In Two-Deep: Nick Harwell, Austin Brown Down And Out

Matt Sussman — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:11:17 -0000

Welcome to In Two-Deep, a feature we're trying here on all the depth charts in the MAC and how they change from week-to-week. Many of these changes reflected starts from last week but also factor in injuries, performances and return from suspensions. Warning: because of the play on words, this feature may contain Genesis songs.

BOWLING GREEN — Jairus Campbell, hurt in the Toledo game, is off the nose tackle list. Ted Ouellet is now the starter, backed up by true freshman Mike Minns. 5'10", 317 is ... thick.

CENTRAL MICHIGAN — Matt Losiniecki is off the chart as starting nose guard, and Leterrius Walton slides up to starter. Alex Smith is now starter at defensive end, flipping with Kenny McClendon. Anthony Young, a backup "OR" at cornerback, was removed. Holders were added to the depth chart: wide receiver Cody Wilson is the main one, followed by kickoff specialist Connor Gagnon.

UMASS — Michael Cox and Chris Burns are now co-starters at running back. Now for some o-line starter shifting. John Wallace is back at left guard, replacing Michael Boland. Nick Speller shifted from right tackle to right guard and Anthony Dima is back at right tackle. Jamie Casselberry moved from backup LG to bakcup RG. Defensive tackle Galen Clemons will miss the game with a head injury, so Hafis Williams takes his place, backed up by Brandon Potvin. Christian Birt was officially dubbed a starting safety (his pick six likely helped), flipping with Joe Colton. Brendon Levengood is also officially the starting kicker ahead of Blake Lucas.

MIAMI (OH) — Hey, you know what's bad? Not having Nick Harwell or Austin Brown. Harwell is off the chart, replaced by David Frazier at F-receiver. Jake Wurzelbacher, aka "Joe The Receiver," is backup X-receiver. At left defensive tackle, Austin Brown was replaced with Mwanza Wamulumba, who was backup right DT, and David DeLeon takes Wamulumba's place.

At H-cornerback, backup Orne Bey was replaced by Marshall Taylor. On the O-line, they shuffled around backups. Backup guard Matt Kennedy is now John Anevski, who was the backup center, but that's now JoJo Williams, returning from injury. Backup right tackle Trevan Brown was replaced by Jeff Tanner. And kicker Kaleb Patterson is no longer a co-kickoff specialist.

WESTERN MICHIGAN — Hardly any changes especially compared to last week. Daniel Braverman is now the X-receiver starter, not an OR starter, and Manny Diaz was taken off as third-string left defensive end and THAT'S IT.

OHIO — No changes. This is a recording.

NORTHERN ILLINOIS — Ryan Brown is now an OR starter with Matt Krempel at right tackle, and Wes Ott is off hte list.

EASTERN MICHIGAN — Lotsa changes. Jay Jones is the H-receiver starter, switching with Demarius Reed and Jones also took his punt return job. On the right side of the line, guard Campbell Allison and tackle Bobby McFadeen took the spots of Orlando McCord and Lincoln Hansen. Tyler Benz is also promoted from third-string to backup quarterback ... for now.

Defensively Marlon Pollard is no longer listed at cornerback, with Darius Scott taking his spot and Kirkland Bryant listed at backup. Backup wide linebacker Ike Spearman (sneaky good name) is now Jake Pennese. Alex Bellfy took Corey Manns' spot at backup free safety as well as Pollard's backup punt return gig. And elsewhere on special teams, Dylan Mulder is officially the placekicker ahead of Kody Fulkerson. The kickoff return squad is also totally different — now it's Tyler Allen and Dominique Sherrer

BALL STATE — Not much to report here. Jahwan Edwards is the second kickoff returner instead of Armand Dehaney. That's it.

TOLEDO — Danny Farr's injury is reflected as the starting defensive tackle is now backup nose tackle Elijah Jones. Ben Pike moves to backup NT and Hank Keighley takes Pike's spot at backup defensive end.

AKRON — Tyler Williams is no longer the H-receiver, replaced by Zach D'Orazio. And Vinny Rizzo returns as left guard, pushing Dylan Brumbaugh to backup and Andrew Bohan off entirely.

NCAA Football 13: The Top MAC Player At Each Rating

Matt Sussman — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:52:53 -0000

Not to belabor the point, but these rankings are fun as all get-out. And extreme gratitude goes to the maker of this website which seems to have extrapolated every rating for every player on every team and made them sortable.

That enabled me to do the following: take each video game character rating and find out who in the Mid-American Conference has the best one. Now if you are not sure what the attribute means, don't worry, I took a pretty good guess at what I think it is.

(And a reminder, we already did overall ratings.)

