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[exmajor]

http://www.afca.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9300&ATCLID=1613012

The new AFCA poll is out with Millsaps at #7 and Trinity at #8, the poll looks different than the DIII Top 25, the biggest poll comes out tomorrow with the Regional rankings having heavy influence on playoff invitations for Pool C.

[DPU3619]

What may be good news for the Old Gold this weekend is that Austin just isn't going to throw the darned thing.  DePauw's giving up right at 3.5 ypc at 135 yards per game, which ain't bad.  Not great, but decent.

The problems for DePauw have come against the pass.  They're last in the conference against the pass by a mile - almost 40 yards per game more than the next closest defense - Centre. 

I think DePauw is getting healthier on the offensive side as days continue to come off the calendar, but they're going to have to hang on to the football.  They're next to last in turnover margin, but the good news is that the only team that's worse is Austin. 

Should be a good one on Saturday. 

[RooBro]

What may be good news for the Old Gold this weekend is that Austin just isn't going to throw the darned thing.  DePauw's giving up right at 3.5 ypc at 135 yards per game, which ain't bad.  Not great, but decent.

The problems for DePauw have come against the pass.  They're last in the conference against the pass by a mile - almost 40 yards per game more than the next closest defense - Centre. 

I think DePauw is getting healthier on the offensive side as days continue to come off the calendar, but they're going to have to hang on to the football.  They're next to last in turnover margin, but the good news is that the only team that's worse is Austin. 

Should be a good one on Saturday. 

Since we're trowing stats around........ Rhodes is giving up 2.1 ypc and 92.1 yards per game, including the AC game when we put up 3.4ypc and 200 total yards rushing AND passed for over 100 yards for the second straight week. 

[D3_DPUFan]

There are a few hotel options...Holiday Inn Express, LaQuinta, Hampton, and then either a Comfort or Quality Inn (can't remember which)...those four are all literally next to each other.  There's also a place called the Stone Bridge which is where a lot of visiting teams stay.

As far as eating/drinking establishments, there are a few options...Cellarman's is a pretty decent local bar that also has some of the best pizza I've ever had, as well as a large beer selection.  City Limits is another restaurant/bar that's got cheap food and beer, and makes great burgers.  If you want some Mexican food, La Mesa is the best in the area, and is right next door to Cellarman's.

On top of those, there are the chains like Buffalo Wild Wings, Texas Roadhouse, Chili's, Red Lobster, Cheddars, El Chico's, Jalapeno Tree, Olive Garden, and a few others.  The chains are all right in the same area, and right by the four main hotels.  Cellarman's and La Mesa are closer to campus, and City Limits is a few miles down the road from those two places, not coincidentally on the city limits between Sherman and Denison.

Great...thanks for the info...is that Stone Bridge OK?

[TigerDad]

http://www.afca.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9300&ATCLID=1613012

The new AFCA poll is out with Millsaps at #7 and Trinity at #8, the poll looks different than the DIII Top 25, the biggest poll comes out tomorrow with the Regional rankings having heavy influence on playoff invitations for Pool C.

And the ASC powerhouse UMHB Crusaders plummet to #9 (just below MC and TU)!!  Wow ... guess that wasn't such a fun trip to Oregon after all.  I'm gonna have to save a copy of this week's poll ... Trinity ABOVE UMHB.  Somebody pinch me.

[MajorDad]

http://www.afca.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9300&ATCLID=1613012

The new AFCA poll is out with Millsaps at #7 and Trinity at #8, the poll looks different than the DIII Top 25, the biggest poll comes out tomorrow with the Regional rankings having heavy influence on playoff invitations for Pool C.

And the ASC powerhouse UMHB Crusaders plummet to #9 (just below MC and TU)!!  Wow ... guess that wasn't such a fun trip to Oregon after all.  I'm gonna have to save a copy of this week's poll ... Trinity ABOVE UMHB.  Somebody pinch me.

I couldn't fine the pinch me smiley, will this work........

[KentATM]

There are a few hotel options...Holiday Inn Express, LaQuinta, Hampton, and then either a Comfort or Quality Inn (can't remember which)...those four are all literally next to each other.  There's also a place called the Stone Bridge which is where a lot of visiting teams stay.

As far as eating/drinking establishments, there are a few options...Cellarman's is a pretty decent local bar that also has some of the best pizza I've ever had, as well as a large beer selection.  City Limits is another restaurant/bar that's got cheap food and beer, and makes great burgers.  If you want some Mexican food, La Mesa is the best in the area, and is right next door to Cellarman's.

On top of those, there are the chains like Buffalo Wild Wings, Texas Roadhouse, Chili's, Red Lobster, Cheddars, El Chico's, Jalapeno Tree, Olive Garden, and a few others.  The chains are all right in the same area, and right by the four main hotels.  Cellarman's and La Mesa are closer to campus, and City Limits is a few miles down the road from those two places, not coincidentally on the city limits between Sherman and Denison.

Great...thanks for the info...is that Stone Bridge OK?

