FB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[D3 Poster]

Yes, Monty did consider the Marietta job.  Marietta did get a measure of revenge by going 2-0 against the Montgomery Wasps of Emory & Henry.

Marietta did make Halder, the last of the men of Wisconsin that came to Etta in 2003, the interim head coach last week.

It will be interesting to see what Marietta does.  I think this will be the first hire by the new AD (ONU grad).

[e_lee]

A little late to the party, but couldnt be happier with the Capital hires.  I know that Matsakis has a great resume.  Don't know a whole lot about the guy from Elmhurst.

Thrilled to see my college roommate Robert White get the OL job.  He is one of the hardest working, most passionate football people I know.  I know he has been working his butt off looking for a break in coaching.  He will definitely be an asset to Capital. 

JK,

Will you PLEASE come to Chester HS to teach JROTC?  We need some sensible people in there who are willing to work with athletics.

[seventiesraider]

JK,
Will you PLEASE come to Chester HS to teach JROTC?  We need some sensible people in there who are willing to work with athletics.

Remind him about the chick fights.

[Spence]

Sports Information is such an underappreciated field.  When you work with SID's as a broadcaster you quickly learn who the good ones are.  I have always heard good things about MUC's SID and know that the OAC has some great ones.  Tim Glon has done a great job at ONU for years and years.  Some athletic departments don't appreciate the good ones when they have them.  SID's can have a lasting impact beyond their ability to share information on their programs.  They make a first impression on recruits in the OAC because of the way their informational pieces look and feel.  I'd be lying if I said that the media guides from Marietta were no competition for the ONU info I looked at as a senior in high school.  It put a notch in the "ONU" column for me in the recruiting process. 

Interesting, considering Marietta SIDs and graphic design folks have won awards for media guides in several sports.

Revisionism?

[Spence]

Yes, Monty did consider the Marietta job.  Marietta did get a measure of revenge by going 2-0 against the Montgomery Wasps of Emory & Henry.

Marietta did make Halder, the last of the men of Wisconsin that came to Etta in 2003, the interim head coach last week.

It will be interesting to see what Marietta does.  I think this will be the first hire by the new AD (ONU grad).

Well crud I forgot about the timeout.

Let me give the short short version on guys I'd like to see considered.

Jim Zebrowski, UWW OC -- no-brainer. If he wants it, it should be his at whatever price can be swallowed. I'd make him say no 3 times at least.

Ohio Dominican DC Joe Nemith

W&J DC John Klein

Thiel AHC Kurt Reiser

A couple of the Centre coaches have Ohio ties and a Rhodes assistant was at B-W and GAed at Ohio U., but he's from Missouri.

The job posting on NCAAmarket is not very helpful, saying only they prefer candidates with college coaching experience. The resumes from there are being routed to HR with review to begin Feb. 26.

With a new AD with ties to NW Ohio and the northeast and a program that can really be seen as whatever someone wants to make of it -- good or bad -- I get the feeling, with no inside dope at all, that this thing could go about anywhere.

[reality check]

Sports Information is such an underappreciated field.  When you work with SID's as a broadcaster you quickly learn who the good ones are.  I have always heard good things about MUC's SID and know that the OAC has some great ones.  Tim Glon has done a great job at ONU for years and years.  Some athletic departments don't appreciate the good ones when they have them.  SID's can have a lasting impact beyond their ability to share information on their programs.  They make a first impression on recruits in the OAC because of the way their informational pieces look and feel.  I'd be lying if I said that the media guides from Marietta were no competition for the ONU info I looked at as a senior in high school.  It put a notch in the "ONU" column for me in the recruiting process. 

Interesting, considering Marietta SIDs and graphic design folks have won awards for media guides in several sports.

Revisionism?

Nope.

