FB: Southern Athletic Association

[DGPugh]

olinemom makes great brownies. We drive to Salem each yr for the brownies. the fried turkey, BBQ, company of folk, stew, gun show, and football game are all secondary to her brownies.

she reallly is a real nice person......who happens to make great brownies
keep the faith

[awadelewis]

I'm perplexed because my comments over in the NWC forum that olinemom (or whomever hacked the account) appears to have been responding about really didn't make any claims about Sewanee being a "football power".    I'll hold to my comments about Willamette's defense and nothing in the reports I've read about their game with Whitworth would cause me to change my opinion about them.  Going to be real interesting to see what happens when they play Linfield.

Have to admit that the "Sewanee mindset" can rub people wrong sometimes.... we're pretty proud about our history and accomplishments both on and off the field.   

[Ralph Turner]

What 'hype from Sewanee pretending to be a football power'?  Good grief.  I think someone must have hacked olinemom's account or something because as wesleydad says, this doesn't sound like her at all.

Yeah, the same North Korean hackers that hit the US last weekend got into Olinemom's account. 

[jknezek]

I'm perplexed because my comments over in the NWC forum that olinemom (or whomever hacked the account) appears to have been responding about really didn't make any claims about Sewanee being a "football power".    I'll hold to my comments about Willamette's defense and nothing in the reports I've read about their game with Whitworth would cause me to change my opinion about them.  Going to be real interesting to see what happens when they play Linfield.

Have to admit that the "Sewanee mindset" can rub people wrong sometimes.... we're pretty proud about our history and accomplishments both on and off the field.

All I really saw on those boards was you or someone else putting up some of the pre-game fun facts and then a comment or two post-game that was benign. I think we've put this molehill up on Sewanee's Mountain!

[awadelewis]

All I really saw on those boards was you or someone else putting up some of the pre-game fun facts and then a comment or two post-game that was benign. I think we've put this molehill up on Sewanee's Mountain!

I'd agree about it being a minor thing; was a bit of an unexpected reaction.   I would like to see more OOC games between the SAA/ODAC.  Would make sense from a travel standpoint and would like to build some rivalry with some of the other schools in that league other than W&L.

As for this weekend... it's the start of an interesting month in the league with B-SC, Centre, and Millsaps all facing each other on upcoming weeks.    Mix in the fact that Trinity has to face B-SC this week and follow that up with Centre and we see an interesting combination of games to figure out who might get that elusive Pool B bid.    And the wonderful joy of facing Wesley (again, for some...)

[jknezek]

Agreed. I was really sad when Centre and W&L suspended their long-standing tradition in the early/mid 2000s. Was so happy to see it return last year and really hope it stays. With the ODAC up to 8 teams, W&L has two of the OOCs covered every year with Sewanee and Centre, two schools that share the Generals' mission and values. I couldn't be happier about that. The annual game against a Centennial team allows us to to go S (Sewanee), W (Centre), and N (from W&L anyway). That covers most of our major recruiting areas. Plus our conference games are compact and limit travel. I believe W&L really gets the best of all worlds from their schedule. Now if only they would add Birmingham Southern to boost the SOS a bit and to give me an easy drive to one game every year (providing a home and home in off years from Sewanee!).

[awadelewis]

Looks like B-SC is catching up to Trinity late in the game, with the score 23-21 in favor of Trinity with 6:38 remaining.    Millsaps is up 28-7 late in the 2Q over Sewanee.

[awadelewis]

And Trinity drives it right back in for the TD.  Trinity leads 30-21.

Half in Jackson with Millsaps leading Sewanee 35-14.

[awadelewis]

Gone final in Birmingham with Trinity beating B-SC 30-21.

[jknezek]

Gone final in Birmingham with Trinity beating B-SC 30-21.

Went to this game as much as my 3 year old daughter would stay for. First time I'd been to B-SC and it is a nice little stadium. Great facilities all around from what I can tell. As far as football, I was unimpressed. I expected to see two very good football teams and what I saw didn't really match up.

There is no doubt that both these teams have better athletes than I'm used to seeing in D3, but I didn't think they played all that good of a football game from an execution, scheme, or adjustment perspective. Trinity can't defend the pass. They can rush the passer, but they have no secondary and constantly leave open men down field.

