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August 28, 2007, 12:03:56 AM
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I'm a Blue Valley (Stilwell) Alum and I always look forward to the first game of the season against Manhattan. It's always a matchup of 2 great Kansas teams and I usually know a little bit about Manhattan before the Tigers take to the field with them. Unfortunately, my dad's been asking about who to look for and stuff like that for the Indians this year and I can't tell him a thing. Can anybody tell me a little bit about the '07 Manhattan team?? Haha, don't worry, I'm not relaying schemes or anything. Just what's good, what's not, etc. Innocent fan to fan stuff.

August 28, 2007, 06:37:36 AM
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I'm a Blue Valley (Stilwell) Alum and I always look forward to the first game of the season against Manhattan. It's always a matchup of 2 great Kansas teams and I usually know a little bit about Manhattan before the Tigers take to the field with them. Unfortunately, my dad's been asking about who to look for and stuff like that for the Indians this year and I can't tell him a thing. Can anybody tell me a little bit about the '07 Manhattan team?? Haha, don't worry, I'm not relaying schemes or anything. Just what's good, what's not, etc. Innocent fan to fan stuff.

I have not heard much about this years team but I have heard rumors that we are moving away from the power running and going to air it out. Butch Albright has always run the run on first second and third downs and then surprise the defense by throwing a pass every once in a while but I guess he has been getting away from that in the last few years.


August 28, 2007, 08:09:54 AM
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I'm a Blue Valley (Stilwell) Alum and I always look forward to the first game of the season against Manhattan. It's always a matchup of 2 great Kansas teams and I usually know a little bit about Manhattan before the Tigers take to the field with them. Unfortunately, my dad's been asking about who to look for and stuff like that for the Indians this year and I can't tell him a thing. Can anybody tell me a little bit about the '07 Manhattan team?? Haha, don't worry, I'm not relaying schemes or anything. Just what's good, what's not, etc. Innocent fan to fan stuff.
It's kind of a rebuilding year this year. Blair Deboard is the quarterback and he's got a really good arm so having him replace Cole Baschamp won't be too big of a deal. He started three games last year while Cole was out. Our running back spot is what is going to be a huge hole. Brandon Hall got a preferred walk-on at K-State to play safety and he along with Cole provided all of our running game. We replaced him with a junior and a sophomore. Both are extremely fast (one of them is the kid from Manhattan that you always hear about being fast as hell) but both are definitely undersized compared to Hall. Our defense and wide receivers should be fine because we didn't take anymore hits than normal but our offensive line might be a little suspect because a lot of our size graduated. Assuming Blue Valley is as good or near where they were last year, they should handle MHS pretty easily.



Edit: one more thing. One of our wide receivers, Mario Williamson, is being recruited by ku. I'm not sure how heavily though. He's 6'4 and definitely has a lot of speed but I don't know if he's Big XII good. Look out for him, our qb and then some of our guys on defense.
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August 28, 2007, 02:04:37 PM
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thanks guys! just to repay the favor....

since i graduated in '05, i'm pretty unfamiliar with the remainder of the guys on the team. our senior class is sketchy, but the underclassmen are phenoms (i heard both juniors and sophomores lost only 1 game last year, and frosh were undefeated).
word on the street says the defense will once again carry the majority of the load. losing trey brown (missouri) and ryan heil (emporia state) will probably hurt most. however, kc star reporter blair kerkoff's son, nate, has been moved from quarterback where he backed up metro player of the year zach rampy, to wr/db, so that should help the secondary a little.
on offense, there was a serious qb battle going on much of the summer and while most assumed that junior tanner purdon won the job, the latest has sophomore anthony abenoja with a leg up. running back is basically open to whoever steps up. the lone big name returner will be TE chris mcdermott, who's been starting at the position since his sophomore year. and good luck getting through our line, anchored by 2 300 lb. juniors! ya, scary thought. my dad also said the kicker was quite impressive in the fall sports scrimmage as well.
http://www.hometeamsonline.com/teams/default.asp?u=BVHSTIGERS&sport=football&t=c&p=home&s=football

hopefully it's dandy in overland park on friday. tune into the game on KMAN to hear all the calls!

August 28, 2007, 02:11:42 PM
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It is a tragedy because now, we have at least an extra month without Cat football until next year. I hate wasting my life away but I can hardly wait until next year.

August 28, 2007, 03:41:57 PM
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