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2017 football senior day (part 4)
Caden Johnson
Giampaoli family and Mike Beagle
Keegan Lawrence
Isiah Carter
Players of the Week
Tanner Trosin
@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @Kelsee_R
As expected, Tanner Trosin won the Frontier Conference Offensive Player of the Week and NAIA National Offensive Player of the Week awards. Kelsey Randall was the Cascade Conference Offensive Player of the Week.
Kelsey Randall
SOU men’s soccer senior night
Logan Guler
@SOURaiders @LoganGuler_ @HopkinsTravis @seanMcManamon1
The Raiders had a last-second, OT victory last night before the senior night festivities.
Travis Hopkins
Sean McManamon
Massey rankings update and predictions
@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @NAIA @FConference
Massey still has the Raiders at #4, barely behind Morningside and Reinhardt. The coaches will have the Raiders at #7, again, when the new poll comes out tomorrow. Furthering my comments from last week, given that the Frontier Conference and Mid-States Football Association have sent 19 teams to the national championship game in the past 15 years and teams from those conferences have won the national championship 12 of the past 15 years*, you’d think that any team from either of those conferences that goes undefeated in the regular season should be ranked in the top four, if not the top two.
Massey has the Raiders as 38-point favorites at Montana Northern this weekend. #5 Lindsey Wilson and #6 Grand View could lose this weekend. For the first time all season, Massey has Southern Oregon as a favorite against Montana Tech in two weeks. If SOU goes undefeated in the regular season, and the coaches can’t figure out how to get the Raiders into the top four final poll, the Frontier Conference should raise some hell to get the way the playoffs are currently determined to change.
Tanner Trosin should win the Frontier Conference Offensive Player of the Week award tomorrow (if not the NAIA national award). He was 33 for 47, passing for 502 yards with 3 TDs and no interceptions. He also ran for 18 yards.
*The team that won the other three is no longer in the NAIA. When the University of Sioux Falls left the Great Plains Athletic Conference the conference didn’t lose any prestige in the coaches’ eyes even though it should have. Morningside shouldn’t automatically be given a top rating simply because they can beat everyone in a weak football conference.
2017 football senior day (part 2)
Dom Giampaoli, Zay Taylor, Josh Cline, and Christmas Aumua
Oshay Dunmore
Armando Gauger’s parents with Mike Beagle
Sam Woods
Keegan Lawrence’s parents with Mike Beagle
Gameday!
Dom Giampaoli
Can the Raiders go 8-0? Game time is noon today in Ashland. Beautiful weather.
Go Raiders!
Let the games begin
@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @Racecar_Roots @the_reyvega @millerszn
Players of the Week
Jessa Perkinson
@SOURaiders @RaiderVB @elli_cook @seannnyboii
Details here.
Elliott Cook
Sean Rogers
Holding pattern continues in NAIA football rankings
Collin Crown and Masi Tunoa combined for one of SOU’s many sacks
@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @NAIA @FConference @CollinCrown
As mentioned a few weeks ago, SOU’s upward mobility in the rankings was coming to a near halt even if they continued to win. They have continued to win, but they have no hope of making the top four before the end of the regular season due to the easy schedules of several NAIA teams (Reinhardt, Lindsey Wilson, Morningside, Baker, and Grand Vew in particular). SOU remains at #7. Lindsey Wilson and/or Grand View may lose one of their last two games, but the others have very little chance of that happening.
A few of you have asked me if there is any chance SOU can (finally!!!) get more than one home playoff game. The Raiders best bet is to win out and move past Grand View and Lindsey Wilson in the rankings to #5. Then, if one of the top four teams is upset, at home, in the first round of the playoffs, Southern Oregon can earn a second home game. But that’s about the only way at this point.
Is it fair that Frontier Conference teams have to go out every year and win on the road in the playoffs? (Last year Eastern Oregon won at Doane and at Marian, the year before SOU won at Baker and at Morningside, and in 2014 SOU won at Carroll and at St. Xavier.) Morningside, Grandview (except last year), and Baker have been given home field throughout the playoffs each of the last three years, and none of them have won a national championship during those years. Only Baker has made it to the national championship game in those years (and that’s because Eastern Oregon knocked off the #1 seed Marian). So why will they, with their weaker schedules (and Grand View with a loss!), be given a higher ranking and home field advantage again?
Baker and Grand View are in the Heart of America Conference. Why are they both in the top six, when a Heart of America Conference team has won only one national championship in the past 15 years? By comparison, the Frontier Conference’s top two teams have the same records as Baker and Grand View and are ranked #7 and #11. Frontier Conference teams have won seven national championships over those same 15 years and finished as runner ups in three more of those years. Seems like the Heart of America Conference has been (is being) given unfair advantages that they can’t take advantage of. When will this stop?
Ricky Te’o
August Forrest III blocks field goal attempt and….
…. Zay Taylor recovered the blocked kick