FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[TigerDad]

This is not original, but posted in the ASC topic ... thought you SCAC'er's would enjoy chaining your favorite team to the National Championship.  It's comforting to know that the 2006 Trinity University Tigers are "only 21 games" removed from the BCS Title winners:

Victory chain from Trinity TX to Florida for 2006:
Trinity TX beat
DePauw who beat
Hope who beat
Albion who beat
Butler who beat
Dayton who beat
Robert Morris who beat
Central Conn St who beat
Georgia Southern who beat
Western Carolina who beat
Eastern Kentucky who beat
Western Kentucky who beat
Southern Illinois who beat
Indiana who beat
Iowa who beat
Iowa St who beat
Missouri who beat
Mississippi who beat
Vanderbilt who beat
Georgia who beat
Auburn who beat
Florida



Build your own chain here: http://www.cfbanalyzer.com/cgi-bin/year.cgi?year=2006

[historymajor]

TigerDad... what did you think of the Tuna walking away from Dallas???  He was overheard in December that it was him, or TO... Guess Jerry didn't believe him!  Do you think it's too late to get Zimmer back?

[Sender]

Historymajor,
   I told you 5 yrs ago the Chargers made the right move trading that 1st overall (Vick) for Thomlinson and they got Brees in the 2nd round.  The Tuna knew Washington is fixing to whip that @#@.  Time to go.  Maybe not so much Zimmer, but they can turn to reliable Norv Turner.       

[Ron Boerger]

Here is a good story from the Trinitonian regarding this year's recruiting process at Trinity.

According to Mohr, there were almost 170 prospective student athletes who attended the event.

"When you tack the parents on, it was over 400 visitors here on campus, and, even though the weather here wasn't cooperating very much, I thought that all in all the responses that we've gotten back from parents and prospective players has been very positive," Mohr said. "I'm going to say that over 90 percent of the students that have visited in the last two weekends have already applied, and I think that the campus visit itself is primary in that decision to apply."

[etg]

(El Tea Gray---re: Keith McMillan's 2006 Season Final ATN--Part III)

D3football.com Best Ranking: "Not ranking Trinity (Texas)"

Keith, do it again in 2007, please!

                                                                         

[Pat Coleman]

You want not ranking Trinity to be the best ranking in 2007 as well? That's odd.

[Bill McCabe]

Pat, I noticed the time of your post and had a question.  When do you sleep?

[Pat Coleman]

This time of year, not much. Plus I have a pissy former player from Gustavus Adolpus who thinks I have it in for his school, so I've been engaged in a late-night battle on the MIAC women's board. 

[Gray Fox]

This time of year, not much. Plus I have a pissy former player from Gustavus Adolpus who thinks I have it in for his school, so I've been engaged in a late-night battle on the MIAC women's board. 

That sounds exciting.   Kind of like the promos on TV or tabloids.  I'll be sure to check it out.

[Gray Fox]

Colorado College Schedule from their web site

2007 Football Schedule
Date    Opponent    Site    Time
Sept. 8    Pomona-Pitzer Colleges    Home    1 p.m.
Sept. 15    Sewanee-The University of the South *    Home 1 p.m.
Sept. 22    Trinity University *    Away    7:30 p.m.
Sept. 29    Austin College *    Away    1 p.m.
Oct. 6    Macalester College    Away    1 p.m.
Oct. 13    Rhodes College *    Home 1 p.m.
Oct. 20    DePauw University *    Home 1 p.m.
Oct. 27    Birmingham Southern College *    Away    12 p.m.
Nov. 3    Millsaps College *    Home    1 p.m.
Nov. 10    Centre College *    Away    1:30 p.m.

[roocru]

Thought it might be time to catch all my D3 friends up on the latest with RooCru:

Page says he'll retire on June 30

Athletic director worked to improve CCISD facilities
   JAVIER BECERRA, Caller-Times
    Published: January 23, 2007


Corpus Christi Independent School District athletic director Rick Page announced his retirement Monday, a tenure that won't officially end until his contract expires June 30. Before then, Page said he plans to carry on the duties he took over from Richard Avila in 2004.


"I will continue to be the athletic director and make all the necessary decisions," the 57-year-old Page said.

Once his time is up, Page will go to work for AssistantCoach Systems, a web-based athletic management software company based in Austin. Page said officials from ACS approached him about a position in December at the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association's national conference in Anaheim, Calif.

A week after returning home, Page received an offer.

"It's just one of those things that come up sometimes," he said. "I want to be clear that I was not looking for a job. I was fully intent on coming back. They made the offer, one I couldn't turn down. That's the way I'm going for now."

Page arrived in Corpus Christi after spending 12 years as an assistant athletic director in Bryan and immediately went to work on improving the district's facilities.

"One of first things we talked about when I got here were the scoreboards at our central sites," he said. "By the end of this year, we will have a new scoreboard and sound system at all six of our central site facilities, Buccaneer Stadium, Multipurpose Stadium, the baseball, softball and soccer fields and the natatorium."

Page also helped firm the district's transfer policies, which he said tightens up the transfer policies in CCISD and will prevent families from "school shopping" based on athletic programs.

Middle schools are now running the same schemes and systems as the high schools they feed into in all sports.

He signed the Aramark Corporation to do concessions at all central site athletic facilities which improved the revenue sources for the district and signed Titus Sports Marketing to research possible other revenues for the district including naming rights and scoreboard signage among other possibilities.

On a personal note, Page was especially happy to see the growth of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes presence in the district during his tenure.

Page didn't do it alone.

"I would not have been able to do anything without the support of the coaches, staff and administration, which is evidenced by the things we have done," he said. Page said the district has opened the position for applications.

[DPU3619]

I see the DePauw schedule is up for next year:

Sept. 8  vs. Anderson at Anderson Highland H.S.  7 p.m. 
Sept. 15 *CENTRE (Community Day)  1 p.m.
Sept. 22 *at Sewanee  1:30 p.m. CDT 
Sept. 29  MILLSAPS (Family Weekend)  1 p.m. 
Oct. 6  *at Birmingham-Southern  1:30 p.m. CDT 
Oct. 13 TRINITY 1 p.m. 
Oct. 20 *at Colorado College  1 p.m. MDT 
Oct. 27 AUSTIN (Old Gold Day)  1 p.m. 
Nov. 3  *at Rhodes  1 p.m. CDT 
Nov. 10 WABASH (Monon Bell) TBA

I personally liked the idea of having Austin right before the Bell game.  It was a heckuva lot better than playing Rose-Hulman.  Seemed like we always got 6 guys hurt in that game before Monon.  Interesting to see Rhodes move into that slot.

[INQBScout]

anybody with intel on birmingham southern?

[TigerDad]

This is certainly no big insider info, but there's a couple good articles here:
http://www.bscsports.net/index.asp?path=football

and several linked here:
http://www.al.com/bsc/birminghamnews/

finally, I think this SI.com article is old news, but I include it here anyway:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/frank_deford/01/10/birmingham.southern/index.html?section=si_latest

Better than nothing ...  just six months until kickoff ...

[INQBScout]

very helpful tiger dad...
thank you.