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Sadly, the playback had no audio...Originally posted by Bart View PostLeave a comment:
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I believe Mark Ross was the DC at Bloomsburg. That's what he told me when we spoke earlier in the season...Originally posted by Bart View PostLeave a comment:
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Guess what? The officiating this week was twice as bad as last week...Originally posted by IUPbigINDIANS View PostLeave a comment:
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Lackawanna uses a stadium where two high schools also play their games. It has large stands on both sides with nice turf. I heard some say it may be the best facility in the PSAC. Their team is primarily freshmen and sophomores, but they have a nice football history as a junior college. Reportedly they had 450 players go D1 and 25 sign NFL contracts. Their current OL averaged 326 pounds per player with the lightest being 320. Their new HC is former Bloom OC Ross who comes from Cornell with 30 years coaching football, and the DC is former Bloom coach Will Blanden. They could eventually become competitive.
Any word on Zimmerman? There was speculation he tweaked an injury against Lackawanna since he only had 1 rush for 1 yard and didn't play afterwards. I thought it looked like he came up limping his last rush of the Ship game. They will need him against ESU.Last edited by Bart; 10-04-2026, 03:29 PM.Leave a comment:
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My understanding is the scoreboard message said "Hey ref your mother wears army boots" and that distracted him from seeing the clock expireOriginally posted by WarriorVoice View PostLeave a comment:
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100 percent. I had a friend who was thinking of becoming a PIAA basketball official not long ago. He's an athletic guy with a good knowledge of the game, and I think he would have been an above-average ref. But he officiated a few games in the local "Y" league and get screamed at so much, including by a couple of guys he considered friends, that he decided not to get into it. I'll yell about a bad call at Ship games, but I try never to make it personal. It's a tough job, and I've been crap at it on the few occasions I tried to do it. Then you look at youth football where you see parents brawling on the field. As you said, a lot of sane people want no part of officiating.Originally posted by IUPbigINDIANS View PostLeave a comment:
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And finally, some team stats:
3rd Downs Average Distance 7.96 Distance Conversions Attempts Percentage Short (0-3) 7 10 70.00% Medium (4-6) 5 13 38.46% Long (7-10) 7 19 36.84% Extreme (>10) 4 13 30.77% Totals 23 55 41.82%
4th Downs Average Distance 5.00 Distance Conversions Attempts Percentage Short (0-3) 0 3 0.00% Medium (4-6) 0 0 Long (7-10) 0 0 Extreme (>10) 0 1 0.00% Totals 0 4 0.00%
After excelling in the conversion department last season, BU has seen a falloff. It probably doesn't help that their average distance to go on third down has increased from 7.7 yards (50 attempts through four games) to almost 8 yards (55 attempts), but the team has been worse at every distance except short yardage. I'm not sure if this is a reflection of their diminished passing game, a flaw in play-calling, or just a bit of bad luck, but it's putting a little more pressure on the defense than at the same time last year. Things have been even worse on fourth down, especially when you consider that 3/4 attempts have been in short yardage, which is typically a favorable position for an offense.
As for the red zone:
Totals Plays Yards First Downs Big Stuffs/Losses Long TD INT Fumbles Lost 39 158 4 4 2 16 8 0 1 0
Rushing Carries Yards First Downs Big (10+) Stuffs (<= 0) Long TD Fumbles Lost 26 116 3 4 2 7 1 0
Passing Completions Attempts Yards Air Yards Long Big (20+) Losses (<=0) First Downs TD INT Fumbles Lost 5 12 42 25 16 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
3rd Downs Average Distance 5.55 Distance Conversions Attempts Percentage Short (0-3) 5 6 83.33% Medium (4-6) 0 1 0.00% Long (7-10) 1 3 33.33% Extreme (>10) 0 1 0.00% Totals 6 11 54.55%
4th Downs Average Distance Distance Conversions Attempts Percentage Short (0-3) 0 1 0.00% Medium (4-6) 0 0 Long (7-10) 0 0 Extreme (>10) 0 0 Totals 0 1 0.00%
These numbers are also a bit of a dropoff from last year - the number of plays and yardage really aren't that different, but BU has two fewer red zone TDs. Some of that can be chalked up to giving Sheptock a kicker he has a modicum of trust in, which immediately turns him into Kirk Ferentz when it comes to kick vs. go decisions. Not every red zone trip is the same, but BU is not good enough as whole to not finish drives or settle for FGs too frequently.Leave a comment:
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Now for some rushing and receiving stats. The QB play problems will get a bit of an explanation when we get to the second half of that opener. A few notes- QB rushing does not include sacks. I've also removed select plays that I would characterize as bad snaps, which effects Etheridge, Ruhland, and Zimmerman. Because of these choices, the players' rushes and yards won't perfectly match the official stats at the BU/PSAC websites, but I think they're more reflective of what really happened on a given play.
