Nine countable games. They have the all too familiar matchup with Westgate Christian on October 17.

Quote from: Ron Boerger on February 21, 2026, 03:52:13 PMUMHB will open at Rowan this season.  Hopefully that will quiet the critics for a minute (ha!).

Nah,unless we face a non-conference slate of UWW, Linfield, Trinity, North Central, and Saint Johns, I'm sure it will not be a "good look". 

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Quote from: The Third Division on February 14, 2026, 01:15:30 PMUMHB's two year scheduling agreement with Keystone screams desperation. It is not a good look for the program.

Go ahead and list the teams who are interested in scheduling a series with us. Then we can discuss which ones would be better options.

One would think the Division 3 philosophy is grounded in conference and regional competition rather than national and most schools are interested in scheduling as such.

Oh wait: It is

I know you all filter everything through the lens of "What's best for the football team?" which means you think everyone's just too scared to play you, but the sooner you realize that most D3 institutions have bigger concerns than the football team picking up an elite OOC game, the easier it'll be for you.

Thanks, you just proved my point.

We have limited options in our region to schedule, and few schools from outside our region want to play us, so we're forced to schedule those who do. Then you trolls come around offering unsolicited critiques of our scheduling without offering any ideas for what a program in our position should do differently.

What about the possibility that it's not that they don't want to play you, but rather that they are unwilling to take on the extra cost of a trip to Texas?

That's probably the case with many of them. That doesn't explain why so many are unwilling to schedule us at home, given that Harmon has been willing to schedule standalone road games, but I'm sure geography is a factor.

However, the scheduling challenges remain regardless of the reasons they don't want to schedule us, which is why we are forced to schedule whoever is willing to play us. I still haven't seen any suggestions from the backseat drivers as to what UMHB should be doing differently.

Quote from: IC798891 on February 16, 2026, 01:03:54 PM

Quote from: UMHB03 on February 14, 2026, 05:01:31 PM

Quote from: The Third Division on February 14, 2026, 01:15:30 PMUMHB's two year scheduling agreement with Keystone screams desperation. It is not a good look for the program.

Go ahead and list the teams who are interested in scheduling a series with us. Then we can discuss which ones would be better options.

One would think the Division 3 philosophy is grounded in conference and regional competition rather than national and most schools are interested in scheduling as such.

Oh wait: It is

I know you all filter everything through the lens of "What's best for the football team?" which means you think everyone's just too scared to play you, but the sooner you realize that most D3 institutions have bigger concerns than the football team picking up an elite OOC game, the easier it'll be for you.

Thanks, you just proved my point.

We have limited options in our region to schedule, and few schools from outside our region want to play us, so we're forced to schedule those who do. Then you trolls come around offering unsolicited critiques of our scheduling without offering any ideas for what a program in our position should do differently.

Quote from: Ralph Turner on February 14, 2026, 08:35:05 PMSadly, a 2-yr series with SRSU might be better than Keystone.

If they dropped back down to D3 they might be, but we need any opponent we can get from our own division. Being forced to play 3 non-division opponents kept us out of the playoffs last year, and we have to find even more non-conference opponents in 2026 now that we presumably aren't playing a round robin.

I'd love it if the arrogant, clueless fans of schools from regions that have plenty of neighboring programs to schedule could explain what their solution would be. Instead they just stand on their soapbox, looking down their noses and criticizing while failing to give any better suggestions.

Quote from: The Third Division on February 14, 2026, 01:15:30 PMUMHB's two year scheduling agreement with Keystone screams desperation. It is not a good look for the program.

Go ahead and list the teams who are interested in scheduling a series with us. Then we can discuss which ones would be better options.

It would be huge to get a weapon like Stewart back next year.

Try Brownwood's 94.3FM online. I'm able to catch some plays off and on when the broadcast isn't cutting out.

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Quote from: crufootball on November 12, 2025, 09:30:29 PMI have to keep believing that sanity will prevail and the ASC and SCAC will come up with something that means all of them will be able to bus to each other and only need 1 or 2 more games after that. I mean really if you combine all of us that is 10 teams, meaning 9 guaranteed games and you only have to find 1 other game.

Its either that or all of us end up with schedules that don't make sense.

UMHB - 2 NAIA school (flight last year), 1 D2 team (flight) and UWW (flight last year)
HSU - 2 NAIA schools, and Chapman (flight)
HPU - 1 NAIA school and Pacific (assume flight next year)
ETBU - 1 NAIA school

Lyon - 1 NAIA school and playing Hendrix twice due to championship weekend
Hendrix - All D3 but playing Lyon twice
Austin - Playing Centenary 3 times and Westgate Christian
Centenary -  Playing Austin 3 times and Westgate Christian
TLU - All D3 but playing McMurry 2 times
McMurry - All D3 but playing TLU 2 times and either flew to Huntingdon or had a very long bus ride

Next year both of us will need more games if neither are going to play round robin, STOP THE MADNESS!

