Not sure what is up with Tufts, but Granville Anderson, as well as Keller Rogers previously announced, is now in the transfer portal.  If both leave that would be a pretty big hit at both receiver and KR, when combined with the guys already graduating. 

Quote from: CHUBBS PETERSON on Yesterday at 11:26:36 AM"Uh, Sir? What if I told you that is EXACTLY what they're doing?"

It seemed like they may have been doing just that, except for Andrew Porter.

RE: Mount Union Run Defense

They were much better last week than in the regular season.  But I don't think they had to focus as much on the Pass game of Muhlenberg.  The Mules had a below average passing game, especially when the "passing" QB went out.

Mount's Defense will need their A Game vs. the Streaks.

Quote from: Gregory Sager on Yesterday at 10:37:56 AMI've been assiduously studying women's flag football games on YouTube in preparation for North Park's WFF debut this spring, trying to learn the lingo and see how the sport-specific rules shake out in actual game play so that I can call the games without stumbling around and looking like a tyro.

What I've mostly learned is that the Mexicans are really, really good at women's flag football, and Diana Flores is the Tom Brady of this sport.

I just assumed that flag football was mostly driven by the American suburbs, but that is interesting.

Mexico has a surprisingly long and proud history of men's college football, but I really had no idea that they were so dominant in flag football.

Apparently, flag football is also coming to the Olympics or maybe has already been an Olympic sport.

I love that North Park has a Norwegian on the squad.

Quote from: DuffMan on Yesterday at 11:22:57 AM"$hit, these Macalaster guys are good.  They don't just pull guys out of the hallway to play football."

"Uh, Sir? What if I told you that is EXACTLY what they're doing?"

Some of the "experts" have SJU as a 12.5 point underdog at UWRF. They also have Bethel as 4 point favorite.

I'll take MIAC moneyline parlay to win, and use the money to pick up the tab for the boys at Sal's on Saturday night.

LOL, John was the master of it.  "$hit, these Macalaster guys are good.  They don't just pull guys out of the hallway to play football."

Seriously, though, I think UWRF could be the best team in the nation right now.  Blaha must be about finished with his PhD for how long he's been there.

A light weekend overall for the SAA.  Trinity moves to 6-1 with a closer-than-it-needed-to-be home win against HSU; after trailing by 19 at the break, the Cowboys closed to 3 after shutting down the Tigers' three-point shooting before two techs on the HSU bench helped the Tigers escape, 81-73.  Leading scorer Dylan Walker was on crutches and did not play for Trinity.

Millsaps (5-1) surprsingly suffered their first loss of the season at formerly winless University of the Ozarks (1-6), 78-76.  After the Eagles took the lead with 1:18 to play, the Majors had no fewer than three chances to tie the game; the first was blocked, the second (after a steal with 27 seconds left) was missed, and after Ozarks missed the front half of a 1-and-1, Millsaps missed a layup with one second left.  The Majors also missed nearly half (12) of their 28 free throws.

Rhodes (5-2) also suffered its first losses of the season at the WashU tournament, to #7 Chicago (5-1) 84-70 and homestanding #4 WashU (6-0) 94-78.

Centre moved to 5-1 with a 69-66 home win against Spalding (3-2).  The visitors closed to within one with just over a minute to play, but despite forcing two Colonel turnovers and benefiting from a missed one-and-one, Spalding was unable to close the gap.

Southwestern (4-1) matched their win total of the last two seasons combined after a 71-63 win at home over struggling ETBU (2-6) in which the Tigers could not get closer than six in the last ten minutes.

Oglethorpe - who I incorrectly credited with on one win last week - lost 104-96 at home to Greensboro (2-3), moving to 2-4.  Sewanee's season from hell (where they join the equally winless Trinity women) continued with a 80-69 home loss to Berea (3-3), dropping them to 0-6.

Big games coming up the week include Trinity at their nemesis (RV, "#26") St. Thomas (5-1) and Berry at #9 Emory (3-1).

re-watched the Mount game today

- Maloney is special

- Davion Grant has grasped the Mount offense and has a rhythm with Maloney.  He is the #1 WR.  Taking the endzone shot after the INT was vintage Mount football. 

- Shaun Thomas being back is huge for Mount.  He is by far the best back between the tackles

- Stiehl is a road grader at TE, almost an extra OL in most cases. no recognition by the all-OAC teams is a travesty.

- Bowden just eats up blockers in the middle.  Mount has a good DL this year, but this could have been a '05 type DL with a healthy Jackson Harris.  Gannelli and Solis have improved leaps and bounds, but a healthy Harris is an all-OAC/AA type player.  2026 should have pretty good DL depth

- Ehrhardt keeps getting better and better each week getting back into football

- Kosta T is going to be an AA CB this year.  That'll help in the future transfer portal conversations.  Kudos to Kosta and CB coach Lou Berry. (I'm sure Blue Streaks remember him)

- Liebler literally never gets thrown at

- much quicker/crisper pace offensively.  plays were in and snapped 5-10 sec earlier nearly every play...chef's kiss

- gotta work on the kick coverage when we're not getting touchbacks

- lets hope for a much bigger crowd with no thanksgiving break and UM/OSU game, the boys deserve it.

Quote from: sjujohnnie on December 01, 2025, 10:30:21 PMApparently no one's giving St John's a chance whatsoever.

I'd characterize it more as calling UWRF the most formidable opponent SJU has met so far this year, and even through navy tinted goggles I'd not disagree with that assessment. Acknowledging the difficulty of the task ahead and saying it's insurmountable are two different things.

This is also a vestige of the lasting impression Coach Gagliardi (John, sorry) left on his players and fans. He often talked up opponents during the week and then his teams went through said opponents "like ___ through a tin horn" (banger quote from Coach Saban) on Saturday. Austin Murphy mentioned this at least once in his book on SJU.