FB: Southern Athletic Association

[MCScots2013]

Anyone with the inside scoop on next year's conference schedules?  I'm sure it won't be a hard sell to my wife on a trip to San Antonio...

[Ron Boerger]

Anyone with the inside scoop on next year's conference schedules?  I'm sure it won't be a hard sell to my wife on a trip to San Antonio...

I thought they'd just reverse the schedules but looking at the '21 and '22 schedules, the last time there weren't changes to membership, they moved things around.  Hope for a game later in the season because September into early October can be really miserable to watch a game from the visitor side in San Antonio with the sun in your face and basically no cover. 

[Ron Boerger]

Logan Hansen game predictions for the first big week of two to close out the regular season:

@Berry 33 Maryville 17 (Berry 85% to win)
@Trinity 36 Millsaps 16 (Trinity 90% to win)
@Sewanee 13 Centre 22 (Centre 73% to win)
@Rhodes 24 Southwestern 36 (SW 79% to win)

[MCScots2013]

These Berry guys are almost unbearable to listen to. You'd think everyone on the roster craps gold the way they call the game. Centre and Trinity have much better guys in the box.

[Cowboy2]

These Berry guys are almost unbearable to listen to. You'd think everyone on the roster craps gold the way they call the game. Centre and Trinity have much better guys in the box.

They also need to invest in a new microphone. Hurt my ears listening to it. Had to mute the game eventually. You can also hear all of the coaches in the box the whole time which ruins the broadcasting.

[MCScots2013]

It's funny you can hear their coaches yell for every hold on the visiting team, yet the blatant offsides and holdings they commit and don't get flagged for...not a peep. A side note: officiating this year has been atrocious. Home games, away games, SAA, nationally. Send them back to the high school leagues.

The loudest and most obnoxious guy they have made his way to the gym at half of the beat down our men's team was putting on them. Sweet vengeance I guess.

I muted the game with 15 minutes to go in the second half. Somehow when he showed up the volume abruptly 10x.

[Ralph Turner]

Perhaps a few well placed emails to Berry might have an effect.

Your description leads me to believe the quality of the Berry broadcast ranks in the lowest quintile.

(We d3fans are usually pretty tolerant of a broadcast.)

[tigerguy]

I am used to D3 crews being homers. It's hard to have consistent announcers that are neutral when most programs use students, making the turnover routine. That being said, I also struggled watching the Berry/Trinity game and had to mute the audio several times. In fairness, however, there was a Trinity announcer a few years back that I could not stand and would routinely mute gameday audio.

It is always a treat watching a broadcast like UMHB's that has both great camera work and announcers that have been with them for some time. By the way, has Trinity used the drone camera at all this year? I don't recall seeing it - but if anything it has not been used as much as last year.

Separately - I have been ignorant of what all goes into NPI, so I was surprised to see Trinity so high in D3datacast's projections, which were spot on last year with what the NCAA released NPI rankings ended up being: https://d3datacast.com/npi/fb/

Assuming everything holds, looks likely we once again get paired first round with ASC winner, which is beyond old at this point. But we know how the playoff financing goes.

[MCScots2013]

Maryville had a guy named George DeBaby who was the absolute worst for about 10 years or more. Just a disaster. Before that we had Roger Hoover for a couple years, who last I heard called games on the Alabama network. He was a real talent. Now that I think of it, that's probably when streaming took off and became a thing. Been a while.

But for Berry, I could probably see past the master level homer-ness if the camera angles were better. Football and basketball. Football has to have a replay every snap and is late getting back to the next snap half the time or the camera is zoomed in way too close. Basketball had some technical issues yesterday with the video that made the action look like I was trying to watch the Wide World of Sports on an RCA or something (really, I can look past that. things happen), but again—camera angles all weekend were lacking. Couldn't even see half of the backboard. If students are the ones doing the production there has to be a faculty advisor that should know people want to see the dang backboard.

At least we don't have to pay FloSports for it...

[Pat Coleman]

Maryville had a guy named George DeBaby who was the absolute worst for about 10 years or more.

I remember him well -- he used to complain at us and on this board for perceived slights of Maryville in the Top 25.

[MCScots2013]

For that, Pat, I apologize on behalf of Maryville College, Maryville City, Blount County and East Tennessee. I can keep going if more is needed...

[Ron Boerger]

One thing I will say about yesterday's game before we move on to next week - Millsaps has themselves a gem of a QB in freshman Grant Bizjack.  If he can get a little more acccuracy on his throws, he is going to cause problems for people for the next three seasons.

[D3Navy]

Different, but related, Trinity used a stadium play-by-play announcer for the first time in memory.  He was OUTSTANDING and a welcome relief from the ear-splitting and usually ill-timed music.  Make this gentleman a permanent feature.  Also, noted a strong play-by-play gym announcer at the WBB game later in the day.

Also, during the Trinity - Centre game two weeks ago, Trinity actually used the no-doubt very expensive and huge video monitor to run replays during the game.  Again, OUTSTANDING!  But for some reason they didn't use it during yesterday's Millsaps game.  Having such amazing capability and not using it is tragic.

Finally, have not seen use of the drone this season.  It was a truly professional feature, and we'd love to see it back.

[Ron Boerger]

Final note on Bizjack:  his older brother Finley is a junior (basketball) guard for Butler who averaged about 10 ppg last season as a soph.

[nineohnine]

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.