FB: American Southwest Conference

[Reverendbiker]

Also, not sure how I missed it, but it looks like Kaden Brown left LA Tech back in April and ended up at Trinity Valley Community College?

https://www.tvccsports.com/sports/fball/2025-26/bios/brown_kaden_i0r5

Wow--that's a long way from D1.

[tigerguy]

Any word if either scrimmage is going to be streamed?

The Mexican schools usually stream on facebook or youtube I think.

Sounds like there will be some sort of broadcast, not sure what though:
https://x.com/sebasfootball/status/1958717944193540580

https://www.youtube.com/live/diwspmGuqQY?si=jHMsC7_XzJICCBRq

[Ron Boerger]

Also, not sure how I missed it, but it looks like Kaden Brown left LA Tech back in April and ended up at Trinity Valley Community College?

https://www.tvccsports.com/sports/fball/2025-26/bios/brown_kaden_i0r5

Wow--that's a long way from D1.

Agreed.  But if the current legal trends hold, he won't lose a year of NCAA eligibility by playing at a juco.

BTW Brown was 15-28 for 207 and a TD but threw two INTs and according to Cory Hogue's review of the game " struggled with accuracy at times" in Trinity Valley's 28-15 season opening win against Independence.

[UMHB03]

I'm curious what everyone thought about the scrimmage yesterday.

I was encouraged. Without a current roster, or solid grasp on the Spanish language, it was hard to single out and evaluate many of the individual players, but the team seemed to be a lot more in-synch than they have been in the pre-season scrimmages the past few years. I was struck by how crisp the offense looked by comparison, and how much I missed Lee's scheme. Also the QBs were pretty sharp compared to what we've seen the past couple of years.

As far as critiques, they need to shore up the defensive interior. They got gashed up the middle a few too many times for my taste. Also, the center snaps were a bit sloppy at times, though that may improve with more reps.

Overall I'm excited about the potential of this team. I'll probably go back and watch the scrimmage again if they ever get around to releasing the 2025 roster.

[Crubacker]

I agree, thought the QB play was a lot better than last 2-3 yrs although there were a couple of strip sacks---that is how UANL scored their first TD.  Receivers looked very good.  D-line was pretty shaky at first, seemed to get in a better groove the second half.  Secondary could have had tighter coverage, special teams looked fantastic--great kickers, punters, return guys.  That BJ Stewart really showed out.  Linebackers---wasn't impressed------UMHB usually has great linebackers and they seemed to miss a lot of tackles and basically seemed to miss gaps 

Was impressed with the following players(numbers according to what they wore in scrimmage)--#1,11, 43, 30,50,53, 54, 44, 91, 98,97, 99.  I thought offensive line played decent but they just didn't seem to get much push.  Pass blocking was good unless UANL sent 5 or more.

Anyways, that's my 2 cents worth

[Etchglow]

One thing that hasn't been mentioned so far, and hopefully we don't need to see it much, but the punting game was on point.  #87 boomed a 46-51 yarder, and #36 hit one 48 yards to pin them on the 2.

Also, one thing that was really noticeable over the last few years is we were playing way more disciplined.  Even with all of the unsportsmanlike penalties on UANL our guys never really retaliated.  There were way fewer dumb penalties than we've had the last few years.

[Crubacker]

True!!

[crufootball]

One thing that hasn't been mentioned so far, and hopefully we don't need to see it much, but the punting game was on point.  #87 boomed a 46-51 yarder, and #36 hit one 48 yards to pin them on the 2.

Also, one thing that was really noticeable over the last few years is we were playing way more disciplined.  Even with all of the unsportsmanlike penalties on UANL our guys never really retaliated.  There were way fewer dumb penalties than we've had the last few years.

Very true, even on a play in the 4th that UANL was called for an unsportsmanlike penalty, our player didn't react very happily and Harmon immediately yelled for a new player to come on the field and you could hear him say its not what they do but how you react, player nodded and it was done.

All in all lots of positives to pull from the scrimmage, its going to be a hard season no matter what but I left the game thinking that like things felt more normal then they have the last few years.

[crufootball]

Come one, come all Ralph Turner and I are running the ASC Pick'em Contest? We will be including all ASC and SCAC games again this year.

