FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[historymajor]

Hunter, LA, Wes,,, I know how hard it is for SCAC rivals to come around to backing TU,,, but it is certainly appreciated....  I, too,,, sincerely hope that MY Tigers "represent the Miracle" that got them to Belton!

[HunterT]

Oh I support the tigers.... now. I hope they do represent the SCAC and show the rest of the DIII world that we deserve to be there, and that we deserved to have 2 teams there. I hope TU wins and makes a run. but it's going to be tough, and my comments only were saying that because of a bad game to Rhodes, their path is that tough instead of easier.

good luck to them.

[LA Major]

Historymajor
Here's to hitting them in the mouth early, hard and often...Cheers.

[historymajor]

Well, as of now we are awaiting NCAA approval to stream live video.... if they refuse,,,, we'll still endeavor to webcast audio and followup with delayed video stream when permitted....  ugh!  After all the free pub generated by the "Miracle"... now ......??

[Pat Coleman]

Welcome to the NCAA red tape. Always better to request rights as early in the week as possible.

[TigerDad]

I'm picking Tigers by 7.  A Baer TD and a Licalzi extra point kick. 

Bonzo, need a double-reverse whammy today ... can you assist?

I like our chances at "Tiger Field" in Belton.

[frank_ezelle]

(This is a post with a somewhat ironic connection to the Trinity-Millsaps game.)

"Miracles do happen." 

That's the opening line of a story in today's Jackson paper regarding an improbable comeback by Jackson Prep over Jackson Academy.  Prep capped off an undefeated season with a win in the state championship after catching a deflected pass in the end zone with no time left on the clock, and then kicking the PAT to tie the game 10-10 and send the game into overtime.  The irony is that the Jackson Prep broadcast team is the same crew that does the Millsaps broadcast, so in the span of a few weeks they have been on both sides of "miracle" plays at the end of championship games.

As Pat well knows (and anyone else who has listened to a Millsaps broadcast), the radio team puts the home in homer when it comes to calling a game so it was bedlam when the Jackson Prep player caught the ball as time expired.  It sounded like there were about 4 Jackson Academy defenders who went for the ball and one tried to knock it down instead of catch it, and the ball went right into the arms of the Jackson Prep player.  Keeping in mind that it truly was bedlam in the reporting, I believe they said the pass was thrown over the Prep receiver and into the crowd of defenders, making it sound like the game was over if the defenders had just let the ball sail out of bounds--I may have that wrong but that's the way it was broadcast.

It just goes to point out once again that if a team can stay within one score up until the last play of the game, anything is possible.  Here's the link to the newspaper story:

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071116/SPORTS06/71116047/1117

[frank_ezelle]

On a SCAC subject, let me give a weak shout out of "Go Trinity".  All of you know that I'm an advocate of pulling for Millsaps first but then I want all SCAC teams to do well in the playoffs and non-conference games.  I still feel that way, but it is hard to generate the normal support considering the "miracle" that resulted in Trinity playing today instead of Millsaps (please don't go off on the MC game tangent--we are well aware of all those ramifications).

Fortunately, I'll have a distraction today as I'll be at Millsaps taking photos of the opening games for both Millsaps basketball teams.  The women open with MS College and the men play Pensacola Christian, a team that actually led #23 ranked MS College early in the second half yesterday before falling by a double-digit margin.  Life goes on.

[historymajor]

Email approval to proceed with VideoStream and webcast just arrived....  now we just have to "get 'er done"

http://secure.stretchinternet.com/demo/games.php?user=trinity&o=cal_stamp

and backup audio is:

HI SPEED: http://stream.krtu.org:9000/krtu-sports-ch1-96kb.m3u
LO SPEED: http://stream.krtu.org:9000/krtu_sports-ch1-36kb.m3u

111777...111707 = 30   ....  Go Tigers! 

[Tex]

Tigers down 3 scores.  38-16

[etg]

(El Tea Gray---re: Season Finale)


UMHB   52          TU    23      (+$105,000 from Pontiac??)

                                         

[Carl Menist]

(El Tea Gray---re: Season Finale)


UMHB   52          TU    23      (+$105,000 from Pontiac??)

                                         

What happened?

[drinkxs.com]

Thanks to the guys for the webstream today

[Tex]

I really wanted to watch or listen to the game, but shortly into the game, the audio stream completely disappeared.  Weird.  The video was hit and miss all game.  sometimes not there at all.  no signal. 

Belton sucks. 

[Ron Boerger]

What happened?

The UHMB audio was the best bet today.  One of these days they are going to upgrade that HS stadium to get it out of the dark ages, I'm surprised that the guys were able to get any kind of video out of there today.

As to what happened - look at the relative sizes of the two teams.  Trinity could not establish a running game, which meant 60+ passes of which Blake completed 35 with only one interception for over 450 yards.  Against UMHB's speedy defense that is pretty damn good.  But ... UMHB was able to run almost at will, the one INT really hurt, and there were some critical passes that just went off the fingertips.  UMHB only turned the ball over once and with their ball-control offense if they don't turn the ball over they are virtually impossible to stop. 

There's a reason they're ranked #5.  The UW-W loss was, quite frankly, a fluke, and I say that without any disrepect to Whitewater.  I think they turned the ball over like six times and that made them drag out the passing game.  Welch is a wonderful option QB but not much of a passer and the result was what you saw.   

Hard as it is to believe, Trinity's 29-point margin was closer than anyone in the ASC played UMHB all year.  The Cru beat Hardin-Simmons by 33 in Abilene and Mississippi College by 39 in Clinton.  They REALLY are that good.