Attribute	Description, I think	"Player"	Name	Value
Strength	The condition of being strong	Miami RT #64 NIU DT #98	Josh Harvey Frank Boenzi	92
Speed	The condition of being speedy	WMU HB #20 BGSU WR #10	Brian Fields Herve Coby	94
Acceleration	The condition of being acceleration	Buffalo HB #32 Buffalo CB #4 WMU CB #24	Branden Oliver Cortney Lester Lewis Toler	94
Agility	Avoiding players, questions, chores	Miami CB #3	Dayonne Nunley	93
Awareness	Wearing brightly-colored ribbons in the hopes that disease is eradicated	UMass LT #72	Nick Speller	89
Break Tackle	Ability to do damage to fishing lures	WMU TE #85	Blake Hammond	86
Trucking	Getting busted down on bourbon street, set up like a bowling pin, or pining about what a long strange trip it's been	NIU HB #20	James Spence (now #34)	89
Elusiveness	Ability to live like J.D. Salinger	OHIO HB #29	Kyle Hammonds	87
Ball Carrier Vision	Duh. Ability to see the ball carrier	OHIO HB #20	Ryan Boykin	83
Carrying	Ability to carry	Toledo WR #88	Zach Rogers	89
Stiff Arm	Inability to bend at the elbow	Ball State HB #33	Barrington Scott (now #3)	91
Spin Move	Ability to do this [spins around]	Akron WR #88 Miami WR #88	Jerrod Dillard Luke Swift	90
Juke Move	I forget what button the juke is but it's the ability to do that	Akron WR #3	A.J. Price	90
Catch	Being a hit at parties and other social gatherings	Miami WR #8	Nick Harwell	91
Spectacular catch	Being a spectacular hit at parties and other social gatherings	Miami WR #8	Nick Harwell	87
Catch in Traffic	I don't recommend this	Miami WR #8	Nick Harwell	83
Route Running	Remember the obstacle course from "Paperboy?" That	Miami WR #88	Luke Swift	89
Jumping	Ability to rock out as hard as possible to Van Halen	Buffalo WR #25	John Dunmore	97
Throwing Power	Just throwing the football as hard as you can ...	BGSU QB #7 WMU QB #14	Matt Schilz Alex Carder	88
Throwing Accuracy	... and hoping it hits something.	CMU QB #8	Ryan Radcliff	88
Impact Blocking	Ability to delete LOLcat caption pictures.	NIU LG #70	Logan Pegram	90
Run Blocking	Ability to block "Cannonball Run" sequels	OHIO RG #77	Eric Herman	88
Pass Blocking	Ability to block creepy dudes hitting on you	CMU LT #73 WMU RT #68	Jake Olson Dann O'Neill	86
Stamina	Huh huh huh huh	Ball State CB #13	Armand Dehaney	99
Injury	Ability to not get injured. Or maybe it's likelihood that you do get injured. I actually don't know.	Miami SS #37	Pat Hinkel	94
Tackle	Ability to tackle players, hard-hitting issues, large-scale sociological problems.	Ball State MLB #8 BGSU MLB #5	Travis Freeman Dwayne Woods	91
Hit Power	Ability to create powerful hits not unlike The Bee Gees	Toledo ROLB #38	Robert Bell	90
Power Move	Ability to transfer all your furniture into a new apartment in one day without help	NIU LE #49 BGSU DT #91	Jason Meehan Chris Jones	86
Finesse Move	Ability to transfer all your furniture into a new apartment with just one hand, length of time be damned	BGSU DT #50 NIU ROLB #36	Darius Gilbert Tyrone Clark	80
Block Shedding	Ability to donate neglected sacks of Legos to the underprivileged	Buffalo LOLB #46	Khalil Mack	90
Pursuit	Ability to never give up and trust your instincts (© Peppy Hare 1997)	Toledo ROLB #38	Robert Bell	90
Play Recognition	Knowing what is and isn't an Andrew Lloyd Webber production	Toledo MLB #32	Dan Molls	90
Man Coverage	Ability to cover Man, the rise and fall of	Miami CB #6 NIU CB #11	D.J. Brown Rashaan Melvin	88
Zone Coverage	Ability to cover which zones are for loading and unloading in airport terminals	WMU CB #24	Lewis Toler	91
Press	Ability to cover anything, or at least blog about it	WMU SS #2	Demetrius Pettway	87
Kicking Power	How strong's your leg? Good. You can get it there, but that's not all that matters...	Ball State P #18	Scott Kovanda	92
Kicking Accuracy	...I mean what good's a pow'rful leg if y'can't control it?	Toledo K #85	Jeremiah Detmer	85
Return	Ability to be kind and rewind	CMU WR #84	Titus Davis	94

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