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Football All-Conference Awards
I hadn't seen it posted anywhere else with all the New Coach hubbub, but I thought these guys deserve some recognition.
First Team:
Brian Womac (SR)
Emmanuel Ellerbee (SR)
Second Team:
Jack Fox (JR)
Honorable Mention:
Calvin Anderson (JR)
Trey Martin (SR)
Austin Walter (JR)
Roe Wilkins (SO)
All Freshman Team:
Jordan Myers
Aaron Cephus
Austin Trammell
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RE: Football All-Conference Awards
good for them.
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Tomball Owl
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RE: Football All-Conference Awards
Who was 1st team punter over Fox? I'd be surprised if anyone had more on field time.
Congrats to all! Way to work hard through a tough season.
(This post was last modified: 12-06-2017 12:45 PM by Tomball Owl.)
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RE: Football All-Conference Awards
It is criminal that Trey Martin is not at least 2nd team All Conference.
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RE: Football All-Conference Awards
(12-06-2017 12:44 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote: Who was 1st team punter over Fox? I'd be surprised if anyone had more on field time.
Kaare Vedvik from Marshall.
Vedvik had 53 punts this year, averaging 44.4 yds, compared to Fox's 57 punts, averaging 44.2 yds. Vedvik did have a 92 yarder against ODU which hit some highlight reels and could have pushed him over Fox.
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RE: Football All-Conference Awards
Not sure if this deserves its own thread or not, but worth remember the players who Rice will be losing to graduation. Was a pretty terrible year for Rice football, but a lot of these guys had very successful seasons:
(1) Brian Womac (DE/LB)
(2) Emmanuael Ellerbee (LB) Cole Thomas (S)
(3) Trey Martin (OL)
(4) Peter Godber (OL)
(5) DJ Green (LB)
(6) Grayson Schantz (DE)
(7) Robby Wells III (TE)
(8) Kenneth Thompson (OL)
(9) Parker Smith (WR)
(10) Nick Uretsky (LB)
(11) VJ Banks (CB - maybe returning for 5th-year since he missed most of 2017 with injury?)
(12) Destri White (S)
(13) Jesse Hudak (WR)
(14) Joe Ballard (LB)
(15) Josh Rahman (DE)
(16) Paine Matisik (FB)
Also, there were 18 players who were RS Juniors this past season, so they have a year of eligibility left but have also been at Rice for 4 years (and presumably some have completed their degrees). No guarantee they all come back.
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RE: Football All-Conference Awards
(12-06-2017 12:57 PM)RiceFight Wrote: (12-06-2017 12:44 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote: Who was 1st team punter over Fox? I'd be surprised if anyone had more on field time.
Kaare Vedvik from Marshall.
Vedvik had 53 punts this year, averaging 44.4 yds, compared to Fox's 57 punts, averaging 44.2 yds. Vedvik did have a 92 yarder against ODU which hit some highlight reels and could have pushed him over Fox.
Vedvik averaged 43.5 on his 52 other kicks. That 92-yarder tipped his average over Fox's.
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Antarius
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RE: Football All-Conference Awards
How is Bailiff not listed here? I mean given the recruiting hardships, academic standards, JUCos.. etc.
I'm being facetious clearly but the fact that he hasd t been linked to a single job says it all.
And for those complaining in advance- we dealt with this for a decade or so. Welcome to the flip side
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RE: Football All-Conference Awards
sitting here several years on from DB's strongest run, with 3 straight bowls and a CUSA title, we still have a lot of owls in the pros
I'm guessing there are as many Owls in NFL today as there have ever been, certainly since I started following them in 1978. I'm pretty sure the younger core of Gaines, Callahan, Willson, McDonald, Boswell, and Jordan Taylor were ALL on the Rice team together at some point.
What that points to is a run of pretty good recruiting (I'm not going to get into the nuances of whether these guys were under rated or whether he coached them up).
My point is that as good as that period was, it probably should have been better from a pure talent standpoint given our schedule.
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RE: Football All-Conference Awards
(12-07-2017 08:50 AM)MemOwl Wrote: sitting here several years on from DB's strongest run, with 3 straight bowls and a CUSA title, we still have a lot of owls in the pros
I'm guessing there are as many Owls in NFL today as there have ever been, certainly since I started following them in 1978. I'm pretty sure the younger core of Gaines, Callahan, Willson, McDonald, Boswell, and Jordan Taylor were ALL on the Rice team together at some point.
