No surprise here. I was told and passed it on to you all a while ago they were going to stay inside and promote matt. "we got a good thing going," is what associate coach kurt van valkenburgh said.

as a fellow native ohioan, i'm sure he'll do a great job....
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Here's Pleskovic leading the 40-yard dashes that follow the weight training.

And here's the PLESKOVIC BIO.

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Are the folks who guessed so well in the earlier rounds on vacation? We had no winner yesterday, despite Tavious Polo being one of the three in the pic.

(L-R was punter Mickey Groody, and DBs Polo and Erick McIntosh).

Which brings us to today’s contest.
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Can anyone identify this trio?

ALL ON HAND

Talked to The Voice yesterday. He was in a good mood since he had watched the entire team out on the field this week.

Everyone is in town for the second summer session.

We talked about how two and possibly three of the non-conference games would be on national TV (Minnesota and Michigan State with Texas as a possibility).

“Certainly we think we have a chance to win all those games, and that is a wonderful feeling to have for the first time. We put that out as the state of mind of this team, that we can win those games.”

Nuf said.

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All right, let’s get back to the male version of finely toned bodies.

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One is easy. Compare his face to that of last year, and you have gone from a fresh-faced kid to a serious returning starter.

Corey Small is still the clear winner in Most Ripped Owl, and from what I have seen, will be tough to beat.

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OK, it’s Monday after a holiday weekend. Not a great day, but we continue our efforts to fend off the DSDs.

File this under serendipitous. DTC sends me some pics of the DT at the July 4th celebration at FAU, and Tom suggests that I have a Know Your DT contest to try and cleanse the retina from the site of Carl Spitale’s man boobs jiggling their way through the 40-yard-dash.

So, like peanut butter meeting with jelly, we have the Know Your FAU DT contest.
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Three veterans and a rookie (who is far right). And that is me in my palm tree trunk disguise in the middle (just kidding).

Here are some other pix from the celebration. Thanks to DTC for sending them along.
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And here is a vid taken back in the spring during DT tryouts, where DTC is teaching the DT hopefuls one of the dances they will be doing for the tryout.
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We’ll get back to Know Your Football Owls soon, but I agree with Tom that we needed some beauty in our lives.

TV TIME

As the summer goes on, more and more FAU games are ending up on TV.

The FAU/Minnesota game will be on ESPN or ESPN2. And the game against Michigan State will be on the Big 10 Network, DirecTV and Dish Network.

There is still a chance the Texas game may get picked up, with Fox showing some interest. Other games that will be on are MTSU and Troy (both on ESPN2), ULM and Arkansas State (both on CSS). There is also a possibility the UAB game may get on the air.

That leaves FIU, ULL, NT and WKU as the only games that look like they have no shot of getting on the air.

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OK, so that walk-on linebacker was younger than he looked.

Now, we go from the chiseled look of the LB and DBs to some fleshy folks.
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Some guys just look better with their shirts on...

Who are these Owls?

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OK, some leftovers from McCormackFest.

McCormack warned the players that some things would be the same, and some things different.

The difference appears to be an emphasis on the reason the players are on the field.

"We are going to concentrate more on playing for the name on the front of the jersey than on the back," McCormack said. That means he feels many of the players were looking out for themselves and their potential pro career, rather than doing what the team needed.

"Along the way, after 2002, 02, 04, 05," McCormack said, referring to FAU's regional run, "it got to where they just thought they could throw their gloves out there and think, 'We are Florida Atlantic and we are gong to win games.' The concentrated too much on the professional side of it. It is Florida Atlantic on the front of the jersey, and that is the most important thing."

FAU's uniforms do not have the players names on the back, but the idea is right. UM football coach Randy Shannon thought the same problem had infected the Hurricanes, and they no longer have names on the back.

What the players need to understand that if FAU wins and goes to regionals, the scouts will come. If FAU languishes in the middle of the pack in the Sun Belt and isn't in a hunt for a regional, they won't get as much attention.

And that FAU has given them a chance to play D-I college baseball, and that is where their loyalty should lie.

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Happy Fourth, residents and lurkers of Owl Country.

Sorry I have been away for a while. Had Thursday off so played golf (what a stupid, stupid game), and when I got home, got the bad news that lightning had knocked out the transformer outside our home.

Three hours later we had power, but turned out the DSL modem had gotten fried, so the Hutton household is without internet. Which makes one suddenly realize how attached to it we are.

Anyway, a new modem will not arrive until Tuesday, so yours truly is at his mother-in-laws, where he has set up a wireless network. It took a fine woman to raise Connie The Wonder Woman, so all is cool, though when I left for mom-in-laws, CTTW told me, “don’t sweat on her chair.” Geez.

Allright, to get caught up – Coach Cooney weighed in. I hope everyone saw his lengthy report.

“Whining” was the wrong word to use, though I was kind of referring to how it sounded to The Suit’s ears. Baseball has received plenty of lip service.

Nobody blamed Sidney Green, Chancellor Dugan for Matt Doherty for the condition of the basketball locker rooms, which were a joke before Wilma provided enough money to correct that situation.

What’s done is done, and now it becomes coach Mac’s problem.

Since it is a holiday, we’ll take a break from Know Your FAU Owls and just run a pic I liked of the boys running the 40.
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Though I am curious, anyone know who the old white dude is? Or at least he looks kind of old, not that I am a spring chicken.
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Have a safe and happy Fourth.

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