Quote from: Ralph Turner on October 02, 2025, 10:04:16 PMWeek #4

1) TUTX 30 points  (1,1,1,2,5)
2) HSU  27 points  (2,2,3,3,3)
3) H-SC  23 points  (1,2,2,4,x)
4T) UMHB 17 points (1,3,4,6,7)
4T) Berry 17 points (4,4,4,5,6)
6) RMC    11 points  (3,5,7,7,7)
7) Maryville  10 points (5,5,6,6,x)

RV Centre  2  (6,x,x,x,x)
RV Bridgewater 1 (7,x,x,x,x)


Just my opinion, but I think that Bornpowerindex still has too much built in data to keep the indices of 2025 teams from bursting from past performances. Also, I believe that UMHB is getting much support from its non-D3 opponents, Hampden-Sydney is still carrying the burden of the previous season(s). Bornpowerindex is my 5th ballot. Any takers?

I had the same teams in a similar order. Would be awesome to get a few more R3 voters on board to see their input on placement...Should be a fun conference schedule for all the leagues in R3. I've really enjoyed seeing the Region as a whole have a lot of teams on the national stage being recognized with D3 votes!

Quote from: HSCTiger74 on September 20, 2025, 10:51:49 PM

Quote from: y_jack_lok on September 20, 2025, 10:16:10 PMIn the first week of ODAC play:

H-SC 42 - Shenandoah 7
Gallaudet 39 - Averett 30
RMC 27 - Bridgewater 3
W&L 35  - Guilford 7

The H-SC win has to be the most impressive. The Tigers must be the real deal.

RMC looked better in its win than in the first two games. The aforementioned changes certainly helped. Passing game also seemed a little different. A freshman RB (#32 Tristan Overbay) looked good in his first action of the season-- five carries for 33 yards.

I'm starting to come around, and I sure hope you're right, but the last few years have left me reluctant to jump on the bandwagon too soon. W&L have been a real problem for the Tigers recently; if we get by them I just might have to.

They opened my eyes and I've been beating the drum that they should garner votes! OOC resume is strong. Then to thump a familiar conference opponent should have their fan base very optimistic this year. Good luck!

Quote from: D3Navy on September 22, 2025, 11:50:41 AM

Quote from: tigerguy on September 22, 2025, 08:53:24 AMI hope our guys in the trenches are getting enough reps to prepare them stamina-wise for a full 4 quarters of play. I am all for getting the backups important reps, but Urban has been pulling starters fairly early in the last two games. I haven't gone back to drill down on whether it is across the board, or whether the early pulls are just QB and RBs.

Not advocating for running up the score or creating greater opportunities for injury - but we will have games this year where the starters need to play all four quarters. Close games can be won with better late-game stamina, particularly on the line.

In the PLU game, coach left starters in the game through most of the third quarter. He pulled nearly the entire    starting lineup at halftime in the game against Belhaven. It seems he recognizes the need to ensure his players are conditioned. They have a bye this coming weekend.

It's important to get reps. However, if a player is not in shape after three games in, plus a couple controlled scrimmages, at 20~years old... they will Never be in game-shape! As young as they are I'd rather have as many guys get reps to see what they are capable of in case called upon. Trinity has always had a next man up approach. You can't have confidence in players when they're only getting back up reps in the closing minutes of the 4th. It's a long season. May not have crazy stats pumping up the numbers, but Trinity hasn't ever really been about that. Very team oriented. I like seeing a lot of unfamiliar faces play....And they best way to make a run at  it is to ensure the guys in the trenches are healthy prior to conference play. 

Quote from: awadelewis on September 10, 2025, 06:42:29 PMCentre and Depauw had some pretty chippy games back when Depauw was in our league.   UPS at Southwestern is interesting just because it's not often we see one of the Pacific Northwest schools playing one of our league's teams.   I don't think Milsaps will have much trouble with Centenary but don't know enough about Austin this year to know how they'll do against Rhodes.  But my allegiances require me to say "Go <whomever is playing The School by the Zoo>"

So you're going for whoever Trinity plays each week!??

Trinity's Tyler Huettel took the AFCA's 1st Team All American Kicker award!

Berry's Brandon Cade was 2nd Team RB and Tony Garcia was 2nd Team OL

Region 3 had a good amount of players receive honors

https://www.afca.com/currys-montie-quinn-and-bethels-matt-jung-headline-the-2024-afca-division-iii-coaches-all-america-teams/

Congrats CRU! Beat the Cowboys again! If not for the bye week last week, that's 3 first round exits in 3 years for HSU 

Welp, guess we're cheering for Centre, UMHB, and Maryville this weekend. 
Also keeping eyes on TLU. Hope the team that showed up the first 59.5 min vs Southwestern missed the bus.

Was cool to see when Kyle King, KJ Miller, Brandon Jordan, Aphonso
Thomas transferred. The process worked well for them and UMHB. I mean basically the entire Offense was transfers, but they transferred within the ASC, or down a level...or two. Anyways, They stuck together, developed, Won a Natty. Pretty sure they all got some looks after college too.

