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Deacon Football 2013 -- New Coaches add excitement

"Turtle" Hayworth. Love Lectro and love those nicknames. Keep the good news coming.
 
Other than SRIII, Camp, and BTerry Will there be any new WRs we havent seen yet get solid PT (Crump, JWill, Airyn Willis?)
 
Lectro said:
I really dont know. He is a competent kid, has good footspeed and he's not new to the game. He certainly is helping Ben Emert (the FB from Ball Ground, Georgia who was cumulative Georgia powerlifter of the year as a hs sr). Ben is healthy and rocked a 454 pound free front squat. Those two work together daily and are pushing it to fill Bohanon's shoes.

DeAndre Martin is sort of an X-Factor....he does so many things well and it would not suprise me t6 see him line up at Fullback at some point. He is 6'2.5 and 225 / BP's 338 / hang and cleans 315. Probably throws as pretty a ball as anybody on the team and could punt in a pinch. Really nice all-around footballer who is "country strong" while clocking a swift 4.5 flat forty.
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Martin sounds like one hell of an athlete.
 
Lectro said:
On the OL the guys are making some great strides... Tyler Hayworth "Turtle" is just 6 foot 3 but is a stout 305 pounds. He has worked his butt off and showed real well in the shuttle -- pretty quick for a biggun! He also benched 330 pounds 5 times and maxed at 400.

Frank Souza is about 6'2 and 3/4 and 308 pounds...he continues to be a bell cow in the weight room. Big, powerful som=bit who is all business when he's on the job. 401 front squat.
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Hope he has conditioned well he was about to pass out during gassers last year.
 
jamesda3 said:
Hope he has conditioned well he was about to pass out during gassers last year.
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You should see him running the shuttles this offseason....he is a pretty quick footed kid to be so big. No doubt that coming into college "Turtle" had focused on Strength alot more than Conditioning. He's getting it down now.
 
Both Jared Crump and Airyn Willis have had excellent offseasons....Crump front squatted 292 lbs and Airyn Willis has bulked up to 200 pounds. Both kids are just shy of 6'3. Crump has big time ups (40 plus vertical).

Josh Wilhite is also coming along nicely....took down a cocky Ryan Janvion in the hammer challenge. Wilhite clocked a 4.43 in the offseason and benched 313. He tips @ 5'10 and 192 as a rising RS FR.
 
DeacsOrDie said:
Other than SRIII, Camp, and BTerry Will there be any new WRs we havent seen yet get solid PT (Crump, JWill, Airyn Willis?)
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Dont forget about Matt James. He was the starter after summer camp last year but had a couple drops in a wet liberty game and got in galloway's dog house and couldn't get out. He could easily be the surprise player of the year this season.
 
To be sure we will have to explore our "negative capacity" to borrow the old literary critic's term. As Racer asks "where will we suck?" in so many words.

Well, we are thin at Safety...but A.J. is set for a stellar SR season at FS and Janvion was set to replace Daniel Mack (which is why he left). Janvion is pound for pound as strong as anybody on the team and exudes confidence. He is a high energy guy as is fellow newbie James Ward. Ward was benching over 300 pounds before getting to WF and he has the physical ability and speed to help at either Safety.

But the depth at the D-backfield positions is a question and it will be filled with youth...yikes! But, it is youth like Clearwater Catholic's Michael Stevenson (6'2-195) --- a player that the coaches consider one of the centerpieces of this class. He is a 4.4 flat guy with great wingspan. As an athlete he looks alot like David Amerson. Long arms, big hands and can run.

Where Racer and others may find some solace is along the D-Line. It appears that Steve Russ was right about Josh Banks. He has had a GREAT offseason and is a big dadgum kid. I'd say he's 6'4 and a 1/2 and 285. Real big chested kid who is about as big as "Big Baby". As for Harris, he is strikingly similar (imo) to the athletic talent and size of Demario Pressley. Tylor is 6'3.5 - 293 and runs a 4.8 to 4.85 40. He and Josh and Shelldon have been pushing one another. Shelldon is now 6'1-268 and is just a fuggin powerhouse in the weightroom. The guy is fast, quick and nasty.

