FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[frank_ezelle]

Bill, I hope that the Millsaps success in 2006 will add more interest to the 2007 version of the Backyard Brawl.  Not that the crowd was small in 2006, but the interest level wasn't near the level of a few years back when the rivalry was renewed.

As for predicting the outcome of the 2007 game, I don't believe the game from 2006 serves as a very accurate measuring stick.  Millsaps allowed 128 points in the first 3 games of the 2006 season with MC putting up 52 of those points.  In the remaining eight games they gave up 97 points with the defense rapidly improving from week to week. 

The biggest defensive problem was in the passing defense which often left men totally uncovered.  In the first 3 games Millsaps opponents averaged 378 passing yards and in the last 8 games the average was down to 181 yards.  Some of that difference might be the teams they played, but much of that difference was the time it took the players to adjust to the defensive scheme.

All in all it should be a heck of a game.  Now if we can just find a way to stir up the interest by getting the Clarion-Ledger to actually write about the local small colleges.

[Pat Coleman]

DePauw will get worse as the world turns.  Administation will always hold the tigers back.  They will also graduate a class of differrence makers. 

Do you guys still have the same coach?

[michael7]

Does anybody know if U of Mobile or Spring Hill is looking at Football?
Do you think they will in the next couple of years?

[historymajor]

Trinity's 2007 schedule is taking shape... times TBA

Sep. 01  @ETBU
Sep. 08  TLU
Sep. 15  open
Sep. 22  Colorado College
Sep. 29  Birmingham Southern
Oct. 06   @Rhodes
Oct. 13   @ DePauw
Oct. 20   UoS Sewanee
Oct. 27   @Millsaps 
Nov. 03   Centre
Nov. 10   @Austin College

[Ralph Turner]

Does anybody know if U of Mobile or Spring Hill is looking at Football?
Do you think they will in the next couple of years?

I haven't heard.

Michael, that does make sense.  Faulkner AL and Shorter GA both NAIA have added football recently.  The Mid-South Football Conference would add them.

[Josh Bowerman]

Interesting.  I wonder who Huntingdon is replacing Trinity on the schedule with.

BTW, where'd you find this, Historymajor?

[Hawks88]

Interesting.  I wonder who Huntingdon is replacing Trinity on the schedule with.

Not just Trinity but all the SCAC schools we have been playing are having to be replaced from what I have read. HC must still be working on it as last year the new schedule was up on the website by early December and I haven't seen a new one yet. The only games I am pretty sure about at this point are Faulkner AL, LaGrange, Wesley and I think I heard we have a two year deal with Hampden-Sydney starting this year. I'm not sure where the rest are going to come from. Maybe with those new NCAA administrative regions introduced the past year we can find some in region games from schools in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan.

[frank_ezelle]

I like the schedule for the 2007 season with 8 SCAC games since I think it adds more interest throughout the season.  Last year Millsaps didn't play an SCAC game until thier 5th game of the season.

On the other hand, it really is a blow to the area non-conference teams like Huntingdon.  Assuming that Millsaps will continue the "Backyard Brawl" with Mississippi College as their opeing game each year, that leaves Millsaps with only one free slot each year.  In 2007 that will be a game against Louisiana College.

One quirk in the Millsaps schedule this year (http://www.millsaps.edu/athletic/football/schedule.shtml) is that they have 5 home games and 5 road games with no two home games back-to-back and therefore no two road games back-to-back.

[DPU3619]

DePauw will get worse as the world turns.  Administation will always hold the tigers back.  They will also graduate a class of differrence makers. 

You are without a doubt a complete moron who is so jaded by his allegiances to say anything even remotely true.  DePauw graduates 10 difference makers every year.

That administration is really going to hold DPU back when VP Student Services James Lincoln has us in Cover-0 all the time and President Bottoms won't give it to #31.  My guy VP somethingimportant Neal Abraham can't figure out why he can't block everybody up front in the swinging gate punt formation, and VP Finance Dick Speller...well... you know what he told me?  "THE TRINITY TIGERS ARE WHO WE THOUGHT THEY WERE.  You wanna crown 'em?  Then crown their ass.  You think we thought the 2005 hurricane was bull****?  BULL****!  We had 'em right were we wanted them, and we LET 'EM OFF THE HOOK. "

We are so screwed.

Although it is good that Speller will be too busy figuring out how to pay the Rogers lawsuit to pay attention.

[evacuee]

Coach Green,

You know too many people in big time football to be reading this board. 

Not that I care about DePauw all that much, but what the hoot was that?

[historymajor]

TU2698,,,  I'm with you... will someone please translate that DPU rant??

[Ron Boerger]

For anyone who didn't see this on the ASC board, Frank DeFord wrote a columm on Birmingham-Southern adding football by stepping up to D3 athetics:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/frank_deford/01/10/birmingham.southern/index.html

[DPU3619]

TU2698,,,  I'm with you... will someone please translate that DPU rant??

I got awfully tired of my guy there blaming James Lincoln and Bob Bottoms for EVERYTHING over and over and over again.  Whether Rogers was hosed or not, the fact that they're going to hold the football program back in the future is completely ridiculous.  The only way the administration is going to hold the team back is if they fire all the coaches and hire themselves to do the coaching.  I got tired of beating the same dead horse over and over, so I thought I'd spice it up a bit.

And any time I can incorporate a Denny Green presser into a post, I will.  So there's that, too.

[awadelewis]

The AD at Sewanee announced the selection of Robert Black, Sewanee Class of 1989, as the new heaad coach on the Mountain.   Black played for the Tigers from 1985 to 1989 and comes from an adminstrative position and assistant coach postition at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville.   He has prior high school head coaching experience at the TMI Episcopal School in San Antonio. 

[TigerDad]

One more "college" football game this year ... The first annual "All American Challenge: Texas Vs. The Nation" collegiate all-star bowl is set to take place Friday, February 2, 2007 at the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas, starting at 8pm (MST) with CSTV set to provide the television coverage.

Read more here: http://texasvsthenation.cstv.com/

The "Texas vs. The Nation" collegiate all-star bowl officially released their roster and "Legends of the Game" attendees Thursday, January 11 at a press conference at the Larry K. Durham Center at 2 p.m.

D3 will be represented by Trinity (TX) senior OL Derek Farney and UMHB's punter Hunter Hamrick, who were selected to play for the Texas team.  See the complete rosters here:
http://texasvsthenation.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/tvstn-m-footbl-mtt.html

(thanks to historymajor for providing the heads-up)