FB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[D3fanboy]

on the Monday of Wilma week

the 2005 Mount championship team made NCAA history as the first team to have a 3,000 yard passer (Jorris - 3736), two 1,000 yard rushers (Kmic - 1219, ARob - 1046) and two 1,000 yard receivers (Garcon - 1196, Casto - 1223). With the explosive and well-balanced offense shown so far by the Raiders, is there a chance that they could repeat this feat, but add a third 1,000 yard receiver?

A deep playoff run is obviously needed to accumulate such gaudy stats, so lets assume a Stagg Bowl appearance.

3,000 yards = 200/gm.  That should be pretty easy for Maloney.  I'd guess Mount has had a 3000 yard passer every year since the Piloto/Seaman years

1000 yards =  67/gm.  Williams is currently averaging 99 and Thomas is 64.  With the "lighter" portion of the OAC schedule coming up, I think that we'll see an even more evenly split number of carries for the two backs. 

WR- Turner - 98/gm Cockrell - 65/gm Grant - 67/gm

Turner seems to be Maloney's favorite target this season and should coast to 1000 yards.  Cockrell has hit on numerous explosive receptions this season.  Without a couple of dropped balls on Saturday, he'd also be up over 300 yards so far.  I'd feel better about Grant if he hadn't missed the Ott game.  Hopefully he was out just due to being cautious.  After seeing him last year at Muskie, I think we'll get a couple of monster games out of him by season's end. 

none of this means a whole lot without a ring at the end of the year, but this offense is one of the most balanced that we have seen in quite a while. 

Yet still managed to lose to ONU at home!

Kmic wasn't a thing yet and Pierre was out with the broken hand.  That and the cold, rain, windy day set up a perfect storm for the greatest day in ONU football history.  I think the game was up on YouTube at one point.  Just a rotten day overall in Alliance

[D3fanboy]

the exciting part of some of these Mount games vs the bottom of the conference is seeing which young players the coaching staff is high on.  Some that stood out vs Ott:

#64 Grayson Lehman (G) - played a bunch of snaps at LG in place of Rockwell, who is replacing an injured Fortner.  Played with a definite nasty streak and has great size for the interior (6-4 285ish).  I wonder what the interior of the OL looks like with Fortner's possible return (played C for 4 years prior to '25) and the injury to Levelle (C).  Frosh Parker Jenks has played outstanding at C and looks like a future AA-type, but does Dartt look to get a little more experience on the inside? Depth is never a bad thing

#22 Jaeson Anderson (CB) - had the big INT return for TD, but he played a bunch in the 2nd half and looked pretty good.

#8 Lucas Weaver (RB) - was returning kicks and the third RB in the game.  Showed some exciting burst.

#23 Gavin Erhardt (LB) - the D1 baseball player took over for Rinard at LB for most of the game.  Was the leading tackler and showed great athleticism and a little more stoutness.  LB has been one of my biggest concerns on this Raiders defense, we'll see how the position evolves over the next few weeks.