A quick search and all I see is that Marcus Jackson is now the OLB coach.

Quote from: pradierguy on August 27, 2025, 08:05:10 AMExcited to see Luke Starkey's name on the roster. From nearby South Range high school, he was the D5 Defensive POY in 2024. Absolute dog of a linebacker the couple times I saw him play. He will fit well.

D5 DPOY, 137 tackles, 37 TFL, 8 sacks, D5 state semifinalist last year, 3.9 GPA, 27 ACT.  Yeah that's definitely a kid you're pumped to add to your roster.

And earlier someone mentioned Carson Dyrlund.  That's a nice addition to the QB room.  He was a very good dual threat QB at Hoover.

Quote from: D3fanboy on August 23, 2025, 02:06:25 PM

Quote from: theaprof on August 23, 2025, 01:36:40 PMI miss Lenny and the info he used to supply.

two weeks away from toe meeting leather and who is actually on the Mount Union team is anybody's guess...it almost seems like more work to be so bad at social media, transparency, engagement, etc than what Mount does these days

Quote from: D3fanboy on August 23, 2025, 02:33:27 PM

Quote from: hsbsballcoach7 on August 23, 2025, 02:27:19 PM

Quote from: D3fanboy on August 23, 2025, 02:06:25 PM

Quote from: theaprof on August 23, 2025, 01:36:40 PMI miss Lenny and the info he used to supply.

two weeks away from toe meeting leather and who is actually on the Mount Union team is anybody's guess...it almost seems like more work to be so bad at social media, transparency, engagement, etc than what Mount does these days

THIS... TRULY! When you're a program of this standard, you expect all areas to follow suit.  It's not like we expect them to share practice film, but things I've noticed other D3 programs sharing include:
Returning starters/key players
Key transfers
Highlight some freshmen (UMU Wrestling as already done this)
Countdown to Kickoff
Highlights from last year or practice this year
Stats from last year to note
Connect with the local newspaper

Those are all basic things that high school programs do.... create some excitement or hype!

Speaking of transfer, I had a friend tell me that Carson Dyrlund, a former local HS (Hoover) QB who went D2 (Northwood) is now at Mount. I think he was an athletic QB with a decent arm.

If you asked Dartt/his handlers...The Standard is The Standard.  No need for any excitement, or hype in Alliance.  Despite not winning a title for nearly a decade, all is well in the boring, unimaginative land of Mount football.  I mean he's won 94% of his games!! 

ughh

I can only speak for myself, but every year my interest in the football program fades a little.  If you go back to the LK/VK days I was watching everything I could to try to learn about the next group of studs coming.  I would go to JV games LOL.  One year I was in PA for work and stopped at W&J and watched the scrimmage in a suit (sweating my a$$ off).  Now I watch all the games, but I don't have the passion I used to.  And it's not an aging thing because my passion is still there it has just migrated over to the men's hoops program.  Baseball will always be my first love, but hoops is easily my #2 now.  That bums me out a little.

Quote from: hsbsballcoach7 on August 23, 2025, 03:11:09 PM

Quote from: theaprof on August 23, 2025, 02:48:33 PMI don't really care about hype--I just want information.

That's my point though... they can't even give the fans, donors and students a roster.... at the very basics.

The only reason I would understand not putting it up the first week of camp would be so another college doesn't poach one of the 3-4 QBs, etc you recruit.

This has been my gripe across numerous sports.  I'm not expecting them to have up headshots and bios, but name/position/hometown shouldn't be hard to get posted pretty quickly.  It's 2025, I can't imagine when all the fall athletes show up on campus there's some asst. coach with a clipboard writing down their names for the first time.  And if the concern with football is that a lot of kids quit during camp, so what?  Update the roster.  A kid that was on the roster isn't next week.  Big deal.

The main athletics account posted four pics from practice.  Have they opened the flood gates??  The only thing I took from them was that any concern I had about Maloney being suited to running the ball regularly were baseless.  Dude looks like he spent the summer sleeping on a cot in the weight room.

