FB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[Blutarsky]

www.ohiocollegefootball.com/members/ocf/blog/VIEW/00000008/00000656/Baldwin-Wallace-2009-Football-Recruits.html#00000656

....Just to be equitible, the Flaming Pile has announced their recruits (stellar, or otherwise)

Two names pop out on that list:

Kevin Ringer - He's the nephew of my boy Javon Ringer, however Javon's prep career was much more prolific than Kevin's. 

Aaron Manders - He comes from Toledo Cardinal Stritch, where he was coached at one point by former Polar Bear and Post Patterns poster Genius Gone Bad, who is now behind bars for the next 2.5 years for fraud and forgery.  Scary but true.

So, he now has a "new" team jersey with a few more numbers on it........

[raiderguy]

(ALLIANCE, OH)—Stony Point (TX) High School senior Jesus Garza has committed to attend Mount Union College and compete on the football team this Fall.

Garza, a 5-11, 260-pound defensive lineman, was a two-time all-district selection for the 2008 state semifinalist squad of coach Craig Chessher at Stony Point High School.

Garza plans to study political science and is the son of Tosalinda Terathan and Eugene Garza of Round Rock, Texas.

Holy Football Batman, now we are getting a kid out of Texas....I think that is a first from there. Nothing wrong with that but usually the talent stays in the state. I looked at Texas's recruits and ytd I think they were all from Texas. Words getting out there is another football team in OHIO.

I remember seeing a recruit listed out of California a year or two ago but never heard much after that.

Fla has been pretty good for us so far though.

[PurpleSuit]

from what I can tell about the Matt Piloto situation: it seems like he graduated HS in 2006 and enrolled at USF as a preferred walk-on.  Redshirted (or maybe a grayshirt situation) during the 2007 season, but left the team prior to the end of camp in 2008.

He was on the 2006 EA Elite 11 QB watch list prior to his senior season of HS.  Obviously he's a big kid at 6'5" 220lb, so the 5.38 40 time isnt too surprising, but perhaps some time with a top level D1 program could have cut some time off.  If he did take some time off from the sport it will be interesting to see what kind of shape he comes to Alliance in.

[PurpleSuit]

been a pretty slow day here, so i decided to research this incoming class a bit.

I went through the lists of "commits" released by Mount and broke them down by state.

OH - 34
FL - 6
MI - 3
NY - 2
PA - 2
WV - 2
TX - 1
WI - 1
IN - 1
NJ - 1
KY - 1
IL - 1

It's early and there are already 12 states represented so far in the MUC class.  I wonder if any other d3 programs have that kind of diversity in their classes

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

It's early and there are already 12 states represented so far in the MUC class.  I wonder if any other d3 programs have that kind of diversity in their classes

Usually Wheaton has a good representation from across the country, mainly due to the student's wanting to matriculate there based on their religious affiliation as well as success of the FB program.

I think Washington U., in St. Louis, also has a good representation due to their academic reputation.

[Blutarsky]

been a pretty slow day here, so i decided to research this incoming class a bit.

I went through the lists of "commits" released by Mount and broke them down by state.

OH - 34
FL - 6
MI - 3
NY - 2
PA - 2
WV - 2
TX - 1
WI - 1
IN - 1
NJ - 1
KY - 1
IL - 1

It's early and there are already 12 states represented so far in the MUC class.  I wonder if any other d3 programs have that kind of diversity in their classes

Of course, if you take out the kickers, it's not nearly as impressive.....

[frank uible]

A bunch of colleges have broad geographic representation on their football rosters - for instance, Amherst College (about 20 states on the 2008 roster of about 75 players).

