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2014 SOU football team and Coach Howard
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December is a time for advent calendars. My “Christmas” is coming early this year. So with just 10 days to go until the NAIA National Championship Game in Daytona Beach, Florida it’s time to start the countdown.
I’ll post a photo a day from last week’s semifinal win in Chicago until the big day. Enjoy!
SOU football – Dylan Young (Raider record holder for most TD catches)
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Once again, Hensley Ratings showed that they know more about which teams are better than the coaches. The NAIA Championship Game in Florida next week (12/19/14) looks, on paper (based on the NAIA Football Coaches’ Top 25 Poll), like a surprising #8 seed (SOU) vs. a surprising #7 seed (Marian). However, when the final computer rankings came out a few weeks ago, the Raiders were #2 and Marian was #3. As I mentioned before, the Carroll vs. SOU quarterfinal game pitted the top two teams against each other and SOU came out on top.
So don’t be surprised that Southern Oregon University and Marian University Indianapolis made it to the finals. Be surprised that they weren’t awarded home games for the quarter and semifinals.
SOU football – Austin Dodge and Sean Tow in yesterday’s road victory over Chicago’s St. Xavier University (ranked #3 in the nation)
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Details here. More photos coming here soon.
Southern Oregon University football – Julius Rucker
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I’m getting on a plane Friday for Chicago. I’m hoping to be on a plane Saturday headed for Ashland with a reservation for a plane to Daytona 10 or so days later.
NAIA football media pass
SOU football – Matt Retzlaff
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The Southern Oregon University football team beat #1-ranked Carroll College on the road, in the snow, in negative temperatures today. Only four teams remain. The #2 team also lost which means the Raiders will be traveling to Chicago next weekend to face #3 Saint Xavier. I’m packing my bags already.
Today’s photo is from the SOU victory at home against #9 MidAmerica Nazarene last week.
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SOU football – Austin Dodge
2014 First Team All-Conference Offense and (third year in a row!) Offensive Player of the Year
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SOU football – Dylan Young
2014 First Team All-Conference Offense
SOU football – Drew Gibson
2014 First Team All-Conference Offense
SOU football – Matt Retzlaff
2014 Second Team All-Conference Offense
SOU football – Ryan Retzlaff
2014 Second Team All-Conference Offense
SOU football – Ronald Rylance and Max Proudfit
2014 Second Team All-Conference Offense
SOU football – Daniel Breaux
2014 First Team All-Conference Defense
SOU football – Dustin Fretwell
2014 First Team All-Conference Defense
SOU football – Joseph Lealofi
2014 Second Team All-Conference Defense
SOU football – Heston Altenbach
2014 Second Team All-Conference Defense
SOU football – Laurence Calcagno
2014 Second Team All-Conference Defense
SOU football – Karrington Jones
2014 Second Team All-Conference Defense
SOU football – Aldrick Rosas
2014 First Team All-Conference Special Teams
SOU football – Thomas Giddens
2014 Second Team All-Conference Special Teams
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The Raiders will be boarding a plane for Montana tomorrow. Saturday is the big game. Hopefully the feasts they consume today will be just the thing they need to ensure we see lots of what is in today’s photo (minus the sun and warmth I’m sure) when we are on offense.
SOU football – Aldrick Rosas kicking a field goal against MNU
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If my son wasn’t coming home for Thanksgiving I’d be boarding a plane for Montana in a few days. If you don’t have plans this weekend, or if you can cancel them because they don’t sound as fun as this opportunity, check out this deal. Hopefully the Raiders win, and I’ll be on a plane the next weekend to Iowa or Illinois.
SOU football team beats MNU on 11/22/14 in the rain
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The 2014 NAIA Football Championship Series Quarterfinal Pairings came out this morning and have SOU going to play Carroll for the third time this season. You’d think that with 88 football teams in the NAIA they could come up with a way that you didn’t have to play a team three times (unless the third time was a championship game which this isn’t). In any event, SOU knows they can beat Carroll, Carroll knows SOU is probably the only team that can beat them, and for all intents and purposes the 11/29 game is the championship game. I’m sure Carroll would rather play any of the other remaining teams.
As it turned out (according to the 2014 NAIA Football Coaches’ Top 25 Poll), #8 is at #1, #7 is at #2, etc. That means, of course, that had SOU gotten past EOU last week SOU would likely be hosting another game against the #5 or #6 team instead of going on the road to play the #1 team. Oh well. SOU didn’t get screwed as much as EOU, the third best team in the country according to better rankings, who was not even given the chance to play in the final 16.