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August 2010
Football Beefcake: Matt Light’s Speedo shot
Although he’s not identified, Matt Light — the former Greenville High star and a now the New England Patriots standout left tackle — was featured in a Wall Street Journal photo today wearing nothing but a Speedo and shoulder pads.
The photo was from his 2000 season at Purdue when a local newspaper convinced the Boilermakers starting offensive linemen to strip down to their swimsuits to illustrate their jobs as the “lifeguards” for Purdue quarterback Drew Brees, now the quarterback of the reigning Super Bowl Champion New Orleans Saints .
The Purdue photo — along with one of last year’s Tennessee football players gathered shirtless and, greased in baby oil and fin some cases flexing around an orange, $120,000 Lamborghini Gallardo — was part of story today in the WSJ headlined:
“I’m Ready for My Beefcake Photo, Coach.”
The story was about preseason team photos and how — along with the traditional team shots — many players over the years also have posed for novelty shots. Many are linked to strength and conditioning.
While some of these photos have ended up on posters, many are printed in smaller numbers and given just to players. But because of the Internet, they now have been given an endless life and a worldwide viewing audience .
That draws lots of response, some supportive, some not and because of it some athletic departments end up squirming.
The Georgia Tech players posed shirtless around a Chevrolet Camaro last year. Tech’s assistant athletic director Dean Buchan told the WSJ he worries about sending the wrong message to people who take the photo out of context:
“It’s not that we’re against it, but we don’t want that necessarily out there.”
As for the Purdue photo — which a decade ago produced a deluge of calls to the school — Brees told the WSJ:
“Obviously you have to be very confident of your manhood to do a photo like that.”
Light — the big-time outdoorsman, doer of good deeds for Greenville kids, two-time All Pro, owner of three Super Bowl rings and a guy with a puckish sense of humor — is just that.
TweetCurtis Enis still can run
BRADFORD — My column in Sunday’s paper was on new Bradford High coach Curtis Enis, who remains one of the greatest running back’s this area ever produced.
At Mississinawa Valley High — where he won All State honors three years straight, was a Parade All American and Ohio’s Mr. Football in 1993 — he ran for 5,689 yards and 71 touchdowns in his career. And he may have been a better linebacker than a running back.
In nearly three seasons at Penn State — a late season suspension kept him out of the Citrus Bowl at the end of his junior season and the Chicago Bears made him the No. 5 overall pick in the draft that coming spring — he ran for 3,256 yards and scored 36 touchdowns.
One of his most memorable games came that junior season when — as the above video shows — he dismantled visiting Ohio State, running for 211 yards on 23 carries and scoring the game winning touchdown in the Nittany Lions 33-27 victory.
If you watch him now at one of his Bradford team’s practices, you’ll likely see the 34-year old, 275-pound coach — caught up in the emotion of the moment — ignore his bum knee and arthritis and, at least once, sprint down field to congratulate a defensive back or receiver who made a big play.
That hands on involvement is one of several things he took from his famed college coach, Joe Paterno.
“When we’d do conditioning at Penn State, we’d get toward the end and coach — he was in his 70s then — would start running with the offensive linemen to motivate them,” Enis said. “He was very active in practice. When you’ve got a coach who can still run gassers with you — and when I was there he did — it keeps the kids excited and motivated.”
Another practice he took from Paterno was filling his staff with guys who played for or coached at the school.
Three of the four assistant coaches on the Bradford staff — Jason Brewer, Greg Hale and John Cruse — are former head coaches of the Railroaders. Assistant coach Jim Canan — who has coached the Bradford players since they were pee wee players — and Bobby Floyd — director of football operations — both played for the Railroaders.
“The way I aligned my staff is the same way Coach Paterno aligned his,” Enis said. “Each of my coaches either played here or coached here.
“And when that’s the case, there’s one thing you can be sure of. When we get ready to game plan an opponent, they’ll put extra into it because one way or another they all wore the orange and black long before this. This school means something special to them.”
Bradford — which has had just one victory in each of the past three years — opened its 2010 season last Friday night by overwhelming visiting Cincinnati Prep, 42-0.
TweetThe bogus debate of Toney vs. Couture
All his shallow protestations aside about being “badgered” by James Toney until he matched him with Randy Couture — a bout between former boxing and UFC champions he now likens to “a freak show” — Dana White will be the big winner at Saturday night’s UFC 118 in Boston.
I agree with Freddie Roach — the famed boxing trainer who’s also guided several MMA fighters, including Andrei Arlovski, Anderson Silva and Dan Hardy — when he said the UFC president is “using” Toney:
“I think they’re using James as a way to say MMA fighters are better than boxers. Usually, if they fight an MMA fight, they’re going to win, and if they fight a boxing fight, we’re going to win. They’re two totally different sports. It’s something a 40-year-old guy just can’t learn, and in James’ case, it’ll be hard to learn.”
While some are trying to bill this as being the ultimate fistic statement on which is superior — MMA or boxing — the debate, in this case, is flawed.
The 42-year-old Toney is an over-the-hill, out-of-shape boxer — a guy who has had just three fights in three years and has knocked out only one perron in his last 10 fights — and he’s stepping into the MMA octagon without any cross-training experience against a guy who just two years ago was the UFC Heavyweight Champion.
Vegas sees it like that — Couture’s an 8-1 favorite — but White will get what he wants out of it. He’ll make a bundle, thanks, in a couple of ways, to Toney.
Toney will get thousands of boxing fans to buy the telecast to see the former world champion at three different weight classes. And Toney has stoked the fires of MMA fans by wearing the black hat to perfection.
He’s said outrageous things about the MMA — “nothing but two guys hugging” — and especially about Couture, who, by all accounts, is one of the true gentlemen in his sport.
Toney keeps saying he will be the one who proves the superiority of boxing.
To borrow from Chad Ochocino: “Child Please.”
You know I’m a boxing guy — I love the sport — but I think Toney has almost no chance unless he catches Couture with an uppercut as the five-time UFC champ comes in for his take down.
But chances of Toney scoring that one-punch victory are slim. I don’t look for him to be that sharp.
Sure Ray Mercer knocked out former UFC champ Tim Sylvia in just 9 seconds, but Mercer later was beaten by Kimbo Slice of all people.
