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Originally Posted by Tiger Fan
I hope so as well and I think it will. The primary reason is I do not believe that DDSCF allows you to fold schools in a league so that alone would make the Academia Alliance schools safe. Even without that factor the conference as a whole has done fairly well. A school like Pierpont, which has not won a game since 1970 and enters the season on a 43-game losing streak, certainly brings the conference down but other conferences have their bottom feeders as well - Baton Rouge State in the mighty Deep South Conference famously went seven years without a win in the early 1960s.
Prestige is low for all of the Academia Alliance schools but several of them still have recruited well. Dickson had the 19th best recruiting class this year and the Maroons, have finished the season ranked in the top twenty each of the past three years and Sadler cracked the top 25 last year. Dickson even finished as high as 6th in 1966 when they went 9-1.
Brunswick landing quarterback Del Thomas Jr. in 1973 recruiting was huge as he signed with them despite plenty of other offers from big-time schools. We have "fog of war" turned on and just 1-5 ratings so it is hard to say for sure, but I think Thomas over the next 3 seasons has a decent chance to guide the Knights into the top 20 for the first time in school history. Brunswick did go 7-2 two years ago was ranked 23rd that season which is the high-water mark for the Knights.
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