Clawson also was asked about the play of junior center David "Chief" Kekuewa this season. "He's a very good player -- he's very strong, and he plays with great leverage," Clawson said of Kekuewa.
"And the kid loves football -- you have to kick him out of the office. We ask him sometimes if he still has a place to live because he's here [at the stadium] all the time."
Clawson said it was a stroke of luck for the Falcons to find Kekuewa at Arizona Western, and another stroke of luck brought him to BG. "We kind of stumbled upon him," Clawson admitted. "We had graduated six receivers, so we were really looking to bring in one or two junior-college receivers. There was a receiver at his junior college that we were evaluating, but our coach that was out there really liked their center [Kekuewa]. The coach liked his demeanor, his leverage. At that point we weren't really looking to take a junior-college offensive lineman, but we brought his film back and decided he was too good to just not take him.
"We thought he would give us instant depth, and maybe even compete to start. And then there was one of those wild recruiting stories: He was supposed to go to another school one weekend, but he missed his flight and I guess he couldn't reach the coaches of the school he was going to. So he asked if we could get him up there that weekend, and we made the arrangements. He came up, had a great time, and committed on the spot. We kind of tripped into that one, but I'm very glad that we did."
