FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[scotty]

Dick also went deep to Gasbarra for 6.

I'm going to let this one go. I could, I should...but I won't. Good to see Lundorf healthy at OT.

[Ralph Turner]

Josh, I thought that AC showed much potential.  You broke long plays thru the 8-man front.  Your rushing game is well-suited to your athletes.

I don't think that you will see too many McMurry-style athletes in the SCAC.  (There were 2 members, plus a first-alternate, of the NCAA D3 champion 4 x 100 M relay team on the field and an 11.24 100 M sprinter last night.)  Take away our speed and AC wins the game.

I think that your QB will get more comfortable with the offense.  You catch Millsaps this week, but then your team has a chance to get used to Coach Gage's system thru the season until the DPU and Trinity games.

[jekelish]

In talking to one of the AC coaches today (and verified by looking at the box score), he told me that the McMurry quarterback was just a Mike Vick type of freak athlete that they couldn't keep up with, and as soon as he got to the corner, he was gone.

there aren't many athletes like that in the SCAC, so the 'Roos should be good to go in most of their games if they can work on stopping the run.  it looks like Finke/Byrd is a nice combination at CB, with Finke having a huge game (and looking like a likely SCAC Defensive POTW guy with 11 tackles, 2 picks, 1 int TD, a recovered onside kick, and two blocked PATs) and Byrd showing himself to be a solid addition in each of his first two games.

i say that AC gives Millsaps a game this week.  somewhere in the range of 30-20, with the Majors coming out on top.

[The Observation Deck]

In this prediction, are you assuming Millsaps comes to play the entire game or that they treat it like another exhibition?

[INQBScout]

In this prediction, are you assuming Millsaps comes to play the entire game or that they treat it like another exhibition?

zing!!

[exmajor]

In this prediction, are you assuming Millsaps comes to play the entire game or that they treat it like another exhibition?

I don't think the Majors will want to lose a conference game, I would expect an all out effort this week.

[Pat Coleman]

It's kind of sad that this topic is even debatable ...

[frank_ezelle]

According to the box score on the SCAC website, DePauw only played 40 of their 100 or so players this weekend despite having a 37-0 lead at halftime.  It's not the approach I would have taken, but the head coach knows his team and his overall plan for the season far better than I so it would be foolish of me to criticize his game plan.

As for Millsaps, they played 74 players again this past weekend and the playing season is now close to finished for those players who fall between 53 and 74 on the depth chart.  My understanding is that only 52 players can travel to SCAC road games, and I don't think you'll see a lot of 3rd string players on the field in the home games against Rhodes, Centre and Trinity.  With the Birmingham-Southern game not counting in the conference, who knows how it will be played.

Regardless of what people think about the game plan used in the first two games, at least Coach DuBose and his staff got a significant number of new players on the field when they had the chance and maybe that will be enough to keep those players on the squad for another year.  If the goal is to eventually compete for a national championship, it seems like a major step would be to cut down the rate of attrition that plagues so many D3 teams. 

Next week should be an interesting game since Millsaps wasn't a great road team last season and Austin sounds like they are much improved.  Millsaps will have to pick up their road play this season if they want to retain their crown in 2007.

[DPU3619]

According to the box score on the SCAC website, DePauw only played 40 of their 100 or so players this weekend despite having a 37-0 lead at halftime.  It's not the approach I would have taken, but the head coach knows his team and his overall plan for the season far better than I so it would be foolish of me to criticize his game plan.

That's always been the m.o. for DePauw, though.  They've never went to the fifth or sixth guys on the depth chart.   Regardless of who was making the decisions.

I don't think the staff feels it's necessary to go the fifth guy on the depth chart when the third guy isn't get enough playing time as it is.  Young kids can play in the JV games. 

Starters will play into the third.  Second stringers will play usually towards the end of the third and well into the fourth.  Typically they'll get about 3 deep on the depth chart if it's a bigtime laugher. 

I think if they weren't continuing to try speed the maturation process on Spud (and that defense!), you probably would have seen the staff go deeper on the depth chart.   Marks was pulled pretty early.  His backup got it 12 times.

[Ralph Turner]

DPU, we covered JV's on an portion of the board.

How many JV games are within a 3 hour drive of Greencastle? 

Jackson MS is in the proverbial middle-of-nowhere.  You play Miss College twice, LaCollege, 3 hrs away, twice, Huntingdon 4hours away twice, and that is it. 

We discussed getting JV games with the Mississippi JuCos, but there was not much factual evidence that it was happening above the commentary.

[Just_that_kid]

You can only travel 52 players to away games, and I'm sure Dubose knows what his bench can do. The MC game is over, and conference has begun. Let's move on folks.

[Just_that_kid]

DPU, we covered JV's on an portion of the board.

How many JV games are within a 3 hour drive of Greencastle? 

Jackson MS is in the proverbial middle-of-nowhere.  You play Miss College twice, LaCollege, 3 hrs away, twice, Huntingdon 4hours away twice, and that is it. 

We discussed getting JV games with the Mississippi JuCos, but there was not much factual evidence that it was happening above the commentary.

I believe Millsaps will only have 3-4 JV games this season, and none of them will be against Juco's. Mississippi has some of the better Juco teams in the nation, and pitting freshman against them would be slaughter for almost every D3 JV squad.

If I were a betting man, I would guess Millsaps' JV will face MC, Belhaven and perhaps LC or Huntingdon. The schedule should be out fairly soon. I will post it if it does.

[Ralph Turner]

Thanks, kid!  +1

[Fripp52]

I tried to check what the origination was of DePauw not playing many kids and I could not.  So I am posting this based on my own observation Saturday.
DePauw led and was thoroughly in control Saturday before halftime.  I figured, and I made this comment to another DPU football alum, that barring a quick score or two from Anderson, the starters would play the first and maybe the second series, then they would start subbing.  By the end of the third quarter, there were no substitutions other than Marks who was nicked up after a run with about 10 minutes to go in the 3rd quarter.  Who knows how much longer he would have played if it weren't for that.
The first team offense was not pulled untill mid 4th quarter and the first team defense was not pulled until the last series of the game.
While I understand some of those kids would have stayed in like the first year starters, I would have thought the second string kids would have played at least the fourth quarter of a 47 to 7 game.  Many of those kids are freshman and may be counted on later in the year to play bigger roles.  This was a perfect game for them to get experience.  I don't understand.

[AF4]

Just that kid, Ralph, et al

Huntingdon has jv games against south al (club - nov 11), Troy (D-1 - oct 21), Lagrange (oct 14 & sept 16), and Faulkner (NAIA - oct 7)

Faulkner had a scheduled jv game this past weekend, they cancelled (the word we heard was they had ~12 inelligible players...and needed to re group thier jv.... but who really no's)

call huntingdon.... they won't walk awayfrom anyone..... we saw that this past week end... as the varsity got a good old fashioned fanny whuppin

keep the faith