Scanning the SoCon - Week Fourteen

Each week, our SoCon bloggers/message boarders (one representing each team) will vote on Power Rankings, a Game of the Week, and Player of the Week. At least three will answer a series of questions on their team and things of interest around the SoCon.

 Scanning the SoCon - Week Fourteen

The following is my submission to week fourteen of Scanning the SoCon. You can read the entire consolidated article and see everyone's Power Ranking, Player and Game of the Week, as well as, all of the answers to this week's questions at MocsMania.

Power Ranking 
1-Davidson
2-Chattanooga
3-Elon
4-Wofford
5-Western Carolina
6-Georgia Southern
7-UNCG
8-Samford
9-Appalachian St.
10-Furman
11-The Citadel

Player of the Week 
 De'Mon Brooks, Davidson

Game of the Week
Chattanooga at Eastern Kentucky

Sum up your team. 
Losers of 3 of their last 4 conference games, Western Carolina has become completely unpredictable due to inconsistent offensive play. At this point, all the Cats can hope for is to remain in a position to get one of the byes for the conference tournament, and hope for a strong run in the tournament.

What teams do you think will receive byes in the SoCon Tournament? Why? 
Davidson, Chattanooga, Elon seem to be locks for a bye, with Wofford now making a strong run, they will probably be in, with Western Carolina now looking for that final 5th bye, but based on their play the last four games, GSU or UNCG may well get that final position.

Did Chattanooga's 43 point loss to Davidson expose the Mocs, show how good Davidson is, or was it just that a fluke that Davidson won by that much, or some combination of those things? 
In my opinion, it was a combination of exposing some of the weakness of the Mocs and how good Davidson is playing at this point of the season.

We all complain about officiating in the SoCon. What are some ways that officiating could be better?
There is only one way to improve officiating on the SoCon, and it would require the one thing that the SoCon does not have much of $$$$$. The only way to get better officials is to increase the pay per game. The better officials are scooped up by the larger conferences because they pay more. Until the SoCon becomes competitive in pay, they will continue to get the newer, less experienced, and poorer skilled officials, especially for weekend games.


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