{"id":19096,"date":"2017-12-04T12:14:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T19:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=19096"},"modified":"2021-03-14T09:33:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T16:33:51","slug":"the-silver-lining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2017\/12\/the-silver-lining\/","title":{"rendered":"The silver lining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/60035031@N06\/37948480845\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Ken White Field at Reinhardt University Stadium\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4523\/37948480845_a06cf8dde5_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"367\" alt=\"Ken White Field at Reinhardt University Stadium\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @CoachHall_SOU @Reinhardt_Univ @RU_Eagles @R_U_Football<\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/souraiders.com\/news\/2017\/12\/2\/football-reinhardt-takes-semifinal-thriller-from-sou-in-overtime.aspx>Saturday&#8217;s loss<\/a> was painful, but there is a silver lining. Due to the NAIA&#8217;s odd ranking system, which rewards prior season record more than current season wins against strong opponents, SOU will likely begin 2018 with a #3 or #4 ranking. In 2017 it took an undefeated season in the <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2017\/11\/raiders-at-home-against-this-saturday\/>toughest conference<\/a> just to get to #5. Had the Raiders started 2017 at #3 or #4 they would have probably ended up at #2 and received home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @CoachHall_SOU @Reinhardt_Univ @RU_Eagles @R_U_Football Saturday&#8217;s loss was painful, but there is a silver lining. Due to the NAIA&#8217;s odd ranking system, which rewards prior season record more than current season wins against strong opponents, SOU will likely begin 2018 with a #3 or #4 ranking. In 2017 it took an undefeated season in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[87],"tags":[12,121,231,478,181,245,29,198,207],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19096"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25287,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19096\/revisions\/25287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}