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Duquesne Dukes Football has won or shared the last nine MAAC Championships ..... DU won crowns in 11 of its 14 seasons in the MAAC: 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007

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~Was this "Bluff Field"?~
(Duquesne lists Bluff Field as the site of "on campus" home games before they started playing at Forbes Field in 1929.


~Not quite yet worthy of the name Rooney, but its getting there...~
"...If you build it, they will come."

The 1941 Dukes were ranked # 1 by The Massy Ratings and # 8 by The AP. The '41 Duquesne defense surrendered just 21 points all season. No major college team has given up fewer points in a season since. The '41 Dukes finished the regular season as one of three undefeated, untied teams and led the nation in scoring defense, rushing defense and total defense........... GO DUQUESNE!.............. GO DUQUESNE! ......

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Subject: Red Blue Scrimmage to be broadcast on Red Zone Media


Author:
Alex P
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Date Posted: Sunday, April 20, 09:28:32pm
Hey folks, if you can't make to on Sunday, the Duquesne Dukes football intersquad game will be broadcast on www.redzonemedia.com The game begins at 2:00pm...Tad and I will go on the air about 15 minutes before....Join us!

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[> Subject: Re: Red Blue Scrimmage to be broadcast on Red Zone Media


Author:
Coffee
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Date Posted: Saturday, April 19, 11:21:44am
See the Post Gazette article on pre-scrimmge preparation at http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08110/874784-135.stm . I didn't know Knapp opted out. Who would have thunk it two years ago? Schmidt holds that the Dukes will still be a throwing team. I'd love to see a more ballanced attack for teams that play the pass too much. With Hough and the new back (Blair) from Mars, we should have the ability. A better running game would give more time to throw and make the passing game even better.

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[> Subject: Re: Red Blue Scrimmage to be broadcast on Red Zone Media


Author:
Doud
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Date Posted: Saturday, April 19, 11:25:10am
Alex- Can you give us a link? The Redzone link posted on this site begins with the first regular season at Bucknell. Any news on a radio home?

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[> [> Subject: Re: Red Blue Scrimmage to be broadcast on Red Zone Media


Author:
Alex P
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Date Posted: Saturday, April 19, 03:05:08pm
Yes sir, just go to www.redzonemedia.com

There will be a link there. I am still searching for a radio station. I am waiting to hear from WPTT and/or WJAS. Maybe folks could give them a ring and encourage them to make the time available for the Dukes.

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[> [> [> Subject: HELP ALEX GET THE DUKES FOOTBALL ON THE AIR THIS FALL CONTACT WJAS OR WPTT


Author:
Coffee
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Date Posted: Saturday, April 19, 09:54:21pm
Alex- Hope you don't mind if I post their contact info. Now is the time to help Alex. Contact the following if you want to hear the Dukes on the radio. They need to know how many listeners they may be adding.

WJAS-AM 1320
900 Parish Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15220
(412) 875-4800
(412) 875-9474 – FAX
info@1320wjas.com

AM NEWSTALK 1360 (WPTT)
900 Parish Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15220
(412) 875-4800
FAX (412) 875-9474
jhorvath@rendabroadcasting.com

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[> Subject: Re: Red Blue Scrimmage to be broadcast on Red Zone Media


Author:
Ol' Duke
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Date Posted: Sunday, April 20, 09:28:32pm
Nice Day for the Spring Game when the clouds break for a while. Home wins 9-7. Lots of defense after an openning drive takes it down within the 5 yard line before a blocked field goal.

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Subject: The NEC may not get an automatic bit this year.


Author:
Coffee
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Date Posted: Saturday, April 19, 12:30:51pm
The Sport Network put out the latest from the NCAA on the plans for providing more automatic bids to the tournament. This article asserts that the tournament will remain at 16 this year and not have the NEC get an automatic bid since 8 slots are reserved for invited teams and 8 go to existing conferences. See article at http://www.sportsnetwork.com/default.asp?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2/misc/around_the_fcs.htm

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[> Subject: Re: The NEC may not get an automatic bit this year.