I'm not knocking the ETBU kids for trying to test the portal, but they had some early success this year. If they stuck it out maybe they could built on that over next year or two and been really electric.

Best way to make it to a higher level is game film. If you're good enough they will find you. The more quality reps you can show on tape, the higher chance you have to get a look from the next level. Next level as in being post college.

All this NIL and musical chairs of transfers is getting ridiculous. Used to, a transfer would have to sit out a year and lose a season of eligibility unless they transfered down. At some point the "student" in student athlete needs to mean something to the coaching staff and admissions departments.

I'm not arguing against the transfer process, you shouldn't be married to a school if it's not a good fit, especially when paying out of your pocket (D3), but the odds of playing meaningful snaps when transferring up doesn't happen much; At least from the standpoint of getting familiar with a system that works for a player to showcase their talents for more than a season.

If a school doesn't have your major, I can see transferring after taking some entry level courses, when finding a passion for a future career. I just don't get the switching schools every year... It's not the NBA. If you want to walk on at a D1 and run out the tunnel, cool. Most guys would rather play with their best friends for 4 years and make memories while actually getting to play and travel.

On the flip side, I also don't get the lure of bringing in a bunch of transfers either. A couple here and there I understand. I'd just be shy about going to the portal every year over developing recruits. Less time and less chemistry. Also, what keeps them there and not transferring a second or third time? How do they gain confidence and growth in a system?

Anyways, that's a lot of production lost from this season of play for ETBU. I Didn't know if they were leaving from having a little conference success or changes in the program.

Why are so many  guys leaving?

You kick it. When you have an All American kicker, take it to overtime. It's college overtime not NFL. Trinity made a FG prior to that long CRU game winning drive.

As we've seen already...You never know when a defense comes up with a pick, then take a mid range FG for the win.

Not here for a pissing match but Rabson not winning the DPOTY award is like leaving John Wayne out of the conversation for best actor in western movies. The kid dominated all year and played a huge game today. Outside of Soecial Team blunders Trinity is giving HSU hell next week.

Good job to all the other players, but the fact Cade didn't get the award is BS. Maybe I'm a fan ~ Homer, whoooooo cares cause his stats back it up. His play is even better. He will go down in the history books for his STs play in his blocks. The fact he didn't get the award is a null point pint now , but he kept the game a one possession game. Loved watching him play I his first year starting after Harmel graduated.

R3 did well. 20% of the bracket are our teams. In a perfect world it would have been nice if they could have done a real 1-40 bracket $eeding to see how the teams match up amongst out of regions teams. I do like the NPI this year because it worked well for R3. The old system would surely have only sent the 4  Pool A teams to the dance.

I'm up for keeping the fan vote going as well.

Quote from: jknezek on November 22, 2024, 08:55:23 AMSorry guys. Been a busy week. Last regular season poll. We may do one after the playoffs. Kind of depends how it goes. Most years it's pretty obvious how it will end up and I don't bother, but we have a fair number of playoff participants this year. Might be more interesting.

Region 3 (South Atlantic-Ish) Fan Poll Week 11

Conferences: ASC, ODAC, SAA, SCAC, USASAC

Rank			School			Points			Weekly Change			Voter Breakdown
1			Hardin-Simmons (5)			35			0			1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1
2			R-MC			27			0			2 , 2 , 5 , 2 , 2
3			Berry			20			0			6 , 4 , 4 , 3 , 3
4			TLU			17			0			4 , 3 , 7 , 5 , 4
5			Trinity (TX)			15			0			5 , 6 , 2 , 6 , 6
6			Centre			13			1			7 , 5 , 6 , 4 , 5
7			UMHB			11			-1			3 , 3 , 7

Also Receiving Votes:
Maryville (TN) (2)

Newly Ranked: None
Dropped Out: None

1 = 1st Place Vote, 7 = 7th Place Vote in Voter Breakdown
Special Thanks to the Voters: jknezek, BSCpanthers, Cowboy2, Ralph Turner, Hawks88

Playoff Pairings:

Berry (3) hosts Maryville (RV) 11/23
Centre (7) at Carnegie Mellon 11/30
Hardin Simmons (1) hosts -- Winner of Trinity(5) hosting UMHB(6)  11/30
R-MC (2) hosts Washington and Jefferson 11/30
TLU (4) at Linfield 11/30
Trinity (5) hosts UMHB (6)  11/23

Other South Region Teams in Games:
Washington and Lee vs Wilkes (Salem, VA) 11/23
Shenandoah vs Moravian (Salem, VA) 11/23

Thanks for all the hard work and manning this up for the R3 fans every week!

So which one of you came and threw the card table upside down?? I can't make much of this but I love the rigor of trying to figure the R3 bunch out this season. It's going to be a fun back half the season with more "who beat who" this year.

Back to the drawing board.

Ballots should be interesting this week...