Quote from: SoCalLance on November 14, 2025, 01:34:36 PMGoing to be some unusual weather for these games tomorrow in Socal.

CMS and Redlands both play on grass fields and with heavy rainfall today and tomorrow, it is going to be a mud bowl. Redlands clearly spray paints their field green so hopefully pomona has a good laundry crew for those white jerseys! 

Say what now? Redlands ground crew does a phenomenal job and it's the best natural surface football field in the west.

Quote from: DawgsOT57 on November 14, 2025, 02:39:37 PMRedlands OC looks like an E-Sports coach and looks like his placalling experience is from 3AM Tecmo Bowl marathons in Cortner Hall.  I would definitely have an issue sending my kid to play for him.  After years of excuses by Jim Good that it was too hard to be the HC and call plays, this is the best he could do?  Don't worry, SCIAC fans, this year is an outlier for Jim Good.  He will regress to the mean next year. How is the Campaign for Bulldog Athletics going? 

I'm willing to give Jim Good a chance based on this seasons improvement. Having said that, Mike Maynard established a standard that the program needs to return to, and if there is not a big leap next season, it's time for change in program leadership.

Quote from: SoCalLance on November 10, 2025, 01:13:46 PMInteresting weekend in the SCIAC.

Pomona completed 50/50 jump balls, won the field position battle and had a pick six that led them to a strong win on senior night versus Cal Lu. Cal Lu was unable to run the ball and Pomona forced the QB to scramble. The poor announcers of Pomona did a great job on the broadcast but was constantly saying with a Pomona win tonight, Cal Lutheran would not be in the SCIAC championship game, which they already had clinched before the game kicked off due to tiebreakers.

CMS has been a completely different team since they found #11 at running back. A running game mixed with strong defense is what led them to a win at Redlands. Redlands offense struggled all throughout SCIAC play only scoring a high of 17 points in regulation outside the La Verne game.  What a waste of an opportunity for Redlands to make the SCIAC championship game with Cal Lutheran getting handled by Pomona.

Chapman and LaVerne looked to be a sloppy game. Turnovers on both sides of the ball which led to touchdowns. Chapman gets the win and improves to 7-0 in conference play.

 

The key to beating a 3-3-5 defense is running power football. Mix in some traps and misdirection with it and you can will your way against that kind of defensive set up.

Redlands used to be known for high powered offenses, and it's just turned the other way unfortunately.

I'm going to give Coach Good some slack and see the season as a positive, but next season they need to take a leap offensively and just have to hope they do exactly that.

Quote from: wildcat11 on November 04, 2025, 01:45:14 PMYup!

Good for you! I know you put a lot of time into it for a long time and the end product was elite like your DE play. More time for family is always the right call. Enjoy it to the fullest!

4 wins in a row for Redlands. Well done by the players to find a way.

Quote from: wildcat11 on November 04, 2025, 01:01:14 PMNWC Week 6 Power Rankings

1. Whitworth - Looks like a 1 and done team in the postseason but they're the best we've got this year.
2. Linfield - Not sure why this team can't put it all together yet. Plenty of talent
3. L&C - Had a WR playing QB and was within 1 TD of Linfield.
4. Fox - Building for next year and could be tough in 2026.
5. PLU - Played Whitworth close so that's nice.
6. Pacific - Have Fox this weekend. We'll see if they can stay in this one.
7. Puget Sound - Have forced Linfield into some stinkers in previous years at home.
8. Willamette - Not good, but like previously said, more competitive.

Did you retire catdomealumni?

Quote from: wildcat11 on October 29, 2025, 10:13:44 AMOxy was a pretty unique set up. I did enjoy the fact Oxy's team was on the opposite side of the stands. I figured that was done so the coaching staff didn't have to listen to armchair QB's in their home crowd and less distractions.

Dale Widolff was a smart man. Too bad Oxy's trash leadership defamed and ended the career of a phenomenal coach and ultimately a proud football program with 100 years of legacy and pride. Bunch of bafoons in Eagle Rock.

Quote from: SoCalLance on October 27, 2025, 02:42:25 PMI personally like the POD system... It keeps teams in the hunt longer. I hope they keep it once Whittier and APU get introduced into the league next year.  If the league decides to go back to the old structure, Chapman would have already won the conference based off of this season with the games played/remaining schedule.

Playing teams twice in one season is stupid. The SCIAC will be back to 8 teams and let's hope Occidental wises up and restarts their program as well.

3 wins in a row for Redlands. Have to give credit where it's due in finding ways to win and it's always nice to beat Cal Lu in Thousand Oaks. Looking forward to this dumb round robin system being gone next season.

That's a very good win for Redlands. On the road against a CMS program they have not beat since 2021, and with a new QB at the helm as well. Need to build off the win though and continue the momentum in the right direction.

I like you Olddog but you're a little out of pocket here with Pat.

Pat has traveled all over the country watching and supporting D3 football and other sports for well over 25 years.

His vast knowledge on the sport nationally FAR exceeds yours and I don't say this to throw shade at you.

I watched the George Fox game as it was free and thought there were some better signs on offense with the new OC, specifically more creativity. The win at Whitworth was encouraging and thought maybe Redlands was tracking in the right direction.

However, back to back losses to Cal Lutheran and Chapman tells me that there are still a lot of structural problems within the program. I've been hard and critical towards Jim Good but will have zero issue eating some crow if he can figure it out and turn it around.

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Quote from: RFBredux on September 15, 2025, 11:49:08 AMThe Brett Elliott era at Lewis & Clark is off to a rousing start.

Indeed--the game this weekend should be a better gauge of how good they are.  Then they go back to playing the dregs of the NWC before seeing Whitworth, Lifield, and PLU in consecutive weeks starting late October.

I watched them play last weekend.  The offense looks fairly legit but the defense seems like it will get beat up by teams with decent players.

They have a very good QB and only a freshman.

The Brett Elliott era at Lewis & Clark is off to a rousing start.

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Quote from: olddog on September 09, 2025, 11:44:10 AMWorking on a theory ....as to why CA D3 teams are not better...as I always harp, it comes down to linemen
AZ dropped JC ball, Oregon and Washington do not have JC programs...AZ has club ball and Washington does too.

My premise is due to Junior College Football in CA it hurts SCIAC schools ....There are 67 junior college teams playing football in CA , and the upper half play at a very high level, somewhere between D3 and D2 in my opinion. When I played my ex mates that went to local D2 schools said our JC team would have beat them or it would be close. We had a couple part time JC guys end up starting in D2 and D3 levels too. There is talent here, it just does not make it to the SCIAC

CA Population 39.6m, used to be 40+ but guess who has run folks out...So for every 600k of population there is a JC team playing football, with the majority of kids coming from CA. Now not every JC kid can get into a CA D3 school, but I know for a fact UR loses kids to JC that have visions of playing D1 despite not having the tool box plus school is virtually free. I would just guess from known local HS players and a few JC head coaches, there are 10 to 25 kids on a JC roster that could have got into a SCIAC school,...So SCIAC schools like UR,LV,CLU,WU, and AP...could easily grab a couple more linemen...that would really bolster their program. What I am seeing any kid that has some good size test the JC market...unlike the Midwest, and our rival LF to the north.

So I would agree with almost everything, except some of the top tier JC programs would beat most D3 and D2 programs.  They have elite talent without the academic grades, so these studs who F-ed around in HS go until they can transfer to D!.

I watched American River College vs Diablo Valley College online last weekend and they are both loaded with D1 talent. California JC ball in the top 25 is pretty elite play.