FB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[OhIowa]

Word out of Marietta is that they are expecting around 86 incoming freshman this season.  That would put them around 140-150 when they break camp.  This would be quite a jump over their recruiting numbers from years prior.  With a large incoming class and new Defensive Coord. Randy Awery, could we see Marietta start to be more consistent and competitive?  I know a large recruiting class doesn't mean squat until you see how many of those kids actually stick it out for 4 years, but definitely a positive sign for the Pioneers.

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

Word out of Marietta is that they are expecting around 86 incoming freshman this season.  That would put them around 140-150 when they break camp.  This would be quite a jump over their recruiting numbers from years prior.  With a large incoming class and new Defensive Coord. Randy Awery, could we see Marietta start to be more consistent and competitive?  I know a large recruiting class doesn't mean squat until you see how many of those kids actually stick it out for 4 years, but definitely a positive sign for the Pioneers.

Coach Eichhorn, are you sending any good players to the hometown college?

[OhIowa]

Word out of Marietta is that they are expecting around 86 incoming freshman this season.  That would put them around 140-150 when they break camp.  This would be quite a jump over their recruiting numbers from years prior.  With a large incoming class and new Defensive Coord. Randy Awery, could we see Marietta start to be more consistent and competitive?  I know a large recruiting class doesn't mean squat until you see how many of those kids actually stick it out for 4 years, but definitely a positive sign for the Pioneers.

Coach Eichhorn, are you sending any good players to the hometown college?

Unfortunately, this year I did not.  Myself and another of my coaches worked with a few guys to open their eyes to D-3.  We plugged for Marietta as well as some other schools.  I would have liked to seen them stay local, but they all chose to head out of state.  Obviously with my ties to Marietta College I pushed for them to go there, and we gave them some other opportunities to look at. Realistically, they are at places that they can 1. Fit the system better, and 2. Can compete for playing time a little earlier. 

And it apparently didn't take long for you to do a little detective work and blow my cover 

I just thought I would share some info I've heard down South here and maybe spark some new conversations.

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

Word out of Marietta is that they are expecting around 86 incoming freshman this season.  That would put them around 140-150 when they break camp.  This would be quite a jump over their recruiting numbers from years prior.  With a large incoming class and new Defensive Coord. Randy Awery, could we see Marietta start to be more consistent and competitive?  I know a large recruiting class doesn't mean squat until you see how many of those kids actually stick it out for 4 years, but definitely a positive sign for the Pioneers.

Coach Eichhorn, are you sending any good players to the hometown college?

Unfortunately, this year I did not.  Myself and another of my coaches worked with a few guys to open their eyes to D-3.  We plugged for Marietta as well as some other schools.  I would have liked to seen them stay local, but they all chose to head out of state.  Obviously with my ties to Marietta College I pushed for them to go there, and we gave them some other opportunities to look at. Realistically, they are at places that they can 1. Fit the system better, and 2. Can compete for playing time a little earlier. 

And it apparently didn't take long for you to do a little detective work and blow my cover 

I just thought I would share some info I've heard down South here and maybe spark some new conversations.

Welcome to the boards!  Probably most of them wanted to get away from "home" for college as well.

OAC Board has been a bit quiet lately.

[Raider 68]

Word out of Marietta is that they are expecting around 86 incoming freshman this season.  That would put them around 140-150 when they break camp.  This would be quite a jump over their recruiting numbers from years prior.  With a large incoming class and new Defensive Coord. Randy Awery, could we see Marietta start to be more consistent and competitive?  I know a large recruiting class doesn't mean squat until you see how many of those kids actually stick it out for 4 years, but definitely a positive sign for the Pioneers.

OhIowa,

Great to have another OAC poster, Welcome. Good news for the Pioneers for the fall. I wonder how the other OAC look for recruits this fall? Does anyone else have some information?

[Raider 68]

Word out of Marietta is that they are expecting around 86 incoming freshman this season.  That would put them around 140-150 when they break camp.  This would be quite a jump over their recruiting numbers from years prior.  With a large incoming class and new Defensive Coord. Randy Awery, could we see Marietta start to be more consistent and competitive?  I know a large recruiting class doesn't mean squat until you see how many of those kids actually stick it out for 4 years, but definitely a positive sign for the Pioneers.

Coach Eichhorn, are you sending any good players to the hometown college?

Unfortunately, this year I did not.  Myself and another of my coaches worked with a few guys to open their eyes to D-3.  We plugged for Marietta as well as some other schools.  I would have liked to seen them stay local, but they all chose to head out of state.  Obviously with my ties to Marietta College I pushed for them to go there, and we gave them some other opportunities to look at. Realistically, they are at places that they can 1. Fit the system better, and 2. Can compete for playing time a little earlier. 

