08-20-2008, 11:34 PM
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| Offensive Line is their unsung Strength
August 20, 2008 “Our offensive line — outside of Patrick White — should be the strength of our football team. Our offensive line is special. Special! They’re in sync. They are fun to watch. They are very talented. They are more blue collar guys than talented,” Head Coach Bill Stewart said during Big East Media Day. The offensive line returns intact from a year ago. They were good enough then to create enough holes that two backs would gain more than 1,000 yards on the ground.
Their names are Ryan Stanchek and Greg Isdaner and Mike Dent and Jake Figner and Selvish Capers.
If Notre Dame had its Four Hosemen, West Virgina has its Five Clydesdales, for they pull the wagon. But the leader, the senior who makes it all go, is the left tackle, a player who a year ago could not make All-Big East but could make All-American, is Stanchek, a minesweeper of a blocker out of Cincinnati’s LaSalle High School. Stanchek has grown over the years and benefitted from a smorgasbord of three coaching styles and someday sees himself as a coach. He’s learned different moves, different techniques, as many little tricks of the trade as any lineman in the nation has had a chance to learn. Can this offense continue the same explosiveness as the past two years? STORY
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