FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[Josh Bowerman]

I'm only speaking of my Austin College bretheren, Tex.

[FBCleatus]

Josh, I respect your opinion and I am in no means trying to sway you or change your opinion.  This is this just another angle.  I also felt the officating was rather weak.  That would have been weak for HS, much less NCAA football.   They did not cost AC the game.  The Roos were guilty of letting the officiating get to them.   That had more effect on the outcome than the actuall calls. IMO

I feel to be ashamed to be part of the 'Roo family' is a little strong.  I will go as far to say that I support the coaching staff having a little emotion.  I hope the staff and team will cary some of that emotion into the off-season and then into next year.  I feel all successfull programs are made up of player and coaches with a little emotion, grit, guts or whatever you want to call it.  I would be more ashamed if the team and staff showed none of these traits. From what I have seen this year, Coach Gage, his staff and players have shown alot of class.  I am not going to let one afternoon change my opinion. 

Now, the player had no right to curse the officials or any adult.  There is no way to justify that. But we are talking college students. not 9 year old kids in the youth league. I think you would hear the same stuff on every side line above Junior High, if you listened.  I am still of the opinion the AC Football program is a class act.  Not perfect!  But definitely not one to be ashamed of!  Keep fighting I am looking forward to next year.

[MajorDad]

Haven't had much access to the boards lately but I am not surprised to hear about the SCAC officiating once again taking a downward turn. TU fans don't take this the wrong way since the officiating I witnessed at the MC/TU game didn't really benifit either team but was deplorable to say the least. The common denominator is the SCAC officials not TU. The Millsaps/TU game is the worst officiating I've ever witnessed but it sounds like this weekend takes the cake, don't know, wasn't there, just going by what I see on the boards. It's really difficult to remain calm when calls are made that are completely wrong or infractions occur which aren't flagged that obviously should have been. Unsportsman like conduct is unexcusable....Period! Not a counterpoint but we are HUMAN and emotions can erupt without thought. That is life.
On a seperate note, real sad to see De Pauw didn't get in. The Millsaps Bracket appears to be, based on rankings....etc, the weaker of the bunch. I just hope Millsaps steps it back up a level and gets deep. No reason they shouldn't reach South Final or semi's for that matter, remains to be seen. Good luck MAJORS, lets take the "PURPLE REIGN" to SALEM.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[frank_ezelle]

When Millsaps Men's Basketball Coach Tim Wise became the AD at Millsaps several years ago he told me that one day he would like to have a "Bob King Day".  He was referring to Trinity AD Bob King and the success of the entire Trinity sports program--he wanted to walk between all of the athletic fields on a Saturday in the fall or spring and find that all of the Millsaps teams were winning.

Millsaps isn't there yet, but they have really made great strides in the athletic department lately:

--The baseball team was one out away from the College World Series in 2006.
--The basketball team "only" made the final 8 last year, not the final 4, losing to eventually champion Washington U. on Washington's home court.
--The football team has won 3 straight SCAC Championships (co-champs in 2007) and hopefully much more is yet to come this year.
--The soccer teams, while only mid-level in the SCAC, both just finished their best season in a decade.
--The women's basketball team has a real winner in Coach Mary Bolton--look for them to be the surprise team in the SCAC this year.
--Coach Rodriquez had the softball team in the SCAC finals last year, losing 1-0 to a DePauw team that was #1 in the nation.
--And equally important, we have an SID who is doing a great job of getting the word out about these programs which is something these coaches and athletes greatly deserve.

One final word.  I'm around Millsaps athletics a lot, often as an close observer on the sidelines.  While I'm impressed by the recents results during competition, I am even more impressed by the character of the people in the athletic program.  They are a great group of coaches and young men and women and it makes it easy for me to want to devote time to supporting the programs.

I wrote the above Saturday at 11:30 AM in response to a post by pbrooks3.  It quickly got buried by game reports on Saturday and playoff talk on Sunday.  I just thought I'd bring it forward, especially since there may be some non-SCAC folks on the board today trying to get a feel for Millsaps and their athletic program. 

As an aside and for the record, I think the officials at the Millsaps games have been fairly good in recent years.  I'm often on the visitor's sideline when taking photographs and I don't recall any memorable cases of opposing coaches feeling like they were being robbed by the officials--I have heard those complaints in basketball but I think all basketball coaches think they are being cheated by the officials most of the time.

[TrickyTroy]

Lets hope for a Millsap and HSU in south final. It will be a shootout.

[frank_ezelle]

"The Forgotten Man" (or is that Men) had this post on another board and I thought the map showing the location of the 32 playoff teams was amazing.  By the way, the forgotten man will probably be in Jackson this Saturday with the LaGrange fans.  Here's the post:

I am visual kind of guy, so I like to see how things look.

Following is a link to a google map I just created showing the location of all the playoff teams by region.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=us&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=109667184306561314872.00045be984ce706684c03

Given that one of the objectives of DIII is to contain costs, much of what the selection commitee did with regard to pairings makes sense. You don't have to like it, but if the cost containment is a heavily weighted decision criteria you can at least understand why they made the pairings they did.

[Ron Boerger]

Frank et al,

Will there be streaming video from Jackson again on Saturday?

[consultant]

Ron,
There should be streaming.  The school will need to clear the broadcast with the NCAA, which I'm sure they've done, and I believe that we should be able to tune in. 

[FerricMajor82]

There will be definitely be streaming video, but it should be better in person.  I'll be there.  Anyone else?

[Tex]

I look forward to watching the majors on the web.  GOod luck Milsaps. 

[MajorDad]

Streaming Vid out here in Qatar sucks, so I have to listen for bits and pieces so if someone could post some updates here, it would be much appreciated.

on a seperate note, those of you that have filled out a playoff pick-em bracket off the front page, once you were done, did you have a bunch of line-outs through some of the teams you chose...?

[frank_ezelle]

MajorDad--There was something in the local newspaper Monday that indicated that the game would be broadcast on a local radio station as well and that station can be heard on the internet.  I can't say that this is a certainty but I will post what I find on this later in the week.  It might be that you can link to the radio station easier than trying to stream the video.

For those fans of offensive linemen--and we know you are out there--there is a video on the Millsaps O-line that was put together by CSTV.com and this video can be found on the Millsaps football home page.  Also found on that page is a link to vote for Mike DuBose as the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year and the link you'll need for the webcast of the football show this Thursday at 7 PM.  Here's the link:

http://www.millsaps.edu/athletic/football/

[MajorDad]

Frank, thanks for that radio info. That could be the ticket for some uniterupted audio. Not having DP's soothing voice may cause me to miss something though.....LOL I'd throw a +1 karma at you if I knew how......

[frank_ezelle]

MajorDad--Don't worry.  If it is carried by the radio station it will be 1240 AM which is DP.  I don't know if DP has acquired that soothing voice yet, but Pat will be glad to hear that the broadcasts aren't quite as home-slanted as they might have been during the first year of operation.

[The Forgotten Man]

"The Forgotten Man" (or is that Men) had this post on another board and I thought the map showing the location of the 32 playoff teams was amazing.  By the way, the forgotten man will probably be in Jackson this Saturday with the LaGrange fans.  Here's the post:

I am visual kind of guy, so I like to see how things look.

Following is a link to a google map I just created showing the location of all the playoff teams by region.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=us&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=109667184306561314872.00045be984ce706684c03

Given that one of the objectives of DIII is to contain costs, much of what the selection commitee did with regard to pairings makes sense. You don't have to like it, but if the cost containment is a heavily weighted decision criteria you can at least understand why they made the pairings they did.

I'll be there. Wouldn't dream of missing it.