FB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[78rmc]

went by and checked out the "new" Day Field and it is impressive. Still lacking in seating capacity on the visitors side but the complex is attractive. Good luck this year minus the second Saturday in Nov. !!!!!

The current seating is a carry-over from the old field.  New stadium seating will be installed (along with a new fieldhouse behind the home seating) that will raise the capacity to 7,500+ (with 2,000 of that on the visitor's side), hopefully in the next year or so.  Starting in January, another dorm will be built outside the south endzone, enclosing the field.

[hasanova]

Guilford's 2012 roster - I count 88:

http://www.guilfordquakers.com/sports/fball/2012-13/roster

[ECU]

I'm a Guilford football alum and I went to the Guilford scrimmage yesterday. My friend has a son that is a freshman football player and wanted to see him play. Have not been to a Guilford game in quite a while but was saddened by what I saw. Most unimpressive and uninspired football I have ever seen.

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

ANYONE INTERESTED IN BEING PART OF THE 2012 TOP 25 FAN POLL:
Please send me a PM with your ballot. I'd like to get a preseason poll up by Thursday night.

During the season ballots shall be due by Tuesdays so I can get them up Tuesday night.

Remember, this is just fun and we aren't part of the BCS Formula... yet

[78rmc]

I'm a Guilford football alum and I went to the Guilford scrimmage yesterday. My friend has a son that is a freshman football player and wanted to see him play. Have not been to a Guilford game in quite a while but was saddened by what I saw. Most unimpressive and uninspired football I have ever seen.

Unfortunately for Guilford, that's what you get with 50 freshmen and only 8 Seniors.

[ECU]

Don't blame the players for what I saw

[78rmc]

Don't blame the players for what I saw

I'm not blaming the players, having only 8 Seniors (ie. experienced players) is a coaching problem.

[hasanova]

Don't blame the players for what I saw

I'm not blaming the players, having only 8 Seniors (ie. experienced players) is a coaching problem.

I didn't make the scrimmage Saturday, but knew it was going on - just too busy with other things.  Hope the team can get better.  It's hard to field a really competitive team without a lot of juniors and seniors.  Hopefully, that can be reversed over the next few seasons.

[abnrgr]

ECU sounds like he was a player and knows about what he says. I hope for Hasa's sake it was bad day in the heat with tired legs

[ECU]

Wasn,t a bad day or the heat or young players. It is a complete coaching issue. I was fortunate enough to coach in college for a number of years under some excellent "qualified" coaches. It is blatantly obvious that the kids are not being taught proper technique and the coordinators lack the experience necessary to put the kids in a position to be successful.  Rout combinations in the passing game are being run into coverage and the running game is consistently run into the strength of the defensive fronts. There is a lack of the basic knowledge needed to attack specific fronts and coverages. The lineman have not been taught proper footwork and blocking techniques to gain leverage on the opponent. Receivers are not taught how to get a clean release or get separation from the defender.  I wonder if Kent Chabotar (school president) would hire an accounting professor who didn.t understand basic accounting principles or a biology professor who doesn't understand basic cell structure. Maybe that is a question that needs to be asked.

[y_jack_lok]

Wasn,t a bad day or the heat or young players. It is a complete coaching issue. I was fortunate enough to coach in college for a number of years under some excellent "qualified" coaches. It is blatantly obvious that the kids are not being taught proper technique and the coordinators lack the experience necessary to put the kids in a position to be successful.  Rout combinations in the passing game are being run into coverage and the running game is consistently run into the strength of the defensive fronts. There is a lack of the basic knowledge needed to attack specific fronts and coverages. The lineman have not been taught proper footwork and blocking techniques to gain leverage on the opponent. Receivers are not taught how to get a clean release or get separation from the defender.  I wonder if Kent Chabotar (school president) would hire an accounting professor who didn.t understand basic accounting principles or a biology professor who doesn't understand basic cell structure. Maybe that is a question that needs to be asked.

Could you please come to Saint Louis and coach the Rams!

[hasanova]

Coach Rusiewicz was a long-time assistant with a successful Ursinus program before being named Head Coach at Guilford.  In fact, after the 2010 season, he was named National Assistant Coach of the Year.  I'm confident he will pull this program together and create steady improvement.  Remember, in 2011 (his first year with the Quakers), he inherited an 0-10 team.  It does appear as though many of his assistants are young and relatively inexperienced, so there may lie some of your concerns.

[abnrgr]

ECU brings something up that jumps back at me from 1999-2004 seasons when one of the best (Iron Mike Ketchum) was at the helm at GC-Q. I think one of the only coaches to clinch a conference title. He played for GC-Q and I at Lees-McRae bump heads in the 70's. Funny to me so lay off. :-)

He was damn good but he had basically grad assistants as coordinators. About a year or 2 older than my D-Line son.

He had some older high school coaches helping. That is where the issue is.

MONEY. They pay a good head coach as much as possible and hoepfully he can cobble a staff together with a 10K budget and a couple rooms.  NOT AGAIN

[Uncle Jessie]

This is Shenandoah's first year in the ODAC as we all know and I was told over the summer that SU will not be allowed to have any night conference home games anymore due to the ODAC not allowing them. Anyone know why the ODAC has such big rules about playing under the lights? This is really going to hurt SU with attendance because now they have to go up against a very popular high school (John Handley) here in Winchester on Saturdays.

[Outsider14]

any Stone Stationers on here anymore? Curious if anyone is coming up to Latrobe this weekend...