Old Dominion Game Notes Old Dominion (1-0, 0-0 C-USA) at Umass (0-2 Ind.) Saturday, Sept
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2016 Popeyes Bahamas Bowl Champions Old Dominion Game Notes Old Dominion (1-0, 0-0 C-USA) at UMass (0-2 Ind.) Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017 • 3:30 p.m. • Eleven Sports/NESN Plus Amherst, Mass. • McGuirk Stadium (17,000) 2017 ODU Schedule Monarchs Travel to Umass for First Road Contest Date Opponent Time > Old Dominion travels to UMass for a 3:30 p.m. start on Saturday, Sept. 2 Albany W, 31-17 Sept. 9 in Amherst. Sept. 9 at UMass 3:30 p.m. Sept. 16 North Carolina 3:30 p.m. > ODU defeated FCS foe Albany, 31-17 last Saturday in Norfolk. ODU Sept. 23 at Virginia Tech TBA led 24-3 but the Great Danes pulled to within 24-17 before Blake Oct. 7 Florida Atlantic^ 6 p.m. LaRussa connected with Jonathan Duhart for a 55-yard touchdown Oct. 14 at Marshall 2:30 p.m. pass to put the game away. Oct. 20 WKU& 6 p.m. Oct. 28 at North Texas 6:30 p.m. Nov. 4 Charlotte* 3:30 p.m. > UMass lost last week at Coastal Carolina, 38-28. The Minutemen are Nov. 11 at FIU 7 p.m. 0-2 on the season, as they fell to Hawaii 38-35 in the opening week of Nov. 18 Rice! 2 p.m. the season. Nov. 25 at Middle Tennessee 3 p.m. All times are Eastern > Old Dominion Head Coach Bobby Wilder is 68-30 all-time. * Homecoming & Family Weekend > For the first time since October 8, 2011 at Rhode Island, the ^ Letterwinners Day Monarchs won a game despite having less than 300 yards of total ! Oyster Bowl offense. ODU had 285 yards of total offense. It was their fewest yards of total offense since Oct. 3, 2015 at Marshall. > Senior running back Ray Lawry carried five times for 44 yards before leaving the game with an injury. Lawry scored on a 41-yard run to give him 41 career touchdowns and 39 rushing touchdowns. Both are ODU records. TV Network: Eleven Sports Network/NESN Plus Play by Play: Eric Frede Color Analyst: Andy Gresh > Junior running back Jeremy Cox tied his career high with seven receptions in the win over Albany. Jonathan Duhart caught five passes Radio Network: ESPN Radio 94.1 FM (Norfolk), for 97 yards and a touchdown. 94.1 FM WLVA, Fox Sports 580 (Lynchburg), WNTW 820 AM, 97.7 FM The Answer (Richmond) Play by Play: Ted Alexander > Junior linebacker Marvin Branch, in his first career start, made eight Color Analyst: Andy Mashaw tackles, his first career interception and a pass breakup. Junior defen- Sideline Reporter: Doug Ripley sive tackle Miles Fox notched seven tackles and a career-best 1.5 sacks. (Pre-game show starts one hour prior to kick) > The Monarchs are 68-30 all-time since 2009, and are 21-16 in three Internet: years playing a full FBS schedule. Head Coach Bobby Wilder is the only Audio: ODUSports.com head coach ODU has ever known since restarting the program. Video: UMassathletics.com Livestats: ODUSports.com > Seniors Brandon Addison, Jonathan Duhart, Bunmi Rotimi, and junior Oshane Ximines are the 2017 captains. Social Media: Facebook: MonarchFootball Twitter: @ODUFootball, @ODUSports • Head Coach Bobby Wilder is the 12th longest tenured head coach in Instagram: ODUSports the FBS and the third longest in Conference USA. David Bailiff of Rice was hired one month before Wilder. Rick Stockstill of Middle Tennessee leads all C-USA coaches. Stockstill is in his 12th season with the Blue Raiders. Kirk Ferentz is the longest tenured head coach in the country in his 19th year at Iowa. ODU Athletic Communications Football Contact: Eric Bohannon Office Number: 757-683-3374 Cell Number: 757-375-0244 Email: [email protected] ODU Year-By-Year Record Bobby Wilder 2009: 9-2 2010: 8-3 Head Coach 2011: 10-3, 6-2 CAA (FCS Playoffs) 2012: 11-2, 7-1 CAA (FCS Playoffs) 2013: 8-4 Maine, 1987 2014: 6-6 2015: 5-7 2016: 10-3 (Popeyes Bahamas Bowl Champions) 68-30 (Eighth Year) 2017: 1-0 Bobby Wilder finished his 10th season in charge of the Old Dominion In 2011, the Monarchs concluded the year at 10-3 overall and ranked football program as the only coach in program history. Wilder grew No. 10 in The Sports Network/Fathead.com and FCS Coaches Final the football program from the best FCS start-up to an FBS program Polls, the fastest climb to the top-10 of any start-up program. In the in just six years and a FBS bowl champion in eight years. Hired on first season of conference play in the Colonial Athletic Association, February 13, 2007, Wilder led the Monarchs to a 17-5 record in the first considered by many the toughest FCS conference in the nation, ODU two seasons in program history, a 2012 Colonial