I honestly would go for the Hampton, La Quinta or the Holiday Express b/c they are all fairly new and are right at 75 and 82 and the newer movie theater chain store/restaurant development. Don't know much about the Stone Bridge other than the pictures on their site make it look tacky as all hell (as most hotels in that price range are i suppose) Do NOT stay at the Sherman Inn (formerly Days Inn) or Executive Inn. 

Cellermans on Texhoma is pretty much the favorite place AC students go to and I definitely recommend it if you like a wide variety of beers.  If you like shots though they are all $5 a pop which kind of sucks.  I LOVE their big spud and spinach artichoke dip. 

City Limits, also on Texhoma,  does have good burgers.  I always thought the place looked like a strip club from its sign. 

Another favorite is Taqueria Abuela on Travis and King which is near downtown.  It was literally a taco stand up until last year when they expanded to a small restaurant and most students still call it the burrito or taco stand.

MG's on North Woods street is good if you like stuff like chicken fried steak, slider burgers and good old all American heart attack food.

Ferra's (formerly Barri's) on Texhoma is decent enough cheap Italian food. 

I was personally never much of a fan of La Mesa but it is packed quite often so I'm probably in the minority on that one.

[DPU3619]

Since we're trowing stats around........ Rhodes is giving up 2.1 ypc and 92.1 yards per game, including the AC game when we put up 3.4ypc and 200 total yards rushing AND passed for over 100 yards for the second straight week. 

In all fairness, if DePauw gets out of Saturday with Austin gaining just 300 yards and they don't turn it over 4 or 5 times, I think they're going to feel pretty confident that they can score enough to win the football game.  This still is the best passing offense in the conference.  Plus, I'm sure that DePauw defense is excited about playing an offense that ISN'T running spread.

Rhodes has historically had a good defense, and Austin is indeed getting better.  You mentioned hanging 300 on the Lynx, but the Roo's haven't even gotten to 200 against DePauw in their 2 previous meetings.

[frank_ezelle]

.....This still is the best passing offense in the conference......

I didn't even look at the SCAC Stats page for the numbers.  Regardless of what the numbers say, I'm not so sure that you'd find many who would put the DePauw passing offense over that of Millsaps, especially since Juan Joseph rarely sees any 4th quarter action.  All that being said, I will agree that the DePauw passing attack has been impressive in recent weeks.

[DPU3619]

.....This still is the best passing offense in the conference......

I didn't even look at the SCAC Stats page for the numbers.  Regardless of what the numbers say, I'm not so sure that you'd find many who would put the DePauw passing offense over that of Millsaps, especially since Juan Joseph rarely sees any 4th quarter action.  All that being said, I will agree that the DePauw passing attack has been impressive in recent weeks.

It's only 4 yards per game, anyway.  DePauw leads the league in passing yardage at 300.6.  Millsaps is 2nd at 296.4 before a significant drop off to Trinity at 237.  Millsaps' defense has been plenty good enough to get Juan off the field after 3.  DePauw's hasn't been. 

But, the numbers are the numbers.  DePauw is this conference's best passing offense from a statisitical perspective.  That being said, I imagine that you'll gladly take the blowout wins and a very impressive +31 ppg scoring differential per game instead of inflated stats for your quarterback and the +2 ppg scoring differential that DePauw has.

EDIT:  I'm not trying to argue with you, but Juan and Spud have eerily similar efficiency numbers:

Juan: 165-254 1842yds 21TD's 3INT 150.8 efficiency
Spud: 157-245 2032yds 18TD's 11INT 149.0 efficiency

[fb52]

.....This still is the best passing offense in the conference......

I didn't even look at the SCAC Stats page for the numbers.  Regardless of what the numbers say, I'm not so sure that you'd find many who would put the DePauw passing offense over that of Millsaps, especially since Juan Joseph rarely sees any 4th quarter action.  All that being said, I will agree that the DePauw passing attack has been impressive in recent weeks.

It's only 4 yards per game, anyway.  DePauw leads the league in passing yardage at 300.6.  Millsaps is 2nd at 296.4 before a significant drop off to Trinity at 237.  Millsaps' defense has been plenty good enough to get Juan off the field after 3.  DePauw's hasn't been. 

But, the numbers are the numbers.  DePauw is this conference's best passing offense from a statisitical perspective.  That being said, I imagine that you'll gladly take the blowout wins and a very impressive +31 ppg scoring differential per game instead of inflated stats for your quarterback and the +2 ppg scoring differential that DePauw has.

EDIT:  I'm not trying to argue with you, but Juan and Spud have eerily similar efficiency numbers:

Juan: 165-254 1842yds 21TD's 3INT 150.8 efficiency
Spud: 157-245 2032yds 18TD's 11INT 149.0 efficiency

For the sake of accuracy if the SCAC stats are up to date this is what it says. Both QB's are really good.