I understand it's voluminous with the number of players, but it still seems to take longer each year now.  In football's defense, the posting of current rosters for basketball/baseball have been slow also. 

I went back and looked and it looks like the current freshmen were beginning to be added to the roster online 5 days after practice started.  It appears we are running on a delay this fall as the only "freshmen" still appear to be the transfers.

Quote from: D3fanboy on August 18, 2025, 01:50:54 PMMount's running a really tight-lipped camp...pretty much zero social media stuff coming out.  Miss you Lenny

I was just thinking this over the weekend because I was searching around to see if anything was out there.

Lenny was the GOAT.  I miss him this time of year.  I really miss him every spring when he used to call the baseball games just because he loved baseball and wanted to do it.  In classic D3 SID fashion he'd be doing play by play and between pitches telling the student assistant how to do the live stats software for what just happened.  That job is a labor of love and Lenny loved it.

The other thing I've noticed in suburban Columbus is that many kids who are very good HS players and could be good D3 players opt to go to a big school and not play sports.  So the top talent is going D1/D2 and the kids who would be good D3 players are often choosing to hang it up.  Regardless, there are way too many quality HS players in central OH for Cap and Ott to be this bad.

Thank god Mount has a couple solid OOC games this year.  The bottom third is just plain bad.  Wilmington has well known challenges.  Cap and Ott?  Location alone should all but keep you out of the basement.  The continued ineptitude of the Columbus schools is something.  Not saying I expect Pentello-level squads, but maybe a decent season occasionally? 

I decided to do a little Fuline praising tonight because something today reminded me of the pre-Fuline days.

Fuline's 1st year (2011-12) they went 7-11 in OAC play.  He's never had a losing record again.  The last 7 seasons they're 95-24 (.798).  Excluding the 12 game COVID season they've averaged 23.3 wins/yr over that span.  For reference, Lee Hood's 19 yrs they averaged 13.2 wins/yr.

He's made the NCAA tourney 4 times.  3 of those times they advanced at least to the sweet 16.  And I think we all agree that the 2020 squad that was robbed of their chance to keep playing had a real shot at the final 4.

Mount started playing basketball in 1895.  Prior to Fuline they had one 20 win season...Hood's fantastic 1996-97 team with Aaron Shipp and Neal Richards that went 25-5.  Fuline is AVERAGING 20 wins a season (280 wins in 14 seasons).

I will never stop being thankful that he decided to take the Mount job and stay in Alliance long-term and I'm sure anyone else who was around before him agrees.

If there are no transfers coming in this would have to be the least experienced secondary we've seen.  In the past even if they graduated the entire secondary they still would have had several guys who had played a lot of snaps as backups taking their place.  Not the case on paper right now which is frightening considering how the secondary looked at times last year. 

At this point you basically have to give him a pass on this first season because it's going to be difficult to recruit the majority of a roster for this year when you get hired in late June.  They understandably had to cancel their team camps in June because they didn't have a coach yet so that doesn't help either.

I was reading up on the Berg hire of Mike Summey and I'm not sure what to think.  Almost no HC experience, but a lot of D1 experience at a lot of places.  I guess we'll see how it goes.  Here's his resume I pieced together since the Berg bio has some holes in it: 

97-99  Graduate manager, NC State
99-03  Asst. coach, St. Francis (PA)
03-04  Asst. coach, Queens University
04-06  Asst. coach, The Citadel
06-08  Asst. coach, North Florida
08-09  Head coach, Bethany
09-13  Dir. of ops, Miami (FL)
13-15  Assoc HC, St. Francis (PA)
15-20  Asst. coach, BGSU
20-22  Asst. coach, NC State
22-24  Asst. coach, Campbell
24-25  GM, Utah

Nine transfers is quite a haul with Harden being the headliner of the ones I know.  Busbee is a former Raider.  He had a solid season at Mt. Aloysius last year (13 ppg).