FB: Southern Athletic Association

[D3Navy]

Maybe this is only me feeling this way since I haven't been able to watch the past few games with great attention, but this Trinity defense is "quietly" having a superb year.

Some notable metrics from ncaa dot com:

- 4th in RDZ defense at 52.6 % (North Central is #1 at 46.2 %)
- 5th in defensive passing efficiency with a grade of 94.34 (Monmouth is #1 at 72.34)
- 10th in scoring defense at 11.78 ppg allowed (North Central is #1 with 6.56 ppg allowed)
- 12th in total defense at 231.8 ypg allowed (Monmouth is #1 with 159.8)
- 14th in passing yards allowed at 142.2 ypg (Monmouth is #1 at 96.6)
- 15th in 3rd down defense allowing 28.1% on 3rd down for opposing offenses (Monmouth is #1 at 16.8 %)

They say defense travels. This Trinity defense will need to do that this Saturday and also into the playoffs if this team wants to keeping making noise.

They'll need to maintain focus better than they did in the 4th quarter Saturday.  Millsaps had two impressive drives to add 14 points.  The TU defense seemed disinterested given they had the lead.

No killer instinct.  That needs to change during the playoffs.

[Ron Boerger]

They'll need to maintain focus better than they did in the 4th quarter Saturday.  Millsaps had two impressive drives to add 14 points.  The TU defense seemed disinterested given they had the lead.

No killer instinct.  That needs to change during the playoffs.

Apparently the coaching staff agrees, as in this week's team honors there was no defensive POW named.

[Ron Boerger]

Sewanee fired football HC Andy McCollum yesterday afternoon.  OC Tracy Malone will serve as acting HC this week.

[Ralph Turner]

Sewanee fired football HC Andy McCollum yesterday afternoon.  OC Tracy Malone will serve as acting HC this week.

Hmmm... and they are 3-6 going into the Millsaps game. That is reeasonably successful for them.

[Ron Boerger]

The feeling you get from the release is that they want to redefine what is "reasonably successful for them."  Three wins (also in 2023) is the most since a four-win season back in 2018 and the last year they were .500 was 2011 (5-5).  You have to go all the way back to 2000 to find 6-4.

[jknezek]

This is a pattern. Three or four years, fire the coach. It's been going on for a while. Something else is the issue at this point. It can't just be the wrong coach over and over.

[D3Navy]

They'll need to maintain focus better than they did in the 4th quarter Saturday.  Millsaps had two impressive drives to add 14 points.  The TU defense seemed disinterested given they had the lead.

No killer instinct.  That needs to change during the playoffs.

Apparently the coaching staff agrees, as in this week's team honors there was no defensive POW named.

Despite TJ Scannell's 15 tackles, 1.5 sacks and being named SAA defensive player of the week.  Parker Moeller also ST POW and had a BIG day on D, as well.

Message sent by Coach Urban.

[awadelewis]

This is a pattern. Three or four years, fire the coach. It's been going on for a while. Something else is the issue at this point. It can't just be the wrong coach over and over.

Three years into Coach McCollum's tenure and no signs of improvement rubbed some people the wrong way.  A lot of us were expecting to see movement towards a 0.500 season this year.   Surprises me that our VC and AD were that quick at pulling the trigger, was not expecting the call to happen until after our last game this weekend.  I think we have talent on the field but it's difficult to overcome 50+ years of a lack of success on the field.

[jknezek]

Three years into Coach McCollum's tenure and no signs of improvement rubbed some people the wrong way.  A lot of us were expecting to see movement towards a 0.500 season this year.   Surprises me that our VC and AD were that quick at pulling the trigger, was not expecting the call to happen until after our last game this weekend.  I think we have talent on the field but it's difficult to overcome 50+ years of a lack of success on the field.

I mean, I get it. But Black got 3 years, Laurendine 5, Rundle 5, McCollum 3. Windham was the last one that was there for any amount of time, 10 years. I'm just surprised. At some point, Sewanee has to stop blaming the coaches. If they want a winning program, or at least not a losing one, they are going to have to do something on the admin side to support it. Other sports programs at Sewanee are quality programs. While football is always the outlier due to roster size, it still should be possible even in a conference with quality opponents like the SAA, to get to .500 at least some years.

[Ron Boerger]

Week 11 projections, courtesy Hansen Ratings:

@Maryville 19 Trinity 28 (Tigers 72% to win)
@Southwestern 12 Berry 42 (Vikings 97% to win)
@Millsaps 34 Sewanee 16 (Majors 87% to win)
@Rhodes 11 Centre 35 (Colonels 94% to win)

While rain was in the forecast earlier this week, it now looks like fine fall weather in Tennessee with a high near 70 for what should be a very interesting game between the Scots and the Tigers.  Maryville has the slightest of chances at a Pool C bid with a win according to the prognosticators (Hansen estimates them at 0.2%) and the Scots would love to end their season on a high regardless.

[nineohnine]

Wow. What an amazing catch by Tavarez to open up the scoring for Trinity.

[MCScots2013]

Maryville's offensive line is terrible. Ever since Millsaps found out that they could pressure Rollins it's been like this week in and week out

[tigerguy]

Tavarez is a stud at this level. It is incredibly disappointing that BJ Stewart transferred to UMHB because that duo would have been deadly together on this offense. Think BJ only played like 1.5 games last year before he got hurt or whatever happened where he stopped playing.