Author:
Doug
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Date Posted: Sunday, April 13, 10:15:07am
This is kind of a "chicken and egg" thing here. The NEC will get a higher caliber kid when the conference is seen as equal to the other "scholarship" conferences. The Dukes have to continue to play well againd teams like Bucknell to earn a spot. Their best chance to make the field was the year they lost to Albany in the frozen slop and wind. They would have won that game if they had Josh Rue that year. Albany had a similar back we had no match for given the game situations. 12-0 that year would have stood out better than San Diago's and Dayton's best.

NEC should have an auto-bid to be fair to all. An auto-bid will attract better players. What else do they have to do?

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[> [> Subject: Re: The NEC may not get an automatic bit this year.


Author:
Coffee
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Date Posted: Saturday, April 19, 12:29:39pm
The Sports Network has another column arguing for a 24 team field by 2010. It makes sense to allow all conferences that play by the same rules to compete. By what ethics can the NCAA give not give auto-bids to conferences that allow scholarships and play by the same rules as all. As Doug points out- it will only give the entire FCS more of a fan base and show the BCS Division how to do it right!

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[> [> [> Subject: Re: The NEC may not get an automatic bit this year.


Author:
Coffee
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Date Posted: Saturday, April 19, 12:30:51pm
Forgot to give the link- http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2/news/news.aspx?id=4143834

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Subject: Dave Mackaal Proves again he is the best beat writer in town!


Author:
Coffee
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Date Posted: Thursday, April 10, 09:55:32pm
See Dave's latest on the New Era of Duquesne Football at http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/college/duq/s_561166.html

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[> Subject: Re: Dave Mackaal Proves again he is the best beat writer in town!


Author:
AJP
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Date Posted: Sunday, April 13, 10:02:55am
Nice article by Dave- He works hard and isn't one of the sarcastic, wrinkled old prunes like Smizik who think it is beneath them to write something that isn't snide and demeaning. Smizik grew up in the 60's era where he had to protest everything and think their generation knew it all.

Mackall's more balanced, well researched and a bit less opinionated. He lets the reader form their own opinion where Smizik has to think the world would be better off if they though just like him (I'm not that depressed and self-absorbed).

Just to contradict myself and look at the facts like old Smizik- How will the Dukes players, fans and admin. feel about the small scale "expansion" at Rooney after they play the spring game at Pine-Richland's stadium? I flew over that field as it was being finished and have since been in it. It is amazing for a high school field.

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Subject: A New A-10 Football Conference??


Author:
AJP
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Date Posted: Saturday, April 05, 01:17:27pm
While the move to the NEC and adding scholarships will be a great move, the A-10 really missed the boat when it allowed the football schools to go away to the CAA without even trying to restructure as they allways have been able to do with basketball. An A-10 Footall Conference with Duquesne, Dayton, Fordham, La Salle (they folded due to "scheduling problems"), Iona, Marist and a few others would have been a good conference. I'm not sure if Richmond, RI or other charter schools would have wanted to remainin the A-10 or if other A-10 schools such as Xavior or Charlotte would step up too.

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Subject: Duquesne Releases its Football Schedule- See article below


Author:
Ol' Duke
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Date Posted: Thursday, March 27, 09:46:13pm
Dukes Release 2008 Football Schedule

Northeast Conference opener at home vs. Saint Francis on Sept. 20

March 25, 2008

PITTSBURGH - Duquesne, which opens its first season in the Northeast Conference this fall, will welcome four of its first-year league opponents to newly renovated Rooney Field in 2008.

The seven games against NEC foes highlight the 2008 Dukes 10-game football schedule released today.

Fourth-year head coach Jerry Schmitt's Dukes, who return 14 starters from last year's 7-3 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Football League co-championship squad, open the season at Bucknell on Sept. 6. It will be the tenth time in 12 seasons that the Dukes and Bison, members of the Patriot League, will meet.

In week two, Duquesne hosts its first NEC opponent when Saint Francis, Pa. visits for a night game on Sept. 20. It will be the first game on Rooney Field which is currently undergoing a renovation that includes the construction of permanent grandstand seating and concession stands in addition to the installation of a new playing surface.