And while the 46-year-old Couture doesn’t have the best of chins — five of his 10 losses are by TKO or KO — he’s too smart to fall into the trap Sylvia did. He’s not going to try to stand and trade blows. He’s a supreme wrestler and will take this match to the canvas has quickly as possible.
Once Toney gets flipped onto his back like some big turtle turned upside down on his shell, I don’t see him getting back up. As heavy as he is, I don’t think it’d be that easy for him just getting up off the floor — even without someone putting a choke hold on him. (And, by the way, that’s how I think Toney will lose — caught in something like a rear naked choke hold.)
Toney’s not the best representative boxing could send into the octagon. Not even close. I’d rather see a supremely-fit Manny Pacquiao, who is trained by Roach, or a rapid-fire puncher like Floyd Mayweather — (actually I’d rather see them fight each other) — matched against an equally-sized MMA guy.
But even then, the debate would be skewed.
As Dan Goosen, Toney’s boxing promoter, put it:
“UFC can’t claim supremacy unless Couture comes to boxing, and I’ll match whatever he’s making for this fight. Anything else is just James Toney showing his true warrior spirit, saying damn the torpedoes and conceding to all of the (MMA) rules.”
TweetFirst look at Fifth Third Field as fight arena
Following the tradition of many famous baseball parks which were homes to outdoor boxing shows — from Yankee Stadium, the Polo Grounds, Ebbetts Field and Fenway Park to Comiskey Park, Griffith Stadium, Candlestick Park and Crosley Field — Dayton’s Fifth Third Field will host an impressive, 13-bout amateur fight card featuring several Olympic hopefuls on Sept. 17.
The Dayton Dragons — in conjunction with Trotwood gym owner Milt Pearson and USA Boxing — are putting on the card in what the local baseball organization hopes will be the first of many fight shows in its ball park.
As is depicted in an artist’s rendering the Dragons are releasing, the boxing ring will be set up near home plate and the backstop netting will be taken down.
The Fifth Third Field seating bowl, the club level, and stadium luxury suites will and there will be a select number of ringside tables on the field. The video board, LED board and other promotional highlights of Fifth Third Field will be used as well.
The show will feature 2012 Olympic Games hopeful Chris Pearson — a Trotwood Madison grad, member of the prestigious United States Olympic Education Center boxing team at Northern Michigan University and Milt’s son — in the main event against Richard Gorham of Indianapolis.
Six other Olympic hopefuls from the USOEC program will be on the show.
Three boxers on the card who are trying to enhance their own name in fistic circles are the sons of three men who already have famous names:
— Hud Mellencamp, the 16-year-old Indiana boxer who’ll meet Trotwood 141-pounder Daquan Mays — is the son of Grammy-winning, Hall of Fame rocker John Mellencamp.
— Heavyweight Hasim Raham is the son of Hasim Sr., the former world heavyweight champ, who was a 20-1 underdog when he stopped Lennox Lewis with one punch in the fifth round of their 2001 fight.
— Jesse Hart — the USOEC 165-pounder facing Cincinnati’s Landon Johnson — is the son of Eugene “Cyclone” Hart, the hard- punching middleweight contender who fought Marvin Hagler, Vito Antuofermo, Bennie Briscoe, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Bobby “Boogaloo’ Watts and Willie “The Worm” Monroe.
The show — which will feature boxers from Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan — includes several local fighters. The bouts include both novice and open (more seasoned) fighters The tentative line-up for Sept. 17 is:
— Elijah Cunningham (Springboro) vs. Vincent Talaska (Indianapolis) in the 101-pound junior division
— Kaleb Jackson (Dayton) vs. Edgar Teran (Milwaukee) at 132 novice
— George Romero (WPAFB) vs. John Oliver (Toledo) at 132 novice
— Daquan Mays (Trotwood) vs. Hud Mellencamp (Indianapolis) at 141 novice
— Miles Jackson (Trotwood/ Wright State University) vs. Angel Balancas (Milwaukee) at 165 novice.
— Carlos Santos (USOEC, Marquette, MI) vs. David Carlton (Cincinnati) at 114 open.
— Damon Allen (USOEC, Marquette, MI) vs. Anthony Porter (Toledo) at 125 open.
— Ricky Alvarez (USOEC, Marquette, MI) vs. Yahman Phelps (Cincinnati) at 132 open.
— Manny Lopez (USOEC, Marquette, MI) vs. Robert Easter (Toledo) - at 145 open.
— Darnell Parker (USOEC, Marquette, MI) vs. Terrence Jarmon (Cincinnati) at 152 open.
— Chris Pearson (USOEC Trotwood) vs. Richard Gorham (Indianapolis) at 152 open.
— Jesse Hart (USOEC, Marquette, MI) vs. Landon Johnson (Cincinnati) at 165 open.
— Hasim Rahman, Jr. (USOEC Marquette, MI) vs. Danny Calhoun (Cincinnati) at heavyweight open.
The $10 fight tickets will be available to the general public at the Fifth Third Field Box Office, online at daytondragons.com, or via Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000, ticketmaster.com starting September 1 at 10 a.m.
Dragons’ season ticket holders, sponsors, and suite holders will get first opportunity for tickets over the weekend and early next week.
The three-hour fight show is scheduled to begin at 7p.m.
TweetThe Bengals will be back
After Sunday’s great success at Welcome Stadium, my guess is you’ll see the Cincinnati Bengals back here again for a preseason practice or two next year. It might become an annual thing.
And should the club ever do away with its extended training camp down at Georgetown College — some NFL teams are leaning that way and staying at their own facilities for the preseason — Dayton could become an easy one-day change of scenery for the Bengals.
Team brass were stunned by the huge turnout here Sunday. Close to 15,000 people — everybody from high school football teams like Dunbar, Thurgood Marshall and Meadowdale and peewee teams like the Dayton Flames to three generations of families — showed up to watch a 90-minute preseason practice.
While team owner Mike Brown recalled the team’s last foray into the area — holding practices at Centerville High in 1997 and 1998 — he said, “They were well attended…. but nothing like this….We’ll sure think about doing it again in the future.”
For several months now the Bengals already have had a marketing person set up in the Dayton Dragons offices to to find ways of partnering up with the ultra-successful minor league franchise., which helped put on Sunday’s session.
