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Welcome to installment #21 in “The Whole Picture” in which I present the uncropped, higher resolution versions of photos that SOURaiders.com has published. For prior editions click here. For higher resolution click on the photo before saving. As always, these are best viewed on a big screen rather than a cell phone.
Some of you may have found your way here through the link on souraiders.com. I have had several people email me asking questions about buying prints or about finding all of my photos for a certain sport.
The photos I post here are a small fraction of the photos I actually have. If you would like to print any of the photos on this blog, you are welcome to do so at no charge. Be sure to click on the photo to get to the higher resolution size which will print with more quality. If you want to use them on the web (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), you are welcome to do so if you link back to traveljapanblog.com/ashland in the description of the photo. If you are using the photo in a newspaper or magazine, please credit “Al Case, Ashland Daily Photo”.
If you would like me to search through all of my photos and send you photos of the particular athlete you are looking for I charge a reasonable fee for the time it takes me to find all of those photos and to process them for you. I do not normally sell prints. I email you the high quality electronic files in .jpg format, and you can do the printing and framing yourself through a local or online service. My email is on this page or you can comment (leave a reply) to a blog entry to communicate.
To find all of my photos for a particular sport, use the following links. Click on “Older Entries” near the bottom-left of each page to view more photos.
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No one answered my question, but the answer to “What do these numbers (9, 1, 3, 7, 10, 2, 1) mean?” is, “the rankings of the teams the Raiders beat in the playoffs over the past two years”. A streak of seven consecutive, playoff victories over top 10 teams (five of the games on the road) is impressive to say the least. Four of those victories came over teams in the top 3 (all on the road). Amazing.
The Raiders finished up as #2 in the final NAIA football rankings for 2015. Hopefully the Raiders beat teams ranked something like 16, 11, 7, and 5 in 2016’s playoffs. Why? Because that means a #1 ranking heading into them.
The coaches’ poll has three Frontier Conference teams in the top 25. Massey’s final rankings has seven Frontier Conference teams in the top 25. The coaches still aren’t paying attention to Massey despite Massey’s perfect record in predicting the final three rounds of the playoffs (compared to the coaches’, less than a coin flip, 3-4 record).
@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @Scottow12
The Raiders came up short of another national championship in 2015, but they were the ones on ESPN’s SportsCenter Top 10 Plays of the Day.
Count on SOU to be even better in 2016. Southern Oregon lost 4 All-Americans, including the NAIA Player of the Year, after 2014. Not that we won’t miss this year’s seniors, but the loss of 4 All-Americans isn’t the case after 2015. All-American Julius Rucker, Tanner Trosin, Matt Retzlaff, all of the running backs, and most of the other core players will be back in 2016.
P.S. Once again Massey was better at predicting things than biased people like myself and the coaches. Luckily, no Marian fans took me up on my wagering proposition.
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I said it way back in early September, and it’s as true now as it was then, “It’s better to win your last game than your first.”