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Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Charger Comment Podcast Updated
Finally Episode 3 of the Charger Comment is up and online.
Take a listen at Chargercomment.blogspot.com
Stay tuned for more audio throughout the season.
Take a listen at Chargercomment.blogspot.com
Stay tuned for more audio throughout the season.
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Prepping for Rivals, Chargers Begin Camp on Saturday
Hillsdale Daily News
Saturday August 12, 2006
The 2006 season is about to begin for the Hillsdale Chargers. Players have been checking in Thursday and Friday and will take the field for the first practice on Saturday.
Head coach Keith Otterbein said after a long offseason he and his players are ready to put the pads back on.
“It’s great to finally get them back and get coaching them,” Otterbein said. “After all those things you work over and toil over and worry about all winter, and now you’ve got your guys and you’re looking at them and coaching them football so you’re making progress.
“They’re very optimistic. They worked extremely hard this summer, reported in great shape and are chomping at the bit to line up and play a little bit of football.”
Saturday August 12, 2006
The 2006 season is about to begin for the Hillsdale Chargers. Players have been checking in Thursday and Friday and will take the field for the first practice on Saturday.
Head coach Keith Otterbein said after a long offseason he and his players are ready to put the pads back on.
“It’s great to finally get them back and get coaching them,” Otterbein said. “After all those things you work over and toil over and worry about all winter, and now you’ve got your guys and you’re looking at them and coaching them football so you’re making progress.
“They’re very optimistic. They worked extremely hard this summer, reported in great shape and are chomping at the bit to line up and play a little bit of football.”
Thursday, August 10, 2006
The Boys are Back!
The Boys are Back
Thursday August 10, 2006
Summer vacation is officially over for the Chargers as the 2006 squad reported today. Not much action to report other than that testing has begun and will continue tomorrow along with meetings. Saturday is expected to be the first onfield action for the team.
Hillsdale opens the season on September 2 at Gannon University in Erie, PA. Kickoff is slated for 1:00 PM.
Thursday August 10, 2006
Summer vacation is officially over for the Chargers as the 2006 squad reported today. Not much action to report other than that testing has begun and will continue tomorrow along with meetings. Saturday is expected to be the first onfield action for the team.
Hillsdale opens the season on September 2 at Gannon University in Erie, PA. Kickoff is slated for 1:00 PM.
Monday, August 07, 2006
Chargers Picked 8th by League Coaches
Monday's 2006 GLIAC media luncheon churned out another version of the league pre-season coaches' poll and guess what?
Grand Valley was picked to win the league! No really, believe it or not they were.
Guess what else. Saginaw Valley was picked to finish second. Amazing!
And oh yeah, the Chargers were picked once again to finish in the bottom half of the league in the 8th spot. At first, I thought maybe the league office had released last year's poll, or the one before that, or before that, or even....you get the point.
As a Charger fan, I could feel disrepected. But, I feel relieved. Let everyone look past this team. We will show them how good we are on Saturdays.
The only real story to come out of the annual event was Ashland's reception of 2 first place votes. One obviously came from the Lakers' Chuck Martin since he couldn't vote for his own team. I wonder who else thought the Eagles would be atop the league come Thanksgiving.
Here is the poll in its entirety:
School (first-place votes) Points
1. Grand Valley State (11).............. 143
2. Saginaw Valley State................. 131
3. Ashland (2).................................119
4. Northwood..................................117
5. Michigan Tech............................. 83
6. Ferris State................................... 81
Indianapolis.................................. 81
8. Hillsdale....................................... 65
9. Wayne State................................. 59
10. Findlay.......................................... 49
11. Northern Michigan....................... 34
12. Gannon......................................... 29
13. Mercyhurst................................... 23
Grand Valley was picked to win the league! No really, believe it or not they were.
Guess what else. Saginaw Valley was picked to finish second. Amazing!
And oh yeah, the Chargers were picked once again to finish in the bottom half of the league in the 8th spot. At first, I thought maybe the league office had released last year's poll, or the one before that, or before that, or even....you get the point.
As a Charger fan, I could feel disrepected. But, I feel relieved. Let everyone look past this team. We will show them how good we are on Saturdays.
The only real story to come out of the annual event was Ashland's reception of 2 first place votes. One obviously came from the Lakers' Chuck Martin since he couldn't vote for his own team. I wonder who else thought the Eagles would be atop the league come Thanksgiving.
Here is the poll in its entirety:
School (first-place votes) Points
1. Grand Valley State (11).............. 143
2. Saginaw Valley State................. 131
3. Ashland (2).................................119
4. Northwood..................................117
5. Michigan Tech............................. 83
6. Ferris State................................... 81
Indianapolis.................................. 81
8. Hillsdale....................................... 65
9. Wayne State................................. 59
10. Findlay.......................................... 49
11. Northern Michigan....................... 34
12. Gannon......................................... 29
13. Mercyhurst................................... 23
Sunday, August 06, 2006
Sale Sale Sale!
All apparel featuring the Chargerblue.com logo has been reduced by $2 to kick off the 2006 season. All styles for men, women, and kids are available. Help support and spread the word about Chargerblue.com by sporting one of our various items.Logoed items available here.
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
NFL still in Recker's dreams
NFL still in Recker’s dreams
by Jim Metcalfe
Delphos (OH) Herald
July 31, 2006
HILLSDALE, Mich. — Keith Recker has decided to take his dreamt-of trek to the National Football League one step at a time.