And Brown admitted he has a soft spot in his heart for Dayton:
“On the way up here I explained to Paul (his son and the Bengals vice president) that when we first built Riverfront Stadium, one of the issues was whether to put it midway between Dayton and Cincinnati. For reasons that were political and economic and other reasons, it ended up on the riverfront….But I always thought of Dayton as part of our market and this certainly shows it.
“When we first came here ( back when the team began in the late 1960s) we had to contend with the Browns. (Dayton) had a lot of old Browns fans from watching them on TV over the years. Heck, Cincinnati at one point was Browns’ territory, too.
“I think we’ve managed to get by that some here….. I’m very happily surprised today. I didn’t dream we’d have almost 15,000 people watching practice. It makes me proud. Very proud.”
Sunday at Welcome Stadium there was a real love-fest with the Bengals.
There were fans like Nicole Cross, a Krogers cashier, who showed up with her husband, sister, brother and nephew . She wore an orange halter top, red nails and held up a sign that read :
“CO…T.O….Child Please.”
“From Chad’s (reality) show,” said Nicole, ” that’s his phrase: ‘Child Please.’”
She said Ochocinco is her favorite Bengal. but T.O. “is getting there…They’re’ Bonnie and Clyde.”
Behind the Bengals bench was Theresa Casey. She wore stylish sunglasses, orange sandals and a long print dress: “I’m trying to go with as much orange and black as possible…and still look like a lady.”
Her son Jamil was back in the crowd some where. Her nephew Noodles knelt at her feet, but she had her sights set on someone else.
“This is like a dream come true. I’m not a football fan. Just a T.O. fan,” she said of Terrell Owens. “It’s been like that since the first time I saw him. He’s just sooooo fine.”
If he came close enough, she had something to tell him: “I’d say, ‘I love you. I wish you the best in your career and your love life.’ And I’d say I got a niece — Satoria — who’d be the perfect girl for him.”
Another fan who showed up was 47-year-old Tom Bryant of Trotwood, who 16 months ago fell down a stairs and suffered, he said, a traumatic brain injury:
“I wasn’t expected to live — basically it was the same injury Chris Henry had — and I was in a coma a month. But I did survive and when they told me it would be Christmas ‘til I’d get out (of the hospital) I said, ‘You watch.’ Football season was coming up and I’m a huge Bengals fan.
“They motivated me to push ahead and I was out of the hospital June 26.”
Although he’s not able to work, he still follows his favorite football team. Until this season — when lack of funds cost him his season tickets — he said he had missed only one Bengals home game since at Paul Brown Stadium opened.
“I love the Bengals — they helped me get better,” he said. “I just want to say thank you.”
People showed up for lots of reasons Sunday — Centerville’s John Erbaugh was there to see his cousin Mike Nugent, the Bengals kicker out of Centerville High — but they especially came because it was a chance, as coach Marvin Lewis put it, “to get up close and personal with the team.”
And that was never more the clear than when thousands of fans swarmed the field afterward for an impromptu autograph session with the players.
“I haven’t seen anything quite like that — they just kept coming and coming and coming,” said running back Cedric Peerman. “You just had to weather the storm and sign away. That’s the least we could do. They had been so good to us.”
And that’s a big part of why the Bengals will be back.
TweetBengals’ Mike Nugent: Familar Setting, New Territory
CINCINNATI — He has kicked all across the NFL, in college football stadiums coast to coast and all around southwest Ohio as a prep player.
And yet Sunday Mike Nugent enters new territoty.
Sunday, for the first time ever, Nugent will kick at Welcome Stadium.
The Cincinnati Bengals kicker — who prepped at Centerville High and then starred at Ohio State before five pro seasons with the New York Jets, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Arizona Cardinals — will join his new teammates for a practice in front of 11,000 Dayton fans.
“Unbelievably I’ve never played a game at Welcome Stadium,” said Nugent. “My junior year in high school we lost to Elder in the second round of the play-offs on a Tuesday night. We were supposed to play Wayne there right after that.”
Nugent — who has been contending with a nagging groin injury while vying with Dave Rayner for the Bengals kicking job that opened up when Shayne Graham was sent packing — is looking forward to his Dayton visit:
“I hear the place sold out in an hour. Growing up in Dayton, I was a big Bengals fan so this is real special coming home. It’s great we can come up there and pay tribute to the fans and just say ‘thank you.’”
TweetBengals-Eagles — Miami Valley connections, T.O. and The Ghost of Lemar
CINCINNATI — Here are some observations from the Friday night’s Bengals-Philadelphia Eagles’ preseason game — eventually won by Cincinnati, 22-9 — at Paul Brown Stadium:
THREE MIAMI VALLEY prep products were on the field tonight.
— In the first half, Eagles defensive end TRENT COLE out of Xenia High and the University of Cincinnati, gave Bengals massive left tackle Andrew Whitworth more than he could handle at times. On more than one occasion, Cole was draped all over Carson Palmer, who just managed to dump the ball off incomplete both times. This was typical Cole. The two-time Pro Bowler has averaged 68 tackles and 11 sacks over the past three seasons.
— Kicker MIKE NUGENT from Centerville High (and Ohio State) — hoping his training camp groin injury hasn’t put him too far behind fellow kicking hopeful Dave Raynor in his bid to make the Bengals final roster — finally got a chance to kick a field goal in the preseason
His first attempt — a 52-yarder early in the second quarter — was submarined by yet another pre-snap penalty, this one a false start by Bengals guard Nate Livings‚ and Marvin Lewis then decided 57 yards would be too long and punted instead.
To end the first half, the Bengals sent Nugent out again for a Hail Mary-like 59 yarder that he pulled left. It would have been short even if on line.
— Eagles rookie safety KURT COLEMAN out of Northmont High ( and OSU) spent the first half on the sidelines, but got some action after intermission and had a special teams tackle.
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THE MOST HOTLY CONTESTED job on the Bengals roster has to be for the punt returner.
JORDAN SHIPLEY had a 63-yard return in the first preseason game against Dallas. And he, ADAM JONES and QUAN COSBY all had returns of 20-plus yards versus Denver.
But Friday night it was Jones who was center stage early and I think he stated his case that he can give this team the most electric return man it has seen since early ’70s sensation Lemar Parrish.