What that points to is a run of pretty good recruiting (I'm not going to get into the nuances of whether these guys were under rated or whether he coached them up).
My point is that as good as that period was, it probably should have been better from a pure talent standpoint given our schedule.
yup
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RE: Football All-Conference Awards
(12-07-2017 08:50 AM)MemOwl Wrote: sitting here several years on from DB's strongest run, with 3 straight bowls and a CUSA title, we still have a lot of owls in the pros
I'm guessing there are as many Owls in NFL today as there have ever been, certainly since I started following them in 1978. I'm pretty sure the younger core of Gaines, Callahan, Willson, McDonald, Boswell, and Jordan Taylor were ALL on the Rice team together at some point.
What that points to is a run of pretty good recruiting (I'm not going to get into the nuances of whether these guys were under rated or whether he coached them up).
My point is that as good as that period was, it probably should have been better from a pure talent standpoint given our schedule.
They were all together in 2012. The tight ends were drafted between 2012 and 2013.
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RE: Football All-Conference Awards
I think that team went 1-5 and lost at Memphis (then one of the worst FBS teams in the country) before turning the season around.
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(12-07-2017 05:23 PM)MemOwl Wrote: I think that team went 1-5 and lost at Memphis (then one of the worst FBS teams in the country) before turning the season around.
Yep, that's the one.
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RE: Football All-Conference Awards
(12-07-2017 09:50 AM)baker-13 Wrote: (12-07-2017 08:50 AM)MemOwl Wrote: sitting here several years on from DB's strongest run, with 3 straight bowls and a CUSA title, we still have a lot of owls in the pros
I'm guessing there are as many Owls in NFL today as there have ever been, certainly since I started following them in 1978. I'm pretty sure the younger core of Gaines, Callahan, Willson, McDonald, Boswell, and Jordan Taylor were ALL on the Rice team together at some point.
What that points to is a run of pretty good recruiting (I'm not going to get into the nuances of whether these guys were under rated or whether he coached them up).
My point is that as good as that period was, it probably should have been better from a pure talent standpoint given our schedule.
They were all together in 2012. The tight ends were drafted between 2012 and 2013.
Looking back I completely agree with this. 2 NFL corners should have given us a shutdown pass defense. That's the one thing Bailiff was perhaps above average at, finding good talent. Even on this current team, we are still talking about potential NFL-level talent. That sounds ludicrous on a 1-11 team.
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RE: Football All-Conference Awards
(12-07-2017 10:05 PM)owl95 Wrote: (12-07-2017 09:50 AM)baker-13 Wrote: (12-07-2017 08:50 AM)MemOwl Wrote: sitting here several years on from DB's strongest run, with 3 straight bowls and a CUSA title, we still have a lot of owls in the pros
I'm guessing there are as many Owls in NFL today as there have ever been, certainly since I started following them in 1978. I'm pretty sure the younger core of Gaines, Callahan, Willson, McDonald, Boswell, and Jordan Taylor were ALL on the Rice team together at some point.
What that points to is a run of pretty good recruiting (I'm not going to get into the nuances of whether these guys were under rated or whether he coached them up).
My point is that as good as that period was, it probably should have been better from a pure talent standpoint given our schedule.
They were all together in 2012. The tight ends were drafted between 2012 and 2013.
Looking back I completely agree with this. 2 NFL corners should have given us a shutdown pass defense. That's the one thing Bailiff was perhaps above average at, finding good talent. Even on this current team, we are still talking about potential NFL-level talent. That sounds ludicrous on a 1-11 team.
Yep. 2 star, 5 star recruits etc. That's all hot air if you coach them to be 1 star recruits
If you manage to screw up NFL talent into a garbage Driesbachy defense, then why bother recruiting such talent? Just grab a couple walkons and go with it - roughly the same result
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RE: Football All-Conference Awards
(12-07-2017 10:05 PM)owl95 Wrote: (12-07-2017 09:50 AM)baker-13 Wrote: (12-07-2017 08:50 AM)MemOwl Wrote: sitting here several years on from DB's strongest run, with 3 straight bowls and a CUSA title, we still have a lot of owls in the pros
I'm guessing there are as many Owls in NFL today as there have ever been, certainly since I started following them in 1978. I'm pretty sure the younger core of Gaines, Callahan, Willson, McDonald, Boswell, and Jordan Taylor were ALL on the Rice team together at some point.