Rushing Player Carries Yards First Downs Big (10+) Stuffs (<= 0) Long TD Fumbles Lost Achenbach 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 Clancy 69 379 13 11 7 32 4 0 0 Etheridge 8 36 2 2 1 14 2 2 0 Gingrich 2 9 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 Parker 2 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 Ruhland 24 70 3 2 9 35 1 2 1 Wolfe 7 50 2 3 2 20 1 0 0 Zerbe 2 7 0 0 1 7 0 0 0 Zimmerman 26 167 8 7 6 45 1 0 0
Clancy has taken a small step forward and looks like better version of who he was as a rusher last year. He's still not super elusive in the open field, and his long gain isn't huge (not helped by a holding penalty bringing back a 40yd TD run), but his explosive rate has improved and he's gotten stuffed less often. Zimmerman has more obviously improved; he's flipped his big vs. stuff rate from last season (although he's still getting stuffed a bit too often) and after being a non-factor the first two games got more heavily involved as both an RB and a wildcat QB. These two are looking like a nice pair of finds for Sheptock and his staff. The QB run game, on the other hand, could use some serious work. Etheridge has been hobbled by injury, and his average is being dragged down a bit by two short-yardage TDs, but he's put the ball on the ground way too often (25% of his runs!) Ruhland has also been brutal outside of his 35yd TD against Fairmont state. He's been stuffed on >1/3rd of his carries and has put the ball on the ground twice as well. Wolfe has mostly picked up where he left off last year, but unfortunately BU hasn't been able to find another swingman/pivot type to use with him and replicate the Brower + Wolfe pairing from last year. Achenbach and Diaz haven't looked the part, and while Zimmerman did get on the field as a WR a few times early, I don't believe any of his runs came on jet sweeps, WR pitches, or WR options. Clancy has been a bit worse on short-yardage rushing than last year, but it's a small sample so far and the team as a whole has been okay. Gingrich, Parker, and Zerbe all got their carries in garbage time so I won't be writing about them.Short Yardage Rushing Player ALLC ALLA ALL% 3DC 3DA 3D% 4DC 4DA 4D% Clancy 7 10 70.00% 3 4 75.00% 0 0 Etheridge 2 4 50.00% 1 1 100.00% 0 2 0.00% Gingrich 0 1 0.00% 0 0 0 0 Ruhland 1 1 100.00% 0 0 0 0 Zimmerman 4 6 66.67% 3 3 100.00% 0 0
As for the receivers:
Player Targets Receptions Yards YAC First Downs Big (20+) Losses (<=0) Long TD Fumbles Lost Achenbach 30 20 187 80 10 0 1 18 0 0 0 Clancy 1 1 8 2 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 Diaz 19 10 122 14 6 2 0 36 0 0 0 Ryan 8 4 49 12 2 1 0 34 0 0 0 Shultz 2 1 9 18 1 0 0 9 0 0 0 Wolfe 26 13 220 72 7 4 0 48 2 1 1 Young 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Zimmerman 4 1 3 2 0 0 0 3 0 0 0
Things here have been pretty rough. Achenbach and Diaz have gotten more involved in the passing game in weeks 3 and 4, to the point that Achenbach actually has the most targets and receptions of any player, but BU has still been searching for contributors beyond those three, turning to Nick Ryan over week 1 & 2 rotation player Damon Young for a spark at the 4th WR spot. Shultz (TE) converted from OL - he's an enthusiastic blocker and BU likes to bring him in motion to get the most out of that, but as a receiver he's been a non-factor. The fact that no one else has been able to cut into his playing time doesn't give me much hope for the TEs to get involved in the passing game and lighten the load on the WRs or the rushing attack. Neither RB has really added anything out of the backfield either, with Zimmerman having at least one play that I would characterize as a drop on his four targets, and Clancy's lone 8yd reception being a checkdown on 3rd and 13. There's a bit of a chicken-or-egg situation here where it's somewhat difficult to determine if the WR corps is holding back the QB(s), or if the QB play is making the WRs look worse than their true talent, but either way the passing attack has been a big step back vs. last season.Leave a comment:
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Because of my work schedule this month, I haven't been able to do the weekly posting I did last year. However, I've finally shaken loose enough to do some season stat-posting, which will come as a series of posts since putting too many tables into one post/comment is really messy. I'll start with passing stats, and add some light analysis after. Some notes:- Two pass attempts so far this year had no listed target. One was easy to figure out but the other I've taken my best guess at based on formation/alignment and assigned to Xavier Diaz. If you think it should be assigned to Justin Wolfe, who was also in the area, go ahead and count it that way.
- Since BU and other SR1 teams are probably not paying for fancy player tracking (or not sharing with the fans if they are) “Air Yards” are based on the difference between the line of scrimmage and where a ball was thrown or caught. This means:
- Air Yards does not account for depth of QB dropbacks. I’m actually alright with this since it helps to sift out screens, shovel passes, and fly sweeps thrown at or behind the line of scrimmage.