The Dukes will then play the two teams that met in last year's Gridiron Classic on consecutive weekends. Dayton, the 2007 Pioneer Football League champion, visits on Sept. 27 followed by 2007 NEC champ Albany on Oct. 4. Dayton defeated Albany 42-21 in the inaugural Gridiron Classic - which matches the champions of the PFL and NEC - last November.

Four of DU's final six games will be on the road beginning with conference games at cross-town rival Robert Morris (Oct. 11) and at Central Connecticut (Oct. 18).

Duquesne hosts Sacred Heart on Oct. 25 before heading to Smithfield, R.I. to complete the non-conference portion of the schedule at Bryant University on Nov. 1. Bryant, which qualified for the NCAA Division II playoffs in 2006 and 2007, will be in its first season of its four-year transition to Division I. The Bulldogs, who will face six Northeast Conference schools in `08, will officially join the NEC in 2012.

DU will travel to Staten Island, N.Y. to play Wagner on Nov. 8 before closing out the 2008 campaign at home against Monmouth on Nov. 15.

Duquesne won or shared titles in 11 of its 14 seasons in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Football League from 1994 through 2007. The Dukes are 14-7 all-time against current members of the NEC.

2008 DUQUESNE FOOTBALL
additional game times to be announced

Date Opponent Time
Sept. 6 at Bucknell TBA
Sept. 20 SAINT FRANCIS, PA* 7:00
Sept. 27 DAYTON 1:00
Oct. 4 ALBANY* 1:00
Oct. 11 at Robert Morris* 1:00
Oct. 18 at CCSU* 1:00
Oct. 25 SACRED HEART* 1:00
Nov. 1 at Bryant 12:00
Nov. 8 at Wagner* 1:00
Nov. 15 MONMOUTH* 1:00
* - Denotes Northeast Conference games
Home games are played at Arthur J. Rooney Athletic Field on the Duquesne campus.
For tickets call 412-232-DUKE (3853)

2008 SCHEDULE QUICK NOTES
* This will be Duquesne's first season as an associate football-playing member of the Northeast Conference. DU is 14-7 all-time against current NEC schools.
* DU will open the `08 home schedule with a 7:00 p.m. game against NEC opponent Saint Francis, Pa. on Sept. 20.
* The Dukes will play back-to-back home games against defending conference champions in late September/early October (Sept. 27 vs. defending Pioneer Football League champ Dayton and Oct. 4 vs. defending NEC titleholder Albany).
* The Dukes will play five times at home, with three coming in the first four weeks of the season.
* DU's three non-conference games will be against one Patriot League school (Bucknell), one Pioneer League school (Dayton) and one school in its first season of transition to NCAA Division I (Bryant).

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[> Subject: Re: Duquesne Releases its Football Schedule- See article below


Author:
Alum '83
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Date Posted: Thursday, March 27, 09:50:36pm
I love that we play Bucknell and Dayton out of conference and that the game vs St. Francis will help our conference record. My only gripe is not playing Robert Morris at the end of the season.

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Subject: To the Duquesne University Family- Have a Wonderful and Blessed Easter!


Author:
Coffee
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Date Posted: Saturday, March 22, 12:54:37pm

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Subject: Post Gazette Article on Duquesne Football Recruiting


Author:
Coffee
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Date Posted: Tuesday, March 18, 06:37:46pm
See link for PG Article on the Dukes looking for scholarship players- http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08060/861348-135.stm

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[> Subject: Re: Post Gazette Article on Duquesne Football Recruiting


Author:
Alum '83
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Date Posted: Saturday, March 01, 08:27:17pm
Schmidt claims the best class since he's been here- "The marquee local players in Schmitt's third recruiting class are running back Bill Blair of Mars, wide receiver Akeem Moore of Brentwood and linemen Michael Passodelis of North Allegheny and Eric Warning of Gateway. Blair rushed for 2,428 yards and 32 touchdowns this past season, and Moore is Brentwood's all-time leader with 112 catches for 1,827 yards and 18 touchdowns. The recruiting class included players from eight states and the District of Columbia."- PG Article

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[> [> Subject: Re: Post Gazette Article on Duquesne Football Recruiting


Author:
Coffee
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Date Posted: Saturday, March 08, 01:25:39pm
Sounds like there is alot of talent comming in at the skilled positions. The Dukes should be faster next year, but I'm till nervous about line size. There are quite a few linemen comming back.

