Maine/Delaware Preview

Maine coach Jack Cosgrove and Delaware Coach K.C. Keeler spoke to Matty on the weekly CAA Football calls this week.

Coach Cos Highlights-

Trevor Coston has been cleared to play this Saturday against Delaware after last Saturday's scary scene where he left the field on an ambulance.

Maine is a changed team now, and it was implied that the offense we saw on Saturday night against Syracuse will be the rule, not the exception for the rest of the year.

Mike Brusko is embracing his new role as a slash-type player.

Delaware presents a challenge to the slowly maturing Maine Defense.

You can listen to the Coach Cos interview here.


Coach Keeler Highlights:

Coach Keeler does not want his quarterback Pat Devlin having to throw the ball 49 times very often.

He was very impressed by what he saw from Maine in the Syracuse game.

You can listen to that here.

Mel Kiper Talks About Belcher and Sidbury

ESPN held the second of three teleconferences with "Draft Yoda" Mel Kiper today. Touched on a variety of subjects, and talked to Matty about Lawrence Sidbury from Richmond and Jovan Belcher from Maine.

On Sidbury-"He is a 2nd rounder and has been since the combine"

Belcher-"Late rounder, he will force his way onto a roster, has a lot of talent"

The sister site has the audio of Kiper talking about Pat White and Shalise Manza Young of the Providence Journal talking Patriots with Kiper.

The Belcher-Sidbury audio is below...

Matty on The PM Jab 2/24/09

Did you miss Matty on the PM Jab today? Don't be sad, you can listen to it here! He talks a whole lot of football, NFL Combine and more.

Matt Alkire from Scouts.com Talks Northeast Recruting and CAA

Matt Alkire, the Northeast Recruiting Analyst for Scout.com and the co-founder of Scouts Notebook, joined Matty to talk about the happenings from signing day, talks about players and where they went, and points out some of the programs in CAA who had good classes. He also touched on Army and a couple of players they have coming in.

UMaine Well-Represented in the CAA Awards Circuit

CAA FOOTBALL ANNOUNCES 2008 ALL-CONFERENCE HONORS

The 2008 CAA Football Defensive Player of the Year honors went to Maine defensive lineman Jovan Belcher. Belcher received Defensive Player of the Year honors after being recognized as the league's preseason favorite for the honor.

The West Babylon, N.Y., native ranked 11th in the league, and first among defensive linemen, with an average of 7.8 tackles a game totalling 93 on the season. The senior, who also led his team to its first playoff berth since 2002, ranked second in the conference with 7.5 sacks for an average of 0.62 per game. Belcher, who was tops in the conference with 15.5 stops behind the line of scrimmage, led a defense which ranked fourth in the league and currently 27th in the country in total defense, allowing 315.4 yards a game.

Belcher was named to the CAA First-Team along with Lewiston, ME's freshman running back Jared Turcotte and senior OL Ryan Canary. The second team had senior LB Andrew Downey, and the third team had senior RB Jhamal Fluellen, senior OL Chistopher Arnao, and senior DB Lionel Nixon, Jr. Congratulations to all of them, you earned it.