Vitoria Mattos with the ace

@SOURaiders @RaiderVB

Details here.

November 17th, 2023 | Tags: Raider Athletics, vitoria mattos, volleyball | Category: only in ashland, people | Comments Off on Tomorrow afternoon!

Taye Courtney

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @blake_asciutto @sethmiller_01 @ty_glumbik @taye_courtney @36jrod @king_mendez_

Josh Rodriguez

Blake Asciutto, Gustavo Mendez, Bill Seymour, Seth Miller, and Ty Glumbik

November 16th, 2023 | Tags: Bill Seymour, blake asciutto, football, gustavo mendez, Josh Rodriguez, Raider Athletics, seth miller, Taye Courtney, Ty Glumbik | Category: only in ashland, people | Comments Off on Senior Day (part 6 of 6)

Hunter Geissler

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @geissler_hunter @BrockDuyck60 @BraedenYee50

Braeden Yee

Brock Duyck

November 15th, 2023 | Tags: braeden yee, brock duyck, football, Hunter Geissler, Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR Lens, Nikon Z 6II FX-Format Mirrorless Camera z6ii, Raider Athletics | Category: only in ashland, people | Comments Off on Senior Day (part 5)

Raysean Clayton

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @_trillray

Kea Kekuawela

Noah Turnbull

November 14th, 2023 | Tags: football, Kea Kekuawela, Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR Lens, Nikon Z 6II FX-Format Mirrorless Camera z6ii, noah turnbull, Raider Athletics, Raysean Clayton | Category: only in ashland, people | Comments Off on Senior Day (part 4)

Jackson Clemmer

@NAIAFootballVSN #NAIAFootball @NAIA #NAIAPoll @NAIAFBALL @SOURaiders @SOU_Football @_JCLEM_ @FConference @FootballCarroll

2023 NAIA football playoffs

The above is what is actually happening. Below is what should be happening if the best teams were to be going to the postseason.

Massey Ratings – NAIA football 2023 end of regular season

The Frontier Conference got three teams in the postseason, but is that enough? Montana Tech had the toughest schedule in the NAIA, and the NAIA didn’t even give them a first-round bye. College of Idaho won’t get a home game even though Massey has them at #3.

Dordt got in, with a home game no less, despite losing–at home–to the very mediocre Midland NE. Massey “thinks” (Massey is a computer so there isn’t a bias like the selection committee) that Carroll College, SOU, and Rocky Mountain were all more deserving than Dordt, who finished third in their conference with a strength of schedule not in the top 35.

Ottawa (Kansas) got in with a 6-5 record and one of the easiest schedules in the entire NAIA! Several of the “at-large” selections are not in Massey’s top 13 like Marian, St. Thomas, and Dordt.

November 13th, 2023 | Tags: football, jackson clemmer, Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR Lens, Nikon Z 6II FX-Format Mirrorless Camera z6ii, Raider Athletics | Category: only in ashland, people | Comments Off on 2023 NAIA Football Playoffs

Avery McCuaig

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football

Champ Robertson

Cente Borgia

November 13th, 2023 | Tags: avery mccuaig, Cente Borja, Champ Robertson, football, Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR Lens, Nikon Z 6II FX-Format Mirrorless Camera z6ii, Raider Athletics | Category: only in ashland, people | Comments Off on Senior Day (part 3)

Seth Miller

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @MylesMontgom52 @sethmiller_01

Alejandro Sanchez

Myles Montgomery

November 12th, 2023 | Tags: Alejandro Sanchez, football, Myles Montgomery, Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR Lens, Nikon Z 6II FX-Format Mirrorless Camera z6ii, Raider Athletics, seth miller | Category: only in ashland, people | Comments Off on Senior Day (part 2)

Win Jones (Assistant Athletic Trainer)

@a1kicks @SOURaiders @SOU_Football @DeShawnCraig2 @WinJ39140557

You can read about yesterday’s big win here.

DeShawn Craig

Josiah Purchase

November 12th, 2023 | Tags: DeShawn Craig, football, josiah purchase, Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR Lens, Nikon Z 6II FX-Format Mirrorless Camera z6ii, Raider Athletics, Win Jones | Category: only in ashland, people | Comments Off on Senior Day (part 1)

Isaiah Hidalgo

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @IsaiahHidalgo3 @NAIAFootballVSN #NAIAFootball @NAIA #NAIAPoll @NAIAFBALL

Details here.

Massey Ratings gives the Raiders a 30% chance of winning against Massey’s #2 team in the country. (The coaches have College of Idaho at #5.) With 20 teams going to the NAIA playoffs this year, if Massey was in charge, SOU would be in (at #16). Instead, teams like Dickinson State (who lost to Rocky Mountain who the Raiders beat), Evangel (who hasn’t played a team in the top 40 — SOU has had six games against teams in the top 15), and Texas Wesleyan (who lost by 18 points at home to the only top 20 team they faced) will make it to the postseason.

Increasing the number of playoff teams to 20 was a great idea. Allowing the coaches, who don’t seem to look at schedule strength at all, to determine who makes it was not.

November 11th, 2023 | Tags: football, Isaiah Hidalgo, Nikon NIKKOR Z 70-180mm f/2.8, Nikon Z 6II FX-Format Mirrorless Camera z6ii, Raider Athletics | Category: only in ashland, people | Comments Off on Gameday!