FB: Midwest Conference

[scottie]

Seems he disappeared.   

[FsuGoNoles63]

So lets get some conversation started, it might be early but who are yall taking to win conference this year?

[Maverick]

So lets get some conversation started, it might be early but who are yall taking to win conference this year?

Almost a week, still crickets.  If pressed to make a prediction right now, I would have to go with the Fighting Scots.

[grboob]

How about starting here


Who has talented and experienced a QB?  M. Bates IU, new QB at Monmouth, T. Matlick,  Ripon QB (don't know) but running that option offense -- the right guy, if consistent is dangerous.

I think several MWC  QB's graduated.

Thoughts??

[fulbakdad]

Lake Forest graduated our QB.  There are a couple in the wings that looked good in pre season.  I had hoped we'd see them more during the season.  Prestley ran the wildcat at times and did a good job.  We graduated a lot of players last year, especially on the defensive side.  But had a couple good recruiting years.  There were a couple freshman D lineman that looked very good.  So we'll see....  New split conference alignment will be interesting to see.  It will be weird not playing SNC and a couple other teams....

And Maverick, of course you would pick the Scots. 

[wnc52]

Because of Bates, I'll give my beloved Blueboys a fighting chance.  However, I believe Brimmage as well as several players on both lines were seniors and as good as Bates and Brimmage are, IC won a lot of their games the past two years based on being the better team on the lines, especially defensively.

[The Roop]

Now that the BCS is over, I wonder if the NCAA will apply the 500 miles rule for teams in the 4 team play off next season. 

[fulbakdad]

Good one Roop.  lol 

[FsuGoNoles63]

Because of Bates, I'll give my beloved Blueboys a fighting chance.  However, I believe Brimmage as well as several players on both lines were seniors and as good as Bates and Brimmage are, IC won a lot of their games the past two years based on being the better team on the lines, especially defensively.

Did their running back graduate?

[fulbakdad]

He is a Senior this year, so yes...

[FsuGoNoles63]

He is a Senior this year, so yes...

You can be a senior school wise and still have a year of eligibility left lol

[rome]

Beloit's New Coach

Seth Duerr
Assistant Coach - 2nd Season
Phone: 419-448-3339
Email: duerrs@tiffin.edu


Seth Duerr enters his second year with the Dragons. He will serve as the defensive coordinator. Duerr comes to Tiffin after serving as the defensive coordinator at The College of Wooster for the past seven years. During his time at Wooster, Duerr coached both linebackers and defensive line, as well as being the special teams co-coordinator.
Duerr's defenses have developed a reputation for a strong pass rush and excelling in red-zone situations among a number of other areas. All together, Wooster ranked among the top half of the league in scoring defense for seven seasons, highlighted by the 2006 unit which was first in both scoring (14.8 ppg) and total defense (272.4 ypg) - the first such "double" in school history. Also that year, Wooster topped the conference in rushing defense (69.3 ypg), pass defense efficiency (108.5 rating), and sacks (37), and they posted back-to-back shutouts for the first time since 1980.
Prior to his time at Wooster, Duerr coached at Ohio Northern University (2004), where he was the defensive line coach of an 8-2 Polar Bear squad (four-win improvement from previous season), and a two-year graduate assistantship at Averett University (2002-03), where he coached the running backs. Duerr was a student assistant at Wooster during 2001.
Duerr played linebacker at Wooster from 1997-2000. Among the many highlights in his playing career were being the finalist for the Gagliardi Trophy, annually given to NCAA Div. III's Outstanding Football Player of the Year, twice earning first-team All-American honors (1999-00), twice receiving the Hank Critchfield Award as the conference Defensive Player of the Year (1999-00), and becoming the fourth player in conference history to earn first-team honors all four years (1997-00). One of three three-time All-Americans at Wooster, Duerr ranks as the school's all-time leading tackler (432) as well as fourth in sacks (17.5), and he was inducted into the school's athletic Hall of Fame in 2011.
A native of Bolivar, Ohio, Duerr graduated from Tuscarawas Valley High School in 1996 and holds a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Wooster as well as a master's degree in teaching from Averett. Following graduation from Wooster, Duerr played professionally one summer in Germany with the Schwabisch Hall Unicorns.
Duerr and his wife, Lindsey, have a 5 year old daughter named Alexandra.

[rome]

Its official

http://www.beloit.edu/bucs/news/?story_id=406051

[fulbakdad]

Quick, someone call Roop!

Another Defensive guy leading a team in the MWC.  Maybe we can get back to smashmouth football!  Bring back the Wishbone!

[The Roop]

As long as it's salad dressing I'm fine with that. Until then, 686 f-stop on 2.