After bobbling one catch midway through the second quarter, he reversed field and went 24 yards.. Even more impressive was a 40 yard kick return near the end of the second quarter.
That said, Cosby returned a kick 41 yards to end the third quarter.
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IS IT TOO EARLY to make this point: TERRELL OWENS is showing he’s the No. 1 receiver on the team?
I say, “Yes.”
Although Owens had three first-half catches for 67 yards — including a 43 yarder down the right sideline to set up the Bengals lone first half score — and CHAD OCHOCINCO had two catches for 29 yards, everyone involved (at least publicly) says CARSON PALMER is especially working on getting his timing down with his new diamond-studded receiver.
Owens has nine catches for 108 yards through three preseason games. Ochocinco has just three receptions, but said that doesn’t matter. He said he and Palmer know each other like twins and this prep time is better spent with T.O.
One thing the 36-year-old Owens dispelled: Those folks who say he can’t run by anybody anymore should take a look at the way he blew by Eagles cornerback Joselio Hanson on that 43-yard catch.
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THE ACHILLES HEEL of this team so far has been its penchant for penalties. The Bengals were whistled for eight penalties in the first half and Philadelphia accepted six of them. In thir three preseason games the Bengals now have been penalized 29 times for 269 yards.
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ANDRE SMITH, the overweight, oft -injured former first-rounder, took his first snaps of the season and looked out of shape and sometimes lost out there.
Conversely, tight end JERMAINE GRESHAM — the team’s first round pick last spring — had three catches in the first half. His hands seem like first basemens’ mitts. And for a big guy — 6-5, 260 pounds — he showed some real moves after his catches.
This guy looks as if he’s going to be a star.
TweetBeaten, Kicked Out, Criticized
Here are three thoughts:
— THE DAYTON DRAGONS might be shaking their heads on the timing of their new theme: “Let’s Make History Together.”
That’s the marketing tag the minor league club is using for next season. It was on the outside of big envelope the Dragons sent all its season tickets holders this week, giving them their time table to pony up for next season’s seats. And the “Let’s Make History” was also the title of the glossy 12-page booklet that accompanied the other info.
The history idea relates to the June game in 2011 — game 815 in franchise history — when the Dragons hope to break the record for the all-time longest sell out streak in U.S. professional sports.
The mark is held by the Portland Trail Blazers who sold out 814 straight games between 1977 and 1995. The Dragons have sold out every game since the team was born in 2000.
But in the Perfect Storm of life imitating art, the Dragons already have made history with their fans. As a full house has watched night after night after night at Fifth Third Field this season, the Dragons have lost and lost and lost.
Having last won at Fifth Third on June 28, the Dragons are mired in a 24-game losing streak at home. That’s the longest home losing streak in the Minor Leagues since 2005.
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— A TIP OF THE IN PEN to Alex Marvez — the former Dayton Daily News sports writer and current senior NFL writer for FOXSports.com — for reporting on the two pseudo journalists who approached Denver Bronco’s rookie quarterback Tim Tebow in the Paul Brown Stadium dressing room after Sunday night’s Cincinnati Bengals-Denver preseason game and got him to sign autographs for them.
That’s a big “no no” for credentialed media — which these two supposedly were — and, rightly so, will get you booted from the dressing room, often with your press pass confiscated.
It’s the same for cheering in the press box, though you’ll hear it now and then by folks who are credentialed, though may not necessarily be working for the press. Sometimes club officials get credentials or, on the college level, big-time boosters and former players often get media passes
About once a game you’ll hear an outburst in the Ohio State football press box. And you used to hear it a lot at the Cleveland Browns.
As for the the autograph seeks Sunday night, they have so far gone unidentified. Marvez didn’t recognize them and Bengals officials — who said some 80 credentials were handed out for the game — have not announced who the offenders were.
One guy was presumed to be a journalist of some sort, though in these cost-cutting days some media outlets — including newspapers, radio stations and websites — sometimes use unschooled wannabes to do their work. (And, by the way, by “schooled” I don’t mean journalism school or anything like that. I just mean knowing how to do the job, what is permissible and what lines cannot be over-stepped.)
The other guy who got Tebow to sign was a photographer. Angry Broncos media officials removed one offender and security bounced the other.
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— TODAY I WROTE a story of Central State football, which finally has gotten a little scholarship money to bring in athletes. It’s enough for 10-13 full rides — still a far cry from most of the rest of the teams on the Marauders’ schedule who get a full complement of the 36 scholarship permitted by the NCAA. But it’s better than the past five seasons when CSU had no scholarship players at all.
Over-scheduled and under-manned, the Marauders have taken it on the chin. Last year, they went 1-10 and were outscored 421-155.
In my story Junior said last season, his first at the school, “was like going to Iraq with a water gun.”
He wasn’t disparaging the troops, making light of the war effort, being unpatriotic, un-American or un-anything-else that some one wants to read into it.
In fact, if you knew the man and saw what he is doing with the program and the athletes who play there — discipline respect and accountability are a big part of his daily mantra — you’d be impressed at what a solid influence he is.
And yet, as too often is the case, an internet responder — nameless except for a nickname, this one Big Mike — ripped into him on the DDN web page and resorted to name calling:
Wrote Big Mike: “‘It was like going to Iraq with a water gun.’ What the hell does he know about going to Iraq? Has he ever served in combat? What an idiot, comparing playing a game with going into combat and risking your life.”
Take a deep breath Big Mike.
TweetCOLLEGE LIST: Dayton tops WSU and UC, but not Xavier and Miami
The University of Dayton is moving up in the college poll — but we’re not talking basketball.
Forbes magazine just released its much-debated 2010 list of America’s Best Colleges. Of the 6,600 accredited postsecondary institutions in the U.S., Forbes reviews just 9 percent of them and this year included 610 schools on its list.
As David M. Ewalt of Forbes.com wrote in his article on the rankings: “appearing on our list at all is an indication that a school meets a high standard.”
UD was ranked 419.
In 2009, it was ranked 567th. This year it leap-frogged eight Ohio schools — Wright State, University of Cincinnati, Ohio University, Ohio Northern, Kent State, Akron, Bowling Green and Youngstown State — all of which were rated higher than UD in the last rankings.
