Pre-spring football article from The Blade

BGSU33 · Post by **BGSU33** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:07 am

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dl ... /-1/SPORTS

Falconfreak90 · Post by **Falconfreak90** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:14 am

Man, Glen Stanley needs to get his academics in order. Hopefully he does in time for summer drills.

Good report....Spring game only 4 1/2 weeks away. GO FOOTBALL

Redwingtom · Post by **Redwingtom** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:16 am

All I can say is that if AT is gonna be our starting tailback, they sure as heck better turn him into a tailback.

He won't be able to get away with the stutter step and hesitation before he make a cut if he is back there full time.

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:02 pm

Falconfreak90 wrote:Man, Glen Stanley needs to get his academics in order. Hopefully he does in time for summer drills.

Good report....Spring game only 4 1/2 weeks away. GO FOOTBALL

I hate to say it, but if I'm reading between the lines correctly, we may have seen the last of Stanley on the playing field. Maybe it's just gut instinct, but it doesn't sound good. At all.

Redwingtom · Post by **Redwingtom** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:23 pm

1987alum wrote:
Falconfreak90 wrote:Man, Glen Stanley needs to get his academics in order. Hopefully he does in time for summer drills.

Good report....Spring game only 4 1/2 weeks away. GO FOOTBALL
I hate to say it, but if I'm reading between the lines correctly, we may have seen the last of Stanley on the playing field. Maybe it's just gut instinct, but it doesn't sound good. At all.

Did his grades fall below a level that he can't start playing again until another term starts? The bowl game was in January and it is only March after all.

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:27 pm

RWT:

Dunno. But when they say he's not practicing "but still part of the team," and then Brandon says we're thin at LB but we'll be better when Haneline returns (no mention of Stanley there), I just get that creeping suspicion that he's going to fade off into the sunset. I hope he proves me wrong.

JoeFalcon · Post by **JoeFalcon** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:43 pm

Redwingtom wrote:All I can say is that if AT is gonna be our starting tailback, they sure as heck better turn him into a tailback.

He won't be able to get away with the stutter step and hesitation before he make a cut if he is back there full time.

Absolutely. Why mess with the multipurpose role he has thrived in and try and turn him into something he's not: a spread tailback? AT is at his best running the ball when:

a) they think he could throw it
b) he takes a traditional handoff from the I formation and runs downhill

The spread running game (Tyler handing it off from the shotgun) requires a quick, shifty back like Ransom or Geter.

eRichFalcon · Post by **eRichFalcon** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:05 pm

RE Stanley, consider the academic schedule...If he was just ineligible for the Bowl Game, and no others his poor grades must have first come to light around or at the end of the fall sememster that ended in mid-December.

Him still not being able to practice says to me he's not doing much/any better this Spring

I don't know if eligibility is determined semester by semester or if cumulative GPA plays a factor, but this dude may need to kick some ass in summer school to play in the fall

Bleeding Orange · Post by **Bleeding Orange** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:56 pm

eRichFalcon wrote:RE Stanley, consider the academic schedule...If he was just ineligible for the Bowl Game, and no others his poor grades must have first come to light around or at the end of the fall sememster that ended in mid-December.

Him still not being able to practice says to me he's not doing much/any better this Spring

I don't know if eligibility is determined semester by semester or if cumulative GPA plays a factor, but this dude may need to kick some ass in summer school to play in the fall

I don't know if the AD requests midterm grades in these types of situations, but I doubt it. A guy in Stanley's situation, who was declared inelligible at the end of the Fall semester may very well remain inelligible until at least the end of the next grading period (which would be in May). I don't know this to be the case by any means, but it makes sense to me based on the way semester-based grading works.

BGFootball · Post by **BGFootball** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:41 pm

From a reliable source: Stanley will start practicing again if he starts showing some progress. Which means it could be this spring or this summer or sadly, never again.