Sewanee's 2026 schedule now on our website:

9/5 Bethany College
9/12 @Brevard
9/19 NC Wesleyan
10/03 Southwestern
10/10 @Maryville
10/17 Millsaps
10/24 @Centre
10/31 @Trinity
11/07 Rhodes
11/14 @Berry

New coaching staff coming in after a bunch of drama, hoping for the best but expecting the unfortunate usual.

Appreciate you taking the time to do these updates.  I tend to not follow basketball as closely as I do football and it's good to hear what's going on around the league.

Quote from: Ron Boerger on February 13, 2026, 08:58:45 AMTrinity has less wiggle room after a loss last weekend at home to Rhodes, dropping a one-point decision despite the Lynx shooting a more typical 10-28 from beyond the arc compared to the nearly 50% performance the last time the two played. ...

Quote from: Ron Boerger on January 09, 2026, 09:26:23 AMNathan Graham rejoins Sewanee HC Joe Freitag as OC/WR coach.  Graham was receiver coach at Monmouth under Freitag the last three seasons.

That's the second hire this week by Coach Freitag of young assistant coaches from the Monmouth staff as  Cooper Gosch was hired as our new defensive coordinator on Tuesday.

Quote from: Cowboy2 on December 14, 2025, 01:52:38 AMSAA will be even tougher next year. They Already positioned themselves in the top 3 conferences of D3. Plus Trinity loses 2-3 starters on offense and 1-2 on defense. Backs up all got tons of reps because they didn't leave the starters well into the 4qt like some other teams
 

Millsaps may have a decent team next season.   They showed some life in a couple of games this season and look to be returning a bunch of people.

Quote from: Pat Coleman on December 12, 2025, 11:44:03 AMAt least they hired someone who's ever coached in Division III this time.

I still think the Andy McCollum hire was a reasonable risk as the program was in pretty poor shape after Travis Rundle left.   So trying something unusual was in order.

Hiring Coach Freitag is a safe hire and I hope he can get the ship pointed in the right direction.   Big question is going to be how all of these kids that Coach McCollum brought into the program react to the coaching change.  If not well, then we're looking at another couple of bad seasons.

But I will toss out a "Go Vikings" for tomorrow and worry again when the new season starts. 

Quote from: Ron Boerger on December 12, 2025, 09:02:16 AMI hope Coach Freitag will get the administrative support needed for a successful program. 

That's the rub, isn't it.  I had hoped that we had gotten past the "Just don't embarrass us" mentality that has kept our program mired in mediocrity for decades.

I wish Coach Freitag the best of luck as he's going to have a hard row to hoe. 

Sewanee hires Joe Freitag, OC at Monmouth, as our next head coach.

https://sewaneetigers.com/news/2025/12/11/football-sewanee-names-freitag-to-lead-football-program.aspx

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Quote from: Ron Boerger on November 28, 2025, 10:24:17 AMSpotted a pic of Anson Mount (aka Captain Pike in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) wearing a pretty ratty Sewanee Tigers ball cap.  Is he an alumnus?

In other news, every member of the D3football.com panel picked HSU to win tomorrow's game, all by a TD or more.

Per Wikipedia yes he is.

Anson's C'93, remember him as an undergraduate as I was living in Sewanee while he was in school.  Nice sort, if necessarily a bit aloof due to the fame. Commutes between the family farm in Nashville, New York, and Los Angeles.  His family is old-line Sewanee, and his father was mildly famous as one of early editors of Playboy magazine who, if my memory serves me right, was the originator of the Playboy Party School List.

Ah... still is odd name whether you decide its singular or plural.

Good bball team, tho'.   

Quote from: Ron Boerger on November 16, 2025, 09:25:30 PMThe Maroon(s?) ....

One of the those odd 1890's things... people started calling them that when they adopted that color for their uniforms.

Quote from: jknezek on November 11, 2025, 02:31:09 PMThis is a pattern. Three or four years, fire the coach. It's been going on for a while. Something else is the issue at this point. It can't just be the wrong coach over and over.

Three years into Coach McCollum's tenure and no signs of improvement rubbed some people the wrong way.  A lot of us were expecting to see movement towards a 0.500 season this year.   Surprises me that our VC and AD were that quick at pulling the trigger, was not expecting the call to happen until after our last game this weekend.  I think we have talent on the field but it's difficult to overcome 50+ years of a lack of success on the field.

The Edmund Orgill Trophy.  Rhodes leads the series since the trophy was first rewarded in 1954 but Sewanee leads the overall series going back to the late 1890s.

Watching Horn play in trash time.  He's a big kid.

The end zone stop was solid on the TU defense's part.

Starting to push us around a bit here in the 4th.

TU 13 - SEW 0 at the half.

I haven't seen a lot of consistent play from either offense. And that was one of the most egregious bad calls I've seen in a while with that PI call that led to that second score. The double pass that led to the first score was a good call.