Clawson's end of the year remarks

[mc3022]

If you guys haven't had a chance, I would check out Clawson's end of the year press conference where he commented on the 2011 team and talked about next year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBE0XMidy8M

My thoughts: I only really listened to the offensive stuff btw,

One of the questions/comments that come up regularly during the press conference was about the offensive line. (rightfully so)

Clawson called this current group an "average to below average offensive line." It sounds that although he recognized the group as a whole has improved, it's still no where near where he wants them to be.

He did mention though that he really likes his young group of offensive lineman. He mentioned Huettel, Piazza, Cooper, Cairo, & Byler specifically as the ones who will be given the opportunities to push for playing time and provide depth for the offensive line next year.

Also sounds like he wasn't satisfied with the QB play from this year either, (lets face it, I don't think anybody was) and that they will have to lower their mistake/turnover margin from the offensive backfield to be successful.

From a WR standpoint, he is very high on Coby, and expects him to be in the starting rotation for next year. He did mention that WR was an area he is going to target for JC transfers.

[Globetrotter]

Great stuff. Should be interesting for next year. I am going to update the ongoing roster I have and post it for next year.

[Globetrotter]

Based on the 2 deep from last year so beyond that its just place setting.
10 starters return on D. Only 11 total Srs next year also although our best 2 Defensive guys will be Srs next season.


QB Matt Schilz 6-2 211 Jr® Trent Hurley 6-2 215 So® 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® Andre Givens 5-10 185 So® Coy Brown 6-0 215 R
RB Jamel Martin 6-1 195 So® Erique Geiger 5-9 203 Jr® John Pettigrew 5-8 180 Sr
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® James White 6-0 176 R
WR Heath Jackson 5-11 187 So® Bart Tanski 6-1 191 Sr® Travis Greene 5-11 170 Fr® James Brown 6-3 189 Fr®
WR JeRon Stokes 6-0 178 Jr® Deejay White 5-10 175 So® Diontre Delk 5-10 180 Fr® Ryan Burbrink 5-8 178 Fr®
TE Alex Bayer 6-4 256 Jr® Kendall Montgomery 6-5 258 So® Clay Rolf 6-6 275 So® DeMark Jenkins 6-3 228 Sr® Zach Steinmetz 6-4 240 Fr® Mitch Williams 6-5 242 Fr®
LT Kyle Bryant 6-5 306 Jr® Nick Hager 6-2 310 So® Fahn Cooper 6-4 294 Fr® Jacob Bennett 6-5 275
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® JJ Beggan 6-4 290 R
RG Dominic Flewellyn 6-3 291 Jr Isiah Byler 6-3 286 So® Christian Piazza 6-7 275 So® Ben Steward 6-6 285 R
RT Jordan Roussos 6-4 296 Sr Scott Hodges 6-7 294 Sr Darion Delany 6-5 295 So® Dalton Chapman 6-6 285 R

K Stephen Stein 5-11 186 Sr® Kyle Burkhardt 5-11 181 Jr Jerry Phillips 6-1 218 Sr® Matt Oczypok 5-11 182 Jr® Tyler Tate 6-1 185 Fr®
P Brian Schmiederbusch 6-4 214 Jr®
LS Cory Johnson 5-11 204 Sr® Matt Engel 5-10 207 So

LE Zach Colvin 6-4 260 So Bryan Thomas 6-2 248 So® Shaquille Hall 6-3 225 Fr®
LT Chris Jones 6-1 295 Sr Darius Gilbert 6-1 275 So® Bryan Baird 6-4 227 Fr® Izaah Lunsford 6-3 260 R
RT Jairus Campbell 6-5 295 Jr® Ted Ouellet 6-3 276 Jr® Hunter Maynard 6-1 310 So Mark Kulbis 6-4 220 Fr®
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®
Buck Paul Swan 6-0 226 Jr® DJ Lynch 5-11 238 So® Eric Jordan 6-0 215 Jr®
MLB Dwayne Woods 6-1 227 Sr Gabe Martin 6-1 220 So® Jordan Leininger 5-11 201 Fr® Tyler Goble 6-0 230 R
Rover Jerry Gates 5-10 209 Jr Tim Moore 5-11 186 Sr Jhalil Croley 6-3 244 R
Whip Aaron Foster 5-10 202 Jr Jude Adjei-Barimah 5-10 194 So® Austin Collier 6-1 205 Jr® Marcus Graham 5-11 189 Fr®
Stud Ryland Ward 5-9 204 So® Justin Ford 6-2 190 So® Dernard Turner 6-0 180 Fr® Tony Traylor 5-8 189 Fr®
CB Darrell Hunter 5-8 176 So Devon McKoy 5-10 189 Jr Mark Mays 5-10 182 Jr® Johnny Joseph 5-9 170 Fr®
CB Cameron Truss 5-10 189 Jr® Aunre Davis 5-10 175 Jr® Brian Sutton 6-0 180 Fr®