PASS OFFENSE G Comp Att Int   Pct. Yards Avg. TD Avg/G
1. Millsaps  5 142 207 2 68.6 1475 7.1 18 295.0
2. DePauw University  5 102 177 9 57.6 1416 8.0 12 283.2
3. Trinity (Tex.)  5 112 161 4 69.6 1267 7.9 12 253.4
4. Centre College  5 102 166 5 61.4 1104 6.7 8 220.8
5. Birmingham-Southern  2 29 51 2 56.9 351 6.9 2 175.5
6. Sewanee  6 91 171 9 53.2 858 5.0 4 143.0
7. Austin College  5 38 75 6 50.7 527 7.0 2 105.4
8. Rhodes College  4 30 82 11 36.6 363 4.4 1 90.8
9. Colorado College  5 30 80 9 37.5 429 5.4 3 85.8

[fb52]

.....This still is the best passing offense in the conference......

I didn't even look at the SCAC Stats page for the numbers.  Regardless of what the numbers say, I'm not so sure that you'd find many who would put the DePauw passing offense over that of Millsaps, especially since Juan Joseph rarely sees any 4th quarter action.  All that being said, I will agree that the DePauw passing attack has been impressive in recent weeks.

It's only 4 yards per game, anyway.  DePauw leads the league in passing yardage at 300.6.  Millsaps is 2nd at 296.4 before a significant drop off to Trinity at 237.  Millsaps' defense has been plenty good enough to get Juan off the field after 3.  DePauw's hasn't been. 

But, the numbers are the numbers.  DePauw is this conference's best passing offense from a statisitical perspective.  That being said, I imagine that you'll gladly take the blowout wins and a very impressive +31 ppg scoring differential per game instead of inflated stats for your quarterback and the +2 ppg scoring differential that DePauw has.

EDIT:  I'm not trying to argue with you, but Juan and Spud have eerily similar efficiency numbers:

Juan: 165-254 1842yds 21TD's 3INT 150.8 efficiency
Spud: 157-245 2032yds 18TD's 11INT 149.0 efficiency

For the sake of accuracy if the SCAC stats are up to date this is what it says. Both QB's are really good.

PASS OFFENSE G Comp Att Int   Pct. Yards Avg. TD Avg/G
1. Millsaps  5 142 207 2 68.6 1475 7.1 18 295.0
2. DePauw University  5 102 177 9 57.6 1416 8.0 12 283.2
3. Trinity (Tex.)  5 112 161 4 69.6 1267 7.9 12 253.4
4. Centre College  5 102 166 5 61.4 1104 6.7 8 220.8
5. Birmingham-Southern  2 29 51 2 56.9 351 6.9 2 175.5
6. Sewanee  6 91 171 9 53.2 858 5.0 4 143.0
7. Austin College  5 38 75 6 50.7 527 7.0 2 105.4
8. Rhodes College  4 30 82 11 36.6 363 4.4 1 90.8
9. Colorado College  5 30 80 9 37.5 429 5.4 3 85.8

I forgot to mention these stats are SCAC games only. Wes is probably right for all games.

[rooski]

Thanks "roocru" for suggesting the get-together. It was certainly a pleasure to visit with someone with such deep A/C and DIII roots. And thanks for "saying" what some of the Roo faithful were thinking but hesitant to post about this weeks game.

While we absolutely acknowledge DePauw as the third member of the top tier in the SCAC  - I think they were pretty much expected to be in there and they certainly crushed us in Greencastle last season - I appreciate the posters allowing us to enjoy a little build up to a meaningful late season game since the Roos were not expected to be anywhere near there...

So the way I see it, the pressure is all on DePauw. I imagine they can handle it fine - but hopefully it will be fun to find out. A lot of things will need to go very well for the Roos at The Apple this Saturday. I believe they can.

{note to those attending Saturday, the game is at noon, not 1pm as originally scheduled}

[D3_DPUFan]

I honestly would go for the Hampton, La Quinta or the Holiday Express b/c they are all fairly new and are right at 75 and 82 and the newer movie theater chain store/restaurant development. Don't know much about the Stone Bridge other than the pictures on their site make it look tacky as all hell (as most hotels in that price range are i suppose) Do NOT stay at the Sherman Inn (formerly Days Inn) or Executive Inn. 

Cellermans on Texhoma is pretty much the favorite place AC students go to and I definitely recommend it if you like a wide variety of beers.  If you like shots though they are all $5 a pop which kind of sucks.  I LOVE their big spud and spinach artichoke dip. 

City Limits, also on Texhoma,  does have good burgers.  I always thought the place looked like a strip club from its sign. 

Another favorite is Taqueria Abuela on Travis and King which is near downtown.  It was literally a taco stand up until last year when they expanded to a small restaurant and most students still call it the burrito or taco stand.

MG's on North Woods street is good if you like stuff like chicken fried steak, slider burgers and good old all American heart attack food.

Ferra's (formerly Barri's) on Texhoma is decent enough cheap Italian food. 

I was personally never much of a fan of La Mesa but it is packed quite often so I'm probably in the minority on that one.

Excellent information..thank you, KentATM..looking forward to our first trip to Sherman...

[MajorDad]

Any idea what time the Regional Rankings will be out?