And it apparently didn't take long for you to do a little detective work and blow my cover 

I just thought I would share some info I've heard down South here and maybe spark some new conversations.

Welcome to the boards!  Probably most of them wanted to get away from "home" for college as well.

OAC Board has been a bit quiet lately.

K& J's Dad,

Hope all is well in warm Florida! The board really has been quite, maybe everyone is very busy, waiting for July/August camps, or maybe lost some interest.

Here is a question:

Which OAC will have the best recruiting class for 2012?

[02 Warhawk]

Here is a question:

Which OAC will have the best recruiting class for 2012?

umm.....when was the last time this answer wasn't Mount Union?

[Mr. Ypsi]

Here is a question:

Which OAC will have the best recruiting class for 2012?

umm.....when was the last time this answer wasn't Mount Union?

While it seems like the answer would be about 1850 , with the great teams Capital suddenly had in the mid 2000's (but not before or since), I'm thinkin' the answer might be about 2002 or 2003.

[AlmaFan27]

Looking forward to some travel to Ohio...

http://www.hollandsentinel.com/newsnow/x2067834322/Holland-footballs-Braden-Scharlow-to-play-for-Baldwin-Wallace

[reality check]

Was back in town for a week and Friday night I went down to the Miami Valley North-South All-Star Game.  I'm not a big all-star game guy but it was good to see some seniors that are bound for D-III.  I'm sure I won't list all of them but here's who I saw listed in the program:

Former Valley View HC Jay Niswonger (3 OHSAA State Championships, 39 game winning streak, Ohio Coach of the Year '94) has taken over as Offensive Coordinator at Wilmington College.  He's a Quaker alum.  I joked with my dad that this might be viewed as a demotion.

Zach Hoffman - Beavercreek HS - 6'3" - 235 lb DE is headed to Wittenberg
Daniel McHugh - Beavercreek HS - 6"3" - 270 lb OL is headed to ONU
Aaron Myers - Benjamin Logan HS - 5'10" - 205 lb TE is headed to Otterbein
Dustin Bowers - Benjamin Logan HS - 5'10" - 185 lb DE is headed to Capital
Logan Shell - Brookville HS - 6'4" - 295 lb OL is headed to ONU
Matt Blackburn - East Clinton HS - 5'11" - 195 lb LB is headed to Thomas More
Joe Penno - Alter HS - 6'0 - 205 lb RB is headed to Centre College
Matt Silverman - Fairmont HS - 6'5" - 300 lb OL is headed to Centre College
Michael Wilcox - Northridge HS - 5'11" - 190 lb DE is headed to Muskingum

Good luck to all these future D-III'ers!

[DagarmanSpartan]

OAC Fans,

What can you tell me about Case's new wrestling coach?

http://athletics.case.edu/sports/wrest/2012-13/releases/20120611uxstfv

He was apparently an All-American at John Carroll, and a National Coach of the Year at Mount Union.

Sounds like a great hire!

Please tell me what you know!

[Dr. Acula]

Coach Hawald did a fantastic job with the wrestling program.  On top of that, he navigated the fallout from the tragic bus accident a couple years ago with great maturity and leadership.  By all accounts he's a great young coach I'm certainly sad to see go.  I wish him well at Case. 

[DagarmanSpartan]

Thanks!

Although our wrestling team had two good individual wrestlers last season, the team as a whole took its lumps in dual meet competition.

Hopefully, they'll rebound under this new coach.

[OhIowa]

Here is a question:

Which OAC will have the best recruiting class for 2012?

umm.....when was the last time this answer wasn't Mount Union?

While it seems like the answer would be about 1850 , with the great teams Capital suddenly had in the mid 2000's (but not before or since), I'm thinkin' the answer might be about 2002 or 2003.

That is a very difficult question to answer at this level.  Without rankings of each indiviudual, it is hard to put a numerical value on a class.  For some schools, a class of 75-85 might be a Grand Slam just based on numbers.  That same number of kids at a school such as Mount, UWW, etc, may never be known to us until their junior or senior years.  There is such depth across the board that as a freshman or sophomore, we as spectators can't say how good in incoming class is.  At a school where a big recruiting class comes in and makes up a good chunk of the depth chart as freshmen, that recruiting class may appear to be better than a school where kids have higher rope to climb to see the field. 

At the D-3 level, it is probably a good indicator to look at the retention of a recruiting class from year-to-year coupled with wins and losses.

[PurpleSuit]

former MUC LB Arthur Smith signed with the Allen Rangers of the IFL, yep T.O's team for a game or two.  Art's first game will be this Saturday.

I step away for a week or so and the board goes stagnant.  Let's go guys..its June 16 and ONU still sucks