{"id":1557,"date":"2012-08-21T23:53:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T05:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonfmorse.com\/tog\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2012-08-21T23:53:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T05:53:44","slug":"previewing-2012-great-american-conference-d-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jonfmorse.com\/tog\/2012\/08\/21\/previewing-2012-great-american-conference-d-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Previewing 2012: Great American Conference (D-II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonfmorse.com\/tog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/2gacPRE.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1558\" title=\"2gacPRE\" src=\"http:\/\/jonfmorse.com\/tog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/2gacPRE.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jonfmorse.com\/tog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/2gacPRE.png 358w, http:\/\/jonfmorse.com\/tog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/2gacPRE-249x300.png 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet another conference with limited pre-season information, which is making this job frustrating; no team capsules.\u00a0 This will be the first season that the conference gets to play a full schedule, and it should be a barn-burner.\u00a0 The top three teams were separated by the merest of margins in the coaches&#8217; poll.\u00a0 Henderson received four first-place votes and 57 points; East Central and Ouachita each polled 54 points with ECU getting three first-place nods to Ouachita&#8217;s two.\u00a0 That fits with last season&#8217;s results quite nicely.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom four teams all received 22 points, so the second division of the conference can be expected to be a mess too.\u00a0 The only thing the coaches really seem in sync with is Harding&#8217;s position as the fourth-place team.\u00a0 It&#8217;s clear that Arkansas-Monticello is expected to fall off a good bit, while Arkansas Tech is figured to improve.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Nazarene and Northwest Oklahoma State still aren&#8217;t eligible for the conference title; SNU will be next year, while NWOSU has to wait until 2014 as their application to join Division II was denied last year, but accepted this July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another conference with limited pre-season information, which is making this job frustrating; no team capsules.\u00a0 This will be the first season that the conference gets to play a full schedule, and it should be a barn-burner.\u00a0 The top three teams were separated by the merest of margins in the coaches&#8217; poll.\u00a0 Henderson received four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,38],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-division-ii","tag-d2","tag-great-american-conference"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p185sV-p7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonfmorse.com\/tog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonfmorse.com\/tog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonfmorse.com\/tog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonfmorse.com\/tog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonfmorse.com\/tog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jonfmorse.com\/tog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"http:\/\/jonfmorse.com\/tog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonfmorse.com\/tog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonfmorse.com\/tog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonfmorse.com\/tog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}