What that points to is a run of pretty good recruiting (I'm not going to get into the nuances of whether these guys were under rated or whether he coached them up).
My point is that as good as that period was, it probably should have been better from a pure talent standpoint given our schedule.
They were all together in 2012. The tight ends were drafted between 2012 and 2013.
Looking back I completely agree with this. 2 NFL corners should have given us a shutdown pass defense. That's the one thing Bailiff was perhaps above average at, finding good talent. Even on this current team, we are still talking about potential NFL-level talent. That sounds ludicrous on a 1-11 team.
Bailiff did a good job of recruiting through the conference championship and then our recruiting classes completely $hit the bed - and it wasn't entirely due to the overhaul of CUSA with lesser teams, considering his most recent recruiting classes were near the bottom/bottom half of CUSA. Makes you wonder what the hell we were doing the last few years.
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(12-08-2017 10:30 AM)westsidewolf1989 Wrote: (12-07-2017 10:05 PM)owl95 Wrote: (12-07-2017 09:50 AM)baker-13 Wrote: (12-07-2017 08:50 AM)MemOwl Wrote: sitting here several years on from DB's strongest run, with 3 straight bowls and a CUSA title, we still have a lot of owls in the pros
I'm guessing there are as many Owls in NFL today as there have ever been, certainly since I started following them in 1978. I'm pretty sure the younger core of Gaines, Callahan, Willson, McDonald, Boswell, and Jordan Taylor were ALL on the Rice team together at some point.
What that points to is a run of pretty good recruiting (I'm not going to get into the nuances of whether these guys were under rated or whether he coached them up).
My point is that as good as that period was, it probably should have been better from a pure talent standpoint given our schedule.
They were all together in 2012. The tight ends were drafted between 2012 and 2013.
Looking back I completely agree with this. 2 NFL corners should have given us a shutdown pass defense. That's the one thing Bailiff was perhaps above average at, finding good talent. Even on this current team, we are still talking about potential NFL-level talent. That sounds ludicrous on a 1-11 team.
Bailiff did a good job of recruiting through the conference championship and then our recruiting classes completely $hit the bed - and it wasn't entirely due to the overhaul of CUSA with lesser teams, considering his most recent recruiting classes were near the bottom/bottom half of CUSA. Makes you wonder what the hell we were doing the last few years.
CUSA became the Sunbelt
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(12-08-2017 10:45 AM)Antarius Wrote: (12-08-2017 10:30 AM)westsidewolf1989 Wrote: (12-07-2017 10:05 PM)owl95 Wrote: (12-07-2017 09:50 AM)baker-13 Wrote: (12-07-2017 08:50 AM)MemOwl Wrote: sitting here several years on from DB's strongest run, with 3 straight bowls and a CUSA title, we still have a lot of owls in the pros
I'm guessing there are as many Owls in NFL today as there have ever been, certainly since I started following them in 1978. I'm pretty sure the younger core of Gaines, Callahan, Willson, McDonald, Boswell, and Jordan Taylor were ALL on the Rice team together at some point.
What that points to is a run of pretty good recruiting (I'm not going to get into the nuances of whether these guys were under rated or whether he coached them up).
My point is that as good as that period was, it probably should have been better from a pure talent standpoint given our schedule.
They were all together in 2012. The tight ends were drafted between 2012 and 2013.
Looking back I completely agree with this. 2 NFL corners should have given us a shutdown pass defense. That's the one thing Bailiff was perhaps above average at, finding good talent. Even on this current team, we are still talking about potential NFL-level talent. That sounds ludicrous on a 1-11 team.
Bailiff did a good job of recruiting through the conference championship and then our recruiting classes completely $hit the bed - and it wasn't entirely due to the overhaul of CUSA with lesser teams, considering his most recent recruiting classes were near the bottom/bottom half of CUSA. Makes you wonder what the hell we were doing the last few years.
CUSA became the Sunbelt
And the Sunbelt became FCS.
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