FB: Southern Athletic Association

[awadelewis]

Planning to be at the W&L game week 2. If you are going to be there let me know so we can say hi. Looking forward to seeing Sewanee again. Try number 5 for a non raining visit.

I should be on campus next Saturday.   Weather forecast at the moment is saying the heavy weather should clear out by Friday.   I'm usually on the fence on the 40-yd line towards the flagpole... just look for the big guy wearing the brown fedora.

[jknezek]

Planning to be at the W&L game week 2. If you are going to be there let me know so we can say hi. Looking forward to seeing Sewanee again. Try number 5 for a non raining visit.

I should be on campus next Saturday.   Weather forecast at the moment is saying the heavy weather should clear out by Friday.   I'm usually on the fence on the 40-yd line towards the flagpole... just look for the big guy wearing the brown fedora.

Will do. We should get there plenty early as we're coming in our old motor home again. Planning to not park somewhere I get blocked into this time. Hopefully we'll get a good spot by the W&L tailgate at the practice fields. We'll be hard to miss in the old coach. Feel free to stop by. Planning on having some grill pizzas and other food and should have another family with no connection to either school just hanging out to enjoy the day and game. Sometime after 11 CST is the goal, but with little kids and having to drive up from Chattanooga it's a bit hit or miss. No good campgrounds just south of the school unfortunately.

[awadelewis]

Recap from around the league for the weekend of 9/13:
Centre 34 - Defiance 7
Millsaps 30 - Mt. St. Joseph 22
Sewanee 21 - Washington and Lee 19
Rhodes 46 - Washington (Mo.) 22
Huntingdon 29 - Birmingham Southern 12
Hendrix 24 - Bacone 14
LaGrange 28 - Berry 27

Thoughts from the weekend:
Games of the weekend for me were the tough loss for Berry in 2OTs and the home team holding off W&L late.  Still looking like Centre is again the team to beat in the league.

Coming up in Week 3:
Sewanee at Randolph-Macon
W&L at Centre
Stetson at B-SC
Rhodes at Pomona-Pitzer

Thoughts:
Rhodes does the road trip to Pomona-Pitzer.  Can they go to 3-0? It's week 2 of SAA vs. ODAC with Sewanee going to R-MC and W&L traveling to Centre.   B-SC taking on a Pioneer League FCS team that was drubbed 49-0 this weekend by Mercer.   Chance for an up-division win?

[awadelewis]

The Sewanee-Rhodes  rivalry one of two traditional D-III rivalries to make it into Southern Living's "South's Biggest Rivalries" sweepstakes.   The other was the HSC & R-MC rivalry in the ODAC.

http://www.southernliving.com/travel/souths-biggest-rivalries.

[Ralph Turner]

The Sewanee-Rhodes  rivalry one of two traditional D-III rivalries to make it into Southern Living's "South's Biggest Rivalries" sweepstakes.   The other was the HSC & R-MC rivalry in the ODAC.

http://www.southernliving.com/travel/souths-biggest-rivalries.

Both appropriate.

[awadelewis]

Recap from around the league for the weekend of 9/20:
Centre 28 - Washington and Lee 23
Rhodes 42 - Pomona-Pitzer 21
Randolph-Macon 34 - Sewanee 20
Stetson 37 - Birmingham-Southern 19

Thoughts:
The Centre/W&L game went about like I expected after seeing W&L play Sewanee the prior weekend.   I suspected that W&L would keep the game close and the box score seems to say they did.   The R-MC/Sewanee game was the classic example of momentum in football with R-MC using the momentum wave from a long kickoff return to break open a close game.   Rhodes is a bit of enigma  for me at the moment as I've not seen them play either live or via streaming.

Coming up in week 4:
Rhodes at Berry
Washington (Mo.) at Centre
B-SC at Hendrix
Emory &  Henry at Sewanee
Millsaps at East Texas Baptist

Thoughts:
Conference play starts up in earnest.     Sewanee continues our swing through the ODAC.   Most interesting games for me are going to be the Rhodes/Berry and B-SC/Hendrix games as they will be my first chance to take a hard look at both Rhodes and Hendrix (and I've become a Berry fan this week as well as a Sewanee fan :-) ).

[jknezek]

I'm planning to be at the Sewanee -- BSC game this weekend so long as the weather is good. Planning to get there early so I can park the motorhome up on the hill overlooking the field. Come on by to say hi if any D3 posters are around. Should have some food on the grill and other tailgating goodies.

[jknezek]

Someone get the paddles! This board has no pulse...

[awadelewis]

Not a lot of traffic... most of the folks who were regular posters stayed over on the SCAC board.  Tho' I think a lot of them are lurking around in the background.

Work is keeping me in Huntsville this weekend... my employer is hosting a major music festival on our campus and it was strongly "suggested" that we volunteer.   At least I'll have decent enough bandwidth at work to listen to the B-SC/Sewanee game.

And I'm going to keep an ear on the Millsaps/Hendrix game.   Hendrix is still undefeated at this point and will be a good test to see how they do at home against Millsaps.    Be interesting to see what happens with Rhodes/Chicago.   Will get a feel for what it'll be like when Chicago and WashU join the league next year.

[Ron Boerger]

LOL what regular posters?   SCAC board has less activity than this one ...

[jknezek]

Work is keeping me in Huntsville this weekend... my employer is hosting a major music festival on our campus and it was strongly "suggested" that we volunteer.   At least I'll have decent enough bandwidth at work to listen to the B-SC/Sewanee game.

that's a shame. I'll cheer on your Tigers this weekend.

[Just A Guy]

Not a lot of traffic... most of the folks who were regular posters stayed over on the SCAC board.  Tho' I think a lot of them are lurking around in the background.

Work is keeping me in Huntsville this weekend... my employer is hosting a major music festival on our campus and it was strongly "suggested" that we volunteer.   At least I'll have decent enough bandwidth at work to listen to the B-SC/Sewanee game.

And I'm going to keep an ear on the Millsaps/Hendrix game.   Hendrix is still undefeated at this point and will be a good test to see how they do at home against Millsaps.    Be interesting to see what happens with Rhodes/Chicago.   Will get a feel for what it'll be like when Chicago and WashU join the league next year.

I agree on both these games, I am very curious about Millsaps.

[jknezek]

Set up at BSC. Love this field. Park the motor home on the hill behin the end one and watch from my folding chairs. Best physical tailgate location. Atmosphere still needs work....

[jknezek]

Beautiful day today at BSC. Sewanee shot themselves in the foot. Repeatedly. BSC gets the win. Sewanee gets a lesson in what happens when you are not able to make 4th and short a couple times in the red zone and you keep losing fumbles in and out of the red zone.

[awadelewis]

I think the folks at the registration desk of the music festival that I had to work today thought I was demented due to agonized expression I would make every time Sewanee failed on some of those plays.   Disappointed as I had thought we had matured out of those kind of problems.

Hendrix held off a late push from Millsaps to win 35-30 to go to 4-0.   Chicago pulled off a late INT and FG to beat Rhodes 17-14.     Hendrix stays at 4-0 to stay undefeated with an off this week Centre team.   

Interesting schedule for Hendrix as they have WashU and Berry on the road and Austin at home over the next three weeks.     Votes for Hendrix in the Top 25 by the end of the month?