Special note to look at the games early as there are multiple Thursday night kickoffs this first week.

[Etchglow]

Scrimmage was nice and toasty... Unofficial score was something like 56 to 27?

Michaux got the start and played probably 4-6 drives. Mouser came in after him and looked really good too. Started off moving him around out of the pocket with the rpo, had some good passes and explosive runs. Mouser probably got the most snaps and Wright came in for the fourth quarter.

Defense played decent, gave up a few runs up the middle and gave up some deep shots later in the game. Held Cisco to 13 until a couple of touchdowns in the 4th.

All in all, I'm excited for next week!

Also, RB named Lacy (sp?) looked really good at 3rd option.

[CruFrenzy]

Scrimmage was nice and toasty... Unofficial score was something like 56 to 27?

Michaux got the start and played probably 4-6 drives. Mouser came in after him and looked really good too. Started off moving him around out of the pocket with the rpo, had some good passes and explosive runs. Mouser probably got the most snaps and Wright came in for the fourth quarter.

Defense played decent, gave up a few runs up the middle and gave up some deep shots later in the game. Held Cisco to 13 until a couple of touchdowns in the 4th.

All in all, I'm excited for next week!

Also, RB named Lacy (sp?) looked really good at 3rd option.

Yep, kind of looking like Michaux and Mouser QB1 & QB2. But with how good Mouser looked today and how athletic he is I would have to imagine both guys get on the field this year.. which I kind of like. Both have looked really good.

[Reverendbiker]

Just because I couldn't sleep last night, I spent some time perusing the Crusader roster from yesterday's scrimmage with Cisco. It's not set in stone, but it will be pretty close to the roster that will drop next week. Some things to note:

-86 players were listed with numbers.
-24 were transfers (hello, portal)
-17 are freshman (that surprised me)
-10 are 6'4" or taller
-8 weigh 300# or more

Side note: Action at the line of scrimmage. Given OC Stephen Lee's recent stint as head coach at Cisco, they pretty well knew all our plays and blocking assignments and adjusted accordingly. On the flip side, we pretty well knew all of their defensive sets. Oh, yes-not my call, but I'd start Mouser. And the biggest surprise to me? #29, Trent Lacy (6'0", 210) is one hard-nosed runner. Transfer from Cisco. My bet is that he sticks on varsity and works his way into the rotation.

[Etchglow]

Just because I couldn't sleep last night, I spent some time perusing the Crusader roster from yesterday's scrimmage with Cisco. It's not set in stone, but it will be pretty close to the roster that will drop next week. Some things to note:

-86 players were listed with numbers.
-24 were transfers (hello, portal)
-17 are freshman (that surprised me)
-10 are 6'4" or taller
-8 weigh 300# or more

Side note: Action at the line of scrimmage. Given OC Stephen Lee's recent stint as head coach at Cisco, they pretty well knew all our plays and blocking assignments and adjusted accordingly. On the flip side, we pretty well knew all of their defensive sets. Oh, yes-not my call, but I'd start Mouser. And the biggest surprise to me? #29, Trent Lacy (6'0", 210) is one hard-nosed runner. Transfer from Cisco. My bet is that he sticks on varsity and works his way into the rotation.

Jealous you were able to find a roster! I figure we won't get the official roster until Thursday or Friday. As of last Friday only ~183 schools had posted rosters though. Not just a umhb thing haha.

Edit to add: do we only have two captains named so far? Noticed only two at the scrimmages...

[Reverendbiker]

Jealous you were able to find a roster! I figure we won't get the official roster until Thursday or Friday. As of last Friday only ~183 schools had posted rosters though. Not just a umhb thing haha.

Edit to add: do we only have two captains named so far? Noticed only two at the scrimmages...

When you do Randy O'Rear's performance appraisal you get a few perks. I think captains won't be named until this week.

[Etchglow]

Jealous you were able to find a roster! I figure we won't get the official roster until Thursday or Friday. As of last Friday only ~183 schools had posted rosters though. Not just a umhb thing haha.

Edit to add: do we only have two captains named so far? Noticed only two at the scrimmages...

When you do Randy O'Rear's performance appraisal you get a few perks. I think captains won't be named until this week.

Haha I suppose that would do it!