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Appears to be 20 so far...can't wait for Signing Day.

GO FOOTBALL

I hope all these guys stick, as you never know until they sign on the dotted line. But I do like the look of this class on paper thus far.

Will Coach Watson's departure to Toledo sway 1 or 2 towards them? He covered the state of Ohio and kids really seem to like him.

I agree, class looks good. The coach's departure will not hurt us. They recruit as a staff, as a "program" and as a "university". While student-athletes like to deal with the recruiter for their area and their position coach, every recruit will have multiple contact point and full confidence in the situation he committed to. And we'll have an outstanding coach there in the spot soon I am sure. Of course, there might be possibilities of late things if a Big Ten school etc moves and so on. That is always there. Have no idea if that will be in play this year. And, rarely, something personal changes w a recruit. But the vast majority of commits in every sport are committed to BOWLING GREEN. Position coaches and assistants are key sure, but it is always a team effort literally.

Go Falcons!

Very disappointing to hear hat Westbrooks is not going to be coming to BG after all. I loved his size at 6-3 and he led Palomar in receiving this season. I thought he could have been that one target we had to try and replace Kamar Jorden.

BGSU33 wrote:Very disappointing to hear hat Westbrooks is not going to be coming to BG after all. I loved his size at 6-3 and he led Palomar in receiving this season. I thought he could have been that one target we had to try and replace Kamar Jorden.

Agreed. Also not sure why Nevada would be more attractive to him. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to think of them as running the heck out of the ball rather than passing, whereas BG has a slinger at QB.

They had two good WR's in Westbrooks and Alex Wheat....Westbrooks is from Cali...maybe Nevada seemed more attractive than BG? Wheat is going to Utah State....based on his comments on twitter we offered him....btw..their QB has signed with Kent State. Apparently, they had some talent on offense.

Gallon has good size...Joplin is as big as Westbrooks...we have TE's who I think are quick enough to split out and work up field like possession WR's. We'll be OK so far as size goes. The talent sure is there...I'm psyched to see what Gallon, Stokes and Coby and do....Joplin could be our next All MAC WR. He really came on at teh end last year. 250 we completed are gone.

Speaking of Stokes, is Malik in the mix at QB or WR? He's a heck of a good athlete FWIW.

MarkL wrote:Speaking of Stokes, is Malik in the mix at QB or WR? He's a heck of a good athlete FWIW.

I could see him getting some specialty packages in the wildcat next year, which might open things up since we'll have a threat to pass and run. I'd love to see that happen, actually.

drumstix2388 wrote:

BGSU33 wrote:Very disappointing to hear hat Westbrooks is not going to be coming to BG after all. I loved his size at 6-3 and he led Palomar in receiving this season. I thought he could have been that one target we had to try and replace Kamar Jorden.

Agreed. Also not sure why Nevada would be more attractive to him. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to think of them as running the heck out of the ball rather than passing, whereas BG has a slinger at QB.

Nevada runs the pistol (their head coach Chris Ault invented it). They certainly do run a lot but they do pass out of it as well as Nevada, like BG, lost a slew of seniors at WR. Nevada has been to something like six consecutive bowl games and they are moving from the WAC to the MWC so I can understand the switch. But it still sucks for us. I wish he was coming.

NEvada's also much closer to home for the guy. He's from California, or at least that's where he went for junior college. Moving from CA to Ohio is no small deal. NV is a neighbor.

Here is the roster as I have it right now. I am sure there are people more in the know who can adjust things for me.

