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#1
"Lots of great games were played out in Georgia. It's a real head-scratcher as to why #15 Texas Lutheran decided to stay home at the last second - especially since they will not play a game outside of Texas the rest of the regular season - and since they do not play East Texas Baptist - they likely will not play a top 25 team the entire season."

TLU could now pick up some games since they have a 6 game hole in their allotted 40 games. Not sure who they would find to play but they could find some games.  I doubt ETBU and them would hook up given they will more than likely be  regional or super regional opponents.
Regarding not playing a top 25 team, in 2016 St. John Fisher never played a ranked team until they got to the National Championship tournament.  I believe they finished 3rd at the tournament and finished ranked #2.
#2

I'm not defending the exodus of those schools that have departed to get away from UMHB and HSU.....but what he's saying is absolutely false.

From 1999-2022 the ASC has been awarded 32 playoff spots. 
UMHB: 18
HSU: 11
ETBU: 1
Mississippi College 1
Louisiana College 1

No one else ever made the playoffs in the ASC....Austin, TLU, Southwestern, Belhaven, McMurry, Sul Ross, etc, etc.....

Exactly how long are they suppose to hang around to start feeling that success?  25 years seems like a good amount of time.  If they have a better shot of making the playoffs in the SCAC or the SAA or the NAIA...... who can fault that decision? 

I don't know what the solution is unless the D3 playoffs were to expand, which doesn't seem likely.

But I feel like we are doing CPR on a corpse at this point.

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I've talked to two ETBU athletes since school started and they don't know what's going to happen.  But I thought it was interesting that both of them seperately mentioned that their current AD has already move a program from D3 to D2.

I really hope that's not the plan.  I don't see how that ends positively for the Tigers.  I could be wrong......but that sounds like like a mistake.  Especially if the LSC was the destination.  GAC.....meh.  Maybe.  Ouachita Baptist has had some success..... but I still don't like it.

Lack of leadership and vision of the ASC caused this......
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I realize this is a football board but does the sport of football truly drive the conference shifting in D3?  We know it is the sole factor in Division 1 movement but in D3 is it?  Do the other sports even matter? 
While UMHB is the dominate team in football in ASC conference history; I would say in my association with the ASC they were not the "best" sports program in the conference.  UT Tyler almost always finished in the top of the ASC in the D3 rankings (I can't remember who does those rankings).  Of course they did not play football. 
But then this is Texas.
#3
Sorry to post this question here as it does not relate to the ASC but no real other place to post this.

My son took a coaching job and was there for a total of 2 weeks before the college went belly up; out of business; closed the doors.  So he is scrambling to find a job; has had several college offers but nothing that he has settled on yet.  He currently has 1 year of college coaching in football. 
He has been offered a football coaching job at a local high school that is paying him way more that he would make as a college coach at this point.  He is afraid that if he gets out of college coaching that it will be hard to get back in even if it is just for a year. 
He thinks that a future college coach will look down on a year of high school experience on his resume.  My thoughts are it is easily explained as to why he is taking the high school job and as a dad I am thinking about the money that he would make.  He thinks the experience in college out weighs that. 

Any one have any thoughts on this; espically in regards to college coaches hiring him in the future.

Thanks

#4
UT Dallas made the announcement to move to DII but stopped after a process after a year or two.  I heard it was over facilities.  Their baseball and softball fields are right on top of each other.  Only saw their gym once; wasn't anything that caught my attention.  Seems like they had lots of tennis courts.  Not sure about anything else.

I also heard that the UT System wants all of their schools to be at least DII.  That is what prompted the move for UT Tyler. 
#5
Quote from: Ron Boerger on May 18, 2023, 12:57:54 PM
Quote from: justafan12 on May 15, 2023, 04:14:57 PM
My quick observations of the bracket:

9 of the 16 host schools were Pool C selections.
UMHB gets a host site and TLU does not.
SCAC gets 2 teams into the playoff (TLU and St. Thomas).  Just saw it was 2010 when this happened last.
Berry is #1 seed in their regional but does not host.
SUNY Geneseo traveling 1,300 miles to a regional.  That has to be some kind of a D3 record for travel.
I don't follow D3 like I use to but this is the first time I remember D3 releasing regional rankings the day before the selections released.

Ah, no.  Just earlier this season the Trinity(TX) women's basketball team was shipped to Tufts for regionals, a little over 2,000 miles by car, 1750 point-to-point, and I'm certain there have been west coast teams flown further back east (or vice versa, but the latter is historically much more likely).

Should have qualified my statement as being a softball record.  I don't follow D3 women's basketball very close.
Also, I noted that in the 16 softball regionals it appears that no conference has 2 teams in the same regional.  So any conference match up will not happen until super regionals if then.  I think that  might be a first for softball.
#6
My quick observations of the bracket:

9 of the 16 host schools were Pool C selections.
UMHB gets a host site and TLU does not.
SCAC gets 2 teams into the playoff (TLU and St. Thomas).  Just saw it was 2010 when this happened last.
Berry is #1 seed in their regional but does not host.
SUNY Geneseo traveling 1,300 miles to a regional.  That has to be some kind of a D3 record for travel.
I don't follow D3 like I use to but this is the first time I remember D3 releasing regional rankings the day before the selections released.