Ohio had 28 colleges and universities on the list this year. Among area schools, Xavier was tops at 121. Wittenberg was at 176, Miami University 243, Ohio State 246, Cedarville 304, Wright State 506 and Cincinnati 542.
Forbes ranked schools based on “the quality of education they provide, the experiences of the students and how much they achieve.”
As Ewalt wrote:
“To our way of thinking, a good college is one that meets student needs. While other college rankings are based in large part on school reputation as evaluated by college administrators, we focus on factors that directly concern incoming students: Will my courses be interesting? Is it likely I will graduate in four years? Will I incur a ton of debt getting my degree? And once I get out of school, will I get a good job?
“To answer these questions, the staff at the Center for College Affordability & Productivity (CCAP) gathers data from a variety of sources….
“First, they measure how much graduates succeed in their chosen professions after they leave school, evaluating the average salaries of graduates reported by Payscale.com, the number of alumni listed in a Forbes/CCAP list of corporate officers, and enrollment-adjusted entries in Who’s Who in America.
“Next they measure how satisfied students are with their college experience, examining freshman-to-sophomore retention rates and student evaluations of classes on the websites RateMyProfessors.com and MyPlan.com .
“They look at how much debt students rack up over their college careers, considering the four-year debt load for a typical student borrower, and the overall student loan default rate. They evaluate how many students actually finish their degrees in four years, considering both the actual graduation rate and the gap between the average rate and a predicted rate, based on characteristics of the school.
“And finally, the last component is based on the number of students or faculty, adjusted for enrollment, who have won nationally competitive awards, like Rhodes Scholarships or Nobel Prizes.”
This year Forbes Top 10 Colleges in America were:
1 — Williams College 2 — Princeton University 3 — Amherst College 4 — United States Military Academy 5 — Massachusetts Institute of Technology 6 — Stanford University 7 — Swarthmore College 8 — Harvard University 9 — Claremont McKenna 10 — Yale University
The top rated Ohio school on the list was No. 32 Kenyon College. Behind that came Oberlin (66), Denison (77), Xavier (121), College of Wooster (124), Hiram (166), Marietta (174), Wittenberg (176) and Capital (178).
Case Western Reserve was 239, followed by Miami (243), OSU (246), Ohio Wesleyan (248), Otterbein (300), Cedarville (304) and Baldwin Wallace (305)
After UD at 419, came Ohio (421), Wright State (506), Ohio Northern (522), UC (542), BGSU (567), Toledo (589), Kent State (594), Akron (596) and Youngstown State (604).
More four year schools in Ohio missed the list than made it. Among those absent were Cleveland State, Ashland , Walsh, Findlay. Bluffton, Defiance, Rio Grande, Shawnee State and Mount St. Joseph.
Area colleges that weren’t ranked included Wilmington, Central State, Wilberforce and Urbana.
Here are some of the findings Forbes had about our area schools. (When it came to Wright State, some information was sorely lacking.)
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No. 176 — WITTENBERG UNIVERSITY:
Total Student Population (Graduate plus Undergraduate) 1,976…. Student to Faculty Ratio 12:1…..Graduation Rates 59.0%…Total Cost $44,550….In-State Tuition and Fees $33,236….Out-of-State $33,236…..Percent of Student Body Receiving Financial Aid 100.0%….Percent Receiving Pell Grants 17.0%….Percent Admitted 73.0% ….Percent Admitted Who Enrolled 26.0% ….SAT Composite Range 990-1230….ACT Composite Range 22-27….Percent of Student Body that is Varsity Athlete…28.0%
Notable Alumni: Isaac Funk, 1860, wordsmith; Adam Wagnalls, 1866, wordsmith; Ronald Li, 1950, founder of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange; Bill Martin, 1962, former head of the U.S. Olympic Committee; Lanty Smith, 1964, current interim CEO of Wachovia Corp.; John E. McLaughlin, 1964, former acting CIA director; James Rebhorn, 1970, actor; Lois Raimondo, 1981, award-winning Washington Post photographer.
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No. 243 — MIAMI UNIVERSITY:
Total Student Population 17,191…Undergraduate Population 14,785 …Student to Faculty Ratio 17:1…Graduation Rates 68.0%…Total Cost $40,618…In-State Tuition and Fees $11,443…Out-of-State $25,327…Percent of Student Body Receiving Financial Aid 83.0% …Percent Receiving Pell Grants 11.0%….Percent Admitted 80.0% …Percent Admitted Who Enrolled 30.0%….SAT Composite Range 1080-1280 …ACT Composite Range 24-28…Percent of Student Body that is Varsity Athlete 3.4%
Notable Alumni: Benjamin Harrison, 1852, 23rd president of the United States; Kenneth Merten, 1983, U.S. ambassador to Haiti; Rita Dove, 1973, former U.S. poet laureate who became the first African American and the youngest individual to occupy the post; Bill Hemmer, 1987, co-anchor of America’s Newsroom on Fox; Chris Payne, 1976, artist and illustrator for numerous magazines; Steve Reineke, 1992, conductor of the New York Pops and associate conductor of the Cincinnati Pops; Maria Cantwell, 1980, Senator, Washington state; C. Michael Armstrong, 1961, former chairman and CEO of AT&T and former chairman of Comcast Corp.; Richard Smucker, 1970, president of Smucker’s brand foods.
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No. 246 — OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY:
Total Student Population 53,715…Undergraduate 40,212 …,Student to Faculty Ratio 19:1…Graduation Rates 42.0% ….Total Cost $35,793….. In-State Tuition and Fees $8,679….Out-of-State $21,918….Percent of Student Body Receiving Financial Aid 95.0%….Percent Receiving Pell Grants 17.0 …Percent Admitted 62.0%…Percent Admitted Who Enrolled 47.0% …SAT Composite Range 1130-1330…ACT Composite Range 25-30….Percent of Student Body that is Varsity Athlete 2.6%
Notable Alumni: Larry Sanger, 1995, co-founder of Wikipedia; Roy Lichtenstein, 1946, artist; R.L. Stine, 1965, author; Patricia Heaton, 1980, Emmy Award-winning actress; Erin Moriarty, 1973, CBS news correspondent and Emmy Award winner.