I'd love to see the ASC go back to 10 teams, but I don't see it. I don't think the SCAC schools mind playing the same opponents 2-3 times or scheduling Westgate Christian if it means not getting their butts kicked by UMHB and HSU every year or associating with the dastardly Baptist Four.

Assuming UMHB misses the playoffs, which sadly looks to be likely, then Harmon needs to be on the phone Monday trying to get some D3 opponents scheduled for 2026. Continuing with the kind of scheduling we've had the last 2 years is not a recipe for success.

You might be correct but unless Harmon is not telling the truth he does call every D3 school and is turned down. This quote  from him was in the paper this week.

"We just want a Division III opponent to have a home-and-home series. We'll go to their place first and they still turn it down, even with us handling their flight and their buses."

If he really is that unable to find D3 opponents then he needs to be pushing the AD hard to pressure the other members into a round robin. This practice of scheduling almost exclusively non-D3 teams in non-conference is unsustainable if we ever want to be a consistent playoff program again.

Quote from: crufootball on November 12, 2025, 09:30:29 PMI have to keep believing that sanity will prevail and the ASC and SCAC will come up with something that means all of them will be able to bus to each other and only need 1 or 2 more games after that. I mean really if you combine all of us that is 10 teams, meaning 9 guaranteed games and you only have to find 1 other game.

Its either that or all of us end up with schedules that don't make sense.

UMHB - 2 NAIA school (flight last year), 1 D2 team (flight) and UWW (flight last year)
HSU - 2 NAIA schools, and Chapman (flight)
HPU - 1 NAIA school and Pacific (assume flight next year)
ETBU - 1 NAIA school

Lyon - 1 NAIA school and playing Hendrix twice due to championship weekend
Hendrix - All D3 but playing Lyon twice
Austin - Playing Centenary 3 times and Westgate Christian
Centenary -  Playing Austin 3 times and Westgate Christian
TLU - All D3 but playing McMurry 2 times
McMurry - All D3 but playing TLU 2 times and either flew to Huntingdon or had a very long bus ride

Next year both of us will need more games if neither are going to play round robin, STOP THE MADNESS!

I'd love to see the ASC go back to 10 teams, but I don't see it. I don't think the SCAC schools mind playing the same opponents 2-3 times or scheduling Westgate Christian if it means not getting their butts kicked by UMHB and HSU every year or associating with the dastardly Baptist Four.

Assuming UMHB misses the playoffs, which sadly looks to be likely, then Harmon needs to be on the phone Monday trying to get some D3 opponents scheduled for 2026. Continuing with the kind of scheduling we've had the last 2 years is not a recipe for success.

Quote from: Crubacker on November 12, 2025, 06:55:36 PMWell, this was the last year for the double round robin but they will have to find 5 Non-conf games instead of 4 next year.

I wish they would do a double round robin with the new teams. That would eliminate the necessity to finding non-conference opponents at all. Needing 5 opponents next year, we're going to be in even worse position than we were in 2024 and 2025 having to fill out the schedule with a bunch of non-D3 teams.

I was disappointed to find out how low in the playoff pecking order UMHB seems to be. I thought they'd have a pretty good shot at getting in if they beat HSU (and then Howard Payne), but it appears they're still a longshot. Hopefully we can get some breaks and several teams ahead of us lose.

The Crusaders have looked pretty close to their old selves the past six quarters. Stewart has a lot of KJ Miller in him. They'll need to keep that going next week if they want to keep their playoff hopes alive.

Not much to complain about from this week, but Michaux simply can't afford to leave so many yards/points on the field with inaccurate passes if they hope to beat HSU. He has to hit receivers more consistently when they're wide open. The tackling will need to be a bit cleaner too. There's no room for error. Should be an interesting game next Saturday.

Quote from: CruFrenzy on October 19, 2025, 12:35:31 PM

Quote from: zipmac22 on October 19, 2025, 12:08:16 AMI bet if the offense was allowed to actual use real plays instead of running up the middle a lot of the times. Or perhaps when the defense actually wrap their arms around the ball carrier to tackle instead of throwing their body through the air and hope they knock someone down.

Why are there still players on the field instead of sitting on the bench when they keep causing bonehead penalties over and over again? I have just about given up expecting to see someone different at QB. After six games the starting QB should be able to run move the ball down the field instead of all those three and out.