[reality check]

It's early and there are already 12 states represented so far in the MUC class.  I wonder if any other d3 programs have that kind of diversity in their classes

I know your question was about one recruiting class but I took a look at a couple OAC rosters:

ONU

Confirmed Recruits from OCF.com:
OH - 30
NY - 1
NJ - 1 *transferring from Iona College

States represented on last year's roster: 9 - OH, TN, FL, MI, VA, IN, PA, RI, CO

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JCU

No recruit info

States represented on last year's roster: 12 - OH, FL, PA, MI, IL, NY, MD, KY, TX, IN, KS, WI

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Some other schools of note (eastern schools like NESCAC's and the military schools have lots of states):

Hobart had 11 states represented on last year's roster.
Amherst had 21 states represented on last year's roster.
Williams had 14 states represented on last year's roster.
Tufts had 16 states represented on last year's roster.
Coast Guard had 20 states represented on last year's roster (including 2 from Alaska!)
US Merchant Marine had 25 states represented (and one territory American Samoa) on last year's roster.
MIT had 20 states represented on last year's roster.

[cave2bens]

Wabash had eleven states represented on last year's roster.  Little info has leaked out regarding ER's crop this year.

[Ryan Tipps]

Adding to those that are a little out of the range of the OAC, Washington & Lee in Virginia had representation from 23 states and one foreign country (Germany) on last year's roster.

But what's probably the most interesting on the 76-man roster was that only 13 players were actually from Va. That's a pretty low percentage for a D3 school.

[JK]

In exactly the opposite of all you "melting pot" schools, Capital had 106 from Ohio, 1 from Indiana, and 1 from Wisconsin last year.

Given the recent posts, not sure if I should be proud that we are still trying to win with "home-grown" talent, or if we are missing the boat on recruiting a litttle bit

[HSCTiger74]

Adding to those that are a little out of the range of the OAC, Washington & Lee in Virginia had representation from 23 states and one foreign country (Germany) on last year's roster.

But what's probably the most interesting on the 76-man roster was that only 13 players were actually from Va. That's a pretty low percentage for a D3 school.

I'm sure that W&L's national reputation for academic excellence has a lot to do with those numbers. In fact, I was a little surprised that the numbers for Williams and Amherst in RC's post weren't comparable.

[Ryan Tipps]

Given the recent posts, not sure if I should be proud that we are still trying to win with "home-grown" talent, or if we are missing the boat on recruiting a litttle bit

I tend to prefer to see teams utilize home-grown talent -- though I fully acknowledge that could be seen as an antiquated view in this day and age. 

Of course, there's nothing wrong with having some strong recruiting pipelines in other areas/states, but I personally feel that it is more genuine at the D3 level to have a team built around kids from your own back yard.

[HScoach]

Given the recent posts, not sure if I should be proud that we are still trying to win with "home-grown" talent, or if we are missing the boat on recruiting a litttle bit

I tend to prefer to see teams utilize home-grown talent -- though I fully acknowledge that could be seen as an antiquated view in this day and age. 

Of course, there's nothing wrong with having some strong recruiting pipelines in other areas/states, but I personally feel that it is more genuine at the D3 level to have a team built around kids from your own back yard.

I could care less what state the kid is recruited from, as long as he was recruited directly out of HIGH SCHOOL.  It's the transfers, especially the guys with only a year left, from out of the area that I can't stand.   It simply rings of "mercenary" to me.

[rscl70]

Given the recent posts, not sure if I should be proud that we are still trying to win with "home-grown" talent, or if we are missing the boat on recruiting a litttle bit

I tend to prefer to see teams utilize home-grown talent -- though I fully acknowledge that could be seen as an antiquated view in this day and age. 

Of course, there's nothing wrong with having some strong recruiting pipelines in other areas/states, but I personally feel that it is more genuine at the D3 level to have a team built around kids from your own back yard.

I could care less what state the kid is recruited from, as long as he was recruited directly out of HIGH SCHOOL.  It's the transfers, especially the guys with only a year left, from out of the area that I can't stand.   It simply rings of "mercenary" to me.

So, if Piloto ends up the starting QB for the Raiders you will boycott the games?