FB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[section13raiderfan]

Its good to know that in D3 you can still diversify athletically if you desire to. Its difficult to do that even at the highschool level today. With schedules overlapping and coaches wanting kids to train in the off season as well as play club sports to get even more experience, its almost impossible to play all the highschool sports offered. The days of the 3 and 4 sports letterman are just about over. We may have gone too far Im afraid.

[D3 Poster]

Mount, Capital and Marietta

[reality check]

I guess I made your question harder than it turned out to be.  I assumed you were saying who in history has a three-game winning streak versus the Yellow Jackets. 

Pretty crazy that three teams have a current three+ game winning streak versus BW but it has only happened 2-3 times from what I read in the history of the program until the three you mentioned. 

[Spence]

Mount, Capital and Marietta

What about these three?

[runyr]

Another MTU reference from Blue-Gray Sky:

Overheard on a recent Mike Frank Power Hour podcast...

Caller: This is Lowell from New York, I'm a first-time caller.

Mike Frank: Good to have you on the show, what's up?

Lowell from NY: A couple of different questions for you. Number one, I read on one of these sites, you know, one of these free sites, that Notre Dame has got a Division-III school on their schedule?

MF: Is it Division-III or Division-II?

Lowell: It was Mount Union or something like that. I read it over twice and I wasn't sure if I was missing something...I'm not even sure if it was true. I'll send you the link. Anyway it kind of segues into my next question. What do you think of some of these free online sites like Blue-Gray Sky and UHND.com and NDNation...you know a lot of these guys?

MF: Yeah, I do. I know 'em all. I have a friendship with all of 'em. The NDNation guys are good friends of mine. Frank & Kyle from UHND are good friends as well. BGS, I know those guys very well. They're just media sources out there doing a good job.

Lowell: You know sometimes I read certain things here or there and I wonder who's writing it on the other end. Sometimes I wonder if the person writing knows anything about what they're talking about. You read some things and take them as gospel, then you read something that just doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and you wonder who the source is.

No reason to post this other than I thought it was hilarious. For the record, Lowell, the only time BGS ever breaks news is if the date is 4/1...

[runyr]

Former OAC player (1 yr at Muskingham) and NFL HC talks about QB position in NFL:
http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070415/NDSports02/704150397/-1/NDSPORTS/CAT=NDSports02

[HScoach]

Anyone planning on attending the MUC spring scrimmage this Saturday night?

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

Anyone planning on attending the MUC spring scrimmage this Saturday night?

Anyone know the format of the scrimmage without pads?

[HScoach]

Mount coaches happy with time rule change, not so happy with the kick-off point moving back:

http://www.the-review.com/news/article/1866461

[Spence]

Anyone heard anything more about Garner?

MC swept Mount today before a crowd of nearly 1000 on a Tuesday.

MC's now 19-7, Mount 8-15. Hopefully Mr. Garner was paying attention and now understands which school will enable him to be on competitive teams in both sports.

[Pat Coleman]

Do other Marietta baseball players also play football?

[Spence]

Do other Marietta baseball players also play football?

Not this year, and overall it hasn't really that often. But they have in the past on occasion, and AFAIK it's never really been discouraged. It's just that not many are good enough to do both.

Some of the superpowers of the early 80s had two sport players on them; I wouldn't know who now but I know when we talked to Schaly about Sidick/Papania he said he used to have players that did it pretty much every year for a while during that period. Much different time though both in terms of the game of football and in terms of the competition for recruits in baseball.

Then of course Sidick and Papania that I mentioned earlier. Sidick was recruited for baseball (or both), Papania just kind of showed up for baseball tryouts after being recruited for football, and turned out to be excellent.

Paps was also a starting QB, so that wouldn't be discouraged either unless something has changed. I'd say a P/QB is probably one of the most likely combinations, as good players at either position are both critical and scarce.

Are there FB/BB players at Mount or Capital? I didn't think there were any but I can't say I've pored over their football rosters looking for baseball players.

Garner by all reports is a pretty good athlete. Football-wise, he was supposedly offered, then rescinded by Ohio (they got a very good-looking JUCO commit) and has gotten interest from a lot of other schools at or near that level.

[Mr. Ypsi]

At the risk of adding to my 'old fogy' dossier, I think it is a shame the way athletes are 'forced' to specialize.  Back in my era, Steve Laub was the qb (leading the CCIW in passing three straight years), the pg (twice all-CCIW, including leading the league in fg% one year), and the catcher (neither the CCIW or IWU has baseball records from before the 70s, but I recall him as all-conference at least twice in that as well, with a career batting average not that far south of .500.  While he was atypical (though hardly unique) even then for his skill level, he was far from atypical in his versatility.  These days, a two-sport star (beyond the hs level) receives major attention.  I wish more coaches would let great athletes be great athletes - not just footballers or baseballers or whatevers.

End of rant.

[reality check]

Anyone heard anything more about Garner?

MC swept Mount today before a crowd of nearly 1000 on a Tuesday.

MC's now 19-7, Mount 8-15. Hopefully Mr. Garner was paying attention and now understands which school will enable him to be on competitive teams in both sports.

Who's to say he can't be part of something special and make a program better than it currently is if he goes somewhere else instead?  I'd love a kid on my team that not only wants to succeed personally as an athlete but wants to be part of something bigger than he is already and improve a program.  Sure being on a nationally ranked baseball team and seeing success on the diamond is fun but I bet it would be even sweeter to take a mediocre (or medicore if you prefer) program to new heights while winning on the gridiron as well. 

I'm sure Garner will think it over and make the right choice for himself, both academically and athletically.  And that being said, Ohio Northern would be a great place to play both sports.  (Just saying.)   

[Pat Coleman]

Are there FB/BB players at Mount or Capital? I didn't think there were any but I can't say I've pored over their football rosters looking for baseball players.

I'd be surprised if there were at Mount Union. Just doesn't seem like it would be compatible, especially with spring practice being allowed in recent years in Division III football.

I checked the two Marietta rosters against each other and there is nobody who is on both the 2006 football roster and the 2007 baseball roster.

If I could only play for one program at Marietta or Mount Union and I could truly make the roster of any of the four programs, I'd probably choose Mount Union football. Even a pessimist would have to think Mount Union could win two Stagg Bowls in the next four years -- that would equal the worst four-year span in the past 14 years.