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By Jonas Fortune
Beacon Journal sports writer
POSTED: 05:44 p.m. EDT, Sep 11, 2009
KENT: If the Kent State football team wants to pull off an upset against Boston College at 2 p.m. Saturday at Alumni Stadium, it won't explicitly rely on the strong arm of sophomore quarterback Giorgio Morgan.
Nor will the team entrust the legs of senior running back Eugene Jarvis to carry the team, especially against the stingy Boston College defense.
The offensive skill players are only as good as the offensive linemen in front of them.
That group of five is young and inexperienced. Two are sophomores and two are freshmen. Right guard Dante Campbell is the lone senior.
''We had two tackles playing in their first college game,'' Kent State coach Doug Martin said about the 18-0 win last week over Coastal Carolina.
Right tackle Brian Winters is the first true freshman to start for the Golden Flashes since 2007, and he found out quickly that college football is different from what he is accustomed to.
''The first thing he hit was the back of his head. I think he went right backwards,'' Martin said with a chuckle before praising Winters' efforts the rest of the game.
''He played really well,'' Martin said. ''I was really impressed with the way he played as a freshman out there.''
The 6-foot-5, 320-pound Hudson grad definitely isn't lacking talent, just collegiate experience.
Winters won a gold medal this summer as a member of Team USA, competing in the IFAF Junior World Championships. On that offensive line, he joined the likes of Ohio State's Jack Mewhort and Northwestern's Brian Smith, among many other top college recruits.
Team USA offensive line coach Frank Lenti, who was Donovan McNabb's high school coach at Mount Caramel High in Chicago, called Winters the most polished lineman on Team USA.
At left tackle, the Flashes split time between redshirt freshman Kent Cleveland and junior Pat Reedy last week, but Martin said he was impressed enough with Cleveland's play to award him the job.
Sophomore left guard Michael Fay, sophomore center Chris Anzevino and Campbell, at right guard, were solid last week, Martin said.
The line graded out at average overall, but needs to be better this week.
''We need to show quite a bit of improvement,'' Martin said. ''Especially the pass protection, [that] is where I was really disappointed [in last week's game]. It wasn't a physical thing. It was mentally.''
It was one of those mental mistakes that gave Morgan a limp for most of the game. One of the linemen forgot to fan out and block a defender. The missed assignment gave the defender a clear shot at Morgan, Martin said.
''We are going to have to be really good protecting the passer and throwing the ball, because the running game is going to be difficult to manufacture,'' Martin said.
Jonas Fortune can be reached at
jfortune@thebeaconjournal.com.
KENT: If the Kent State football team wants to pull off an upset against Boston College at 2 p.m. Saturday at Alumni Stadium, it won't explicitly rely on the strong arm of sophomore quarterback Giorgio Morgan.
Nor will the team entrust the legs of senior running back Eugene Jarvis to carry the team, especially against the stingy Boston College defense.
The offensive skill players are only as good as the offensive linemen in front of them.
That group of five is young and inexperienced. Two are sophomores and two are freshmen. Right guard Dante Campbell is the lone senior.
''We had two tackles playing in their first college game,'' Kent State coach Doug Martin said about the 18-0 win last week over Coastal Carolina.
Right tackle Brian Winters is the first true freshman to start for the Golden Flashes since 2007, and he found out quickly that college football is different from what he is accustomed to.
''The first thing he hit was the back of his head. I think he went right backwards,'' Martin said with a chuckle before praising Winters' efforts the rest of the game.
''He played really well,'' Martin said. ''I was really impressed with the way he played as a freshman out there.''
The 6-foot-5, 320-pound Hudson grad definitely isn't lacking talent, just collegiate experience.
Winters won a gold medal this summer as a member of Team USA, competing in the IFAF Junior World Championships. On that offensive line, he joined the likes of Ohio State's Jack Mewhort and Northwestern's Brian Smith, among many other top college recruits.
Team USA offensive line coach Frank Lenti, who was Donovan McNabb's high school coach at Mount Caramel High in Chicago, called Winters the most polished lineman on Team USA.
At left tackle, the Flashes split time between redshirt freshman Kent Cleveland and junior Pat Reedy last week, but Martin said he was impressed enough with Cleveland's play to award him the job.
Sophomore left guard Michael Fay, sophomore center Chris Anzevino and Campbell, at right guard, were solid last week, Martin said.
The line graded out at average overall, but needs to be better this week.
''We need to show quite a bit of improvement,'' Martin said. ''Especially the pass protection, [that] is where I was really disappointed [in last week's game]. It wasn't a physical thing. It was mentally.''
It was one of those mental mistakes that gave Morgan a limp for most of the game. One of the linemen forgot to fan out and block a defender. The missed assignment gave the defender a clear shot at Morgan, Martin said.
''We are going to have to be really good protecting the passer and throwing the ball, because the running game is going to be difficult to manufacture,'' Martin said.
Jonas Fortune can be reached at
jfortune@thebeaconjournal.com.
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Highland Square, OH
Posted 07:42 PM, 09/11/2009
yawwwwwwwn.....
THE ZIPS PLAY TOMORROW! WOOOO!
cuyahoga falls, oh
Posted 09:10 AM, 09/12/2009
that shiny new stadium will look great with half the seats empty. or did they give away enough tickets to call it a sell out?
Posted 02:05 AM, 09/13/2009
It sold out on it's own cfoflash99...way to give it to BC today!! HAHA KENT STATE SUCKS!!!!
