Several surprisingly close games today in the conference. It may be more wide open than I thought. Probably the closest the conference has been top to bottom.

A simple solution is to do what the USA South did and split into two conferences, creating the CCS for the sports with enough for two bids while having the CCS schools remain as affiliates to the USA South in the sports that don't.

To me the conference race seems pretty wide open between 4 or 5 teams, Belhaven, Brevard, Huntingdon, LaGrange and, maybe, NC Wesleyan. SVU is sitting there at 4-0 but haven't been tested so who knows what they actually have. The Lagrange win over Centre might be the best non-conference win but I don't think anybody has really done anything so far to look like they are very far ahead of everybody else.

Girl wearing a Carleton T-shirt in Walmart Neighborhood Market in Auburn, AL this evening.

Weather
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Quote from: Hawks88 on September 20, 2025, 07:21:58 PMYes, that was incredible. Honestly, I wasn't feeling good about over-time and that happened. Unbelievable.

Watching the replay and it looks like it was actually 87 yards.

Yes, that was incredible. Honestly, I wasn't feeling good about over-time and that happened. Unbelievable.

Tough night at Berry last night. It is the most freshmen we've played probably since 2004. Lots of missed assignments and mistakes so lots of learning and growing has to happen quicky.
Kickoff and punt coverage was woeful, but that's something that should be easily fixable going forward.
On a positive note, we didn't turn the ball over at all.
Learn from it, forget it and move on to preparation for Hendrix and the home opener.

Let's go Hawks!

BTW, 5-3 opening weekend for the conference. Nicely done. I don't know if that's ever happened.

Averett was fairly competitive under Cleive Adams in his last several years there before he left for Ferrum. 

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Quote from: ziggy on September 05, 2025, 08:19:07 AMI just discovered yesterday that North Carolina Wesleyan games are on FloSports. While all the pub has been about conference broadcast rights the streamer has been acquiring, it appears they will also do deals at the institution level, which apparently happened with NCWU beginning a year ago: https://ncwsports.com/sports/2024/8/26/flosports.aspx

I'm not sure of another example of this, but then again I wasn't aware this one existed until yesterday. Only other exception to the conference all-or-nothing deals I'm aware of is when we saw the SCAC deal with FloSports announced with a couple schools opting out.

Thanks for that explanation. I was watching that game as well (poor Averett) and wondered if it was a conference-wide arrangement or not.

Yes, NCW was on Flo last season. I can't speak on last night or any of their other games but for the Huntingdon game last year, the production was miles ahead of what they had previously been putting out. I was told last year that the conference as a whole likely would join Flo sooner rather than later and all had committed to improving their productions. I didn't realize until late in the season that Huntingdon had added a play-by-play announcer, so the commentary isn't coming from the top row fans any more.  

2-0 on opening night. The conference has already surpassed last season's week one win total!

Huntingdon's roster has 160 total players. 20 seniors, 25 juniors, 29 sophomores and 86 freshmen. Outside of a few receivers and Brody Covington at H Back, there's not a whole lot of offensive production returning. Jake White with a couple of starts as a freshman last year is the only QB with experience. Not much experience back at DB either. A lot of youth will get a chance to step in and play so hopefully there are some "dudes" in that freshman class. Of the few non-freshmen who weren't on last year's roster, the only one who has previous experience that I have found was the leading receiver for Eureka last year as a freshman.

Ready to get started and see what we have.

Go Hawks!

Quote from: Ron Boerger on April 14, 2025, 10:39:25 AM

Quote from: Ron Boerger on December 09, 2024, 03:02:50 PMMaryville QB Rollins in the transfer portal.

https://x.com/brysonrollins10/status/1866183243441053920

Just a note to mention that, four months later, Mr. Rollins apparently is still in the portal as he hasn't announced a landing yet. 

Maryville's 2025 roster is posted and Rollins is on it.

Quote from: HansenRatings on August 12, 2025, 10:09:40 AMJust posted on Twitter: 2025 Conference Preview

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I could be wrong but I don't think Dorian Smith is back at Huntingdon this year.

Quote from: Kuiper on May 30, 2025, 05:48:18 PMGreat article from Jim Abbott, a consultant for small college athletics.

Good article. That name is familiar so with a little googling I see that this Jim Abbott is the one I know. He's a Huntingdon graduate and was a baseball teammate of mine in the '80's. He was a long-time AD at Oklahoma City University before retiring several years ago.