https://twitter.com/GabeMcDonald_/status/1451573270856208392
https://twitter.com/PeteThamel/status/1450899289450950657?s=20
So Sun Belt will get USM and Marshall
JMU is either going to Sun Belt with ODU or CUSA with ODU AND Liberty
The 2011 Houston Cougars were the hot non-AQ team of the year, and came in to the CUSA title game at 12-0 and #6 in the BCS standings. They featured Heisman candidate Case Keenum at QB and rising star Kevin Sumlin as the head coach. Southern Miss entered the game at 10-2 and ranked #23 in the BCS standings. .
Houston was playing the game at home and was a big 14-point favorite to complete a perfect regular season and advance to a BCS bowl game.
Instead, USM routed the Cougars 49-28, they scored early and late, rolling to a 14-0 lead in the first quarter and 21-14 at the half. USM had a balanced attack, passing for 273 yards and rushing for 207 yards. Houston, on the other hand, would rely heavily on the arm of Keenum, who passed for 373 yards and two TDs, but also 2 INTs.
Afterwards, both teams would go on to win bowl games - USM won the Hawaii Bowl, while Houston would win the TicketCity Bowl over a Penn State team reeling from the Sandusky pedophile scandal and the ousting of Joe Paterno.
The good seasons would also cause both teams to lose their head coaches. Kevin Sumlin would leave for Texas AM, where had immediate success with Johnny Manziel before slowly tapering out. He would leave for Arizona after the 2017 season. USM coach Larry Fedora was hired away by North Carolina, and would linger there for seven seasons of mediocrity, being relieved of his duties after the 2018 season.
This was also a high-water mark for USM. The next three seasons, USM would win just 4 games, going 4-32 between 2012-2014. Still not sure what caused that epic collapse. They are moving from a collapsed Conference USA to the SBC.
Houston, OTOH, would join the Big East conference just four days after this game. They are now headed to the Big 12.
But on a glorious afternoon in Houston a decade ago, USM reigned supreme.
Georgia Southern: 6 (FCS) Appalachian State: 3 (FCS) Troy: 3 (2 Division II, 1 NAIA) ULM: 1 (FCS) Texas State: 2 (Division II) Arkansas State: 1 (FCS)
Southern Miss: 2 (Division II) James Madison: 2 (FCS) Marshall: 2 (FCS)
Source: https://twitter.com/ChrisVannini/status/1452676922215915521?s=20
Happy New Year!
I am pleased to announce the SRCC will host its 7th annual Regional Composition Conference.
The theme this year “Toward Multiple Literacies, Identities, and Culture in the Composition Classroom: Answering the Call for Linguistic Justice”
Our keynote speaker for this year’s conference isChristina V. Cedillo.
Please share the attached CFP flyer with your colleagues.
Hosting Institution:Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock
When:March 31 and April 1.The conference will be held virtually again this year.
Toward Multiple Literacies, Identities, and Cultures in the Composition Classroom: Answering the Call for Linguistic Justice
To be literate is to be honorable and intelligent. Tag some group illiterate, and you’ve gone beyond letters; you’ve judged their morals and their minds. —Mike Rose, “The Language of Exclusion”
To impact the education of our people, we [need] to be connected to the community, speak the languages of that community, and mirror back to the people their possibilities when their world and previous schooling had not. —Carmen Kynard, Vernacular Insurrections
We use the term literacy in our writing classrooms all the time, but the concept remains slippery and complicated, especially as we work for more inclusive definitions of literacy, ones that acknowledge the reality of our multipleliteraciesand the importance of linguistic justice. We have also been engaging in this work against the backdrop of a pandemic that has disproportionately impacted BIPOC communities,renewing calls from scholars to examine all of our work through an antiracist lens (Sheila Carter-Tod and Jennifer Sano-Franchini).
For SRCC 2022, we welcome presentations that engage with language diversity, multiple literacies, linguistic justice, and with related concepts and topics such as diverse, equitable, and inclusive classroom practices, antiracist pedagogy, and racialized identities.
Specifically, we encourage proposals that emphasize action-oriented projects.Proposals may address a range of questions, such as
- How are you using students’ “multimodal home places” (Cedillo) to help affirm their linguistic identities?
- How are you implementing antiracist pedagogy in your classroom and how is it manifested in student work?
- What steps is your writing program taking to enact programmatic and institutional change?
BSides Calgary 2021 (October 21-22, 2021) is looking to include the Medicine Hat tech community in its annual cybersecurity conference, engaging attendees, sponsors and other tech community groups. It especially has a focus on connecting attendees looking for work to companies looking to hire.
BSides Calgary is a not-for-profit foundation that aims to promote cybersecurity and the networking of cybersecurity professionals in Calgary and across Alberta. BSides Calgary is a high caliber gathering for information security professionals, hackers, coders, students and the greater tech community. Attendees of BSides Calgary conferences will share, discuss and learn about information security, privacy and technology.
More details about the foundation can be found here: https://www.bsidescalgary.org/home