Fortunately, B-SC can't or won't pass unless they have to. They make their living running two running backs. Sadly for B-SC, Trinity was very good at stuffing the line. B-SC could have thrown all day. In fact, anyone could have thrown all day provided they had more than 4 seconds protection. I can see why SRSU killed Trinity. B-SC was just too one dimensional into Trinity's strength for most of the game. They went 17-21 passing for 11 yards plus per play. And yet the whole middle of the game they did nothing but run for an average of 3 yards per play. Most passes came in the fourth on the last couple drives.

Trinity was a solid team, but didn't look anything special. They didn't look particularly good passing, missing open men regularly and almost never down field. They were rushing well enough not to need the pass, so at least it made sense.

Anyway, my opinion of B-SC is they are not as good as I had thought and Trinity, despite their two blowout losses, is a much better team than many in the South. Interesting outcome and I lay a lot of it on B-SC's failure to throw in the middle of the game. It certainly has me re-thinking my rankings...

[tigerguy]

I don't think you can justify saying that BSC is not a "good team", especially given the way they played Wesley. From what I saw today I will agree with you that their game plan against Trinity was just not very smart. Trinity has a very dominant defensive line but are really getting killed in the secondary bevause they have had nobody step up at the safety position with the loss of Barrett and Dubose. Any time a team opens it up in the air against TU (Sul Ross) they will then have a much easier time on the ground. BSC definitely should have tried more through the air. I don't understand why every team doesn't go to an air attack against them, honestly.

Good win for Trinity though.

[jknezek]

I don't think you can justify saying that BSC is not a "good team", especially given the way they played Wesley. From what I saw today I will agree with you that their game plan against Trinity was just not very smart. Trinity has a very dominant defensive line but are really getting killed in the secondary bevause they have had nobody step up at the safety position with the loss of Barrett and Dubose. Any time a team opens it up in the air against TU (Sul Ross) they will then have a much easier time on the ground. BSC definitely should have tried more through the air. I don't understand why every team doesn't go to an air attack against them, honestly.

Good win for Trinity though.

Nowhere in my post do I say they are "not a good team". I do say they weren't as good as I thought they would be. Please read the posts before putting words in people's mouths.

I did say they had better athletes than I'm used to seeing and I did say that Trinity is better than their losses. I just balanced that by saying B-SC didn't play a particularly good game plan, the one they had didn't work very well, and that I can easily see how a strong passing team could beat Trinity. That is different than saying either one is "not a good team"

[awadelewis]

And we have a final in Jackson, Millsaps wins 42-28 over Sewanee.   

[Major Rev]

Pretty good first half from the Majors today who led 35-14 at the break.  (Second half got a little sloppy.)  Strong day for several of the Majors offensively who at the half had won the battle for first downs 17-10.  Final statistics included: Pinciotti (199 yds passing, 2 TDs - 1 rushing, 1 passing), Barthelemy (122 yds rushing, 2 TDs), Joplin (99 receiving, 1 TD), King (92 receiving, 2 TDs).

Sewanee showed why they have a top 10 rated rushing offense running out of a double wing option, putting together several good drives against a good Millsaps defense.  But lacking a passing game (dead last in D3), the Tigers could never generate enough pace on offense to catch up.  Pre-season All-American Jeb White led the Majors with 12 tackles, anchoring a defensive scheme well-prepared for the Sewanee rushing attack.  Other defenders, all with 8 tackles, were Arnold, Bell, and Martin.  Kudos to the defensive coaching staff for a good plan, preparation, and execution.

Sewanee's defense was led by J.D. Crabtree with 12 tackles, but that's good news for him, bad news for the Tigers - he's a safety.  It's never a good sign when the other team is getting into the second level of your defense on a regular basis.

Should be good preparation for a later game with BSC, who run a similar offense. 
But there are other matters to take care of first - Rhodes, Trinity, Austin!

[Major Rev]

AND BY THE WAY ...

Thanks, you guys, for making me watch the Mississippi Miracle yet once again in the article about Top 10 Plays of the D3football.com Era.  I didn't even have to look to know it was number one.  I always liked the "Chalk Talk" version of it best!

Oh well, I guess if you're gonna be victimized by a play, it might as well be legendary!

And yes ... I was there!