FB: American Southwest Conference

[CRULive1845]

CRUs 42pt 1st quarter matches the program record for most points scored by the CRU in a single quarter. Originally set on October 27, 2018 vs. Albright College. CRU scored 42 points in the 2nd quarter during a 91–7 blowout in Belton.

On that note I would have felt better about it had we let the 2s and 3s get game time reps running the full offense vs trying to get it over with. Those guys deserve the opportunity to get meaningful minutes executing the system vs making it garbage time to kill the clock.

All in all, felt like traditional CRU dominance over a weaker conference program. Tack on HSU's struggles against HPU (always tricky when the game is in Brownwood), I think this CRU team has a shot at the auto bid if they can TCB against ETBU this next week and win the turnover battle against HSU in two weeks.

[crufootball]

I feel really bad for schreiner who had to add football and also get bought out by the ASC to get their a**es whupped by the purple powers.

Schreiner Fall 2021 - 1,103 total students, 251 First-Time Freshmen
Schreiner Fall 206 - 1,572 total student, 472 First-Time Freshmen

I assure you, they are just fine with how this all went.

[Reverendbiker]

Did anyone else notice that ETBU sent out 4 captains for the opening coin flip, and 3 of them had transferred from UMHB?

[UMHB03]

A win is a win, but the Crusaders will have to play much better than they did today if they want to have any chance against Hardin-Simmons. With all due respect to ETBU, their defense is absolutely terrible, and we were only able to score 28 offensive points against them. A good offense should be able to do that in the first half alone. Hopefully UMHB got caught looking ahead and will be more crisp, focused, and motivated next week.

On a side note, while there's no such thing as a "good loss", the Endicott game is looking a lot less disappointing than it once did. They've won their last three games 86-0, 83-7, and 93-7. 

[Ralph Turner]

HPU kept coming back in the 52-39 McM win.
McM is likely to finish 6-4 (5-4 against D3). They go to Schreiner next Sat.

Coach Neal has built the program steadily. They have 3 losses against Top 25 & gave up 2 TDs at Dubuque in the last 6 minutes to lose 35-28.

[CruFrenzy]

It's UMHB/HSU week. Here we go!

https://x.com/CouchCru17/status/2119870564194271252?a=mh9LbGkIk7D-9S4qgbE&s=20

[Patrick Coleman]

A win is a win, but the Crusaders will have to play much better than they did today if they want to have any chance against Hardin-Simmons. With all due respect to ETBU, their defense is absolutely terrible, and we were only able to score 28 offensive points against them. A good offense should be able to do that in the first half alone. Hopefully UMHB got caught looking ahead and will be more crisp, focused, and motivated next week.

On a side note, while there's no such thing as a "good loss", the Endicott game is looking a lot less disappointing than it once did. They've won their last three games 86-0, 83-7, and 93-7. 

UMHB would have beaten all those teams by similar scores. Two of them just started/restarted football last year.

[UMHB03]

A win is a win, but the Crusaders will have to play much better than they did today if they want to have any chance against Hardin-Simmons. With all due respect to ETBU, their defense is absolutely terrible, and we were only able to score 28 offensive points against them. A good offense should be able to do that in the first half alone. Hopefully UMHB got caught looking ahead and will be more crisp, focused, and motivated next week.

On a side note, while there's no such thing as a "good loss", the Endicott game is looking a lot less disappointing than it once did. They've won their last three games 86-0, 83-7, and 93-7. 

UMHB would have beaten all those teams by similar scores. Two of them just started/restarted football last year.

Well, that's assuming Harmon didn't have them running up the middle and deliberately taking delay of game penalties on the goal line to avoid scoring like he did for the entire second half against Keystone and Schreiner.

[Ralph Turner]

Pending outcomes, are we looking at HSU vs Trinity and UMHB versus TLU, sites TBD?

[Ron Boerger]

The top 24 in NPI are supposed to get byes and if HSU wins they would probably be top eight, in that scenario hard to think even the NCAA would not give them the first week off.  If UMHB wins they end up in high teens (pending other results), HSU just inside the top 24 (ditto), both *should* have the week off but in that scenario you could see the NCAA doing its thing. 

If both Trinity and TLU win the Tigers are a few spots above the Bulldogs and Trinity *should* have earned a first-round host with TLU on the bubble.  But when travel dollars get factored in who knows if either does.  If UMHB loses they too end up below Trinity in NPI so they probably get sent to SA if the NCAA honors the "no replays of any kind in the first round" gentlemen's agreement.

[CruFrenzy]

The top 24 in NPI are supposed to get byes and if HSU wins they would probably be top eight, in that scenario hard to think even the NCAA would not give them the first week off.  If UMHB wins they end up in high teens (pending other results), HSU just inside the top 24 (ditto), both *should* have the week off but in that scenario you could see the NCAA doing its thing. 

If both Trinity and TLU win the Tigers are a few spots above the Bulldogs and Trinity *should* have earned a first-round host with TLU on the bubble.  But when travel dollars get factored in who knows if either does.  If UMHB loses they too end up below Trinity in NPI so they probably get sent to SA if the NCAA honors the "no replays of any kind in the first round" gentlemen's agreement.

Great explanation. I know there's a very slight chance with the help of some chaos around the nation the Cru could sneak into a top 12 seed.

Ithaca over Cortland in the Cortica Jug at Yankee Stadium
Salisbury over Christopher Newport

Some less likely ones:

UW LaCrosse playing spoiler over UW Platteville
Alma over Calvin