(01-21-2018 12:49 PM)MotoRocket Wrote:  

(01-20-2018 10:08 AM)RangerRocket Wrote:  

(01-19-2018 11:35 PM)H2Oville Rocket Wrote:  

(01-19-2018 02:00 PM)FredJay Wrote:  

(01-19-2018 01:31 PM)Rocket Man Wrote:  Was that Nick Kazur?

Erik Faasen: 6-9, 350# against Central Michigan up in Mt. Pleasant, sometime in the early 2000's, maybe 2004 or 2005

Yep. I swear I saw it at the GB, though.

No, it was at CMU. Remember watching it on TV.

I was at the game, but if I would have been questioned on the year - I would have said 2001 in the first game after 9/11. Pretty sure that was the game. I try to relate games to other events so I can catalogue them in my memory. I remember him doing it along with Taylor having a TD run that was right in front of where I was sitting and I was close enough that I could hear the grunt and groan of the DB who got faked out of his jock by Taylor around the 10 yard line. He tackled air - and may have got a hand on Taylor's leg - but nothing else.

Also they had Faasen at 6'9. That was when Toledo had the largest (or at least top 2) offensive lines in the country in terms of size and weight. I think it was Wisconsin that was bigger. Now that part my memory is not so good on - it happened in one of those years when Faasen was playing. I think his career intersected with Kaczur.

IIRC, he got tackled by a guy who went about 190 and who had eyes about the size of saucers.

Amstutz's teams were the first football teams I'd ever seen use a punt formation with the three emergency blockers in front of the punter. Amstutz, never one to shy away from running offensive plays with the kicking team, originally called a direct snap to Patrick Body who was the middle blocker in that last guard formation, and it worked to get them a first down. That game at CMU was the first time I'd noticed they had moved Faasen into that spot in the formation. I had also noticed in earlier punts that CMU's punt return team immediately turned their backs as soon as the ball was snapped. I said out loud: Snap it to Faasen! Snap it to Faasen! And they did! And 39 yards later he was finally on the ground. That game, was fun. Chester Taylor was absolutely unstoppable that day, and furthermore, CMU's 50/50 raffle was won by a Toledo resident. Definitely the best start to finish road game experience I'd ever been a part of, and one I only appreciated more with time as we would eventually have to suffer through the Kent Smith curse where we were beat by a kid straight out of our own backyard, then the Dan LeFevour years where we just could not beat those guys anywhere, before our own hot streak against CMU that we're currently on.