So, we have that going for us...."goongala, ooongala, boongala"
 
pigskin4life said:
Dont forget about Matt James. He was the starter after summer camp last year but had a couple drops in a wet liberty game and got in galloway's dog house and couldn't get out. He could easily be the surprise player of the year this season.
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As the season approaches the older guys will emerge.... Brandon Terry has been working hard (as you see he and Orville in the tri-set clip) and he and fellow RS JR. Matt James, Rag3, Camp and Orville will be the guys to focus on with perhaps one or two youngsters coming out of the woodwork.
 
Lectro said:
To be sure we will have to explore our "negative capacity" to borrow the old literary critic's term. As Racer asks "where will we suck?" in so many words.

Well, we are thin at Safety...but A.J. is set for a stellar SR season at FS and Janvion was set to replace Daniel Mack (which is why he left). Janvion is pound for pound as strong as anybody on the team and exudes confidence. He is a high energy guy as is fellow newbie James Ward. Ward was benching over 300 pounds before getting to WF and he has the physical ability and speed to help at either Safety.

But the depth at the D-backfield positions is a question and it will be filled with youth...yikes! But, it is youth like Clearwater Catholic's Michael Stevenson (6'2-195) --- a player that the coaches consider one of the centerpieces of this class. He is a 4.4 flat guy with great wingspan. As an athlete he looks alot like David Amerson. Long arms, big hands and can run.

Where Racer and others may find some solace is along the D-Line. It appears that Steve Russ was right about Josh Banks. He has had a GREAT offseason and is a big dadgum kid. I'd say he's 6'4 and a 1/2 and 285. Real big chested kid who is about as big as "Big Baby". As for Harris, he is strikingly similar (imo) to the athletic talent and size of Demario Pressley. Tylor is 6'3.5 - 293 and runs a 4.8 to 4.85 40. He and Josh and Shelldon have been pushing one another. Shelldon is now 6'1-268 and is just a fuggin powerhouse in the weightroom. The guy is fast, quick and nasty.

So, we have that going for us...."goongala, ooongala, boongala"
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If Josh, Tylor and Shelldon are this big now, along with some good quickness, I feel much better about our ability to hold our ground, disrupt the offennse and not get pushed around like we have the past few years. Our Dline will still not be the biggest, but we'll have decent size and good strength.
 
We have as many scholarship DBs as we have incoming Frosh DBs. This could be our weak link this season, along with Barnes at Center with a Frosh back-up.
 
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A lot of WR had drops in dry games, drops that were mentioned in practice reports. Has that improved?
 
I have heard Tanner seems off this spring, any truth to that or just someone's opinion?
 
I can't wait to see Tyree on the field he is determined to start.
 
jamesda3 said:
I can't wait to see Tyree on the field he is determined to start.
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Johnny Armstrong is a flat dam ballplayer in his own right... our own LaMichael James protege.

What the hell...its been a tough hoop season, to understate a "Haas"...

Fun to hype some guys -- this kid had 44 TD's in his last 2 years of HS (arguably against the toughest league in the country) --- 5 foot 7 and 167 -- 4.38 40 yards and dynamic in space...quick feet and 'knows' where the other players are (like Campanaro plays). Sandlot players...guys who have been playing since they could crawl.
 
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DEACS76 said:
We have as many scholarship DBs as we have incoming Frosh DBs. This could be our weak link this season, along with Barnes at Center with a Frosh back-up.
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Cody Preble, Whit Barnes and Cory Helms (not in any order)

Whit has stayed on campus and won a couple of OL/DL challenges --- He is tipping at 6'3-294 / Preble 6'4-303 / Helms 6'4-300.

Barnes and Preble both had very good winter sessions.
 
Any chance we will be seeing Dominque Gibson in any offensive packages?
 
Lectro said:
Cody Preble, Whit Barnes and Cory Helms (not in any order)

Whit has stayed on campus and won a couple of OL/DL challenges --- He is tipping at 6'3-294 / Preble 6'4-303 / Helms 6'4-300.

Barnes and Preble both had very good winter sessions.
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Thanks Lectro. My problem with Barnes is that he has poor balance. This means he can't recover when pushed around. He has poor foot work too, which doesn't help either. Just watch the ND tape for this.
 
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