But thanks for playing.  If you really want to know about my experience when visiting Marietta, I was unimpressed with Epley, the football training facility (read: double-wide trailer), the campus tour (with a freshmen guide who knew nearly nothing about the campus), their inability to get me an appointment with the department of fine arts (let alone that freshman giving us a tour not knowing with any certainty what building the art dept was even in) and the lack of athletic facilities in general at the time.  I know Etta has built a beautiful athletic center and field house since my recruiting days.  The campus in general is quite nice as well.  But the overall visit was quite underwhelming and I don't know who the SID was at the time I was recruited but it would appear that there has been a consistent changing of the guard since my visit as a recruit in 1999.  There was a new young girl there by the time I broadcast for ONU and while she was nice and accomodating, the athletic information was nothing to write home about then either.  Maybe all those award winning graphics were busy getting generated in that art department (wherever it is).  Or maybe Etta could have stood to benefit if they put as much work into the football media guide and recruiting materials as they did into the baseball media guides back in the late 90's/early 00's, they would have benefitted as well.

I will give Marietta one edge: The biggest squrrel I ever saw damn near tackled me outside the cafeteria that day.  You guys have some big rodents.

[JK]

JK,

Will you PLEASE come to Chester HS to teach JROTC?  We need some sensible people in there who are willing to work with athletics.

I'd love to, but you can't be hired as a JROTC instructor unless you are RETIRED from the service.  Unfortunately I have only done 10 years, not 20.

Seventies,

Who could forget the story of the chick fight?  Not I.  

[JK]

  You guys have some big rodents.

They're called River Rats down there. 

[e_lee]

JK,
Will you PLEASE come to Chester HS to teach JROTC?  We need some sensible people in there who are willing to work with athletics.

Remind him about the chick fights.

There have been a few.  Are you referencing the one the girl ended up parading the other girls hair weave around, held high above her head like a trophy?  Or the one where all I could do was push the two girls into the ground as they were locked up in a fight?

[kickerdad]

Capital

Your new offensive coordinator owns the record for longest field goal in Crusaders history.  Will that be the new offensive strategy?  Spitz ought to be happy. 

How does a kicker ever get to be an offensive, defensive or head coach in the first place???  This has to be one of the signs of the apocolypse.

And Matsakis was a straight on kicker.  You real old timers know what I am talking about, the guys who used to wear the one shoe with the square toe, like Lou Groza...

Manny has had a pretty remarkable career.  HC at Emporia St (KS), then on to TX Tech for a few years where he was the Special Teams Coord (Now, that makes sense, Reality  ).  He was then the HC at Texas State (the real one (Wildcats), not the "Necessary Roughness" (Armadillos) one), for one year.  Unfortunately there were some NCAA violations and when the new AD was hired there he thought it best to make a fresh start.

Regardless, he has been pretty successful everywhere he has been.  It should be interesting to see what, if any changes take place.  Remember, he was an assistant under the mad offensive scientist that is Mike Leach at TX Tech.  Could end up being MORE passes than under Collins.

"Real Old Timers" man that hurts.

[ace]

I would love to see Matt Campbell or Stan Watson at Marietta.  Matt has more coaching experience, but don't know if he would come "back down" to D3.

[kickerdad]

Was he just a kicker in college?  At NJCU when they had a football team, the starting middle linebacker was also the punter and kicked off quite often.

Us "Real Old Timers" use to play both ways and kick. For me it was Center, Defensive End and Kicker.....Guess where all the injuries came from.....You guessed it...kicking off.

[kickerdad]

Question for the Mt Union guys......How do you see Mount looking this coming year and what are your chances of getting back to the top?

[Knightstalker]

Was he just a kicker in college?  At NJCU when they had a football team, the starting middle linebacker was also the punter and kicked off quite often.

Us "Real Old Timers" use to play both ways and kick. For me it was Center, Defensive End and Kicker.....Guess where all the injuries came from.....You guessed it...kicking off.

We played the same positions, I was also a punter, except for a blind side block at the knees during practice in HS my worst knee injury was while punting.  I was hit on the plant leg knee just as I kicked the ball.  The player who hit me then fell on my foot and I hyper extended the knee.

[Knightstalker]

A general question for anyone.  I am taking a road trip to Detroit next month for my nephews wedding.  I will be coming across PA on route 80, then into ohio and then north to MI.  I was wondering on the return trip, how far out of the way would Canton be?