Gardner-Webb 34 - Brevard 17

[elcid83]

Well, September 3 brought us the beginning of the Ron Dickerson, Jr. era. We started the day with another wonderful tailgate under the oak trees. Many thanks to the Dunaways, Harrises, Sargents, McConnells, Demilios, and others for a great afternoon of food and festivities. Welcome to the Burches, the McAlvins, and the Hucks who joined up with us. We look forward to many more fun-filled Saturdays. If you are reading this post, you are welcome to join us on future Saturdays.

Coach Dickerson and his staff achieved the initial goal of their season - win the first game. I hope you stay undefeated Coach!



The Brevard Tornadoes came to Boiling Springs and brought their confusing triple option offense with them. While our team was much more athletic, the Tornadoes executed their offense effectively and caused lots of confusion for our defense and scored the first touchdown of the game.

While the option game was effective for the Tornadoes, I noticed that our defense was always swarming around the football and noticed there was usually more than three defenders involved in many of the tackles.







When the Runnin' Bulldogs weren't swarming around the football, they were also flying around the field making big plays. Here is team leader Devin Johnson with one of his 15 tackles for the evening.





Brevard's defense was also very aggressive and caused QB Chandler Browning to have to throw under pressure and on the run.





Despite Brevard's aggressive D, Tre Perry was able to catch 6 passes for over 100 yards.



Fortunately, the Runnin' Bulldogs had a balanced attack and were also able to effectively run the ball. Kenny Little returned from last year's injury shortened season to rush for over 100 yards.



Juanne Blount also rushed for over 100 yards!



As the game came to a close, Coach D continued his pattern of making sure that those who support the Runnin' Bulldogs know that they are appreciated. After the game, the football team went to the home stand and thanked the Marching Bulldogs for all of their hard work and support.



The Runnin' Bulldogs will find lots of room for improvement across all positions after the coaches review and evaluate the film from Saturday's game - and isn't that the purpose of playing the first game. Even though the level of competition will be higher at Ohio U on Saturday, I expect our boys will be well prepared to represent Gardner-Webb well. I hope to see you there.

Go Runnin' Bulldogs!

[elcid83]

By the way, those uniforms are pretty sharp, aren't they?

Go Runnin' Bulldogs!

[gwujake08]

All right here are my impressions: Like the runnig game and the balance with the pass. O line needs work on pass blocking because we are going to have to spread out more to beat Ohio. They are bigger stonger up front so as much as I like the running game its not going to wear them down. Three step drops to counteract pressure and quick passes to get ball to playmakers on the outsideis the key Linebackers need to improve dramaticly and D- line needs to get pressure. If we can do this GWU will beat the Bobcats.

[gwalphachiba]

1) The GOOD:
* GWU won 34 to 17
* More than 5,000 fans were at the game.
* Little ran three TDs, (and ran for 131 yards)
* Browning completed 14 passes for 217 yards and a TD
* Perry caught a 34 yd TD, and 107 yards in receptions
* Blount ran for 102 yards, caught three passes for 48 yards, and made 25 yards on a kick return.
* Kicker Austin made 30 and 33 yard field goals, and 4 extra points.
* GWU converted 25 first downs
* GWU had no turnovers
* GWU held Jeter to 37 yards rushing
* Rhodes got 75 yards on kick returns, 81 yards on punt returns
* Browning was not sacked much
* Seemed to be no GWU players seriously injured during the game
* Loud blasts after GWU scores sounded great
* Cheerleaders rocked
* GWU 2011 Marching Band looked and sounded super
* GWU 2010-11 BS Champions women's basketball team were recognized at halftime.
* Nearby GWU new student center construction going well
* Reserved seats were available
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B) The BAD:
* GWU did not score in third quarter
* Brevard's QB Reese ran for 111 yards on 15 carries, including 45 yard scamper to GWU 15 yard line
* Brevard's RB Church ran two TDs (1 yd and 10 yd), and gained 97 yards on 22 carries
Brevard rushed for 245 yards (5.7 yds per rush)
* Brevard made 9 tackles on GWU for losses
* Jeter ran for 132 yards on 6 kickoff returns, (GWU was mostly kicking to him, allowing him to get a straight away catch and run on the ball)

C) The UGLY:
* GWU had 8 penalties for 72 yards, including one penalty on a drive inside Brevard territory, and another for OL holding that cancelled a long GWU TD run
* GWU defense and offense were getting whipped by Brevard for the first 10 minutes of the game (poor preparations?)
* Brevard kept the football on offense for 25 minutes and 48 seconds of the game.
* Two GWU punts went foul, and only 91 yards on 4 punts.
* Heat and humidity
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If GWU practices the next few weeks with extra focus on offensive line, defensive line, QB, Linebackers, FB, and punting team they could improve even more.

The offensive line had a few problems on refs seeing holding (conceal more), they missed a few blocks, and a few times failed to block.
The defensive line had problems on the Brevard runs off the BC guards and tackles.
The GWU QB needs extra work on straight drop backs and throws (3 seconds), when to run shotgun (when rush coming).
Linebacks had some problems on Brevards runs off guards, tackles, and stopping the Brevard quarterback runs
GWU can improve yards gained by having RB run behind FB off tackle several times in the game.
GWU punting team needs work on blocking, and kicking into other team's corners.

Go Runnin' Bulldogs!

[gwebb1994]

Sept 5, 2011 9:16:35 GMT -5 gwujake08 said:

All right here are my impressions: Like the runnig game and the balance with the pass. O line needs work on pass blocking because we are going to have to spread out more to beat Ohio. They are bigger stonger up front so as much as I like the running game its not going to wear them down. Three step drops to counteract pressure and quick passes to get ball to playmakers on the outsideis the key Linebackers need to improve dramaticly and D- line needs to get pressure. If we can do this GWU will beat the Bobcats.

This Ohio bunch isn't that 1 win Akron team from last year...they went on the road Saturday and hung 44 points and 452 yards total offense on New Mexico State. NMSU only ran for 6 yards total against them, but that could have been skewed since they were playing from behind from the second quarter on.

Bottom line....we need to play perfect and force Ohio U. into at least three turnovers to have a legit shot at the upset. Establishing our run game is priority one to keep the pressure off of Browning and to stay on the field and keep our defense fresh.

[unk96]

Well, I saw rust and uncertainty at every position. But we still won and in my opinion, this year as oppose to last, the game was not as close as the score indicates. we shot ourselves in the foot alot. I dont see us playing another offense like that. Gave up several of long runs. Looked like blown assignments.But more good plays than bad. The offeense ran the ball between the tackles at will. Not a blocking problem there. Pass protection looked bad at times. But, 3 step drops.you need to get rid of the ball. The roll outs(planned by the way) you cant hold the ball forever. The recievers at times were out of bounds when thrown. Recievers, if ya covered, you got help the QB out and do something diffrent. Defense did swarm some,and sometimes there was not even one with the ball carrier much less a swarm. However, I believe this has to do with first game,new offense and defense, getting the right calls in, etc. I think we should be fine. This week will be tough. They got some big boys. Gotta out move them. But I like what I saw compared to first game last year. I did not like a couple of penalties that cost us points or long runs that were unnecesary and behind the play. That has to stop. But, I was pleased with everybody and look foward to saturday!!

[bulldog246]

some video links from saturday


www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kk-TV_Dqh0


www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OfDBgQKesQ


i thought it was a great showing. there are areas to improve but there was a lot of energy and the guys keep working hard throughout the game.