FB: Southern Athletic Association

[Hawks88]

It's been fixed since I posted and has 6PM now. 

[Ron Boerger]

Due to issues with the Jackson municipal water system, Millsaps will be spending $3.5-$4M on a project to drill two wells which will tap into a local acquifer.

OK, not terribly football-related but it's a slow time of year.

[Ron Boerger]

I got a tip that Wheaton will travel to San Antonio to play Trinity in week 2, and sure enough the Thunder has their schedule up and that indeed is their opener on September 10th.  Just a little more of a challenge than MacAlester was last season - I know where I'll be on that day. 

[BSCpanthers]

Schedules are slowly trickling out, still waiting for BSC to get there's out.  Last year it was early august before we got a finalized schedule, hoping for something earlier this season.

[Pat Coleman]

From the D3football.com standpoint, we have about 200 of the 240 team pages created for next season. You can see the schedules for each of those teams here:

https://d3football.com/teams/index

[Ron Boerger]

From the D3football.com standpoint, we have about 200 of the 240 team pages created for next season. You can see the schedules for each of those teams here:

https://d3football.com/teams/index

As a result we now see that Trinity will open with three straight home games.  In addition to Wheaton (Sep 10) and TLU (Sep 17), Sul Ross comes to town to open the season on September 3rd.

[Ralph Turner]

IIRC, doesn't SRSU show up pretty well for Trinity sports events?

[BSCpanthers]

BSC is still one of those incomplete schedules.  I'm still eyeing April 29/30 for a release.

[Ron Boerger]

Trinity schedule is finally official. 
https://twitter.com/TUFootballTX/status/1516848510569697293/photo/1

The SAA part of the schedule has been shaken up this season:


Sep 3 Sul Ross
Sep 10 Wheaton
Sep 17 TLU
Sep 23 Bye
Oct 1 @Hendrix
Oct 8 BSC
Oct 15 @Rhodes
Oct 22 Berry (Alumni Weekend)
Oct 29 @Centre
Nov 5 @Millsaps
Nov 12 Sewanee

A friendly schedule with most of the usual SAA challengers (BSC, Berry) and Wheaton at home.  Will be interesting to see if Hendrix can get back on-track; barring that, Centre should be the stiffest road challenge.

[Ron Boerger]

Southwestern (in the last year of ASC associate membership before switching to the SAA next year) took out a half-page humblebrag in the local daily announcing they converted property donated in the 1930s into $28 million.  One of the things they will do with the funds is build a multi-purpose sports complex seating 5,000 which will host football, soccer, and lacrosse.  Other uses include two new residence halls and renovation of existing buildings.

[Etchglow]

Southwestern (in the last year of ASC associate membership before switching to the SAA next year) took out a half-page humblebrag in the local daily announcing they converted property donated in the 1930s into $28 million.  One of the things they will do with the funds is build a multi-purpose sports complex seating 5,000 which will host football, soccer, and lacrosse.  Other uses include two new residence halls and renovation of existing buildings.

Aww, they won't be able to humblebrag about having the largest stadium in the area anymore...

[crufootball]

Southwestern (in the last year of ASC associate membership before switching to the SAA next year) took out a half-page humblebrag in the local daily announcing they converted property donated in the 1930s into $28 million.  One of the things they will do with the funds is build a multi-purpose sports complex seating 5,000 which will host football, soccer, and lacrosse.  Other uses include two new residence halls and renovation of existing buildings.

Wonder where the complex will be? Right now I believe they essentially have 2 full sized football fields that are only for practice and then 2 full sized fields for Lacrosse and Soccer which includes some stands. I assume they will take some of that land and repurpose it for this complex but you would think they will need to add a good deal of parking on campus to take up to 5,000 additional people on any given day.

[Etchglow]

Southwestern (in the last year of ASC associate membership before switching to the SAA next year) took out a half-page humblebrag in the local daily announcing they converted property donated in the 1930s into $28 million.  One of the things they will do with the funds is build a multi-purpose sports complex seating 5,000 which will host football, soccer, and lacrosse.  Other uses include two new residence halls and renovation of existing buildings.

Wonder where the complex will be? Right now I believe they essentially have 2 full sized football fields that are only for practice and then 2 full sized fields for Lacrosse and Soccer which includes some stands. I assume they will take some of that land and repurpose it for this complex but you would think they will need to add a good deal of parking on campus to take up to 5,000 additional people on any given day.

Yeah, they're going to have to add a considerable amount of parking.  I think they could squeeze a good bit between the practice fields and the creek.  The logistics might be strange, but I could see them replacing the practice field with the track around it.  It would be a pretty good location.

[Hawks88]

They dropped BSC to play a club team? Come on, man.

https://www.lagrangepanthers.com/sports/fball/2022-23/schedule

[BSCpanthers]

They dropped BSC to play a club team? Come on, man.

https://www.lagrangepanthers.com/sports/fball/2022-23/schedule

Wow, ended a long time rival for that........ 

Is Middle Georgia about to jump into full sponsorship of football???