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#1
Quote from: Etchglow on Yesterday at 02:53:47 PM
Quote from: CruFrenzy on Yesterday at 01:35:56 PMLooks like we'll be without a few starters on offense tomorrow on the maroon and grey turf at McMurry.

Starting center Harmon and starting RB Maurice Moore banged up but should be back in the next few weeks. The good news is we have Deuce Solomon & Jet Hayes at RB to take the workload, man our RB room is loaded. Not the same story on the O Line unfortunately. Need all the starters we can get there.

Defensively I've noticed Gaige Sanders has been playing limited snaps at DE for a lot of the season. Idk if that's an injury thing or just a rotational thing but he was probably our best defensive lineman coming into the season - hopefully he is 100% soon if it's an injury thing.

Harmon has been hurt for a few weeks now. Only played in 3 games according to the stats.

Is harmon stil trying to recover from losing to endicott at home or coaching from the press box?
#2
Quote from: DriftlessDuhawk on October 22, 2026, 08:01:38 AMhttps://rollrivers.com/tournaments/?id=477

Team selection for the Riverbend Bowl Series will come from the ARC/MWC/NACC/MIAA.

After giving a listen to the Left Hash Call podcast where Seth interviewed Marie Stroman (the ARC commissioner) I feel a bit better about some of my questions about the bowl games.

Still a bit sad about the MIAC not being involved, and I do wonder where the NACC/MWC fall into this with the Lakefront bowl already existing. Stroman did mention that the selection process would be based on each conference's process for selecting at-large teams. She also said that they would not dip below the top three teams in each conference. So if the MWC sends two teams to the NCAA tournament (thanks NPI!) and then the third team goes to the Lakefront Bowl, the MWC's fourth best team will not be invited to the Riverbend Bowl. She states that if that scenario happens the ARC will assume that bid and will send a second team.

This is an extremely convoluted excuse of not just letting the ARC and MIAA each send their best non-playoff team against each other while having the next next best non playoff team from the nacc and mwc play each other-

wait why are we giving the nacc and mwc another bowl game???
#3
Your options for getting paid as an athlete in a division 3 school is to seek an NIL deal, or get an academic/need based scholarship.

Chalking it up to "every athlete should get scholarships" in a division that was created for no athletic scholarships to exist is just absurd.

Like what if having a division of athletics with no athletic scholarships is what's keeping the structure of collegiate athletics afloat?
#4
Reminder that the MIAC abolished their constitutional ban on d3 football bowl games so that's my most likely partner

schools have relatively recently been able to schedule interesting games so I wouldn't be surprised if it started this year.
#5
We can safely rule out a scac pool c bid by now
#6
Quote from: JT2 on October 17, 2026, 05:43:25 PMRowan was close to crapping the bed hosting Kean. Won 17-13, but was behind most of the game. I might be dumb, but I'm not stupid.  I went to Glassboro State (now Rowan)... Since 1988, I can't tell you how many times Rowan smoked tough/ranked opponent, and then dump the next game to a lesser team. Doesn't matter the coach, the year etc. I really think it's a DNA thing.

One of my Dad's client's was the NY Jets... they played at the old NY Mets Shea Stadium. My Dad asked if he could get season tickets, the ticket manager said, sure how many do you want.... this was 1980. So I saw the sack exchange live, but I also saw AJ Duhe a DE, intercept 3 Richard Todd passes in the AFC championship.

This is Rowan... the only time I saw them smoke every team was 2001... and they were smoking scholarship teams. Everytime, they beat a really good team... Rowan will dump the next game to an under .500 team. Its why they've never hosted a national semi-final game.

I'm glad they barely slid past Kean, but I'm getting older and tired. Crush the teams that you should crush... every team plays Rowan hard. My alma mater is the NY Jets, until proven otherwise. Still love my team, but I always expect to be disappointed. TCNJ is the next trap game.

as rowan's former starting kicker once sais "everyone in the njac is each other's rival"
#7
Quote from: MCScots2013 on October 17, 2026, 12:42:22 PMHeard today that Centre just received an anonymous gift of $225M.

I thought to myself that Centre isn't shutting down in my lifetime, now they wont shut down when my kids die (when i have them 😭)
#8
I thought bridgewater sucked. what happened?
#9
Quote from: bashtownie on October 17, 2026, 03:54:23 PMGreat game so far at JCU. Wabash coaches had a clear gameplan from the start and the players have mostly executed. Night and day difference from the sloppy performance and questionable play calling at Dennison.

Outstanding video production for a D3 contest. Kudos to JCU.

Yeah they were using blackmagic cameras.

It was a good game - i honestly thought that with the great wall of china that jcu has for an offensive line they would win stagg, but nope wabash makes it close.
#10
Quote from: DagarmanSpartan on October 10, 2026, 08:13:45 PMWell, obviously it's going to take some time for SFU to rebuild a program.  Good to see CWRU win on their 200th anniversary homecoming.
#11
Quote from: D3 Poster on October 10, 2026, 05:34:26 PMRhodes should've canceled, tough year...and for the league, but need a team to excel in the 2nd half of the season

rhodes needs to declare affiliate membership in the usa south or scac
#12
I was almost gonna miss this game until I saw that it was 1v2 and the iowa game i was planning on going to didn't seem as competitive.

Really happy I went and especially happy for the thunder who won their first bell game since 2019.

Also enjoyed meeting pat coleman and kobe manzo of d1 rejects in person.

8 hours of driving over the next 2 days coming next.
#14
I know that when Carnegie Mellon left for the Centennial last year, their head coach noted that overnight hotel stays was part of the reason for joining that conference so that if they can make the playoffs again they can be accustomed to that type of travel.

it was also because Carnegie is in the UAA which is the most division 1-esque d3 conference. (schools all over country basically)
#15
Calling it right now. Gallaudet, dean, and hilbert would gladly rejoin the "new and improved" ECFC. any other takers for this dumpster fire of a conference?