2008 Woodie Awards
Stability at quarterback remains issue
Vincent Dorsey
Issue date: 11/6/07 Section: Sports
Brookhart said that Bowling Green's offense kept the Zips' defensive in a reactive position.
"Defensively, we played tentative early on and we were back on our heels," he said. "We played hard, but we did not look like we were going all-out."
The Zips scored their two touchdowns on a 42-yard touchdown reception by Jabari Arthur and a 3-yard touchdown run by redshirt sophomore Alex Allen. Place-kicker Igor Ivelijic converted a 20-yard field and a 32-yard field goal.
Off the field
Along with Jacquemain's one-game suspension, the Zips' coaching staff announced before the game Friday night that redshirt senior place-kicker Matt Domonkos has been suspended for the remainder of the season for violating UA's athletics department's class attendance policy.
According to assistant athletic director for media relations Mike Cawood, the policy states that if a student-athlete has four unexcused absences in one class, the student-athlete will miss 10 percent of his team's regular-season contests. Each miss thereafter, the student-athlete will miss one additional contest.
Domonkos's misses exceeded the number of contests the football team has remaining, and his eligibility is exhausted, so he has been suspended for the remainder of the season.
When asked about the recent suspensions and other issues earlier in the season, Brookhart reiterated the confidence that he has in his team and said that the only problem that the team has had this season has been its inability to make big plays on the football field.
"In my mind, we have only had one suspension, that being Chris this past week," Brookhart said Sunday night. "Earlier, Carlton Jackson was just supposed to come off the bench and play (at Connecticut), but Chris had the hot hand and we stuck with him. The other, Matt Domonkos, was suspended due to the athletics department's new attendance policy. I can not wake up and make these kids go to class. This (attendance policy) is a good policy and I support it.
"Defensively, we played tentative early on and we were back on our heels," he said. "We played hard, but we did not look like we were going all-out."
The Zips scored their two touchdowns on a 42-yard touchdown reception by Jabari Arthur and a 3-yard touchdown run by redshirt sophomore Alex Allen. Place-kicker Igor Ivelijic converted a 20-yard field and a 32-yard field goal.
Off the field
Along with Jacquemain's one-game suspension, the Zips' coaching staff announced before the game Friday night that redshirt senior place-kicker Matt Domonkos has been suspended for the remainder of the season for violating UA's athletics department's class attendance policy.
According to assistant athletic director for media relations Mike Cawood, the policy states that if a student-athlete has four unexcused absences in one class, the student-athlete will miss 10 percent of his team's regular-season contests. Each miss thereafter, the student-athlete will miss one additional contest.
Domonkos's misses exceeded the number of contests the football team has remaining, and his eligibility is exhausted, so he has been suspended for the remainder of the season.
When asked about the recent suspensions and other issues earlier in the season, Brookhart reiterated the confidence that he has in his team and said that the only problem that the team has had this season has been its inability to make big plays on the football field.
"In my mind, we have only had one suspension, that being Chris this past week," Brookhart said Sunday night. "Earlier, Carlton Jackson was just supposed to come off the bench and play (at Connecticut), but Chris had the hot hand and we stuck with him. The other, Matt Domonkos, was suspended due to the athletics department's new attendance policy. I can not wake up and make these kids go to class. This (attendance policy) is a good policy and I support it.
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