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jacojdm · Post by **jacojdm** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 12:57 pm

from a six page "conversation" between pat forde and ivan maisel. you have to go to the last page to see any mac mention, but they seem to be high on our chances at wisconsin

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/preview05 ... id=2127164

Ivan: ... All right, the MAC. Shane Montgomery at Miami. You know, it's funny. He almost got the Auburn offensive coordinator job a year ago, and turns around --

Pat: -- and gets his own program. He's got a ton of players back. They have a chance to upset the Omar Jacobs party. There are two really good quarterbacks in the league: Jacobs and [Bruce] Gradkowski.

Ivan: I automatically think of Bowling Green and Toledo as the top two, but Miami screws that up. What major-conference team gets beat by a MAC team this year?

Pat: Miami is at Ohio State to open the season. Bowling Green is at Wisconsin.

Ivan: There you go. That's probably it.

mk455 · Post by **mk455** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 1:29 pm

another espn bg mention...

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/preview05 ... id=2127042

"whats hot: black quarterbacks"

Black quarterbacks. It might only still be an issue to Rush Limbaugh, but Phil Steele's preview magazine rates African-Americans as five of the nation's top six QBs: Vince Young of Texas; Reggie McNeal of Texas A&M; Chris Leak of Florida; Omar Jacobs of Bowling Green (above); and Brad Smith of Missouri.

omar is the qb pictured

mk455 · Post by **mk455** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 1:31 pm

The spread offense. Urban Meyer plugged Alex Smith into the spread at Utah and saw him become the No. 1 NFL draft pick. The guy Meyer left in charge two stops ago, Bowling Green's Gregg Brandon, saw his QB, Omar Jacobs, throw for 4,000 yards and 41 TDs last year in the same offense. Defensive coordinators, you are hereby challenged to find the antidote to the spread.

mk455 · Post by **mk455** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 1:35 pm

on a side note... for some reason right now i'm able to access espn insider stuff... i duno if its a free preview day or what, but i'm likin it.

*edit*

okay yeah its free preview week. yayyy.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 1:58 pm

Brad Smith is still in school?

He's like Wasean Tait over there!

On a related note, I was in St. Louis over the weekend and saw a kid with a Brad Smith jersey on. He was only 10 or 11, otherwise I was going to laugh in his face.

Okay, okay.. so the age didn't stop me, it was because he was with his dad. Who was bigger than me.

BGFan · Post by **BGFan** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 2:45 pm

Pretty funny seeing CUSA in the "NOT" column!

rocketfootball · Post by **rocketfootball** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 3:28 pm

TG1996 wrote:Brad Smith is still in school? He's like Wasean Tait over there!

LOL! Smith originally verballed to Toledo, but followed Pinkel to Missouri and signed there in February of 2001. He redshirted in '01 and started right away as a RFR in 2002.

Of course I am not mad that he followed Pinkel to Missouri because his scholarship opening up was what lead us to offering Bruce Gradkowski.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 4:42 pm

rocketfootball wrote: LOL! Smith originally verballed to Toledo, but followed Pinkel to Missouri and signed there in February of 2001. He redshirted in '01 and started right away as a RFR in 2002.

Of course I am not mad that he followed Pinkel to Missouri because his scholarship opening up was what lead us to offering Bruce Gradkowski.

And Pinkel *AND* Smith are still picking a whole lot of BG from their various orifices.

Or is it "orifi"??

BGSU-Ph.D. · Post by **BGSU-Ph.D.** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:52 pm

BGFan wrote:Pretty funny seeing CUSA in the "NOT" column!

Under the George O'leary write-up, however, C-USA is called a tougher conference than the MAC. It isn't.

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