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Bcat2
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Lean Looking OL

Posted: 4/5/2012 8:00:30 AM

Check out the video from day 5 practice. These men look lean and fit to me for 300 pounders.

http://www.ohiobobcats.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/040512aab.html

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Doc Bobcat
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RE: Lean Looking OL

Posted: 4/5/2012 10:09:55 AM

Bcat2 wrote:

Check out the video from day 5 practice. These men look lean and fit to me for 300 pounders.

http://www.ohiobobcats.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/040512aab.html

Yeah.....Herman looks like he may have dropped a few pounds....listed at 317 last year......McGrath and Prior both are in that 6'6"-6'7 range so they carry 300 pounds well.

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RE: Lean Looking OL

Posted: 4/5/2012 10:54:55 AM

I saw the results of the Winter 2012 Offensive Line competition on Facebook. It encompasses a lot of physical fitness standards and also includes racquetball and GPA, ranking the guys 1-20 and giving them points in 15 categories. In a lot of the categories, the rankings stopped at a certain point and the rest of the guys got 20s, so I'm guessing those were guys who did not participate in those events. A few guys seemed to miss most of the events for one reason or another. Eric Herman was the winner, with Sam Johnson second. Bryce Dietz, Skyler Allen and John Prior were 3-5 and were only a few points apart.

Some observations: Eric Herman has a very impressive combination of strength and athleticism. Dietz ranked extremley high in pure strength categories. Prior won categories that indicate he probably is the most purely athletic lineman in the bunch. Sam Johnson finished in the top 8 in everything. Everyone else had a finish of 11 or lower in at least one event. Skyler Allen probably could have finished third but he got a 20 in racquetball. Guys who were limited in participation were Bales, Welter, Lucas, Curtis, Carlotta and McQueen.

Winners were: Herman, iron grippers, racquetball and big guns; Dietz, pull-ups, sled push and power clean; Allen, iron cross and pound-for-pound; Prior, vertical and 10-yard dash; Lechner, squat; Prichard, bench; Powell, sit-ups; Welter, GPA; and Carlotta, medicine ball toss.

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RE: Lean Looking OL

Posted: 4/5/2012 11:02:42 AM

A offensive line that goes 300+ is a good thing, but it has to be the right 300lbs. These guys definitely pass the eye test.

Offensive line is not a position that concerns me this year. Even though Ohio lost two all-MAC tackles, I think the line has the potential to be even better than last year. Lechner, Allen, and Herman could all be all-MAC, and Prior and McGrath will not be far from where Flading and Strum were. On offense, really the only question mark is at receiver, but there is so much depth there, I'm not too worried.

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RE: Lean Looking OL

Posted: 4/5/2012 11:29:56 AM

Herman is a beast! I'm excited about our line. It was awesome last year and looks to be set to be awesome for several years. The foundation has been built!

Last Edited: 4/5/2012 11:30:15 AM by Kinggeorge4

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RE: Lean Looking OL

Posted: 4/5/2012 12:26:45 PM

How about my guy Mark Smith? Seemed to play well a bit as a freshmen but maybe not as much playing time last year?

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RE: Lean Looking OL

Posted: 4/5/2012 12:58:49 PM

Remember just a few years ago when there was not even a possibility of a Spring game because they only had 8 total offensive linemen? There is solid depth at OL, now. Your example of Mark Smith is a good one. When he has played, he has played very well, but unfortunately for him, he's behind two very good left guards, Lechner and Carlotta. Perhaps they might move him to LT to back up Prior?

On the offensive line depth chart, 9 of the top 11 players return. In the top 2 strings, the only openings are starting LT and RT, with the #2 guy at both positions (Prior and McGrath) moving up. At both guards and center, the 1-2 guys return. There is a hoard of guys behind these returning veterans, looking for PT, guys like Dietz, Powell, Curtis, Lucas, McQueen, Welter, Pritchard, Crane, Fain, and Everhart. The good news for them is that, with the offense Ohio has, I expect them to put some teams away early, so I think even the #3 linemen will get snaps this year.

