football update

[gozips19]

had the pleasure of attending an event last night that featured coach mallory as the guest speaker. i'll share with you some of his remarks during the q & a.

recruiting: ohio is the focal point of recruiting with the coaches assigned a section no further than an hour and a half outside of akron. he said that coach I refers that area as the "zips zone"

concern: i asked the question what area need the most improvement. with out hesitation he said the outside of the defense. d end needs more speed as does the outside backer spots. thin at corner and safety. with out mentioning names he said he believes a prep school and juco player coming in should be able to contribute right away. i'll let you figure out who that was. depth was also a cause for concern but that's nothing new with this team. also mentioned they may still add a player for this year. no other details were given on that.

positives: he loves the middle of the d. mentioning mondo, marcoux, wagner, and the safeties richmond and richardson. he likes what he's seen so far in the spring and is happy with their off season work. carter's move to wr will stick and they expect big plays from him.

coach couldn't have been a nicer guy and seemed on top of everything and very prepared. i did not get that same feeling the few times i talked to coach fleming. again he was also very nice but mallory has a much better presence to him.

nothing ground breaking but its a slow time so i figured any news is good news. if i can remember anything else i'll post

[ZachTheZip]

Prep school player = Anthony Holmes, Safety.

JUCO = Miklos Blake, Corner.

It pretty much has to be those two.

[johnnyzip84]

had the pleasure of attending an event last night that featured coach mallory as the guest speaker. i'll share with you some of his remarks during the q & a.

recruiting: ohio is the focal point of recruiting with the coaches assigned a section no further than an hour and a half outside of akron. he said that coach I refers that area as the "zips zone"

concern: i asked the question what area need the most improvement. with out hesitation he said the outside of the defense. d end needs more speed as does the outside backer spots. thin at corner and safety. with out mentioning names he said he believes a prep school and juco player coming in should be able to contribute right away. i'll let you figure out who that was. depth was also a cause for concern but that's nothing new with this team. also mentioned they may still add a player for this year. no other details were given on that.

positives: he loves the middle of the d. mentioning mondo, marcoux, wagner, and the safeties richmond and richardson. he likes what he's seen so far in the spring and is happy with their off season work. carter's move to wr will stick and they expect big plays from him.

coach couldn't have been a nicer guy and seemed on top of everything and very prepared. i did not get that same feeling the few times i talked to coach fleming. again he was also very nice but mallory has a much better presence to him.

nothing ground breaking but its a slow time so i figured any news is good news. if i can remember anything else i'll post

Thanks for posting this, gozips19! Zach is probably correct, but could you clarify if Coach Mallory specified what positions on D the prep school and JUCO players should be able to contribute? Say what you want about Lemon, but he was easily the fastest DE on the roster so I'm glad Mallory isn't hiding from his loss regardless of the circumstances which lead up to it. It's interesting to combine Mallory's glowing opinions of Richmond and Richardson along with Okruch's expectations for Province. Perhaps the way these guys impressed the new staff was the impetus for the Carter move to WR in the 1st place.

[gozips19]

corner mostly but said the prep school kid could slide to safety at some point

also noticed on gozips.com the roster has been updated with tonga and lartey back on the roster. happy to see that!