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NO. 304 — CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY:
Total Student Population 3,066…Undergraduate 2,985…Student to Faculty Ratio 14:1…Graduation Rates 55.0%…Total Cost $28,102 …In-State Tuition and Fees $20,992…Out-of-State $20,992 …Percent of Student Body Receiving Financial Aid 90.0%….Percent Receiving Pell Grants 22.0%….Percent Admitted 76.0%….Percent Admitted Who Enrolled 34.0%….SAT Composite Range 1070-1290….ACT Composite Range 23-28…. Percent of Student Body that is Varsity Athlete 8.3%
Notable Alumni: De Maurice Smith, 1985, Executive Director of the NFL Player’s Association, Matt Shiraki, 2006, served at the White House in the Bush administration; Michael Koerbel, 2000, director/producer of award-winning re:View film series; Stacie (Bennett) Cox, 2000, NASA shuttle engineer; Paula Faris Krueger, 1997, sports anchor, NBC Chicago.
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No 419 — UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON:
Total Student Population 10,920….Undergraduate 7,731….Student to Faculty Ratio 17:1….Graduation Rates 57.0 …Total Cost $38,210…In-State Tuition and Fees $27,330…Out-of-State $27,330 …Percent of Student Body Receiving Financial Aid 99.0%…Percent Receiving Pell Grants 11.0%….Percent Admitted 74.0%….Percent Admitted Who Enrolled 23.0% ….SAT Composite Range…1050-1260…ACT Composite Range…23-28 …Percent of Student Body that is Varsity Athlete 5.8%
Notable Alumni: Jon Gruden, 1986, Monday Night Football analyst; Joseph Hinrichs, 1989, vice president of Ford Motor Company; Bob Schaffer, 1984, Colorado State Board of Education Chairman and former U.S. Congressman from Colorado; Dan Patrick, 1979, current Sports Illustrated columnist and syndicated sports radio talk show host, former ESPN anchor.
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No. 506 — WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY
Total Student Population 16,672… Undergraduate 12,772 …Student to Faculty Ratio1 17:1…Graduation Rates 19.0% …Total Cost $25,591….In-State Tuition and Fees $7,018 ….Out-of-State $13,744….Percent of Student Body Receiving Financial Aid 84.0% ….Percent Receiving Pell Grants 31.0%….Percent Admitted NA…. Percent Admitted Who Enrolled NA….SAT Composite Range NA….ACT Composite Range NA …. Percent of Student Body that is Varsity Athlete 2.4%
Notable Alumni: NA
TweetOSU’s Ross Homan of Coldwater on Sports Illustrated cover
COLDWATER — As she sat with her husband Dave in their home in Coldwater the other day, Alice Homan had to laugh a little as she talked about her son Ross, Ohio State’s heralded senior linebacker.
She was recounting how — whenever there was a team picture, a family picture or any other look-at-me showcase moment — Ross always seemed to gravitate to the back row, content to blend into the background scene.
That’s why she got a kick out of last Sunday afternoon’s Buckeye Photo Day at Ohio Stadium, an event that was followed by a picnic for the OSU team and the players’ families.
When it came time Sunday to shoot the team photo OSU will use this season, Ross had to be coaxed to move into the front row.
But that’s where he belongs.
He’s OSU’s top returning tackler, has a legitimate shot at All America honors this season and is a big reason the Bucks have one of the best defenses in college football this season.
If Ross — whose brother Adam is a sophomore fullback and special teams’ stalwart for the Bucks and is a little more outgoing — felt a little conspicuous about his center-stage status on Sunday, I wonder how he feels today?
He’s on the cover of this week’s Sports Illustrated.
It’s the magazine’s annual college football issue and Homan shares the regional cover with defensive teammates Cameron Heyward and Brian Rolle. The headline next to them says:
“OHIO STATE — The Buckeyes have the defense to win it all.”
Then inside the magazine — in a two-page centerpiece photo — there is Homan again, bearing down on Oregon running back LaMichael James, who is trying to stiff arm him away in their Rose Bowl encounter that OSU dominated last January.
A couple of pages later, there is Homan’s name again, highlighted as one of Ohio State’s three key players this season.
This Sunday Ross and Adam will be the subject of a big story of mine in the Dayton Daily News. I spent time with them at Ohio Stadium the other day, visited their folks in Coldwater a couple of days later and visited their grandparents, Herman and Merilda Hoying, in St. Henry.
Last Sunday Herman took part in an interesting historical reenactment at Ohio Stadium.
Some 15 years ago he posed with his other two OSU Buckeye grandsons — Bobby and Tom Hoying — on each side of him at photo day in the Shoe.
Sunday, the 94-year-old Herman did it again, this time flanked by Ross and Adam.
Bucks’ coach Jim Tressel stopped by — both at the stadium and at the picnic later — and made a fuss over Herman, whose family tree has been full of Buckeye fruit. It’s estimated another 15 or so of his grandkids also go to or have gone to OSU and likely many of the 40 great grandchildren will end up there, too.
By the way, this is the second time in three years that the SI cover has featured one of those players from up there in “God’s Country” as they call it. (There’s a spot along the road outside Maria Stein where you can look across the lush farm fields and see the church steeples of seven Catholic churches in surrounding villages or crossroad towns ).
In 2008, St. Henry’s Todd Boeckman — from the same Midwest Athletic Conference that the Homans played in — was on the cover of Sports Illustrated’s college football issue.
TweetReds-Cards’ brawl aftermath: “He’s pretty messed up.”
CINCINNATI — Jason LaRue’s uniform hung in his dressing cubicle, but he was nowhere to be found. The St. Louis Cardinals back-up catcher was said to be too banged up from the previous night’s brawl to join his teammates as they relaxed in their pregame clubhouse Wednesday, winners of the first two games of this crucial series with the Cincinnati Reds.
“I don’t know what’s going on with him,” said Cards pitcher Chris Carpenter. “I do know he’s pretty messed up.”
In the his office beforehand, Cards manager Tony LaRussa said he suspects LaRue has some cracked ribs. Tuesday night — after the Cards’ 8-4 win — St. Louis folks said he had facial lacerations and possibly a concussion, too. He later would show up on the bench — and in his road gray uniform — for the start of the game.
