FB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

[sflzman]

Highlight vid from the intrasquad today. Ed Mason's tough to take down in the backfield that's for sure!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwiH97gyYxs&feature=youtu.be

[ThunderHead]

sflzman,

Good stuff, thanks for taking the time to post it.

What were your thoughts based on what you saw?

[sflzman]

Liked what I saw. O-line looks like it should bounce back from an awful year last year. D line is innexperienced and could be a downfall on a very good defense. Offensively, it looks like the famed Scot-Gun should be back in buisness with Leister at the helm.

[ThunderHead]

sflzman,

A few thoughts

Looks like Leister is a big boy. When he spoke at the end of the clip you could confuse him for a lineman.

Also, though it wasn't a great shot, it looked like the scrimmage was well attended. Was it mainly parents, or did people from the community come out and get a glimpse of Scot football?

[sflzman]

Yeah leisters big but pretty quick still. He weighed in at 232 I think.

It was pretty well attended by parents but there were some community members there as well. I also know the local beat writer was there along with the radio guys that call our games on "the big m", 1520 wmlm haha

Did u happen to catch the clip of mason spinning his way into the endzone? It surprised me today at times he looked almost "graceful" as he hurdled a few tackles and spun out of a couple 

[ThunderHead]

I did notice that and yes he indeed looked graceful. It's great to see people out watching football.

Ill return the favor and give you insight into trines scrimmage if I can make it. I highly doubt our sports information department will put out any video because you know, thatd give away our game plan lol. So I will fill you in. I HIGHLY doubt anyone in the MIAA depends on message board chatter as a scouting tool.

[BOYA87]

ThunderHead and TUAngola,

I will be there Thursday as well!  We will have to meet up.  As for what we might see on Thursday it is pretty evident that Blackport has the stronger arm and can make some of those deep throws down the field, but Hargraves is steps ahead with the operation of the offense as far as drops, footwork, exchanges with he backs, and so on.  No doubt with time Blackport could be there too but I hope you will be able to see for yourselves soon!

[sflzman]

I did notice that and yes he indeed looked graceful. It's great to see people out watching football.

Ill return the favor and give you insight into trines scrimmage if I can make it. I highly doubt our sports information department will put out any video because you know, thatd give away our game plan lol. So I will fill you in. I HIGHLY doubt anyone in the MIAA depends on message board chatter as a scouting tool.

To that point, I wonder how active coaches are at watching things that pop up on the board

[sflzman]

I was PM'd this morning and it's been brought to my attention that I may have been a little harsh grading our offensive line, like here, for example

D line is innexperienced and could be a downfall on a very good defense.

Using the word could, I was leaving it open. To say our d-line is innexperienced, but they have a chance to be good, but it's yet to be seen in games.

There were times they were good, getting to Leister and stopping Mason in the backfield

But at times it was a bit inconsistant. There were missed tackles (by the defense as a whole but it started up near the line of scrimmage) on Mason's TD run. And also Leister had all day to throw at times.

My point is not to throw our dline under the bus, but to moreso say they are young, innexperienced, and can only go up as a unit.

[ThunderHead]

Boya,

I would hope ryan is further along with his ability to run the offense, it's his 3rd year. However I'm sure if blackport is smart enough to survive at the D1 level for a season he probably is smart enough to pick up an offense over the course of more then a week. Simmrel is a very good coach and I'm sure he's capable of teaching the new guys the offense. Drops, footworks, exchanges and timimg are things that improve with development in a system. I'm sure blackport will develop just fine. If Ryan is holding his own then that's awesome. He's a good kid and it is his job to lose. I hope he makes the most of it.

What about rouasch and yoder? How did they look?

Ill give a break down after the scrimmage if I can get there on thursday.

[BOYA87]

Rousch looks like a solid QB.  again not the arm strength that Blackport has but it looked like they both were sharing reps at the #2 varsity spot.  He still throws a good ball.  I enjoyed watching Yoder run around in the backfield because he is extrememly athletic but it looks like they made the decision with their deep QB position to move Yoder over to CB.  Perhaps a move Yoder may or may not have been happy about making but overall more beneficial for the team!

