Anyone who saw AE in his first collegiate start against UCF -- a game that Bobcats totally dominated -- thought he had a lot of potential.  For awhile he seemed to go downhill, but then, as L.C. said, he really bloomed in his senior year.  I would nominate him to my All-Time Ohio All Guts team.  He played with great guts and determination in every game -- and also, I might add, with lots of intelligence.  My wife and I had one opportunity at a GWC Ox Roast to have a nice long talk with him.  This, I believe, was prior to his senior year.  We were both impressed by how well spoken he was and his very positive attitude.  

AE is HOF for that 2006 season.  It all started--well, began again--there

Any of our multitude of O-ffensive line persons want to try their hand at D-line?

Lol, Brian, it doesn't matter who it was, and it wasn't just one person. I said before the season that Everson would have a solid Senior season based on the fact that it would be the first time in his 4 year career that he would be playing the same offense two years in a row. In this offense the QB is expected to do a lot of audibling, and the ability to recognize defensive schemes and know when to audible is something that comes with experience. Everson never was a threat to be an NFL QB, but he was a good college QB placed in a difficult situation, with new offensive coaches each year, and with new expectations.

Bates could have the same situation - coming on strong his Senior year, if he works hard at improving, and at controlling his emotions. We will just have to wait and see how that works out, but if he doesn't improve, there are several younger QBs who would love to displace him for the starting job.

we saw again this year what it takes to win a MACC- strong play from the QB position.

2011 has a chance to be something special, we have a very winnable OOC- Gardner Webb, New Mexico State, Marshall, and Rutgers

Our home schedule should be fun with Marshall, Temple, Miami and Kent State all due a trip to Peden.

I like Bates but I hope we find a long term answer for QB starting next year. It would be nice to have a 3 or 4 year starter to help take us to the next level.

This could be the answer to the question...."What Ohio scout team QB this year was the most impressive?"

OCF, timely to be talking about AE. I had a conversation today with a member of the university staff during which I commented that I bet if you asked Coach Solich what he could do if he had an entire roster of AEs packaged in the necessary different sizes and shapes for a football team (but all with AE's talent, grit, determination, intelligence and such), Frank would tell you he would have a football team that would be a national power -- but which couldn't throw worth a darn.  From my perspective, that team wouldn't have to throw!

Another AE story. We were briefly in California this spring, at Pepperdine University. I was wearing some Green, and an RA commented, "Ohio." I of course quickly jumped in, "Not the Buckeyes." He said, "I know. The Bobcats." He proceeded to explain that he is from southern Mississippi, and there are a contingent of people in his hometown who are secondarily Ohio Bobcats fans. Their devotion to OUr team stems from the post-Katrina cleanup when a group of people came to his town. "There was this Ohio football player, this quarterback ..." and the rest of his story concerned the amazingly positive impression Austen Everson made on the people in that Mississippi town.

I did not realize that AE now is part of the athletics department at Nebraska -- another HuskerCat ... or perhaps a Bobsker.

Just had an interesting talk today with someone who knows football and his son is there at every practice. His son said the other guys were good, but that Tettleton gave the Ohio defense fits.

We can't forget Snyder however.....he has the best arm of the group.

I don't know who it will be next year. However, I have seen so many strong armed QB's this year in college football. Teams like LA Tech, Nevada and many other schools. I know the guy at Nevada is a special player but why can't we land a strong armed QB? I am looking forward to seeing Snyder. Maybe he will answer the bell.

Is LeVon back?

D-line is the main concern.  Run dominate and pressure qb.

so he could play most of next year and start the following year ... consistancy

Our Sr Qbs have gotten us bowl eligible but we don't have any bowl wins (yet) or MACCs to show for it. A 3-4 year Dysert/LeFarve type QB migh be whats needed to get us over the hump. Not having a clear starting QB at the beginning of the season every year is a drag too. You could argue that if we had a clear starting QB at the beginning of this season that we could have pulled off wins against Toledo and Marshall. Realistically we could have been 10-1(7-0) and nationally ranked going into the Kent State game and would still be in the MACC regardless if we win or lose. 

That's not to take away from the great job Boo and Bates have done for us this year, just saying it took us until the 2nd half of our 4th game to find our groove. A 3 or 4 year starter helps negate those slow starts. I'd like to see one of the young guys take Boo's spot with Bates in an expanded role next year. Penn State in 2012 is our only tough OOC in the next two years, its a great time to get a new QB some experience. It would be nice going into 2013 with a 2 year starter at QB when we play North Texas, Marshall, Louisville and TBD in OOC. Maybe we'd be ready to add a quality, yet winnable Marquee game in Peden as our 4th OOC that year.