FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[Pat Coleman]

And this is also off-topic for the football board. There's a baseball board for this.

[TigerDad]

In the off-season, off-topic is normal, isn't it? 
(... or, if you're from Texas like us, "Ain't it?")


BTW, the SCAC Baseball topic is here:
http://www.d3boards.com/index.php?topic=4180.0

[Pat Coleman]

In the off-season, off-topic is normal, isn't it? 

Not when there's another board built specifically for it, no.

[D3_DPUFan]

In the off-season, off-topic is normal, isn't it? 

Not when there's another board built specifically for it, no.

Bravo, Pat!!!

[Tex]

Honestly, fellas, are there really other sports besides football?   

[gordonmann]

Hendrix is on its way to adding football, contingent on fund raising efforts.

See front page

[Ralph Turner]

Hendrix is on its way to adding football, contingent on fund raising efforts.

See front page

Wow!!!

IMHO, Hendrix is getting enrollment pressure and feeling the need to add males.  The Walton family gave a large sum of money to the University of Arkansas* that dramatically impacted Hendrix Honors program a few years ago.  We are seeing the roll-out of that program and its impact on the other schools such as Hendrix.  Hendrix is 55-45 female to male in its 1191 enrollment (petersons.com.)  Let's assume the enrollment is 650 female/ 550 male.  Adding 70 to 100 men helps push Hendrix towards 1350.  The women's lacrosse is for gender equity, but might push the SCAC into a Pool A status when all of the schools that are looking at lacrosse (e.g., BSC) add it!

Errata--Only Colorado College plays Women's Lacrosse now.  BSC is considering adding the sport.


There goes one open date for games in the SCAC versus the ASC. 

*The Walton family has given very generously to the University of Arkansas, in the tens of millions.

[DPULefty22]

Hendrix is on its way to adding football, contingent on fund raising efforts.

See front page

Guess those "Hendrix Football: Undefeated Since 1960" shirts are going to be a collectors item now.

I would guess this puts the SCAC one step closer to divisional play, or the uncomfortable Big Te-leven situation where not everybody in the conference gets to play each other every year. I can think of at least one school that isn't going to drop a certain rivalry game that's outside the conference if the SCAC adds one more football team.

[cush]

Good for hendrix...maybe the walton clan or probably some wal-mart generated $'s...i would guess hendrix has some alums who hit it rich with walmart, will foot the bill...wonder how much they are want to raise. Now the ball goes to southwestern, with an 300M+ endowment and in the middle of texas, why doesn't this school have football...seems like a perfect match. As OU...don't think they have the $'s to start a program.

[Ron Boerger]

Hendrix is on its way to adding football, contingent on fund raising efforts.

See front page

Guess those "Hendrix Football: Undefeated Since 1960" shirts are going to be a collectors item now.

I would guess this puts the SCAC one step closer to divisional play, or the uncomfortable Big Te-leven situation where not everybody in the conference gets to play each other every year. I can think of at least one school that isn't going to drop a certain rivalry game that's outside the conference if the SCAC adds one more football team.

Southwestern has shown no desire whatsoever to add FB.

Oglethorpe is incredibly strapped for cash relative to the rest of the SCAC and won't be adding FB anytime soon.

This is probably where the SCAC wanted to go, 10 teams playing FB means less scheduling headaches outside of conference for the teams out on the edges. 

As Ralph says it won't make ASC life any easier but maybe someone like UT-T will add football before much longer, it only seems logical. 

BTW the full Hendrix release is here and includes the following tidbit:  "Hendrix opened its new 100,000 square-foot Wellness and Athletics Center last year, a facility that includes a new artificial turf field that supports the college's new field hockey and men's lacrosse programs. The field can also accommodate football. Hendrix will need to raise funds to add infrastructure enhancements, including a new field house to accommodate football and all of the other outdoor sports."

Crimeny, an indoor football practice field.  Up in the D/FW area these are common at the HS level (!!) but I never thot I'd see them at the SCAC schools.  It will be interesting to see if between Hendrix and B-SC, a student-athletics arms race will develop amongst the remaining universities. 

[Ralph Turner]

The betting money is that Concordia adds football before UT-Tyler.

[Josh Bowerman]

Agreed, Ralph.  I'll also throw out the notion that if UT-T adds FB, they may not be welcome in the ASC any longer.   

[cush]

nice read on hendrix football:

http://www.thecabin.net/stories/050708/loc_0507080007.shtml


Still think football at SW is a homerun waiting to happen...maybe they will follow that school in WV mentioned in the article...don't know how the scac would work with 11 football members though.

[D3_DPUFan]

a DePauw recruit I ran across on the net...

Josh Mays OG of Tuttle, OK will attend Depauw University. The 6′2″ 350 lb lineman was all All-Evergreen League selection as well as All-New England. He was a two time All-State player in Oklahoma and played in the East-West Oklahoma Shrine game and Texas Oklahoma Oil Bowl.

[oldmoose]

BSC's Garfinkle announces 2008 football commitments.

http://www.bscsports.net/News/football/2008/5/8/2008%20fb%20commitments.asp?path=football