A couple positions I was impressed by what I saw were the defensive back field and the tight end position. There are some young, good sized, athlitic tight ends that should help the offense do some different things with formations and disguising plays.

The defensive back field just looks very athletic and I think they will do a great job getting to balls and forcing turnovers

[BOYA87]

I did notice that and yes he indeed looked graceful. It's great to see people out watching football.

Ill return the favor and give you insight into trines scrimmage if I can make it. I highly doubt our sports information department will put out any video because you know, thatd give away our game plan lol. So I will fill you in. I HIGHLY doubt anyone in the MIAA depends on message board chatter as a scouting tool.

To that point, I wonder how active coaches are at watching things that pop up on the board

on these lines I know players and coaches look at the boards.  I dont know if it is for scouting or insider informations sake or just entertainments sake.  I am sure some of the players like seeing their teams get talked about and what people think about what they are doing.  But all of us are professional at things other than football so I hope they dont put too much stake in what we say.

[TUAngola]

ThunderHead and TUAngola,

I will be there Thursday as well!  We will have to meet up.  As for what we might see on Thursday it is pretty evident that Blackport has the stronger arm and can make some of those deep throws down the field, but Hargraves is steps ahead with the operation of the offense as far as drops, footwork, exchanges with he backs, and so on.  No doubt with time Blackport could be there too but I hope you will be able to see for yourselves soon!

Hey Boya87 and ThunderHead, would be fun to connect at the scrimmage, maybe if other Trine posters here are planning on going we could meet up with them too.  Anyway, since the roster hasn't been posted yet, was wondering who "Blackport" is?  Haven't heard anything at all about the transfers or freshmen yet who may get a look on the varsity.  Guess I'll find out Thursday.

On another note, got a nice surprise tonight when I visited Trine's athletics page at trine.edu.  HOORAY for the updated website design.  Looks much, much better and is easier to navigate between pages, no more hitting the back button all the time.  Kudos to our new SID, Brian Alden. 

[ThunderHead]

I could see players looking around at the board, as not much comes up in the way of D3 Football "chatter". Still if coaches pay attention to it for anything other then humor, I'd be surprised.

This all said, it's all a part of football. Even high school football seems to have quite a few "message boards" devoted to the game, and with that will come fan breakdowns, player breakdowns, and just general chatter and some friendly - or not so friendly - trash talk and opinions.

It's what makes football so much fun for us fans to follow, and keeps us mentally sane during the off season.  

As for Blackport, if you google him you can find plenty. Nothing I'm telling you is unknown. I don't have much insider information, other then I heard early on he was considering going to Trine, that peaked my curiosity so I did some quick googleling.

He's 6'4" plus 200, was voted as one of four national sleepers in his recruiting class by the Elite 11 staff, choose to walk on at Michigan after some offers fell through due to staff's being replaced, eventually he transferred to Michigan State and was red-shirted by Coach Dantonio.

Below is a link to a video I found on google that rivals did after the elite 11 regional camp at Penn State, and ESPN ranked him as the 75th best national pro-style passer in his recruiting class.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/video/recruiting-football/AMP-State-College-Elite-11-highlights-30952;_ylt=AoMGuxJ.iCMjbeFWodpcXqUh7qB4

He took a year off and choose Trine over a few other schools including some MAC programs.

He was a good find, and brings plenty of talent to Angola, this said Roausch was also highly sought after as was Yoder, who turned down two Division 2 offers to attend Trine.

Can anyone knock off Hargrave? He's been in the system and has worked hard. I guess it's a race to the finish.  Below is a picture of Blackport at what I'm guess is the Alamo bowl.

[wisd3fan2]

Hi Miaa,
Went on a biz trip to Columbus and stoped to check out Trine. Nice University! I was able to check out football practice and I know that you will all feel i'm bias but Rauch looks to be the most experienced of the QB"s. He just looks so much better. His mechanics are  amazing and I have to say he has the strongest arm. He chewed the D to pieces. Only 2 other QB's got snapps, I think it was Hargraves and The Blackwell guy. It looked like Hargraves did pretty good but appeared a little nervous.  If I was Rauch or Blackwell I would be getting to know that system very quickly. I did not see any other QB's. Rauch led the 2nd ranked team in Wi. I don't think the level of competition will affect him.