Athletic Association went 6-2 against league opponents. Picked to finish 10th in the CAA Championship, and a .500 season in ODU’s first season playing a Preseason Poll, ODU ended the year in a tie for second place in the CAA, Conference USA Schedule. a conference which sent five teams to the post-season. The Monarchs were among those five teams advancing to the FCS playoffs where Wilder led the Monarchs to a 10-3 record and a 24-20 win over Eastern they defeated MEAC Champions Norfolk State in first round action Michigan in the Popeyes Bahamas Bowl. ODU landed a bowl game and advanced to the second round of the playoffs against Georgia in their eighth season of football and just second season of bowl Southern in one of the most thrilling games of the Division I Football eligibility. ODU was one of 26 FBS programs to total 10 or more wins Championships. in the 2016-17 season. The Monarchs won nine of their last 10 games and finished the season on a six-game winning streak, tied for the sixth The 2011 season also brought a host of accolades for the program. longest winning streak in the country. In addition to 11 Monarchs being honored as All-CAA student- athletes, senior defensive lineman Ronnie Cameron was named the ODU had 12 players featured on the Conference USA all-conference CAA Defensive Player of the Year. Cameron and punter Jonathan teams, while senior’s TJ Ricks, Rashaad Coward and Zach Pascal will Plisco brought home numerous All-America honors and freshman play in all-star games. quarterback, Taylor Heinicke, was the runner-up for “The Sport Network’s” Jerry Rice Award as the FCS’ top freshman and was honored The Monarchs finished in the top-10 in the country in six categories, as the “College Football Performance Awards” National Performer of including second only to Western Michigan in fewest turnovers with the Year. just 10. ODU tied for fourth in FBS with a +13 turnover margin. Wilder helped guide quarterback David Washington to one of just two FBS Additionally, Wilder was named “College Sports Madness” National quarterbacks to throw 30 or more touchdown passes and five or less Coach of the Year and finished third in voting for the Eddie Robinson interceptions (Zach Terrell/Western Michigan). National Coach of the Year Award. ODU has a 67-30 record in eight seasons of play under Wilder and is an Wilder and his staff’s inaugural season of play at the Football impressive 21-16 in three years playing an FBS schedule. Championship Subdivision level went well beyond expectations. From the celebrated kickoff versus Chowan, to the heart pounding first The Monarchs made an immediate splash in their first season in FCS road victory against Jacksonville, to ensuring a winning season Conference USA, defeating the defending C-USA Champions Rice in at Savannah State, to extending the win-streak to six in the season the first conference game in school history. Wilder led ODU to a 6-6 finale at VMI, history was made every step of the way. The Monarchs overall record and went 4-4 in league play, including winning three- concluded the 2009 season at 9-2 overall. straight games to end the season. Prior to his arrival at ODU, Wilder served on the Maine staff for 17 years The six wins in 2014 is tied for the seventh most for a first-year FBS and was promoted to assistant head coach and offensive coordinator member school in the last 20 years and the second most for a start-up in 2000, before moving to associate head coach in 2001. program, behind only the eight wins that UTSA registered in 2012. Wilder was named the Assistant Coach of the Year by the Gridiron In 2013, the Monarchs began their transition to FBS and Conference Club of Greater Boston in 2004, which is presented annually to the top USA, playing five FBS opponents, the first five in school history. ODU assistant coach in New England. finished the season 8-4, completing its first unbeaten season at home, going 6-0 and defeating Idaho 59-38 to deliver the programs first A 1987 graduate of Maine with a degree in physical education, Wilder victory over an FBS school. For the second-straight season, the ODU captained the Black Bears to the Yankee Conference Championship his offense averaged more than 40 points a game, averaging 42.3 points senior year. An All-New England quarterback in 1985, he left Maine as per game, which would have ranked seventh among FBS schools. the school’s all-time leading passer with 4,493 yards, and is currently sixth behind Mike Buck, Emilio Colon, Fein, Eaton and Whitcomb on Wilder led the Monarchs to a school-record 11-2 mark in 2012.