Thinking back to 2005, everyone expected Solich would build the offensive line until it looked like this. Who knew it would take 7 years? I sure didn't think it would take this long, but now it is definitely where I expected it would be.

Last Edited: 4/5/2012 1:03:59 PM by L.C.

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RE: Lean Looking OL

Posted: 4/5/2012 9:34:23 PM

L.C.--You gots to get in for some games this year! Penn State and one at Peden, at least!

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RE: Lean Looking OL

Posted: 4/6/2012 8:15:56 AM

L.C. wrote:

LC, you are REALLY good at this. As always, great analysis and rational comments.

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RE: Lean Looking OL

Posted: 4/6/2012 1:08:43 PM

Shh, now, or it might go to my head. The thing is, now that they have this depth, the starters will now normally be 4th years Juniors or 5th year Seniors. The OL will be good not only this year, but every year. They just lost two all-Mac tackles, that probably won't be drafted, but who will both probably get free agent contracts, yet it won't matter the line will still be good. That's the kind of depth Ohio has right now. With that depth, the Ohio offense can "reload, not rebuild".

It also means that the QB and RBs will have things a lot easier, and logically it should make it easier to recruit good ones. Maybe now we can see that 3-4 star running back signing to wear green. Just imagine what another Kalvin could do behind these guys, and with a serious passing threat, too.

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RE: Lean Looking OL

Posted: 4/16/2012 3:17:23 PM

But again... who is (not) editing this content??? The grammar is terrible.

Robert Fox
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RE: Lean Looking OL

Posted: 4/16/2012 4:01:07 PM

What are you referring to?

L.C.
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RE: Lean Looking OL

Posted: 4/16/2012 4:23:04 PM

I presume he is referring to these items from ohiobobcats.com

ohiobobcats.com wrote:

The Ohio University football team part in its first scrimmage ... before returning the field for eight day of spring camp ....

ohiobobcats.com wrote:

The Bobcats also had for players rush for over 400 yards

ohiobobcats.com wrote:

...spoke with offensive lineman Eric Herman, Ryan McGrath and John Prior about how the has progressed this spring.

�We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.� ― Epictetus

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RE: Lean Looking OL

Posted: 4/16/2012 6:59:41 PM

L.C. wrote:

I presume he is referring to these items from ohiobobcats.com

ohiobobcats.com wrote:

The Ohio University football team part in its first scrimmage ... before returning the field for eight day of spring camp ....

ohiobobcats.com wrote:

The Bobcats also had for players rush for over 400 yards

ohiobobcats.com wrote:

...spoke with offensive lineman Eric Herman, Ryan McGrath and John Prior about how the has progressed this spring.

Among others.... The spring football coverage on the website has been disappointing. It is nice to see the coaches and players talking about spring's progress, but it's a disservice when the (only) one or two lines accompanying it are so poorly written and clearly not edited.

L.C.
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RE: Lean Looking OL

Posted: 4/17/2012 2:48:04 PM

The one thing those quotes make clear - a spell-check is not a replacement for a proofreader.

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RE: Lean Looking OL

Posted: 4/17/2012 4:23:43 PM

If I had to guess, I'd say a lot of these errors are due to the pieces being written on a cell phone/iphone without followup proofreading.

UpSan Bobcat
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RE: Lean Looking OL

Posted: 7/10/2012 12:33:14 PM

The Ohio offensive lineman challenge has a Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/bobcats512

There was a winter challenge that Eric Herman won. The current summer challenge has him winning again so far with only a few events left. Sam Johnson is second. Vince Carlotta has one three events but missed several others. Skyler Allen sat out all events until the most recent one. J.D. Bales is not taking part because of an internship. Pritchard, Fain, Dietz and Lechner all missed some events, but there was 100 percent participation in the most recent event (front squat) so it seems everyone is healing up, which is very good news.

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