The NEC limits total roster size to 90 which means the Dukes may have to make cuts with 23 scholarship players coming in.

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[> [> [> Subject: Re: Post Gazette Article on Duquesne Football Recruiting


Author:
DDL
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Date Posted: Saturday, March 15, 11:44:24am
Which of these recruits are going to have immediate impact?

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[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Post Gazette Article on Duquesne Football Recruiting


Author:
Coffee
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Date Posted: Tuesday, March 18, 06:37:46pm
I'd go with Schmidt's quote from the PG article- "running back Bill Blair of Mars, wide receiver Akeem Moore of Brentwood and linemen Michael Passodelis of North Allegheny and Eric Warning of Gateway. Blair rushed for 2,428 yards and 32 touchdowns this past season, and Moore is Brentwood's all-time leader with 112 catches for 1,827 yards and 18 touchdowns".

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Subject: Help the Dukes Basketball Team get invited to the new CBI Tournament!- The posts pasted below are from the Basketball Forum. Send your e-mail to: gazelle@gazellegroup.com


Author:
Coffee
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Date Posted: Sunday, March 16, 09:41:03am
Lets get proactive! -- Ray, Saturday, March 15, 11:16:40pm
Fellow Dukes' fans, I thought it would be a good idea to express our desire to see the Dukes play in the CBI. I e-mailed them earlier @ gazelle@gazellegroup.com and conveyed my hopes that their organization would consider the Dukes as one of their 16 participants. I will forward my e-mail to anybody who requests. We can e-mail them all day Sunday as the invites aren't going out until after the NCAA selections, but before the NIT. Lets get off our collective asses as fans and extend the season which ended too bitterly for our seniors and the entire program. These guys and ourselves have been through too much not to!


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Good idea, Ray. I sent the following e-mail to the Gazelle Group yesterday... [more] -- IronDukes08, Sunday, March 16, 12:19:17am
really nice letter...you sold me! (NT) -- c, Sunday, March 16, 07:05:01am
One down, fifteen to go. According to this morning's Houston Chronicle, the University of Houston accepted a bid to the CBI tournament yesterday, becoming the first of sixteen teams to be invited. Houston agreed to play its first game on the road against a "name opponent." According to the article, the 22-9 Cougars preferred the CBI to the NIT --- a tournament that snubbed them last season after Tom Penders' squad lost the Conf-USA championship game to Memphis. (NT) -- IronDukes08, Sunday, March 16, 01:08:45am

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Subject: New Capacity for Rooney Field?


Author:
Coffee
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Date Posted: Saturday, March 15, 11:41:15am
Does anybody have an idea of what the new seating capacity will be at Rooney? I know they talked of adding seating on the visitor's side as well, but I've not seen drawings on that side. From what the home side drawings show, it look like there will be 9 rows, from the twenty to the twenty with a gap at the 50 for the existing press box. (See Renovation Plan Link above)

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[> Subject: Re: New Capacity for Rooney Field?


Author:
Lehigh Valley Duke
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Date Posted: Thursday, March 13, 02:41:51pm
Seating looks like it is split into 6 sections of equal size. 9 rows to a section and about 20 seats to a row. So quick Math calculation, 9 x 20 = 180 x 6 = 1080 approx give or take a few. Plus you have the season ticket seats in front of the press box, looks like about 60. So I'd say about 1,100 seats which is about the same as the old stadium bleachers. I think the capacity of 4,500 has always been a bit generous and the person who counted the attendances at games has always been questionable in my mind.

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[> [> Subject: Re: New Capacity for Rooney Field?


