FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[KentATM]

hmm, perhaps I should have said AC will give DePauw a few sharp jabs.     I didn't get to listen to it though b/c I was on my way to College Station to be let down by the Coach Fran master plan yet again.

ahh well.  Trinity is going to come back down to earth here in two weeks! 

also, being from Tyler, I always love to relive that JT game. 

[oldmoose]

...yall r bringing a jv (?) team down to montgomery on sunday, oct 28 to play our jv...

Hey AF4, it looks like BSC has a JV team after all.  My son finally told me so and I see the score is already on the Huntingdon website.  Would have loved to come, but I had to coach a 7-year-old fall baseball game.  Such is life!

[Tex]

Okay y'all, conspiracy theory time now...

Phil Bennett got fired today at SMU.  To quote a newstory, "(AD) Orsini has a pattern of hiring high-profile coaches who have suffered some level of a fall from grace. He hired former Notre Dame coach George O'Leary to lead the football program at Central Florida, and then made a splash by hiring former North Carolina coach Matt Doherty to lead SMU's men's basketball program"

So, who do you think they'll hire?  Dubose anyone?

[oldmoose]

...but the visitor locker rooms at some of the schools are pitiful...

I hope the same will not be said for the new visitor locker room BSC is building at their new on-campus stadium.  The floor plan just shows a big, empty room so I don't know in what manner it will be furnished.

As for the teams that visited BSC this season, my sons tell me the locker rooms at Regions Park are very nice, except that the visiting team has to enter the field through the third-base dugout!

[historymajor]

Bonzo,,, maybe I'm still too wired after those ten phone calls from ESPN,,,  but how the heck to you get to vote on that Pontiac page??? 

Maybe I'm doing something wrong... how about a Voting Guide for Dummies (like me)!

[Ron Boerger]

I dunno.  I got to vote one time but attempts from other machines/browsers have only let me see the plays, not vote on them. 

[AF4]

Oldmoose

it was not as close as the score might indicate  ... yall blew us out

the qb ..#10 was awesome... he played most the game... big kid... great arm

yalls line and our line hit a stale mate on both sides.... but yall's wideouts and our Db's didn't match well.... DUH

still it was fun... the JV games r mo prctice like than anything, as usual we played everyone early and often

i asked a bunch of the BSC folks if they new Oldmoose.... every one of them just  staired ...  so i started to holler 'OLDMOOSE r u hear'... my wife finally shut me up

we had fun as usual... even in a horrible losing cause

if it makes yall season better... yall beat our JV worse than Troy did... but the 4 fumbles and 2 interceptions might have helped yall a little... at least the our varsity beat LaGrange 43-0 last night

if yall schedule our varsity or if u r heading toward LA...we will feed u some pre game deep fried turkey (the turkeys low cholesterol counteracts the frying process with respect to triglyceride associated plaque formation- now my wife and middle daughter r clinical dieticians and claim i'm wrong...but that is what i choose to believe)

b good and keep the faith

[MajorAlum80]

Pat Coleman or anyone in the know,

I hate "what if" questions myself, so I'm sorry for asking you one...but I have to ask it if no one else is.  Say things had gone differently on that Thursday night in Clinton (we won't go into what happened again).  We beat CC and BSC to finish 9-1 with our lone loss coming on the last second freak play against a ranked Trinity team.  What would our chances of an at-large bid have been??  I'm really hoping that you will tell me that they slim to none but I suspect otherwise. 

I'm sorry for beating a dead horse and I am apologize to anyone who was sick of hearing about the MC-Millsaps game after the first 100 posts. 

Thanks in advance.

[frank_ezelle]

I figured that after the talk about "the play" died down, we'd get back to the MC loss, and it's a valid topic to bring back up so I'm not being critical of anyone who wants to discuss the subject.  This is probably my most hectic day of the month at work with end-of-month closeout, so I'm going to post a link to my blog (like I have time to do a couple of blogs) since my entry today gives my viewpoint on the ending of both the Trinity game and the MC game and I just don't have time to write it all again on the D3 board:

http://wwin39216.blogspot.com/2007/10/strangest-ending-ive-ever-seen.html#links

[Pat Coleman]

Pat Coleman or anyone in the know,

I hate "what if" questions myself, so I'm sorry for asking you one...but I have to ask it if no one else is.  Say things had gone differently on that Thursday night in Clinton (we won't go into what happened again).  We beat CC and BSC to finish 9-1 with our lone loss coming on the last second freak play against a ranked Trinity team.  What would our chances of an at-large bid have been??  I'm really hoping that you will tell me that they slim to none but I suspect otherwise. 

I'm sorry for beating a dead horse and I am apologize to anyone who was sick of hearing about the MC-Millsaps game after the first 100 posts. 

Thanks in advance.

Pretty much the same thing as I felt in September. Or August. The game against Mississippi College determined whether Millsaps could get an at-large bid. Might be interesting to go back and re-read the spin posts from the week following the opening game and see if everyone feels the same now.

[TigerDad]

The original video was uploaded to YouTube and linked here on Saturday evening at 9:00pm.  The view counter was at 200 around midnight.  At 7:00am on Sunday morning, the counter was 11,000.  At 9:15am, it was 23,000.  At 2:30pm, it was 320,000!  At 8:00pm, after passing 390,000 the folks at YouTube disabled my account and it was gone.

Uploaded again this morning to a new YouTube account here:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnkjyQhaZBY

Suddenly, everyone knows about Division III football ... let's keep this ball in the air!!  It's our "62 seconds of fame".

[Tex]

Apparently Coach Mohr is all over national radio today.  Good stuff. 

[DPU3619]

9-1's typically good enough, MajorAlum80.  Very rare that it isn't good enough.

Along the lines with that Pat said, I won't speak for everybody, but if I were a Major fan, I wouldn't be very happy about such things as "getting younger players experience" and "preparing to win the automatic bid" after this weekend. 

What may come as worse news, if Millsaps had earned the Pool C, it's likely they wouldn't have gone to Mary Hardin-Baylor anyway.  Trinity would have taken to two hour bus ride while Millsaps went somewhere else.

EDIT: I do think this fits in well with our conversation about the strength of this conference from top to bottom.  We never get two teams in because we can't ever get another team to the end with 1 loss.  Although the problem has been playing teams out of conference.  Such as this year, when that loss came Mississippi College.  Like it did last year when Trinity lost to TLU out of conference.  And it '05 when DePauw lost to Wesley and then Wabash and lost the AQ to Trinity on the tiebreak.  And in '04 when DPU lost to UW-Stout out of conference and then lost to Trinity.

[TigerDad]

Just finished listening to Coach Mohr on Dan Patrick's ESPN Radio show.  He did a great job ... AWESOME.

GO TIGERS ... WIN OUT.

[LA Major]

Is it good stuff? I understand TU's joy of pulling an important victory out of dire circumstances. I do think that TU players and staff are to be admired for not giving up until the final horn...and beyond. But is this good for the TU or Millsaps programs or the SCAC? This conference needs better competition across the board. To have the potential  AQ with a loss to Rhodes, that has again shown it has a long way to go to improve and DePauw still trying to find itself, will TU  go very deep in the playoffs? They still have to win 2 conference games and they should. Obviously this is a tough loss for Millsaps and every game counts in the season. It is a demanding effort to build a program and have it mature over time. The Majors will pull together to bounce back but it is a tough week in Jackson and for us who care about those players. Personally I know there are life lessons here for these men and it's too bad life lesson have to hurt so deep. I am not sure it is good stuff for Millsaps or the SCAC maybe for TU. I watched it live and now on video and I have the same feeling...please excuse me I am going to throw up.