Next Season's Roster

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Does anyone have an analysis or opinion of the roster's quality for 09'? Just wondering to gauge what our season will be like next season. I really like Sheehan, but if he had more speed, the QB sneak, run and option would be more relevant.

I hate to say it but our performance this season will probably hurt our recruiting potential for the type of talent we had in the past. The sad thing is that we've got the talent, but utilizing that talent needs some fine tuning.
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Most recruits are already in and it seems like we have a good class.

We are going to lose quite a bit on D and some playmakers on offense. The Offense will still have all of the backs (minus Turner) and hopefully get back Ransom. Receivers will be fine despite the loss of Partridge. Sheehan is back which is fine.

On Defense we will need to replace A Smith, Briggs, Dozier, Haneline and I think Lewis.

Our entire kicking team will need replaced.
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Our QB recruit Pat Nicely from Willoughby South is big time. He'll probably reshirt next year and be our next big quarterback.
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RB - all of our backs, except AT, return, but will we actually use them next year? Bullock, Geter, and Rice have a combined 131 carries on the year for 580 yards. That is not nearly enough carries from your running backs. Overall, we average 3.6 yards per carry. That will not get it done.

WR - Corey is a big loss and Kelley/Parks move on as well. Hutson, Pronty, and one of the credit card thiefs will step up to fill their roles. I hope we can uncover a true threat in the offseason because this offense badly needs a WR that strikes fear in the defense. I just don't see any of our receivers having the ability to make a couple guys miss and take an 8 yard pass and turn it into a 50 yard touchdown.

OL - we lose Curtis and Fink, but I am excited to see what some of the young guys can do. Growing pains will be there, but this should be a good group to build on.

DL - Magnone and Ream return, but we lose Briggs, Davis, and Schaefer. Unless we have some talent and lots of it coming up, we are going to be thin up front.

LB - losing Haneline and Dozier is huge. Basler will fill one of those spots, but I have no idea who else will contribute. Hopefully one of the young guys will come out of nowhere to star for us.

DB - we are going to be really young at corner. Lewis and Smith are both gone. A true frosh (Spencer) is listed as one of the backups on the two deep. We heard a lot about Quiles from last year's recruiting class. Hopefully he steps up.

The kicking game should be an adventure with both guys leaving. Phillips came in and should be the kicker. Punting could be determined by a student contest.

I hope I am not missing something here, but I have thought all year that we lose a bunch of talent this year and I know nothing about the guys behind them. We hear about how great Brandon is in the recruiting game. He better be or next year is going to be much longer than this year.
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Rollo83 wrote:Our QB recruit Pat Nicely from Willoughby South is big time. He'll probably reshirt next year and be our next big quarterback.
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How sad :( We're already talking about next year, and it's not even Thanksgiving.

(Let me add, this is not a rip on anyone. It's just a sad fact.)
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I think Nicely has potential but i think that Collier has much more...he is supposed to have a gun for an arm and also very mobile, which would work really well with the spread offense. he was being recruited by some bigtime programs as well and chose to come here....and yes it is sad that we are thinking so far in advance
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He also had 5 ints on defense.

I had assumed we would see him at RB, WR or DB.

http://www.maxpreps.com/michigan/footba ... er&group=2
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Hopefully this formats ok. Here is our entire roster with an updated depth chart for the 2 deep and the 14 commits added.....

QB 13 Tyler Sheehan** 6-3 225 JR 11 Andrew Beam 6-4 230 JR 16 Tony Hunter 6-1 227 R-JR 14 Aaron Pankrantz 6-6 220 FR 18 Bart Tanski 6-1 190 fr Austin Collier 6-1 180 Sterling Standish Patrick Nicely 6-4 205 Willoughby

No seniors

RB 33 Chris Bullock** 5-11 220 R-JR 35 Jason Rice 5-11 186 r-FR 19 Eric Ransom 5-9 189 JR 30 Steven Dunlap 5-8 168 r-fr Mark Mays 5-9 170 Clayton Alex Thomas 6-2 214 Stow
RB 28 Willie Geter* 5-8 170 SO 17 Anthony Turner *** 6-2 229 5-SR 34 Zach Akenberger 5-8 184 r-fr Ali Alaboody 5-8 167 Fordson

1 Senior Anthony Turner

WR 7 Freddie Barnes ** 6-0 210 R-JR 85 Ray Hutson 6-2 190 R-FR 81 DeMark Jenkins 6-3 202 FR 82 Derrick Coker 5-9 175 FR
WR 1 Corey Partridge *** 5-11 187 5-SR 83 Tyrone Pronty** 6-0 181 JR 83 Chris Scheidt 5-11 190 r-fr
WR 86 Jermiah Kelley * 5-11 200 SR 9 Adrian Hodges 5-11 183 R-FR 15 Calvin Wiley * 5-11 195 R-JR
WR 3 Marques Parks *** 5-11 207 5-SR 12 Chris Wright** 5-10 181 R-JR 84 Derek Brighton* 6-0 196 R-SO

Seniors Partridge, Parks, Kelley

TE/FB 89 Jimmy Scheidler ** 6-4 240 R-JR 36 Lewis Parks* 6-1 232 R-SO 91 Nick Rieke * 6-4 270 R-SO Alex Bayer 6-4 216 Pickerington North Ronnie Goble 6-3 220 Canton

No Seniors

LT 70 Brady Minturn ** 6-4 290 R-JR 76 Aaron Kent *** 6-6 291 5-SR 60 Casey McHugh 6-5 279 JR
LG 75 Shane Steffy ** 6-3 302 R-JR 71 Charles Robinson 6-6 340 FR 67 Timothy German 6-5 300 FR
C 61 Ben Bojicic OL 6-4 273 R-FR 68 Scott Lewis 6-2 301 R-FR 65 Blaec Walker 6-5 315 FR
RG 55 Brandon Curtis *** 6-2 285 5-SR 64 Scott Albert 6-7 292 R-JR 66 Josh Dodge 6-3 298 R-FR
RT 74 Jeff Fink *** 6-4 292 5-SR 46 Tyler Donahue* 6-6 281 R-SO 63 Marc Stevens 6-5 300 FR

Seniors Fink, Kent, Curtis
We will have to replace the Right side of our line.