#7
Quote from: Ralph Turner on January 20, 2023, 11:58:45 AM
Quote from: Etchglow on January 19, 2023, 06:35:53 PM
Quote from: Pat Coleman on January 19, 2023, 06:18:29 PM
There are other sports beside football where perhaps that may be more accurate.

Even counting the other sports, you're going from an 8-10 member conference with an average travel distance of ~510 miles to a 17 member conference with an average travel distance of 430 miles.
Respectively, IMHO, SRSU and D-2 is mission/vision thing, a branding thing. In some circles, D-2 is a move up in prestige. That was part of the reason that UT-Tyler, which was a very successful D-3 program, was moved up to D-2 by the powers that be. The school has not added football, yet. I think that there may be resistance by the students to additional expense to fund football, in Texas no less. (After all, you can watch UT, A&M, LSU, etc. all you want on Saturday.)

It was my understanding that the UT System wants all of their schools to be at least D2.  That is why UT Dallas made the initial move several years ago.  Not sure why that was halted so maybe the UT folks backed off their wishes.
#8
Quote from: TheChucker on December 12, 2022, 02:19:00 PM
Quote from: Etchglow on December 12, 2022, 01:19:01 PM
Looks like Connor Mullins is leaving UMHB:

https://twitter.com/_mullins33/status/1602364310088552456?s=20&t=GsgSBk9scAjg7nNcaD2u1w

I honestly didn't think D3 players needed to enter the portal to transfer.
If you enter the portal your name gets put on list for all coaches to see.  My son entered the portal from a D3 and got emails from schools he had never heard from.
#9
At one time, UT Dallas was leaving the ASC for a jump to D2..  I think they may have been delayed this to give them time to update their facilities.
Of course this is not football related but it is another school that plays most other sports leaving the ASC. With Sul Ross leaving that leaves the ASC with a max of 8 schools for all other sports.
#10
Any comments on the penalty drawn by the UMHB band?  All I heard was it was bizarre.
#11
Quote from: Ron Boerger on November 01, 2022, 03:45:23 PM
Quote from: crufootball on November 01, 2022, 03:41:01 PM
Quote from: Ron Boerger on November 01, 2022, 03:37:54 PM
If memory serves the SAA had something similar happen when WashU and UChicago joined them for a year before bolting.  SW will still need a home next year and I imagine everyone has their schedule set. 

Maybe we need to move this conversation to the dormant SCAC board, our friends in the ASC probably could care less.

Based on the potential outcomes of this I think the ASC friends very much care. Without McMurry, Southwestern, TLU and Austin College, ASC football consists of UMHB, HSU, HPU, SRS and ETBU and no AQ soon enough.

I imagine feelers are going out to Lyon even as we speak.

Lyon headed to the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

https://www.d3sports.com/notables/2022/08/lyon-to-join-sliac

#12
School was able to find a new coach for the lacrosse team but not softball.


https://morrisvillemustangs.com/news/2022/9/9/general-cofrin-tabbed-interim-head-coach-at-morrisville.aspx

Quote from: justafan12 on August 19, 2022, 10:46:08 AM
SUNY Morrisville "pauses" softball program.

https://morrisvillemustangs.com/news/2022/8/19/general-morrisville-athletics-announces-pause-on-softball-program.aspx

Their coach resigned in May and per the article on her resignation they would begin national search for a replacement.  Appears they never found a replacement.  Or did they ever plan to?  Was the softball program "paused" because they could not find a coach or was there something else.  Stinks that you wait 3 months and then tell the returning players sorry you have no program.  Article never explains why the program was paused.  Smells fishy to me.
#13
SUNY Cobleskill Names Morgan Flamholtz New Head Women's Softball Coach.

Not sure when SUNY Cobleskill's coach resigned but they have replaced her.  Meanwhile SUNY Morrisville could not seem to hire a coach from May through August so they "paused" the program (whatever that means).  The two schools are less than 100 miles apart and one can hire a coach and another can't. 

This just ain't right.



Quote from: phil on August 23, 2022, 06:12:40 PM
That stinks like last week's fish! Do you mean to tell me that a program that had no seniors and presumably their entire roster returning, couldn't find a head coach from the time theirs resigned back in May? I'm not buying it for one second. My daughter's select team has two former pro softball players who are working for peanuts as assistant coaches. There are D1 programs all over the country with young assistant coaches who would do anything to get their first head coaching position – even if it meant inheriting a 6-30 team. Way (way) back when, Trenton State College/TCNJ hired a former player of theirs (I think she was 24 yrs. old) to coach field hockey & women's lax. Thirty-Six years and 19 national championships later...

This sounds like an administration that had a plan to do this all along. Way too many talented people out there who would jump at a head coaching opportunity!
#14
SUNY Morrisville "pauses" softball program.

https://morrisvillemustangs.com/news/2022/8/19/general-morrisville-athletics-announces-pause-on-softball-program.aspx

Their coach resigned in May and per the article on her resignation they would begin national search for a replacement.  Appears they never found a replacement.  Or did they ever plan to?  Was the softball program "paused" because they could not find a coach or was there something else.  Stinks that you wait 3 months and then tell the returning players sorry you have no program.  Article never explains why the program was paused.  Smells fishy to me.