2013 UW-Stout Blue Devil Football Senior Fullback David Goebel Table of Contents 2013 Football Preview ................................2-3 2012 Game-by-Game ............................24-28 2013 Football Fast Facts ...............................3 2012 All-WIAC Teams ...................................29 Head Coach Clayt Birmingham .....................4 Stout Year-by-Year Results .....................30-31 Coaching Staff .............................................4-6 Blue Devil Record Book ...............................32 2013 Blue Devil Preseason Rosters ..........7-8 All-Time Statistical Leaders .........................33 2013 Blue Devil Returners’ Profiles .......9-16 Stout All-Time, All-Conference Picks ...........34 2012 UW-Stout Final Statistics .............17-18 This is the WIAC, NCAA & UW-Stout ......35-36 2013 Opponent Information .................19-22 Schedules .....................................Back Covers Stout vs. 2013 Opponents thru the Years .........23 2013 UW-Stout Football Schedule Date Opponent Site Time Sat, Sep. 7 Dakota Wesleyan Menomonie, WI 1 p.m. (Dorm Day) Sat, Sep. 14 Jamestown College Jamestown, ND 1 p.m. Sat, Sep. 21 North Central College Naperville, IL 1 p.m. Sat, Oct. 5 UW-Oshkosh* Menomonie, WI 2 p.m. (Take a Kid to a Game Day) Sat, Oct. 12 UW-Whitewater* Whitewater, WI 2 p.m. Sat, Oct. 19 UW-La Crosse* Menomonie, WI 1 p.m. (Homecoming) Sat, Oct. 26 UW-Platteville* Platteville, WI 2 p.m. Sat, Nov. 2 UW-Eau Claire* Menomonie, WI 1 p.m. (Hall of Fame Game & Military Appreciation Day) Sat, Nov. 9 UW-River Falls* River Falls, WI 1 p.m. Sat., Nov. 16 UW-Stevens Point* Menomonie, WI 1 p.m. (Senior Day) *indicates WIAC contest Media Information Welcome to UW-Stout. We appreciate the attention you give to our Blue Devils. To Contact Coach Birmingham In planning your coverage of Blue Devil Football for the 2013 season, please The best time of day to contact Coach Clayt Birmingham by telephone is in review the following items. the afternoon between noon and 3 p.m., Monday through Friday at 715-232- 2203. You may also arrange contact through the Sports Information office, Working credentials 715-232-2275. Working space in the Press Box at the Don & Nona Williams Stadium is limited to working press members only. The working area is located in the Radio center section of the press box, the same area as the scoreboard operator. The official radio station of Blue Devil athletics is WMEQ 880-AM radio. We ask that you contact the Sports Information Office (715-232-2275) in Visiting radio stations planning to broadcast from Williams Stadium, and not advance to secure space. Every attempt will be made to accomodate all included on the WIAC Radio Coupler, should contact the Sports Information reasonable requests. Working press will be able to work the front table. office ASAP, but not less than 10 days before the scheduled game. If a sta- Overflow and additional work space is available. Press credentials can be tion is on the WIAC Radio Coupler, a booth and phone line in the press box picked up one hour before game time at the Will Call Window. Please, no will be provided. spouses or family members are allowed in the working area of the press box or on the sidelines. Complimentary Game Day programs can be picked up Internet Broadcasts from Sports Information located in the press box, or at the Sports Informa- WMEQ 880-AM radio webcasts all of the Blue Devil football games. Those tion office, 218 Sports & Fitness Center. games can be accessed at: www.wmeq.com In cooperation with WMEQ, video webcasting of the majority of Blue Devils home football games will be available. Photographers To access the video schedule, go to: http://athletics.uwstout.edu/webcasts. Credentials for sideline photographers will be issued only to those con- Live Stats are also available for all home games. sidered legitimate workers – those working for either a newspaper, television station, a Sports Information Office or other legitimate media. Credentials FAX Service can be picked up one hour before game time at the Will Call window. No To arrange for information by FAX either before or after games, contact the tripods are allowed on the sidelines, but monopods are allowed. Please, no Sports Information office, 715-232-2275. spouses or family members allowed on the sidelines. Social Media Services Telephone & Internet Connections Blue Devil information is also available by Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Telephones may be utilized in the Press Box before, during and after the Go to the Blue Devil website or use the addresses below: game. Special arrangements will need to be made to access the wireless and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/stoutbluedevils hardwire internet connections through an on-campus secure password. Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/stoutbluedevils YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/uwstoutsports Parking Primary Blue Devil Media Outlets Parking is available to media in the lot north of the stadium. The Dunn County News WMEQ/WBIZ Brett Hart, Sports Editor Mike Sullivan, Sports Director Media Services 710 Main Street 619 Cameron Street Quarterly play-by-play, halftime and final stats, final individual offensive Menomonie, WI 54751 Eau Claire, WI 54702 715-235-3411 715-835-9429 and defensive stats and a scoring summary will be provided approximately 30-45 minutes after the completion of the game. They can be picked up in Leader-Telegram WAXX the Sports Information office, 218 Sports & Fitness Center. Quickie halftime Joe Ziemer, Sports Editor Sports Director 701 S. Farwell 944 Harlem St. statistics will be available about midway through halftime in the Max Sparger Eau Claire, WI 54702 Altoona, WI 54720 Press Box. Post-game interviews may be conducted on the field after coaches 715-833-9212 715-833-2909 have had the opportunity to talk to their teams (allow approximately 10 minutes). Interviews can also be conducted outside of the locker rooms in The Stoutonia Wisconsin State Journal Sports Editor Sports Editor the lower level of the Sports & Fitness Center. There is no formal postgame UW-Stout Memorial Student Center 1901 Fish Hatchery Rd. interview area. Menomonie, WI 54751 Madison, WI 53713 The Sports Information office will release a weekly news release concerning 715-232-2272 800-686-1339 each of the fall, winter and spring seasons. It will contain notes on the current WEAU TV-13 St. Paul Pioneer-Press season, as well as upcoming game information and updated statistical data. Bob Gallaher, Sports Director Sports Editor The weekly release will be available by subscription through the UW-Stout 1907 S. Hastings 345 Cedar Ave. athletic website. The release is normally available by late Monday afternoon. Eau Claire, WI 54702 St. Paul, MN 55101 715-832-3254 651-228-5516 To subscribe to the weekly release service, which is sent out via e-mail. Go to the Blue Devils website and click on “Subscribe to our E-Letter” towards the WQOW TV-18 Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel bottom of the page and follow the instructions. Game stories and stats will be Bob Bradovich, Sports Director Sports Editor 5545 Hwy 93 PO Box 371 posted approximately one hour after home games and within three hours of Eau Claire, WI 54701 Milwaukee, WI 53201 away events. Player information and photos are also available on the Blue Devil 715-835-1881 414-224-2173 web page at: athletics.uwstout.edu Credits The University of Wisconsin-Stout Football Preseason Media Guide is a production of the UW-Stout Player Interviews During the Week Sports Information office. Editing, typesetting, design and layout was done by the Sports Information staff. The material in this guide is current as of August 8, 2013. Any corrections, additions or deletions All requests for player interviews during the week should be made one day may be directed to the UW-Stout Sports Information office, 218 Sports & Fitness Center. in advance and through the Sports Information office. Players will return calls Printing assistance has been provided by Jane and the entire staff at the UW-Stout University to members of the media or a time will be arranged for media to call. Player Publications. home phone or cell phone numbers will be released only with prior approval of head coach Clayt Birmingham. 2013 UW-Stout Football Preview UW-Stout head football coach Clayt Birming- Kuehn carried the ball 41 times for 160 yards at Wide receiver may be the most experience ham and his coaching staff have a few pieces a 3.9 yards per carry clip. He did earn all-WIAC spot on the offensive side of the field with the to fit into the puzzle as the Blue Devils head second team honors as a return specialist, return of Trevor Morning (Sr, Bloomer), Zak into the 2013 season. averaging 8.5 yards per punt return and 20.0 Snell (Jr, Castiac, Calif) and Matt Small (Jr, yards per kickoff return. Atwater, Calif). Not unlike any college program, the Blue Devils will be looking to fill spots both offensively and “Tailback will be interesting,” Birmingham said. Morning is the team’s “over-the-top” receiver, defensively. But in particular, the Blue Devils “We lost Brown and (Paul) Bernier. Tanner is a Birmingham said. Morning brings good speed will need to replace their entire starting de- shifty type of runner. We brought in three or to the game. He led the team last year in yards fensive front four, their two cornerbacks, three four players to help fill the spot.” receiving, averaging 19.8 yards per grab with offensive lineman and a good share of their 33 receptions and three touchdowns. offensive backfield. There is no question who is expected to be at the fullback spot when the Blue Devils line it Snell played a little bit of everything last sea- Offensively, the Blue Devils return starting of- up for their season and home opener against son, but was primarily a wide receiver where fensive linemen David Reyes (Sr, Riverside, Dakota Wesleyan, Saturday, Sept.