From the physical injury side, LaRue is the biggest casualty of Tuesday night’s first-inning, benching-clearing scrum between the Reds and Cardinals, a flap that went from benign to nasty with several, spikes-first kicks by Cincinnati’s starting pitcher Johnny Cueto, who was being pushed against the backstop netting by the mob and claims he was just trying to free himself.
As for financial injury — in the form of fines — and looming suspensions, those likely will come — La Russa thinks Cueto will be targeted — though Reds manager Dusty Baker didn’t want to dwell on that:
“I don’t think it’s even fair to print or anticipate or even say anything about suspensions. It’s kind of like setting the sentence before somebody ever went to trial. It’s like ‘how many years you gonna get in jail?’ And it’s like ‘who even says I’m going to jail?”
Baker warned that league officials can’t just go by video, ” ‘cause you don’t know what was said or done. The first man always sounds innocent until the second man testifies.”
The squabble spun off from disparaging comments Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips made Monday about the Cardinals, calling them “little bitches, all of them.”
That carried over to Tuesday night, when Phillips, the Reds lead-off batter, stepped to the plate in then bottom of the first and, as his practice, tapped the catcher’s shin guard with his bat as a way of greeting.
Molina supposedly told him to knock it off. That after his comments there was no friendship there. Phillips yapped back and the two clubs — who have have a testiness about each other all season — came pouring from their dugouts.
The two managers don’t care for each other anyway and they had words and then Carpenter joined the debate with Baker.
“It’s an unfortunate situation,” the shirtless Carpenter said at his dressing stall, eight noticeable scrapes from Cueto kicks on his lower back.
“Me and Dusty exchanged words and Scott (Rolen, the former Cardinal and current Reds third baseman ) wasn’t gonna let it go any farther. I didn’t want it to got any farther either.
“Scott was getting in front of me to keep me out of it and the next thing I know I ended up in the screen. I wasn’t concerned until I started getting kicked.
“There wasn’t anything happening before that. Nobody else was doing anything. There weren’t any punches. We were just a bunch of little wrestlers.
“But when the kicking started that changed everything. I turned my head a little, hoping not to get kicked in the face. Unfortunately ,my back-up catcher did not.”
TweetAndy Niekamp’s Fountain of Youth
Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon couldn’t find it, nor could Greek king Alexander the Great
The great Arawak Indian chief, Sequene, sailed out of Cuba to find it, but was never heard from again.
Captain Jack Sparrow — Johnny Depp’s deliciously eccentric character in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies — will search for it in a movie to be released next year.
And David Cooperfield claims to have found it on one of the Bahamian islands he bought. But, of course, he’s a magician of grand deception — a guy who tries to make you believe he made the Statue of Liberty disappear, levitated over the Grand Canyon and walked through the Great Wall of China — so you know his whole deal is an illusion.
And then there’s Kettering’s Andy Niekamp.
The 49-year-old adventurer says he’s found “my personal Fountain of Youth” and when you find out what he’s just done — and that’s the subject of my column in today’s newspaper — you believe him.
For him, the route to rejuvenation runs along the Appalachian Trail, the famed foot passage that goes for 2,179 miles through 14 states from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Maine’s Mount Katahdin.
Parts of it are quite tough to traverse.
According to the Wingfoot trail guide, there are 91 vertical miles of climbing and ascents. Some 25 percent of the people who start the Trail quit 30 miles into it. Less than 15 percent of those who set out to hike the Trail in one continuos trek — usually taking 5 to 7 months — ever complete it.
And yet 10 days ago Niekamp completed the Trail for the third time — something only 30 people in the world have done.
“It’s a great way to blow out the cobwebs in one’s life,” he said. “It’s a good physical exercise. It’s good mentally. Out there I feel younger, stronger.
“I call it my personal Fountain of Youth.”
TweetNo Love to Makin’ Love: 3 Hall of Fame Questions
With the 2010 class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame being inducted today in Canton, here are three questions:
QUESTION 1: With Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith being enshrined today — along with Dick LeBeau, Russ Grimm, John Randle, Floyd Little and Rickey Jackson — is this the best Hall of Fame Class in history?
I’d say no.
Here are nine classes that I think were better:
The best was the initial class in 1963, which included, among others: Sammy Baugh, Red Grange, George Halas, Curly Lambeau, Don Hutson, Dutch Clark, Johnny (Blood) McNally, Ernie Nevers, Bronko Nagurski, Tim Mara and Jim Thorpe.
The 1971 class was a close second with Jim Brown, Vince Lombardi, Y. A Title, Norm Van Brocklin, Bill Hewitt, Bruiser Kinard and Andy Robustelli.
The 1985 class included Joe Namath, O.J. Simpson, Roger Staubach Frank Gatski and Pete Rozelle.
The 1987 class featured Larry Csonka, Mean Joe Greene, Len Dawson, Gene Upshaw, Don Maynard, Jim Langer and John Henry Johnson
The 1993 class had Walter Payton, Dan Fouts, Larry Little, Chuck Noll and Bill Walsh.
The 1990 class included Buck Buchanan, Bob Griese, Franco Harris. Ted Hendricks, Jack Lambert, Tom Landry and Bob St. Clair.
The 1977 inductees were: Frank Gifford, Forrest Gregg, Gale Sayers, Bart Starr and Bill Willis.
The 1979 enshrines were: Dick Butkus, Yale Lary, Ron Mix and Johnny Unitas.
The 2000 class included Joe Montana, Ronnie Lott, Howie Long, Dan Rooney and Dave Wilcox.
QUESTION 2 — Why isn’t Howard Cosell in the Hall of Fame?
For 21 years now the Pro Football Hall of Fame has given the Pete Rozelle Television-Radio Award to an iconic football broadcasting figure for “longtime exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football.”
This year’s winner is ESPN blabbermouth Chris Berman, who often parrots Cosell by shouting “He! Could! Go! All! The! Way!”
Love him or hate him, Cosell is the best-known sportscaster of all time and he helped turn Monday Night Football into must-see TV in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Everyone else associated with the show back then — Frank Gifford, Don Meredith, producer Roone Arledge — has won the award.
So have lesser names like Don Criqui, Van Miller, Myron Cope and Irv Cross.
But no Cosell…and that’s an injustice.
QUESTION 3 — Isn’t this just way too much Hall of Fame information?
When Michael Irvin donned the yellow Hall of Famer blazer, he gave a moving induction speech and then seemed to never want to take that jacket off.