- All throws into the endzone are treated as if they are thrown to the goal line (00). Obviously this is not true but I don’t have the time to watch every throw into the endzone and figure out how deep they were. If anyone with experience in play design would like to suggest a constant to add to endzone throws to adjust for this I’m open to the idea.
- I did not bother charting Eli Zimmerman's one fly sweep pass on a wildcat play. It was an eight yard completion to Alex Achenbach, if you're curious.
- I've added sacks to the QB stats - last year I sifted them out from rushing attempts to better account for how QBs performed on designed runs, but I didn't list them and had some issues accounting for sack fumbles.
Player Etheridge Totals Completions Attempts Yards Air Yards Long Big (20+) Losses (<=0) First Downs TD INT 40 68 499 338 48 5 1 21 2 2
Distance Completions Attempts Yards Air Yards Long Big (20+) Losses (<=0) First Downs TD INT Behind (<= 0) 6 8 29 -14 11 0 1 2 0 1 Short (1-9) 21 32 192 117 20 1 0 8 0 0 Medium (10-19) 10 21 160 137 30 1 0 8 2 1 Long (20+) 3 7 118 98 48 3 0 3 0 0
Down Completions Attempts Yards Air Yards Long Big (20+) Losses (<=0) First Downs TD INT 1st 15 25 210 154 48 4 1 6 1 1 2nd 10 23 90 37 18 0 0 6 0 1 3rd 15 20 179 147 34 1 0 9 1 0 4th 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Quarter Completions Attempts Yards Air Yards Long Big (20+) Losses (<=0) First Downs TD INT 1st 13 20 196 139 48 4 0 8 0 1 2nd 16 32 187 136 30 1 1 10 1 1 3rd 3 5 29 9 16 0 0 1 1 0 4th 8 11 67 54 18 0 0 2 0 0 OT 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sacks Yardage Lost Fumbles Lost 3 -28 2 2
Player Ruhland Totals Completions Attempts Yards Air Yards Long Big (20+) Losses (<=0) First Downs TD INT 11 25 102 60 22 2 0 5 0 0
Distance Completions Attempts Yards Air Yards Long Big (20+) Losses (<=0) First Downs TD INT Behind (<= 0) 2 3 10 -2 7 0 0 0 0 0 Short (1-9) 6 12 50 27 21 1 0 3 0 0 Medium (10-19) 2 5 39 35 22 1 0 2 0 0 Long (20+) 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Down Completions Attempts Yards Air Yards Long Big (20+) Losses (<=0) First Downs TD INT 1st 3 7 15 3 7 0 0 0 0 0 2nd 2 5 25 5 21 1 0 1 0 0 3rd 6 11 62 52 22 1 0 4 0 0 4th 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Quarter Completions Attempts Yards Air Yards Long Big (20+) Losses (<=0) First Downs TD INT 1st 1 1 22 19 22 1 0 1 0 0 2nd 4 8 34 10 21 1 0 2 0 0 3rd 3 8 27 14 17 0 0 1 0 0 4th 3 8 19 17 10 0 0 1 0 0 OT 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sacks Yardage Lost Fumbles Lost 1 -3 0 0
Long story short, the QB play has been up and down. I was hopeful that Etheridge's return would spark the offense after he sizzled for a few series in the opener at Fairmont State, but against Gannon he was somewhere between neutral and a slight positive at best. His game against Shippensburg was absolutely dreadful with four turnovers and no TDs, which leaves his season totals looking uninspiring. The biggest credit I can give him is that he's performing alright on third down. Ruhland didn't have as many turnovers, but he was generating fewer first downs and couldn't find the endzone at all. Considering both guys' contributions, it's been something of a rough transition from KJ Riley under center, although the blame doesn't lie exclusively with these two (more on that later.)Leave a comment:
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The Lackawanna football game is scheduled to be on local TV in NE PA. on MYTV WQMY, also on their Facebook Page, or on our FOX56 WOLF-TV YouTube page.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by WarriorVoice View Post
It's a terrible job. They have the travel combined with low pay. They get screamed at the whole afternoon. Add those three items up and it makes you wonder why on Earth anybody would actually want to officiate.
So, what's left is a lot of the undesirables who should be working the small school high school circuit.Leave a comment:
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ESU ran a play after the clock had expired on Saturday night. They scored a TD on the play and I can't believe the crew let it stand. The diminishing quality of officiating is more than concerning...Originally posted by TheBigCat2192 View PostLeave a comment:
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Good come from behind win for the Huskies! Brutal early performance put them in a huge hole. The weather didn’t help anyone do anything but Etheridge needs to take better care of the football. The fumbles I can sort of live with due to the wet conditions but the two picks were just terrible throws. Good all around team win. Interesting to note Bloom has already matched last years season total of wins. They’ve been winning the close games this year that they didn’t last year. I’d really like to see them come out and dominate Lackawanna next weekend.Leave a comment:
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