After a stint as offensive coordinator at Berry, Rich Duncan is back in the D-III head coaching ranks and will take over Rhodes for the fall 2021 season.
After four seasons at Rhodes and 25 years in the profession, Jim Ryan resigned, and assistant Travis James was elevated to lead the Lynx for the 2021 spring season.
After four seasons as an affiliate member of the SAA expires at the end of this academic year, Austin College is coming back to an old home: the American Southwest Conference.
Rhodes College football has reported back to campus for their first day of practice, today Aug. 9. The Lynx will hold a media day on Wednesday, Aug. 16. The team will be conducting an intra-squad scrimmage from 8:30-11:30 a.m. on Crain Field.
After spending five seasons turning around the Rhodes football program, Dan Gritti will take on another challenge: turning around a Millikin program which has won 16 games in five seasons.
Four years ago, seven schools broke away from the SCAC to form their own conference. Now that conference is welcoming back two of the football programs they left behind.
Washington University and the University of Chicago haven't even played their first game as football members of the Southern Athletic Association, and they've already announced their departure.
When the home team blocked a punt and returned it for a touchdown for its first score, it was pretty impressive. But that isn't the play we're talking about. What happened later was this. It's the D3football.com Play of the Week, sponsored by the City of Salem, hosts of Stagg Bowl XLII.
Contrary to the information it released a few weeks ago, the NCAA D-III football championships committee announced Friday that the Southern Athletic Association and Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference will not have automatic bids to the 2014 Division III football playoffs.
It's like the lights have turned on for the Lynx. After five consecutive years of struggling, Rhodes and its senior class have turned it around under Dan Gritti.
The fledgling SAA needs football programs in order to eventually get an automatic bid. One of the new conference's schools, Berry, is helping the cause and will be the second D-III football program in Georgia.
The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference is splitting up after this season, and both new conferences will be on the outside looking in for an automatic bid. Where do they go from here?