FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[DPULefty22]

Hey Wes,  You intimate that DPU has "solved" its running back problem. What happened, did the fullback finally stop seeing double and throwing up after Pynenberg's hit at the Bell?

First... that fullback graduated.

Second... 24-21.

Thirdly... DPU was able to get some underclassmen some PT while Marks was out with injury last year. Obviously you can't replace the best RB in the history of the program, but there are some guys with some ability and experience back there and they'll produce while Spud Dick's not slinging it all over the place.

[DPU3619]

Hey Wes,  You intimate that DPU has "solved" its running back problem. What happened, did the fullback finally stop seeing double and throwing up after Pynenberg's hit at the Bell?

Easy there.  You're starting to make the natives restless. my friend.  No worries.  Clax got that ringing out of his ears when that Monon Bell starting ringing.

You know, I'm obviously not Matt Walker or O.C. Dustin Ward, but with Marks gone, I wouldn't be surprised to see a bit of a shift in the offensive gameplan in 2008.  You've got a weapon at QB, you've got great weapons on the outside, as well.  I'd open it up a little bit.  Plus, there's plenty of experienced RB depth already there if you're only looking to get 15 or 18 carries out of your RB.  But, I get paid to write 1000 words a week.  I don't get paid to write the playbook. 

Although, if that game changer does indeed come, DePauw may do nothing of that sort.

[D3_DPUFan]

No worries.  Clax got that ringing out of his ears when that Monon Bell starting ringing.

good one...

a bit odd to have a Wabash guy poking fun about anyone's running game....especially a team that manhandled the LG's on the line of scrimmage and ran quite well as I recall...

...it was a good hit at the goal line, I'll give you that...

[evacuee]

Millsaps fans,

Is there something going on up there?  Are y'all moving up?  The Times-Picayune posted a list on Thursday of the New Orleans area's top prospects and the schools with which they signed.  The name escapes me but a kid 6-2 240 pound DE from O Perry Walker high school "signed" with Millsaps.  I think that's a first for a SCAC school making that list. 

[Tex]

Have any of you guys been keeping up with the story about the HS senior in Nevada that essentially "faked" his entire recruitment, all the way to having a presser at the HS gym with media and students in attendance and selecting a Cal ball cap off the table?  Turns out none of the teams that he said "offered" hardly even knew who the kid even was.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=wojciechowski_gene&id=3236039

The writer makes a great point... where were the adults in all this?

[oldmoose]

Could Joey Jones be "one and done" at BSC?

http://www.al.com/sports/press-register/index.ssf?/base/sports/1202465734321030.xml&coll=3

He has said that he would never want to go through building a program from scratch again but he is obviously reconsidering that.  At least at D-1, he would have scholarships and more money to work with.  We sure would hate to lose him.

[D3_DPUFan]

Could Joey Jones be "one and done" at BSC?

Wow----

Interesting article. I wonder why the guy from USF turned it down after accepting?
I would think for a guy at a DIII school, the pay differential alone would make it quite attractive....

[Ralph Turner]

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The writer makes a great point... where were the adults in all this?

Tex, I don't think that the young man has a "Dad" like you or Bill McCabe or historymajor...

 

[Pat Coleman]

Looking at the salary offered, it would be hard for any D-III coach not to be interested. Wow.

[Tex]

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The writer makes a great point... where were the adults in all this?

Tex, I don't think that the young man has a "Dad" like you or Bill McCabe or historymajor...

 

Thank you, but what about his coach?  When I was coaching, we always knew who was serious about our players.  Before any school offers a schollie, they're going to talk to the head coach.  Where was this kid's Hc?

[wab64]

Hey Wes,  You intimate that DPU has "solved" its running back problem. What happened, did the fullback finally stop seeing double and throwing up after Pynenberg's hit at the Bell?

Easy there.  You're starting to make the natives restless. my friend.  No worries.  Clax got that ringing out of his ears when that Monon Bell starting ringing.

You know, I'm obviously not Matt Walker or O.C. Dustin Ward, but with Marks gone, I wouldn't be surprised to see a bit of a shift in the offensive gameplan in 2008.  You've got a weapon at QB, you've got great weapons on the outside, as well.  I'd open it up a little bit.  Plus, there's plenty of experienced RB depth already there if you're only looking to get 15 or 18 carries out of your RB.  But, I get paid to write 1000 words a week.  I don't get paid to write the playbook. 

Although, if that game changer does indeed come, DePauw may do nothing of that sort.

Wes- your reply about Claxton was positively lyrical- get it together and start your definitive history- there are few with your passion and balance who could do it justice. The prognostication of the future is remarkably close to the vest as well as being what we used to call in the Army a SWAG- systematic wil-a** guess. See you in Crawfordsville>

[frank_ezelle]

Millsaps fans,

Is there something going on up there?  Are y'all moving up?  The Times-Picayune posted a list on Thursday of the New Orleans area's top prospects and the schools with which they signed.  The name escapes me but a kid 6-2 240 pound DE from O Perry Walker high school "signed" with Millsaps.  I think that's a first for a SCAC school making that list. 

Coach DuBose tells the players each year that they have two goals--win the SCAC championship and then win the NCAA championship.  My impression is that the second goal is not some pie in the sky hoopla, but something they are seriously trying to achieve. To do that they need to get the kids who could play at a D1 or D2 school, but choose to play D3 while getting a great education.    

In a football related note, two Millsaps linebackers made it into the lineup for the baseball team this afternoon.  Freshman Will Hawkins pinch hit and drove in the game winning run with a double and Ronnie Wheat was a late inning defensive replacement in the outfield.  

[evacuee]

People have been saying for quite a while that the college game gets closer to the pro game every year.  Well the same is true for high school getting closer to the college game every year.  Not that everyone here didn't know that, but these ridiculous press conferences to announce signings are happening more and more often, and this year they have been particularly bizarre.  I laughed and laughed when Ben Ganus had a media event signing for Huntingdon College two years ago, but it's just not funny anymore.  Check out this Florida School District publication.  Jacksonville University is an FCS non-scholarship school in the Pioneer League, which is a non-scholarship conference.  They aren't Division III, but they specifically do not give football scholarships, just all the other sports.  There's a packed gymnasium, his whole extended family is there, and it says in big letters something that is just terribly untrue. 

http://www.chipleybugle.com/localnewsfeb08/laster-jacksonville.aspx

[Tex]

The "family photo" has a photo shop look to it with the guy in the black hoodie sweatshirt.  He's got a funny look on his face. 

[AF4]

Tu2694

"I laughed and laughed when Ben Ganus had a media event signing for Huntingdon College two years ago, but it's just not funny anymore."

was it a 'MEDIA event' or a signing party... like the one that happens every year at the O-A news... with alll the kids pictures in the paper  ?.... from 14 highschools in our general area ...

last wk.... 21 kids  in opelika at tha O-A news office D1=>D-3 + NAIA

last yr ~32 kids, 6 D-3 to 3 different colleges

just curious what u define as a media event ?