Author:
DDL
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Date Posted: Saturday, March 15, 11:41:15am
How does the saying go- "If you build it, they will come?". It sounds like the Athletic Department is building for small time, small committment and small vision. We don't need a new Beaver Stadium, but a field that looks more like a middle school field isn't going to attract crowds or recruits. Its nice to have bathrooms and a concession stand finally but there is no way that this plan feels like "college football". It wouldn't take much more to add a few more row where the picnic tables are drawn in and to go from end zone to end zone as prior posters observed.

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Subject: Last of the MAAC- Marist Joins the Pioneer Football League- No news on Iona


Author:
Coffee
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Date Posted: Saturday, March 08, 10:47:46am
Marist will join the Pioneer Football League on 2009. No word yet on Iona (La Salle dropped football after their last game with the Dukes). See link- http://www.sportsnetwork.com/default.asp?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2/news/AGN4134564.htm
If they don't join untill 2009, will the Foxes and Gaels slug it out in a two team conference in 2008??? Seriously, Iona and the Foxes both have potenial for the future as the last two members standing of the MAAC. I hope that Iona finds a good home with the PFL as well rather than drop football. As the Dukes found out, their last year's team was their best.

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Subject: Leigh Bodden's a Lion. Traded to Detroit today.


Author:
El Duque
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Date Posted: Saturday, March 01, 09:22:16pm

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[> Subject: Re: Leigh Bodden's a Lion. Traded to Detroit today.


Author:
Ol' Duke
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Date Posted: Saturday, March 01, 09:08:01pm
I'll miss seeing him twice a year playing the Steelers. What did the Browns get for him? They traded away a hell of a player and a real team leader for them.

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[> [> Subject: Re: Leigh Bodden's a Lion. Traded to Detroit today.


Author:
Coffee
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Date Posted: Saturday, March 01, 09:16:36pm
The Browns sent Bodden and a 3rd round draft choice in 2008 and got Pro Bowl DL Shaun Rogers. From the article on the Browns web site, the Lions were ready to ship Rogers to the Bengals but the deal fell through. I'd be careful to give up anybody for a player that is being that aggressively peddled.

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[> [> [> Subject: Re: Leigh Bodden's a Lion. Traded to Detroit today.


Author:
CP
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Date Posted: Saturday, March 01, 09:22:16pm
I would have liked Bodden to have come back to Pittsburgh to play with the Steelers.

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Subject: Duquesne lists new recruits


Author:
Coffee
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Date Posted: Saturday, March 01, 09:20:39pm
See link for entire list of new recruits of scholarship and non-scholarship players.- http://goduquesne.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/022808aak.html

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[> Subject: Re: Duquesne lists new recruits


Author:
Ol' Duke
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Date Posted: Saturday, March 01, 08:47:11pm
Something is disturbing about the roster. Jerry Schmidt said he was consentrating on the line and that the Dukes had the skill players. Of the 23 listed as incomming only 2 weigh over 250 pounds.

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[> [> Subject: Ol' Dukes, I notice in NJ this year there weren't many 300+ pound linemen. But we got a couple of highly rated kids, and linemen aren't like basketball players. You can make them bigger.


Author:
El Duque
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Date Posted: Saturday, March 01, 08:59:47pm

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[> [> [> Subject: Re: Ol' Dukes, I notice in NJ this year there weren't many 300+ pound linemen. But we got a couple of highly rated kids, and linemen aren't like basketball players. You can make them bigger.


Author:
Alum '83
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Date Posted: Saturday, March 01, 09:20:39pm
Only 5 of the 23 are linemen.

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Subject: Iron Dukes sign a QB Click here for more.


Author:
El Duque
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Date Posted: Saturday, March 01, 08:25:24am

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[> Subject: Fantastic Article ED


Author:
Coffee
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Date Posted: Saturday, January 12, 09:04:23am
How many years does he have left? Dukes have always centered on a great QB. Now they have three to see who steps forward. The article reads like a "all you want to know about Duquesne Football".

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[> [> Subject: He's prepping (I think, I don't recognize the school) so I think he'd have four years ahead of him. I'd still like to see DU recruit in NJ, as well as Pittsburgh, Lehigh Valley and Eleanor Roosevelt in MD.


