FB: American Southwest Conference

[Ron Boerger]

The former Louisiana College, now NAIA Louisiana Christian, defeated D1 Northwestern State 42-37.  That's supposedly only the second time an NAIA school has defeated a D1 FCS athletic scholarship-awarding school (Presbyterian College 21 The Citadel 13, 1979).

[jknezek]

Yes, it's a great headline. Congratulations to LC. But Northwestern State is one of the worst teams in FCS. In 2022 they went 4-7. Since then, they've won 1 game. I think they forfeited half of the 2023 season, going 0-6, 0-12 in 2024, and 1-11 last year. They did beat FCS Alcorn State in week 1 last year.

Again, congratulations to LC, but take it out of a vacuum and I'm not sure it's much more than oddity of a really bad FCS team being really, really bad.

[crufootball]

Yes, it's a great headline. Congratulations to LC. But Northwestern State is one of the worst teams in FCS. In 2022 they went 4-7. Since then, they've won 1 game. I think they forfeited half of the 2023 season, going 0-6, 0-12 in 2024, and 1-11 last year. They did beat FCS Alcorn State in week 1 last year.

Again, congratulations to LC, but take it out of a vacuum and I'm not sure it's much more than oddity of a really bad FCS team being really, really bad.

There was another D3 ASC connection on the field last night, Coach Blaine McCorkle who has been at Northwestern State since 2024 after leaving Belhaven. I won't fault him for leaving but it is a shame because he appeared to have Belhaven pointed in the right direction and they have fallen off since he left and in 2+ years at Northwestern he has 1 victory. The cashgrass is usually greener as you go up in levels but it must be a hard adjustments for some coaches in the darker moments of the season.

[Mavchamp]

ETBU announced an enrollment of 2,024 for the fall.

First time they have ever crossed the 2000 threshold.

Good news when there isn't a lot of good news for small college enrollments.