K 41 Sinisa Vrvilo * 6-1 234 SR 39 Matthew Norsic 6-0 209 R-JR 48 Gerald Phillips 6-1 195 FR 49 Stephen Stein 6-0 160 fr
P 26 Nick Iovinelli * 6-0 184 SR
LS 57 Neal Dahlman* 6-1 235 SO 46 Craig Rutherford ** 5-11 204 JR

Both kickers are seniors. Phillips will have atleast one of the spots and Stein and Norsic may have the other

LE 40 Joe Schaefer ** 6-4 259 5-SR 51 Angelo Magnone * 6-3 235 R-SO 97 Darius Smith* 6-3 223 R-SO 94 Carlos Tipton 6-3 246 R-FR 88 Nicholas Tuminello 6-4 220 FR Jairus Campbell 6-5 237 Pickerington
LT 95 Nick Davis ** 6-3 281 5-SR 77 Nick Torresso* 6-3 290 SO 98 Andrew Johnson 6-3 257 R-FR 58 Winston Etheridge 6-2 254 FR
RT 90 Michael Ream** 6-3 270 R-JR 92 Kevin Alvarado 6-2 263 R-FR 62 Preston Burrell 6-5 278 R-FR Chris Jones 6-2 270 Brownsburg
RE 99 Diyral Briggs *** 6-4 230 5-SR 47 Adrian Baker *** 6-3 218 RS-SR 93 Garth Hartung ** 6-1 250 5-SR 96 Darren Branch 6-2 230 R-FR T.J. Fatinikun 6-2 225 Perrysburg

Seniors Schaefer, Davis, Briggs, Baker, Hartung

SLB 30 Erique Dozier *** 6-0 221 5-SR 45 Cody Basler ** 6-3 238 R-JR 35 Nate Waldron ** 5-10 215 5-SR 53 Anthony Stover 6-2 200 FR Eric Jordan 6-1 215 Sandusky
MLB 44 John Haneline *** 6-3 231 5-SR 42 Eugene Fells* 6-1 215 R-SO 43 Brandon Jackson ** 6-2 243 JR 59 Ryan Crow 6-1 220 r-fr 49 Michael Long 5-10 225 r-so Dwayne Woods 5-11 207 Stow
WLB 4 Jerett Sanderson ** 6-0 189 JR 52 James Schneider 6-4 244 r-JR 37 Aaron Davis * 6-2 203 R-JR 35 Josh Scheidler* 6-0 213 R-JR 59 JJ Laseak 6-2 210 fr Paul Swan 6-0 210 Oconomowoc

Srs Dozier, Haneline, Waldron. Basler should start for Dozier.

SS 24 Jahmal Brown** 5-10 193 JR 32 Keith Morgan 6-0 195 FR 34 Marquese Quiles 6-1 170 FR 5 Freddie Walker 5-9 181 SR 34 Robert Lorenzi 5-8 165 JR
FS 25 P.J. Mahone ** 5-11 201 JR 10 Calvin Marshall* 5-11 196 R-SO 27 Giovanni Fillari 5-11 205 SR

No Seniors

CB 21 Kenny Lewis *** 5-11 185 SR 38 Adrien Spencer 6-0 175 FR 16 Brendan Divis 5-10 190 fr 25 Jonathan Davis 5-11 170 FR Rickey Steele 5-10 168 Cincinnati LaSalle
CB 2 Antonio Smith *** 5-10 182 SR 31 Roger Williams ** 5-9 184 JR 38 Lane Robilotto 6-1 172 FR 16 Jerrell Parks 5-9 176 r-fr Tim Moore 5-11 190 Mentor

Kenny Lewis and Antonio Smith are both srs.
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Globetrotter wrote:He also had 5 ints on defense.

I had assumed we would see him at RB, WR or DB.

http://www.maxpreps.com/michigan/footba ... er&group=2
Yeah, I have Collier pegged for a Wr, DB or Rb position more than Qb but who knows. He does appear to have more speed than Nicely who is listed at a 4.9 40.
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drumstix2388 wrote:I think Nicely has potential but i think that Collier has much more...he is supposed to have a gun for an arm and also very mobile, which would work really well with the spread offense. he was being recruited by some bigtime programs as well and chose to come here....and yes it is sad that we are thinking so far in advance
At 6'1" and 190 lbs, Collier doesn't have the size the coaching staff likes to run the spread. Nicely is 6'4" and 200+ lbs.
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Both kickers are NOT gone

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Several folks have mentioned that we lose BOTH our kickers after this year. I believe that Nick Iovenelli (sp?) is a R-Jr. and still has a year of eligibility left. Our programs seem to verify this.
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I thought Phillips is was known for his ability to do both kicking and punting.
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Re: Both kickers are NOT gone

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Class of 61 wrote:Several folks have mentioned that we lose BOTH our kickers after this year. I believe that Nick Iovenelli (sp?) is a R-Jr. and still has a year of eligibility left. Our programs seem to verify this.
Great catch. He graduated in 2005 so next year would be his redshirt sr year.
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