FB: Southern Athletic Association

[BSCpanthers]

If they have that would be unfortunately. Especially this weekend playing Trinity since they are like 13 hours apart.  A lot of people were probably looking forward to watching the game through some sort of streaming. 

[Pat Coleman]

For their last home game, Week 1, they didn't post a link until after I emailed them about it. SID was probably on his third or fourth day on the job at that point.

[Pat Coleman]

I just found the link and added it to Presto. It'll show up on Trinity's page too, if they have their site configured to accept other sites' links.

[Ron Boerger]

I just found the link and added it to Presto. It'll show up on Trinity's page too, if they have their site configured to accept other sites' links.

Thank you, sir.

[Ron Boerger]

Hey BSC folks, nice article on Chris Shufford from Pat and friends up on D3football.com:

https://d3football.com/columns/features/2021/chris-shufford-hasnt-missed-a-beat

[BSCpanthers]

That's a very well written article, thanks for sharing.  This team feels special right now, playing at a very high level.  This could be the year BSC takes the conference and makes some noise in the playoffs. 

[Ron Boerger]

Been a busy day for the d3fb gang ... the annual "Ranking the Conferences" story is out and the SAA comes in a respectable 8th.   The last line says it all:

The SAA has steadily improved their quality in their top half — the next step for this conference is to make a regional final and challenge the division's elites in the round of 8.

[BSCpanthers]

Been a busy day for the d3fb gang ... the annual "Ranking the Conferences" story is out and the SAA comes in a respectable 8th.   The last line says it all:

The SAA has steadily improved their quality in their top half — the next step for this conference is to make a regional final and challenge the division's elites in the round of 8.

I can agree with that statement.  Two years ago Berry won the conference and lost to Huntingdon at home in the first round of the playoffs. No excuse for that. 

[albatross]

Been a busy day for the d3fb gang ... the annual "Ranking the Conferences" story is out and the SAA comes in a respectable 8th.   The last line says it all:

The SAA has steadily improved their quality in their top half — the next step for this conference is to make a regional final and challenge the division's elites in the round of 8.

I can agree with that statement.  Two years ago Berry won the conference and lost to Huntingdon at home in the first round of the playoffs. No excuse for that.

Hendrix came sort of close to beating Huntingdon in Round 1 at their place a few years back, but some second half injuries really killed the momentum. I believe that the SAA can get over the hump consistently sometime soon!

[Ron Boerger]

Here's Berry's preview of tomorrow's game against Trinity.  They do a good job with these. 

[tigerguy]

Excited to see today if Trinity's offense can beat up good teams as well as bad teams. I wish I could say I'm hoping the Trinity/Berry game will be a close, good game; but, after Berry's big loss to UWW I think Trinity has to win by at least 10 to let the voters know they are legit. Assuming Berry's loss wasn't the result of them coming out flat (I wasn't able to watch much of the game), I don't think Trinity (or BSC) can afford a close game against Berry if the conference has a shot at a second playoff team, which I know is tough for this conference to get. Was 2011 the last time SCAC/SAA got two teams in? I know that year Trinity lost first round to the transitioning-to-D1 McMurry and Centre won first round but ran into Mount Union second round.

[Ron Boerger]

TLU made the playoffs out of the SCAC in 2014, the last SCAC playoff team, and actually gave UMHB their biggest first round challenge in recent memory, falling 27-20 (the Bulldogs didn't get to 20 until there were 96 seconds left).  Centre fell to John Carroll in the second round that year. 

Speaking of Centre, they are routing Hendrix 35-7 at the half on their way to a 4-0 start.   Trinity will face that challenge next weekend in San Antonio.

Meanwhile, Austin College is wondering again why they decided to move back to the ASC, trailing UMHB 35-0 midway in the second quarter.   One first down and 10 yards total offense isn't going to win many games ...

[tigerguy]

Is the main camera on the Berry broadcast out of focus, or is the stream quality just not great? Or maybe something just wrong with my internet?

[tigerguy]

Little better now for me. I might have jumped the gun.

[Ron Boerger]

The Berry announcers are complaining about officiating.

Penalties
Trinity 8-100 (a ninth just now was waved off)
Berry 4-30

14-6 Trinity midway 3rd quarter.