Wooball;699142 wrote:With Pick Central's successes lately on the gridiron, it will be a great test for the Tornadoes before they kickoff the 2011 season. I'm sure the Tigers will be the most talented team Dover will see all year, should help out before they open the season with Ashland, Canfield and Tri-Valley - all division II playoff teams from a year ago.
Not sure if you are familiar with Dover's football program or not, but you will see mainly a 5 wide spread attack. About 80-90% passing w/ some QB draws mixed in. They used a side car more last year than in years past, but he graduated and I'm not sure if we will see much from the RB position this coming year. The QB threw for a ton of yards last season and returns as a senior. He put up some nice #'s against Steubenville and Sheridan in the d3 playoffs throwing and running. Dover is a quality D3 program, but I would assume Pick will probably push us around in the trenches and have more than enough speed to cover on the outside. Will be a good scrimmage for Dover, just glad it won't count for their regular season record.
Sounds like it will be a good test for us. We've got basically the entire front 7 back from last year, but our DBs will be green. We sent 4 DBs from last year's squad to D1 schools (Notre Dame, Michigan, Buffalo, and Eastern Michigan). We had 3 returning DBs who saw a lot of playing time last year either in nickel/dime packages and/or in place of injured seniors, but none of our returning DBs were full time starters.
Offensively we return some skill guys but will be a little inexperienced on the o-line. We have two key returning O-linemen - Jacoby Boren already has an offer from Ohio State, and Nick Wilson goes about 285 and will be in his 3rd year as a starter. The rest of the o-linemen will be new starters.