15 yd interception return (Tyler Mallory kick blocked)    9-0
    07:46 TRINITY    J. Plotnick 9 yd pass from Blake Barmore (Peter Licalzi kick) 11 plays, 80 yards, TOP 4:49    9-7
    00:56 TRINITY    Blake Barmore 14 yd run (Peter Licalzi kick failed) 8 plays, 80 yards, TOP 2:13    9-13
4th 13:21 DEPAUW     Jeremiah Marks 2 yd run (Tyler Mallory kick blocked) 5 plays, 37 yards, TOP 1:39    15-13
    04:46 TRINITY    Greg Bielski 4 yd run (Blake Barmore pass failed) 9 plays, 63 yards, TOP 4:08    15-19
    01:38 TRINITY    Blake Barmore 1 yd run (Peter Licalzi kick) 7 plays, 28 yards, TOP 2:55    15-26

[DPU3619]

Sigh.... too many miscues.

When you're playing a good team on the road, you can't turn it over and you have be sound in the kicking game. 

5 turnovers and a good sized handful of missed opportunities in the special teams.

Also, DPU lost the time of possession battle, which they almost never do when they win.

[etg]

Bonzo,

Did you get make it down to San Antonio for the TU/DPU game; if so did you stay over for the Sunday reschedule? At one point this season you were "big" on the DPU Defense; Trinity had 75 Offensive plays to DPU with 45 Offensive plays, does that say anything about the value of this year's Black Flag?

IMHO Blake Barmore's 53 yards in 14 well timed carries (great play calling by the Trinity coaching staff) was huge; certainly not near the yardage that DPU's Marks had but certainly bigger in terms of the final result. Also, Greg Bielski has started to "come into his own" with several very crisp runs for a total of 67 yards. Comments?

Black Flag, "Apply Directly to the Body".

                                                             

[tTU719803]

From what I heard around the stadium, DPU is going to BUS back to Greencastle.  That's going to be a looooooooong 25 hours.

The game turned out about like I expected, except for the sloppy special teams play.  DePauw ran the ball almost at will, but the Black Flag tightened up when it needed to most.  If I'm not mistaken, most of those DPU scores came when they had a short field to work with.  TU definitely won the defensive battle today.  I think TU made a great adjustment by letting Barmore run the ball more.  That little zone read they ran worked nicely.  I was impressed with Dustin Hertel - he played lights out. 

The highlight for me was seeing Coach Mohr jump that one kid's butt for getting an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty with something like a minute left in the game.  Ol' Steve-O hasn't lost a step!

[DPU92]

Kudos to whomever put the poll on the front page of d3football.com and calling it the 'Hoosier Dome' and not the sell-out RCA Dome.

Sounds like it was another classic DPU/Trinity game with Trinity doing what needsed to be dont in the closing minutes.

As has been the case for 8 years now (or more) wait till next year.

[Pat Coleman]

Hmm, that was an error but I guess I'll leave it that way.

[Ron Boerger]

Bonzo,

[...] At one point this season you were "big" on the DPU Defense; Trinity had 75 Offensive plays to DPU with 45 Offensive plays, does that say anything about the value of this year's Black Flag?
                                                           

Think you have me mistaken for someone else, etg.  Respecting an opponent's capabilities doesn't make one "big" on them.   And just a few days ago I posted the following:

I left off the word "slightly" in my statement on the defenses, but FWIW:

Trinity has allowed fewer points in three games (24) than DPU has in two (28).   One of those TDs was a ten yard "drive" after a fumble, another was against the second team defense last week after the game was well in hand. 

Trinity is holding teams to 207 yds/game, DPU 233.5.   TU opponents average 3.4 yds/play, DPU opponents 3.7.

As you mentioned, DPU does a great job defending the run, allowing 56 yds and 2 yds/carry to Trinity's 130.3/3.6.  On the other hand, Trinity allows only 76.6 yds passing (3 yds/pass) vs. DPU's 177.5 (5.1). 

DPU holds teams to 15% conversion on third downs vs. 21% for Trinity.   DPU is +6 on TOs to +3 for Trinity. 

Today Trinity got the better of the battle; Blake and Bielski combined for almost as many yards rushing as Marks.   I guarantee you that the coaching staff is not jumping up and down about Jeremiah getting 200 yards of total offense but the 'Flag sure locked down everyone else and forced the turnovers when it had to.  TU did pick a good day to get its first 100+ yard team rushing performance!

ttu719803, DePauw didn't score off of any drive where they didn't start in Trinity territory.  The first score came off a turnover (shades of TLU, except this time the D pushed the opponent back), the second was Hertel's short INT return, the third was after DPU started at the TU 37.   Two 65+ yard drives ended in fumbles. 

[willystyle]

Glad to see TU pick up a much-needed win to start things off in conference play.  It's just hearsay from me, since I wasn't a TU follower until '98 (although '98-'02 were great years to be following TUF), but I believe there was a time before Burton/Hampton where the Tigers won games chiefly by running the ball and shutting the other team down with a stout defense (and I also believe there were guys named "Doran" intimately involved on both sides of that equation).  Perhaps the program is starting to rediscover that formula.

Now we just need Oglethorpe to start a football team so I can catch a game every once in awhile.

[firstdown]

Looks like DePaw might have been better off for the game to have remainded postponed.  The 25 hour bus ride will provide time for reflection, 

[historymajor]

Again, kudos for the DePauw folks for finding a way to play this one.  "I thought I could, I thought I could"....  I'm not sure what the night/day double header effect was on the players and coaches,,, but it was tough to maintain focus after all those hours on the pitch at E.M. Stevens.  I'm already looking forward to next years matchup in Indiana.... 

I heard that DePauw was staying over tonight and had gotten flights back tomorrow mid-day.... 

Nothing like a long weekend in SAT at the RiverWalk!

[evacuee]

Sigh.... too many miscues.

When you're playing a good team on the road, you can't turn it over and you have be sound in the kicking game. 

5 turnovers and a good sized handful of missed opportunities in the special teams.

Also, DPU lost the time of possession battle, which they almost never do when they win.

Trinity had quite a few miscues as well.  I would say they cancel each other out.  At home or on the road, Trinity has the better squad which is why they won.  To break it down any other way would be overanalyzing..

As I said weeks ago, it's a big divide between the top tier and the bottom tier in the SCAC.  Unfortunately for DePauw, the divide between the best team and the second best team might be even tougher to overcome.  No one should be surprised at how this turned out.  However, Trinity folks can still be thrilled.  I'd offer my sympathies to DePauw, it's just that I don't have any.  If any coach had gotten four years to work on Trinity, I might feel differently.