FB: Southern Athletic Association

jekelish · September 07, 2013, 02:56:45 PM

Nevermind! I can see the netting behind the soccer goal now.

awadelewis · September 07, 2013, 05:27:59 PM

Final on the Mountain with Sewanee beating Depauw 0-7. I was only able to cstch the 2nd quarter during which Sewanee seemed able to run the ball well against Depauw. Have to say that I was shocked by how much Depauw's team has regressed since they were in the SCAC with us.

Shoreman · September 07, 2013, 08:16:57 PM

BSC or BSU they got the W.

Nice start for the Sewanee Tigers.

A. Lewis is correct I saw Sewanee v. Depauw 4 years ago. The DPU Tigers were very good at that time.

Glad to see Mountain Tigers get off to a good start.

Ron Boerger · September 07, 2013, 09:08:54 PM

Who saw Hendrix getting the W in their first game in decades? Wow ...

Ralph Turner · September 07, 2013, 10:40:18 PM

Quote from: Ron Boerger on September 07, 2013, 09:08:54 PM
Who saw Hendrix getting the W in their first game in decades? Wow ...

I can see the T-shirts come Monday...

Still undefeated since 19XX.

One of the indexes on the ASC Pick'em contest picked Hendrix.

I did not have the cojones!

awadelewis · September 08, 2013, 07:49:51 AM

The Hendrix game was the one of the two 1st year teams playing where I thought it would be good to bet against the predictions. Of the two, I thought Hendrix would match up better against Westminster than Berry would against Maryville.

I was more surprised by the Berry-Maryville score... really thought first-game emotions would have kept Berry in the game a little more than what the score indicates happened. Reports from friends at that game did say they had a good crowd in Rome and I hope they can keep that excitement going.

Pat Coleman · September 08, 2013, 01:36:10 PM

Quote from: Shoreman on September 06, 2013, 09:38:24 AM
Bit of a reach I'll admit, but Bethany's Grimmard is a very solid QB. Pre season All American.

Only on one of those lists that had 20 quarterbacks and 500 players. "Very solid" doesn't equate to "All American" in most people's minds.

Shoreman · September 08, 2013, 08:16:37 PM

Bethany gave the Colonels a run at home!

cush · September 09, 2013, 10:43:10 AM

http://berryvikings.com/sports/fball/2013-14/releases/20130907ar10j9

did i read that right? 6700 at the berry game? very impressive attendance.

Ron Boerger · September 09, 2013, 11:38:01 AM

Very impressive - no doubt the SAA attendance record. Southwestern had nearly 6K show up at their opener, setting the SCAC record in their first game since the 40s.

Shoreman · September 09, 2013, 01:25:29 PM

Anyone go to the Sewanee game last weekend? Did their offense look faster on turf

cush · September 09, 2013, 03:30:55 PM

wow, not a good day for centre college. Very fishy story with the 250M gift.

Ron Boerger · September 09, 2013, 04:05:02 PM

Quote from: cush on September 09, 2013, 03:30:55 PM
wow, not a good day for centre college. Very fishy story with the 250M gift.

See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/09/centre-college-donation-withdrawn_n_3895006.html - the gift was the center(!)piece of a $500 million fundraising campaign that Centre hopes to conclude by the end of 2019. Here was the original announcement: http://giving.centre.edu/2013/08/250m-scholarship-gift/

Same thing happened to Southwestern on a smaller scale when the clown who was going to underwrite $5M of the $6M required to start football decided to take his football (and money) and go home. You make a commitment, you honor your commitment, and if there's some chance you won't be able to honor it (e.g. flaky investment strategy), don't make it in the first place.

OK, I promise to quit talking about SW on the SAA board. Sorry.

awadelewis · September 10, 2013, 10:10:03 AM

Quote from: Shoreman on September 09, 2013, 01:25:29 PM
Anyone go to the Sewanee game last weekend? Did their offense look faster on turf

Not I noticed in the couple of series that I saw while I was at the game. Will be interesting to see what happens when we get a team on the Mountain that plays the spread. I expect receivers should be able to run routes a little better on the turf. That hard-packed clay we had masquerading as grass on our field was not something that encouraged quick cuts...

awadelewis · September 10, 2013, 10:12:24 AM

Quote from: cush on September 09, 2013, 03:30:55 PM
wow, not a good day for centre college. Very fishy story with the 250M gift.

The stories I'm seeing this morning in the higher ed-related blogs imply that Centre's staff jumped the gun in announcing the gift. Lot's of "he said/they said" recriminations are on-going between the donor and school at the moment.