If Coach Harmon is able to turn the team around start playing with a purpose the fans will be there, but when we see more of the same old, same old its not going to happen.

I wrote a little about it on x but there were some positives.

For starters we do seem to finally be getting our best offensive weapons on the field at wideout. Quinci Jones #4 was probably our best portal grab in the offseason at receiver and he looked it yesterday, he's been hurt most of the season. Quinci Jones, Watson, Vidal and BJ Stewart all healthy you have your self a pretty good WR corps. The next and bigger issue like you said is QB play which has been bad all season, hate to say that but it's the truth. With 0 second half points and game after game of poor QB production idk what we have to lose, let Carson Horton play - he's the only QB that's shown any spark at all for us this season and with the improved WR's we might just have a decent shot at winning out with him in there. He's a gamer, he showed that at the end of HSU game. Small sample size yes but he rips it and again what else do we have to lose at this point?

Defensively we have to heal up. Still missing both starting defensive ends McGruder and Gaige Sanders. Get those guys back and that makes a huge difference up front.

I thought Brzezniski looked great at middle LB yesterday, good for him!!

When I saw Michaux trot out onto the field to start the game, I almost started wondering to myself if he has some kind of compromising blackmail info on Harmon or something. By all accounts Harmon is a good man, so I say that in jest, but I honestly can't comprehend what the coaches think he brings to the table that would compel them to keep putting him out there to throw one wounded duck after another every game. At 47 years old, and not in the best shape of my life, I really do think that I could complete some of the routine passes that he misses on a regular basis.

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Quote from: UMHB03 on October 14, 2025, 10:13:03 PMI think your last statement says it all. We are not most D3 programs. We have as much as any program in the country when it comes to resources to work with. There is no excuse for losing 3+ games three years in a row, likely missing the playoffs for the second time in three years (again, would be three in a row without the expanded field), and getting blown out routinely. Hardin-Simmons has officially surpassed us as a program, and it's not even close at this point.

Harmon went undefeated and made a deep playoff run in his first year with a nearly intact team coming off a dominant national championship run. Since then he has been a joke, despite sneaking into an expanded playoff and getting hot during that stretch. The ongoing problems that plague the team are not being fixed. I don't expect a national championship every year, but I do expect to see a team making progress, being regularly competitive against good teams, making the playoffs more often than not, and (heaven forbid) actually earning a playoff game AT HOME once in a while. If Harmon can't handle these reasonable standards with the resources at his disposal, he doesn't need to be leading this team. This is not close to our standard.

Not even close — we beat HSU seven games ago.

UMHB is doing a lot of things now that it didn't regularly do under Coach Pete, and the biggest difference is the level of competition.

We've faced UWW every single year in the regular season under Coach Harmon, where his record is 1–3. Coach Pete's regular season record against UWW was 0–2.

We just had to get on a plane to face a Division II team. Coach Pete's record against D2 teams in the regular season? 0–0 — because we never had to play one.

Harmon also took the team on the road to play Bethel, a program that went 22–3 in the two years before facing us. And this week, we're playing Texas Wesleyan, who is even better than that Bethel team. Coach Pete's record against NAIA opponents was 5–1, but those games were against Southern Nazarene and Southern Oregon — solid programs, but middle-of-the-road at best during those years.

I'm not trying to hand Coach Harmon a gold star. But to ignore the level of competition and the challenges he's faced compared to Pete isn't fair or accurate.

And as far as "sneaking into the playoffs" goes, my first year as a UMHB fan was 2004 — an incredible year, no doubt — but it was also the year we got steamrolled on homecoming by Hardin-Simmons.

We did narrowly beat them 7 games ago..... and we've been utterly curb-stomped by them in three of our other four most recent matchups with them. Again, they're in a different league than us right now, and it isn't getting any better. Getting blown out multiple times per season is common under Harmon. It very rarely happened when Fred was in charge.

I understand that the level of competition has been high. We used to win consistently against quality competition, and we almost ALWAYS showed up and acquitted ourselves well even in defeat. Harmon's teams don't even look like they want to be on the field half the time.

I don't expect to go undefeated every year, but I do expect to show up and compete in every game. I also expect that when we have a down year, the coach will make the necessary adjustments and corrections to get the program back on it's feet, not continue to wallow in mediocrity with the same approach that has been failing for several years.

UMHB is not some low-budget college playing in a 1,000 seat high school stadium. We have the resources and tradition to continue fielding a great program. Maintaining this level of mediocrity for multiple years at a program like ours is completely avoidable.