Dwayne Hanberry, Commissioner of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, joined Patrick Coleman for a D3sports.com Conversation on the same day that the conference dropped its second big conference membership announcement in eight days. The SCAC announced that it added Millsaps College and Southwestern University in consecutive weeks, a year after adding Hendrix College. All three are programs returning to the SCAC after spending time as members of the Southern Athletic Association. Highlights of the conversation follow:
1:00 Getting the band back together
2:00 Were financial incentives given to Millsaps, Southwestern?
2:45 Is there a third school or announcement coming?
3:41 The varying size of the SCAC over its history
6:17 What schools are looking for in new conference affiliations
8:19 Geographic distribution of conference championship events
10:57 The fate of Gallaudet as an affiliate football member
13:05 Scheduling in football for a six-team conference
14:20 Southwestern didn't contact the SCAC until Millsaps returned
17:00 Is Trinity (Texas) going to return to the SCAC as well
19:55 Easier to re-admit a former member
23:21 The current trend of conferences getting larger
25:35 The "island" conferences in D-III postseason play
28:50 The role of NPI in making the brackets more equitable
30:22 Life for the SCAC behind the video streaming paywall
35:30 Kudos to Trinity University's streaming quality
36:15 Favorite eats in the SCAC
Previous conversation on the D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast, episode 378: http://d3blogs.com/d3football/2025/03/30/atn-podcast-378-the-texas-two-swap/