Throughout the recruiting process, Bowling Green had forever been in the background until one visit quickly thrusted the Falcons into the foreground.
“It felt like home away from home,” said McClure, who is now an employee for the city of Mentor in the service department, while also being a volunteer assistant on the Mentor High School football team. “Being a small-town kid, Bowling Green felt small to me, and I felt comfortable. I fell in love with the campus, the coaching staff and the players. I felt like a part of the program instead of just another number. I went where my heart was at.”
That was Bowling Green.
“I don’t regret my decision at all, not for one second, but I do wonder what my career would have been like had I put up the same numbers at Ohio State that I did at Bowling Green,” McClure said.
"Regarding BGSU, I would think their biggest strength is that they never give up, They never slow down and they battle hard even after the other team scores. We have to be on our game and never, ever take the foot off the gas for a second." ~~USCHO Poster "BG was relentless. It's like they know that a good first pass on the breakout from a defenseman will almost always result in an odd-man rush against them - but they go in anyway and dare you to make that pass. All three of their goals were just grit and effort. That's a team any fan can be proud to support...they give all they've got." ~~USCHO Poster, AFTER Tech beat us #NeverGiveUp
#NeverSurrender
#Relentless
#Resiliant
A friend of mine from out of state did a campus visit at BGSU and she was delighted by how friendly everyone was. There is something to the culture of BGSU that really causes people to stand up and take notice. It sounds as if Brian McClure noticed it, too.
I saw the first game he'd ever played in, at C. Mich IIRC.
Don't think he started, but one of 1st throws went about 40+ yds in air , caught by WR. Our reaction was WOW! Who is this? We all soon found out. Think he and Kodak came out of HS in same yr., and the OSU fanatics couldn't believe they'd missed on both QBs.
Education our Challenge, Excellence our goal. (look it up)
We had a guy living with us on 5th floor Offenhauer East, 1981 I believe, who started drinking on game days at about 6 a.m. in the morning and blasting the Falcon Fight Song. That was his pre-game routine.
Walking (i.e. stumbling) to the game one Saturday afternoon, he took a nose dive into the cement walkway between the ice arena and the stadium that left a big scab on his face. He was too drunk to remember much of the game and we all gave him the nickname “Scrap Iron” because of the incident.
We were uptown that night after the game and he was telling the ladies he was a football player and was hurt in the game. It seemed to work as he attracted the attention of several of the co-eds that night. So with this working, scrap iron continued to use this line for the next week or so whenever we went uptown to the bars. He changed his story saying he was still injured and that’s why the girls didn’t see on the field on Saturday. He still had the scab on his face and he told the women that coach wouldn’t let him play yet.
So I put a petition on the men’s bathroom door on the 5th floor of Offenhauer, for people to sign it asking Coach Denny Stoltz to let Scrap Iron play that coming Saturday. We collected about 25 signatures and I mailed to Coach at the attention of Doty Perry Stadium through campus mail.
About 3 days later, I get a letter from Coach Stoltz via campus mail telling all of us on the 5th floor that, “I intend to start Scrap Iron at quarterback on Saturday. We think McClure is too tall to be a quarterback.”
Nice gesture on Coach Stoltz part. I wonder where Scrap Iron is today?
"Windows are for cheaters, chimneys for the poor.
Closets are for hangers, winners use the door."
I played basketball against McClure a time or two at the Rec. He was a terrible athlete...could barely jump at all. All I could do was run and jump...I would have gladly traded skill sets
It's not the fall that hurts...it's when you hit the ground.
