FB: American Southwest Conference

[D3Navy]

McMurry almost blew a 16 point 4th quarter lead. Then held Southwestern on their final drive, then went down for a 37 yard FG late. Final McM 36-26. Lots of big plays in the game tho'. I can see a 5-4 season from them.

I'm going to disagree on the 5-4 prediction but I'm probably more bullish on this years McMurry team than most. It's worth noting they dominated the game despite the final 5.8 to 3.2 yards per play and McMurry's starting QB is on the roster but didn't play. Idk the details there but if he is not injured long term McMurry brought almost everyone back and added a few good transfers... Not sure anyone on their schedule outside of UMHB and HSU will beat them and they might even sneak up on one of the big dogs... (preferably the one on the other side of Abilene).

I look forward to an excellent game on Saturday in San Antonio!

[Bmo]

McMurry almost blew a 16 point 4th quarter lead. Then held Southwestern on their final drive, then went down for a 37 yard FG late. Final McM 36-26. Lots of big plays in the game tho'. I can see a 5-4 season from them.

I'm going to disagree on the 5-4 prediction but I'm probably more bullish on this years McMurry team than most. It's worth noting they dominated the game despite the final 5.8 to 3.2 yards per play and McMurry's starting QB is on the roster but didn't play. Idk the details there but if he is not injured long term McMurry brought almost everyone back and added a few good transfers... Not sure anyone on their schedule outside of UMHB and HSU will beat them and they might even sneak up on one of the big dogs... (preferably the one on the other side of Abilene).

I watched a little of their game with Southwestern.  They played 3 QBs and alternated throughout. The new transfer from Midwestern St, Roper, looked the best as a physical run threat and passer.  McMurry made it closer than it should have been via sloppy special teams and penalties.

[Ralph Turner]

McMurry almost blew a 16 point 4th quarter lead. Then held Southwestern on their final drive, then went down for a 37 yard FG late. Final McM 36-26. Lots of big plays in the game tho'. I can see a 5-4 season from them.

I'm going to disagree on the 5-4 prediction but I'm probably more bullish on this years McMurry team than most. It's worth noting they dominated the game despite the final 5.8 to 3.2 yards per play and McMurry's starting QB is on the roster but didn't play. Idk the details there but if he is not injured long term McMurry brought almost everyone back and added a few good transfers... Not sure anyone on their schedule outside of UMHB and HSU will beat them and they might even sneak up on one of the big dogs... (preferably the one on the other side of Abilene).

My 5-4 prediction is losses to Top 25 Trinity, HSU and UMHB and one "stupid loss" somewhere along the way. If the Southwestern game was that game where they almost blew it, then, yes, 6-3.

[CruFrenzy]

McMurry almost blew a 16 point 4th quarter lead. Then held Southwestern on their final drive, then went down for a 37 yard FG late. Final McM 36-26. Lots of big plays in the game tho'. I can see a 5-4 season from them.

I totally spaced out on the Trinity matchup this weekend. You are right they will likely be underdogs in those three games: at Trinity, vs HSU & vs UMHB.

My bold prediction is that they'll win one of those 3 games and end 7-2. We will learn a lot about them this Saturday at Trinity. Not an auto win for the Tigers by any means but the are rightfully favored.

I'm going to disagree on the 5-4 prediction but I'm probably more bullish on this years McMurry team than most. It's worth noting they dominated the game despite the final 5.8 to 3.2 yards per play and McMurry's starting QB is on the roster but didn't play. Idk the details there but if he is not injured long term McMurry brought almost everyone back and added a few good transfers... Not sure anyone on their schedule outside of UMHB and HSU will beat them and they might even sneak up on one of the big dogs... (preferably the one on the other side of Abilene).

My 5-4 prediction is losses to Top 25 Trinity, HSU and UMHB and one "stupid loss" somewhere along the way. If the Southwestern game was that game where they almost blew it, then, yes, 6-3.

[CruFrenzy]

McMurry almost blew a 16 point 4th quarter lead. Then held Southwestern on their final drive, then went down for a 37 yard FG late. Final McM 36-26. Lots of big plays in the game tho'. I can see a 5-4 season from them.

Totally blanked on that one, forgot they were playing Trinity. That could be a sneaky good game.
I'm going to disagree on the 5-4 prediction but I'm probably more bullish on this years McMurry team than most. It's worth noting they dominated the game despite the final 5.8 to 3.2 yards per play and McMurry's starting QB is on the roster but didn't play. Idk the details there but if he is not injured long term McMurry brought almost everyone back and added a few good transfers... Not sure anyone on their schedule outside of UMHB and HSU will beat them and they might even sneak up on one of the big dogs... (preferably the one on the other side of Abilene).

I look forward to an excellent game on Saturday in San Antonio!

[Ralph Turner]

The curious thing would be for a 7-2 McMurry to be in the hunt for a Pool C bid with a strong NPI that TUTx, HSU and UMHB are likely to provide.
McMurry would need good seasons out of Dubuque and Huntingdon in their respective conferences to boost the NPI

[Toby Taff]

The curious thing would be for a 7-2 McMurry to be in the hunt for a Pool C bid with a strong NPI that TUTx, HSU and UMHB are likely to provide.
McMurry would need good seasons out of Dubuque and Huntingdon in their respective conferences to boost the NPI

Side note:
The president of Dubuque is a former HSU professor, Schriener Provost, and taught at a private school in Belton while finishing his PhD at Baylor. He is very familiar with the ASC.

[zipmac22]

Has anyone seen the Game Notes posted for the Pacific Lutheran University game?

[UMHB03]

The Crusader offense has been an abomination in the first half. I'm sure the two straight weeks of long distance travel hasn't helped, but that's still no excuse for this level of ineptitude. Completely unprepared to play.

[Etchglow]

Has anyone seen the Game Notes posted for the Pacific Lutheran University game?

PLU had a 2 deep, but umhb hasn't posted crap that I've seen...

[UMHB03]

A better effort by the UMHB offense in the second half, but it still needs some work given the level of competition. Too sloppy and disjointed. The amount of turnovers was unacceptable.

The defense clearly has potential, but they will have to overcome the lack of discipline/bonehead penalties if they are ever going to be consistently great. Given that these shortcomings have been a trademark of Harmon's program since he took over, I'm not holding my breath.

On the bright side, the kick return game is elite. They are on par with the Miller/Sims combo during the glory years.

Also on the bright side, in national news, we may not have to put up with D3Fanboy coming around and trolling very often this year. Looks like his team has enough issues of their own.

On the not-so-bright side, FloSports is garbage. Nothing like paying $30 per month to watch amateur hour campus broadcasts (no game clock? seriously?), which we could have watched for free before, with a commercial breaks shoved into literally every momentary stoppage.

[Ron Boerger]

All Flo does is repackage whatever the schools produce, there is utterly no quality control or minimum standard mandated, just a video stream they can put behind a paywall.  It sucks but all the schools seem to work getting that $30K check each year makes it all worthwhile.

[Crubacker]

Sounded like the offense stunk pretty bad.

[Etchglow]

Sounded like the offense stunk pretty bad.

Shot themselves in the foot... A bunch. Moore had 2 fumbles, Horton threw two picks. Defense still had a bunch of dumb penalties. Special teams was amazing though.