He hopes that step one has already been completed with the recent finish of his first United Indoor Football League season with the Fort Wayne Freedom.
The Delphos native, son of Steve “Peanut” and Lisa Recker, is looking to parlay this season into at least the Arena Football League.
“I know I have to build my resume for the NFL. I’d like to get that opportunity but I have to build up to it,” Recker acknowledged. “I think I tried to take things too quickly last spring; that’s what I was working for.”
Having to play in the UIFL became a source of frustration to the 2002 St. John’s graduate.
“Before the season, I was doing a lot of stuff, like getting information out. My agent sent me some information and I was supposed to go to Detroit to work out but that didn’t happen; he didn’t have the pull he thought he did,” Recker said. “I’m working on getting a new agent based out of Columbus. He’s going to be sending films to the Arena League, especially the Columbus Destroyers.
“The good thing that I have now for Arena League or Arena 2 is I have some indoor films to send them. I didn’t have that from college.”
He’s hoping that the time from August to October, despite coaching wide receivers at Hillsdale College, where he completed his college career last fall, will be productive.
“I hope to be attending a couple of combines and camps for college free agents and try to get some notice and recognition. I know I need to work on running my routes,” he continued. “That’s what I worked on from the time I graduated from Hillsdale until now. Hopefully, coaching will help me do that. I will be learning the same stuff I’ll be teaching. That should help me pick things up quicker.
“Plus, I’ll be able to work out with these guys in the weight room.”
Another one of Recker’s goals for the offseason is to get faster.
“You don’t realize how much the game speeds up from college to even the UIFL. In AFL 1, it’s all man-to-man coverage,” he explained. “With my size, if I can improve my speed, that will be to my advantage. I also would need to learn to play the Jack linebacker position in Arena play since they go both ways. I worked with a guy who played quarterback and he told me that would be my best chance to get into Arena.”
Recker had to make a few adjustments to play in the UIFL.
“I had to play wide receiver, so I had to make the adjustment from tight end. There is no tight end in Indoor play,” he added. “Getting used to being split out wide all the time took some time. One of the big differences between the UIFL and Arena Football is I didn’t have to play defense here. All I had to do was play receiver. They put together some teams from Arena 2 and other leagues and that was one of the different rules they came up with.
“People don’t realize that there are some talented players in Indoor play. Rocky Harvey was all-Big Ten first-team at Illinois a couple of years ago. Even though it’s not the NFL, it’s still a big adjustment as far as speed goes. There’s a lot of talented players out there looking for the same thing I am; a break.”
by Jim Metcalfe
Delphos (OH) Herald
July 31, 2006
HILLSDALE, Mich. — Keith Recker has decided to take his dreamt-of trek to the National Football League one step at a time.
He hopes that step one has already been completed with the recent finish of his first United Indoor Football League season with the Fort Wayne Freedom.
The Delphos native, son of Steve “Peanut” and Lisa Recker, is looking to parlay this season into at least the Arena Football League.
“I know I have to build my resume for the NFL. I’d like to get that opportunity but I have to build up to it,” Recker acknowledged. “I think I tried to take things too quickly last spring; that’s what I was working for.”
Having to play in the UIFL became a source of frustration to the 2002 St. John’s graduate.
“Before the season, I was doing a lot of stuff, like getting information out. My agent sent me some information and I was supposed to go to Detroit to work out but that didn’t happen; he didn’t have the pull he thought he did,” Recker said. “I’m working on getting a new agent based out of Columbus. He’s going to be sending films to the Arena League, especially the Columbus Destroyers.
“The good thing that I have now for Arena League or Arena 2 is I have some indoor films to send them. I didn’t have that from college.”
He’s hoping that the time from August to October, despite coaching wide receivers at Hillsdale College, where he completed his college career last fall, will be productive.
“I hope to be attending a couple of combines and camps for college free agents and try to get some notice and recognition. I know I need to work on running my routes,” he continued. “That’s what I worked on from the time I graduated from Hillsdale until now. Hopefully, coaching will help me do that. I will be learning the same stuff I’ll be teaching. That should help me pick things up quicker.
“Plus, I’ll be able to work out with these guys in the weight room.”
Another one of Recker’s goals for the offseason is to get faster.
“You don’t realize how much the game speeds up from college to even the UIFL. In AFL 1, it’s all man-to-man coverage,” he explained. “With my size, if I can improve my speed, that will be to my advantage. I also would need to learn to play the Jack linebacker position in Arena play since they go both ways. I worked with a guy who played quarterback and he told me that would be my best chance to get into Arena.”
Recker had to make a few adjustments to play in the UIFL.
“I had to play wide receiver, so I had to make the adjustment from tight end. There is no tight end in Indoor play,” he added. “Getting used to being split out wide all the time took some time. One of the big differences between the UIFL and Arena Football is I didn’t have to play defense here. All I had to do was play receiver. They put together some teams from Arena 2 and other leagues and that was one of the different rules they came up with.
“People don’t realize that there are some talented players in Indoor play. Rocky Harvey was all-Big Ten first-team at Illinois a couple of years ago. Even though it’s not the NFL, it’s still a big adjustment as far as speed goes. There’s a lot of talented players out there looking for the same thing I am; a break.”
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