FB: Southern Athletic Association

[Ron Boerger]

No, they didn't win the ESPY the year of the Mississippi Miracle - just a free trip to the award ceremony.  A pass from Eli Manning to David Tyree in the Stupor Bowl (aka "the helmet catch") won the ESPY for Best Play.  Yawn.

[Ralph Turner]

Sorry. Those Mannings...

[crufootball]

If one could turn the TUTx-HSU game into a movie, it would be dramatic slugfest, each team countering the other's blows. HSU would be seen rising up from the adversity and driving to place the killing blow in the last minute of the movie. TUTx responds in that moment and the tipped pass on 4th & 5 turns into the pick-six. This would be the cinematic dynamic blow, with blood squirting all over the face of the screen, and obliterating HSU's chance for a dramatic ending!  Okay, bring on the CGI crew now and we will submit it for an ESPY. (Wouldn't that be TUTx's 2nd ESPY?)

Sadly for HSU fans this is a horror movie they have seen before

[D3Navy]

For those interested, the Trinity and Berry women's volleyball teams are representing the SAA very well.  Both are in the final four of the NCAA championship and could meet in the final.

Well done, ladies!

[tigerguy]

For those interested, the Trinity and Berry women's volleyball teams are representing the SAA very well.  Both are in the final four of the NCAA championship and could meet in the final.

Well done, ladies!

I felt some judgment during lunch yesterday because I had my phone out watching TU's match...

[Ron Boerger]

And Trinity's men soccer is also in their Final Four ... where the forecast for tomorrow's game are freezing temperatures after snow earlier in the day.

In other SAA news, the conference has announced the Commissioner's Cup standings after the completion of fall season sports.  They don't break down how point totals are arrived at but it looks like winning a sport with 8 participants gets you 8 points, second 7, all the way down to 1 for last.  Also interesting that points are given not based on conference championships (where held) but regular season standings (again, where held).  So for XC, based on the SAA championship results.  For football, regular season.  But for sports like VB and soccer, points are awarded based on regular season and not the SAA championships, which means Berry arguably got jobbed out of points in men's soccer and volleyball. 

1. Trinity - 47
2. Berry - 32
3. Centre - 30
4. Southwestern - 26
5. Rhodes - 24.5
6. Sewanee - 23
7. Oglethorpe - 16.5
8. Millsaps - 10

Unlike the SCAC's travelling President's Trophy (a donated 300-lb. railroad bell, which sits in Trinity's coincidentally named Bell Center and will until the SCAC names its new recipient in the spring), the SAA apparently gives each year's winner a new trophy featuring a crystal cup (as seen here) that schools retain. 

[D3Navy]

For those interested, the Trinity and Berry women's volleyball teams are representing the SAA very well.  Both are in the final four of the NCAA championship and could meet in the final.

Well done, ladies!

I felt some judgment during lunch yesterday because I had my phone out watching TU's match...

Alas, the remarkable season is over.  They seemed understandably spent after yesterday's match.

[MCScots2013]

Roy Kramer died today at 96. SEC commissioner who pioneered the BCS. Maryville College alum.

[Ron Boerger]

Interesting USA Today interview with Coach Urban and the staff at Penn:  "Part 3 of a series that looks behind the curtain of college recruiting. USA TODAY Sports was granted behind-the-scenes access by the football staff at the University of Pennsylvania, a Division I program that offers a high academic profile but no Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) money or scholarships. We also conducted a phone interview with Jerheme Urban, a former NFL wide receiver who is now the head football coach at Trinity University, a high athletic and academic Division III liberal arts school in San Antonio.".  It doesn't seem to be paywalled but you may have to turn off your ad blocker:  https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2025/12/06/how-to-get-recruited-ivy-penn-trinity-football/87634917007/

[nineohnine]

Trinity, not a good week to play your worst half of football in years...

[Ron Boerger]

Unfortunately the Berry team that showed up last week isn't at Valhalla today, Trinity turned the ball over on fumbles after nice gains twice, can get nothing going deep, punter kicked a ball that was snapped over his head out of the end zone from the one yard line so Berry instead got the ball there, and it's just been a comedy of errors that sees Trinity trailing 22-0 at half.

[Cowboy2]

This is the most annoying announcer I've listened to all year.... twice now for that matter. I need to buy him a "Hooked on Phonics" class. It's not "scrannel" and it's not "treveris"

Like sound it out man! The other guys isn't bad.

He gets so emotional anytime Berry has a play it hurts my ears because they never fixed their microphone issue.

[Cowboy2]

That's some BS... I don't understand the refs calls. He should have caught it the first time. It was ruled a catch then incomplete. Whatever.

We Started too late and gifted them a 22 pt lead. Piss pour special teams made this an uphill battle or it may not be a game if we don't fumble the ball twice on 1st down conversion plays. Defense has done well but was on the field too long

[Ron Boerger]

A valiant try (and much better play) in the second half but Trinity falls 31-23 after Franklin's final pass goes off the fingers of his receiver and is intercepted.

[nineohnine]

Proud of Trinity for fighting until the end but the lack of execution for most of the game, at this stage in the season, is pretty upsetting...