As he told the Chicago Tribune:
“I remember when I was inducted into the Hall of Fame and they gave me my Hall of Fame yellow blazer. I wore it for two straight days.
“Finally my wife was in bed and said she wanted to make love but that I had to take the coat off. I refused and kept the blazer on because I wanted to perform like a Hall of Famer on the field and off.”
TweetForget naysayers — LeBeau is great Hall of Fame choice
A year ago, the New York Times’ Andy Barall wrote an internet piece about Dick LeBeau and his chances of making the Pro Football Hall of Fame — which he now has.
LeBeau — the Pittsburgh Steelers defensive coordinator, former Cincinnati Bengals coach and standout Detroit Lions defensive back, a guy who’s now been part of the NFL for 52 straight years — will be inducted Saturday along with Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith and four others.
Anyway after Barall wrote his piece, several cyberspace critics took issue with LeBeau’s candidacy:
Reader Tom Ruebauch countered: “Dick LeBeau never made First-team All-Pro. Why is he worthy of the Hall of Fame?….It’s thinking like yours, Dave, that allows mediocre guys into the Hall of Fame. LeBeau was better than average, but he was not a Hall of Famer and he likely got all those interceptions because opposing quarterbacks were afraid to throw at Dick “Night Train” Lane and Lem Barney—two cornerbacks who DID make All-Pros.”
Dean Hybl: “Someday Dick LeBeau should be in the Hall of Fame, but not until after he is done coaching. Right now only his playing career can be judged for the Hall of Fame and he was a good, but not great defensive back. There are far more deserving former players and coaches who have not made the Hall of Fame than LeBeau.”
Juan Rojas: “The Hall of Fame voters really made a mistake on this one. Dick LeBeau is not a Hall of Fame-worthy candidate.”
As for responders like these guys, I say they’re all off base. In selecting LeBeau, the Hall of Fame voters got one right.
LeBeau belongs in the Hall for what he did as a player and, because of that, you can then consider what he’s done as a coach — which only underscores what a deserving choice he is.
One of the outstanding man-to-man cover cornerbacks in the league, he played 14 seasons for the Detroit Lions in the 1960s and early ’70s. He played in 171 consecutive games at defensive back and had 62 interceptions, which is tied for 8th all-time in NFL history.
As for the argument he was being thrown at because opposing quarterbacks shied away from the other side of the Lions field, well, he made the plays when the ball came his way.
His contemporaries — guys like Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr and Baltimore Colts receiver Raymond Berry — still sing his praises.
So do more recent NFLers.
Last year at his own induction ceremony, Rod Woodson passionately urged the Hall of Fame to take in LeBeau, his former secondary coach and defensive coordinator.
Steelers’ defensive players wore LeBeau’s No. 44 Lions jersey to Hall of Fame functions and also when they played in Detroit a year ago.
Although he is most linked with the Steelers now, LeBeau spent more of his career with the Cincinnati Bengals — 18 years as secondary coach, defensive coordinator and head coach — and has been associated with the Brown family for more than a half century.
After growing up in nearby London, LeBeau played for Woody Hayes at Ohio State in the late 1950s — he was part of the 1957 national championship team — and then was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the ninth round in 1959.
Paul Brown cut him at the end of training camp, Detroit picked him up and a Hall of Fame career began.
Brown got it right though when he hired LeBeau in 1980 to coach the Bengals secondary and, over the next eight years, the team would make it to two Super Bowls.
During that time LeBeau perfected the zone blitz defense which had initially been started by the Miami Dolphins Bill Arnsparger.
Although his tenure as the Bengals head coach didn’t work out — especially with Akili Smith as his quarterback — LeBeau remains on good terms with team owner Mike Brown.
Everybody not only likes LeBeau, they respect him.
That’s why this weekend the entire Steelers team is making a road trip to Canton to help celebrate LeBeau’s enshrinement.
A few naysayers aside, when it comes to Dick LeBeau, folks in the NFL get it.
TweetComparing Dayton, WSU & Miami hoops schedules
While Miami again has eclipsed Dayton and Wright State when it comes to the “WOW” factor of their out-of-conference schedules for the upcoming basketball season, the Flyers and Raiders have upgraded their opposition, as well.
Charlie Coles and his RedHawks team though are tackling the most formidable schedule in the school’s hoops history — and that is saying something. Every year Miami takes on all comers — many of them some of the biggest names in college hoops — but this season’s line-up is mind boggling.
The RedHawks play at Duke, at Ohio State and at Kansas while hosting Xavier and the Cincinnati Bearcats,. They also visit UD and WSU. Their three opponents for the O’Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic sub regional — Nov. 20-22 — have yet to be announced.
Some think this scheduling is smart — others say suicidal — but Miami doesn’t dodge anybody and, as always, Coles thinks it will pay dividends when his team goes through the Mid American Conference schedule and especially when the Hawks get into the MAC Tournament.
Dayton has some good challenges on the road — Ole Miss, Cincinnati, Old Dominion and Seton Hall — and it brings New Mexico into town on January 1 to give the Lobos their first taste of the Flyers “Pit.”
Those are five Flyers games I’m looking forward to. But Savannah State and Florida A & M, which are played here as part of the Cincinnati tournament, as well Central Connecticut State — all with a final RPI last season of over 300 — are games I’m not. Except for the New Mexico game — along with Miami and maybe George Mason — Flyers ticket buyers don’t get a lot of bang for their buck at UD Arena this season.
Wright State goes to Indiana, Richmond, Charlotte, UC and likely will play Purdue in the second round of the Chicago Invitational in late November. The best teams the Raiders bring into the Nutter Center are Oakland and Miami. Their Bracket Buster opponent later in the season is yet to be determined.
One glaring thing that does stand out on WSU schedule are two games against lesser Division II opponents — Northwood and Tusculum. When scheduling, the Raiders should do better than this. Add in a game with Southern (343 RPI last season) — which is linked to the Chicago tournament — and you have three dogs for the home folks to watch.
Miami plays Division II Saginaw Valley State — another ho hum game — but at least there is a connection. Frankie Smith, the Cardinals’ head coach, was Coles assistant at Miami. And Saginaw Valley assistant coach Chris Coles is Charlie’s son.
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