QB Matt Schilz 6-2 211 Jr® Matt Johnson 6-1 205 Fr® Malik Stokes 6-2 184 Fr® James Knapke 6-3 185 R
RB Anthon Samuel 6-0 180 So Jordan Hopgood 5-11 212 Jr® John Pettigrew 5-8 180 Sr
RB Jamel Martin 6-1 195 So® Andre Givens 5-10 185 So®
FB Tyler Beck 6-4 250 Jr Chris Pohlman 6-1 248 So
WR Shaun Joplin 6-2 197 Jr® Herve Coby 6-1 180 Fr® Christopher Gallon 6-4 207 Fr® Taylor Hanes 5-11 180 Fr® Jermal Holsley 5-9 160 R
WR Heath Jackson 5-11 187 So® Bart Tanski 6-1 191 Sr® Travis Greene 5-11 170 Fr® Micheal Allen 5-11 180 RJC
WR JeRon Stokes 6-0 178 Jr® Deejay White 5-10 175 So® Diontre Delk 5-10 180 Fr® James White 6-0 176 R
TE Alex Bayer 6-4 256 Jr® Clay Rolf 6-6 275 So® Zach Steinmetz 6-4 240 Fr®
TE Kendall Montgomery 6-5 258 So® DeMark Jenkins 6-3 228 Sr® Scott Davis 6-5 240 R
LT Kyle Bryant 6-5 306 Jr® Nick Hager 6-2 310 So® Fahn Cooper 6-4 294 Fr® Jacob Bennett 6-6 275 R
LG Dominique Wharton 6-3 298 Sr Jeremy Ernst 6-4 285 So® Spencer Cairo 6-2 293 Fr® Logan Deitz 6-6 270 R
C Chip Robinson 6-5 310 Sr® Jonathon Fry 6-3 265 So® Alex Huettel 6-4 290 Fr® David Kekuewa 6-3 315 RJC JJ Beggan 6-4 290 R
RG Dominic Flewellyn 6-3 291 Jr Isiah Byler 6-3 286 So® Darion Delany 6-5 295 So® Ben Steward 6-6 285 R
RT Jordan Roussos 6-4 296 Sr Scott Hodges 6-7 294 Sr Christian Piazza 6-7 275 So® Dalton Chapman 6-7 290 R

K Stephen Stein 5-11 186 Sr® Jerry Phillips 6-1 218 Sr® Matt Oczypok 5-11 182 Jr® Tyler Tate 6-1 185 Fr® Anthony Farinella 6-3, 180 RP Brian Schmiederbusch 6-4 214 Jr®
LS Cory Johnson 5-11 204 Sr® Matt Engel 5-10 207 So Greg Hochenstein 6-3 195 R

LE Zach Colvin 6-4 260 So Bryan Thomas 6-2 248 So® Shaquille Hall 6-3 225 Fr® Bryan Baird 6-4 227 Fr®
LT Chris Jones 6-1 295 Sr Hunter Maynard 6-1 310 So Darius Gilbert 6-1 275 So® Mike Minns 6-1 285 R
RT Jairus Campbell 6-5 295 Jr® Ted Ouellet 6-3 276 Jr® Izaah Lunsford 6-4 270 R
RE Ronnie Goble 6-2 240 Jr® Charlie Walker 6-2 228 So® Anthony Lawson 6-0 237 Jr® Tim Love 6-0 211 Fr® Mark Kulbis 6-4 220 Fr®
Buck Paul Swan 6-0 226 Jr® DJ Lynch 5-11 238 So® Eric Jordan 6-0 215 Jr® Coy Brown 6-0 215 R
MLB Dwayne Woods 6-1 227 Sr Gabe Martin 6-1 220 So® Jordan Leininger 5-11 201 Fr® Jhalil Croley 6-3 245 R
Rover Jerry Gates 5-10 209 Jr Tim Moore 5-11 186 Sr Erik Hallmon 5-11 192 R
Whip Aaron Foster 5-10 202 Jr Jude Adjei-Barimah 5-10 194 So® Austin Collier 6-1 205 Jr® Josh Pettus 5-11 195 RJC
Stud Ryland Ward 5-9 204 So® Justin Ford 6-2 190 So® Dernard Turner 6-0 180 Fr® James Sanford 6-2 185 R
CB Darrell Hunter 5-8 176 So Devon McKoy 5-10 189 Jr Brian Sutton 6-0 180 So Will Watson 5-11 180 R
CB Cameron Truss 5-10 189 Jr® Mark Mays 5-10 182 Jr® Johnny Joseph 5-9 170 Fr®

Maynard at DT had already passed Gilbert on the depth chart last year, and was seeing extensive time with the first 4 rotation. He will push for the starting nod at DT, and Campbell could be moving out to DE.

Baird will not be a DT , as he is way undersized and is a better fit at DE.

Minns isn't a DE...he's a DT.