[factman]

Her is the link:
http://www.bgsufalcons.com/news/2011/12 ... 11828.aspx

On the defensive side, he mentions that Boo Boo may move to Free Safety.

[MarkL]

Listen to the audio track instead of the YouTube link as the YouTube video cuts off after about half an hour. And note his comments on coaches getting fired so fast at the end of his time. Its a really good argument why this current atmosphere of demands on coaches to win right now is both bad for the coaching profession and bad for the game.

[Flipper]

Boo Boo at Free safety? Now you're talking....love having a 200 lb or so guy with the willingness to bust someone in the mouth back there... the secondary could be a strength next year. There's a ton of returning talent at DB.

[Flipper]

Adrian Hodges left because he wanted assurances he'd play more over Joplin in his final game. Coach said no, so he left.

He talked about the OL being shorthanded...we had three guys who weren't HS players in for the spring. One of them played this year (Wharton) I have to wonder... Why weren't Hodges and Piazza ready? Were they hurt? Piazza was a prep school guy, so I can understand that, but Hodges had two years of JUCO..if he can't help right away ...barring injury...why is he here? Are we being too cautious with Redshirting guys?

For those of you wondering about the impact of APR and attrition...Clawson said he signed the max of 25 kids for three years and still wans't at 85 (the max number of schollies). We should not be in that position this year. From my POV...people make the comparison between Clawson and Beckman at Toledo a lot...Beckman is winning, why aren't we. Look at Toledo's roster, look at the number of 4th and 5th year SR's on that team...particularly on the lines and secondary. That's why they're going bowling and we're not.

This was an odd season...it feels like it was a bad year, maybe because we got absolutely trucked in the second half by three of the better teams we played...or because we hit that dry spell in October and November.... it feels like that, but when you think about it, we were 2 or 3 plays from beating two schools that are bowling and that's why were not.

I tend to be a bit overly optimistic when it comes to BGSU football...but I'm going on record now that we will be at least 2-2 OOC and 6-2 in the MAC. We'll be at least 8-4 and playing in the Little Caesar's or GODaddy.com bowl.....if we aren't, I'll eat a bug and maybe even a Domino's pizza...possibly wash it down with an Iron City light even

[mc3022]

Yeah its defiantly disappointing that Scott Hodges didn't play this year. The reason why you bring in JUCO kids is to have them start immediately, otherwise you'd rather get a HS kid in and have him for 4/5 years.

Piazza, to my understanding, will be entering his RS Sophomore year (correct me if i'm wrong) so that isn't that big of deal. To me, Hodges is.

If you recall back in Clawson's recruiting statement, he called Scott Hodges "the best JUCO tackle we evaluated on film." The fact that Bojicic had to rotate to tackle often tells me that Hodges wasn't ready to play, or they liked Wharton that much better.

[Globetrotter]

Yeah its defiantly disappointing that Scott Hodges didn't play this year. The reason why you bring in JUCO kids is to have them start immediately, otherwise you'd rather get a HS kid in and have him for 4/5 years.

Piazza, to my understanding, will be entering his RS Sophomore year (correct me if i'm wrong) so that isn't that big of deal. To me, Hodges is.

If you recall back in Clawson's recruiting statement, he called Scott Hodges "the best JUCO tackle we evaluated on film." The fact that Bojicic had to rotate to tackle often tells me that Hodges wasn't ready to play, or they liked Wharton that much better.

So I put everyone on the 2 deep forward a year. Did they all play?

[Falconfreak90]

I like our chances of winning quite a few games next year.