Author:
ED
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Date Posted: Saturday, January 12, 10:58:14am
Last year I tried to sell the DU wrestling coach on a kid from our local high school. I guess he either doesn't read e-mail or ignored me. The kid wrestled HWT for Drexel yesterday against DU and pinned our guy's butt. Oh, well, I tried. If Hartupee is out there, there's a soph 160 pounder here now who's 15-1 and a soph 215 pounder who is the son of a former state champ (guy who beat Olympian Bruce Baumgartner in states).

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[> [> [> Subject: Re: He's prepping (I think, I don't recognize the school) so I think he'd have four years ahead of him. I'd still like to see DU recruit in NJ, as well as Pittsburgh, Lehigh Valley and Eleanor Roosevelt in MD.


Author:
DU Rocks
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Date Posted: Saturday, March 01, 08:25:24am
Duq. doesn't get much scholarship money for wrestling, so probably couldn't afford him.

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[> [> Subject: Re: Fantastic Article ED


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Chris Patterson
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Date Posted: Monday, February 25, 03:22:00am
Happened to be looking for A Duquesne Football forum and came across this site. The QB is my nephew Sean Patterson from Toledo St.Johns. He actually signed at Weber State and went to Utah for a few weeks before school. Decided that he didnt want to attend Weber and was released. Very excited to see him at Duquesne as we have Pittsburgh ties his Grandfather was a Central Catholic grad and played in the NBA. He has 4 years of elgibility, is enrolled at Duquesne and will compete in spring football. Holds every record at SJ is a lefty and a dual threat QB. 6'2 215. Look forward to coming back up to Pa. and watching Duquesne, appreciate the updates.

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[> [> [> Subject: Re: Fantastic Article ED


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Coffee
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Date Posted: Tuesday, February 26, 08:46:56pm
Chris- Thanks for the info. on your nephew. Duquesne has had a string of great QB's going back to the early 90's. I hope Sean cn join the ranks!

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[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Fantastic Article ED


Author:
Chris Patterson
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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 27, 06:01:01pm
Your welcome, I spoke to him the other day and his roommate is also a freshman that enrolled this spring. Big O/L named Ron Dunn from Mass. My father played at U Of Toledo under a Duquesne Hall Of Famer Coach Ed Melvin. Pittsburgh is where our roots are and Sean actually broke school records against Big Ben's High School (Findlay). Alot of little connections, I know my brother is thrilled to have im at Duquesne. Go Dukes!

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Subject: Check this out!


Author:
Alex P
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Date Posted: Friday, February 15, 12:47:27pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skNbUFKvyy4

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[> Subject: Re: Check this out!


Author:
Coffee
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Date Posted: Friday, February 15, 09:41:50pm
WOW- This kid doesn't seem to give up until the rest of the team is in the huddle. 4.0- A real scholar athelete. I hope he grows into his size 16 shoes! Thanks AP

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Subject: Mike Passodelis to Duquesne


Author:
Alex P
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Date Posted: Thursday, February 14, 06:29:03pm
A kid named Mike Passodelis out of North Alleghney High School has chosen Duquesne to play ball. My son practiced against him everyday (my son is a sophmore at NA). He is a superb player, and a great leader. He plays Offensive and defensive Line. We should keep a look out for this young man.

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Subject: Any word on LOIs?


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El Duque
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 10, 05:23:06pm

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[> Subject: Re: Any word on LOIs?


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Coffee
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Date Posted: Friday, February 08, 11:08:35pm
The program doesn't seem to be announcing them as does the basketball program.

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[> [> Subject: Re: Any word on LOIs?


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Date Posted: Sunday, February 10, 04:02:57pm
What is LOI?

http://www.DukesChat.blogspot.com

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[> [> [> Subject: LOI = letter of intent (to enroll/play).


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Date Posted: Sunday, February 10, 05:23:06pm

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Subject: Bruce Hocker accepts another bowl invitation


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Coffee
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 02, 02:18:01pm
Bruce Hocker will be playng in another bowl game for the scouts in the Texas' Sun Bowl- See http://goduquesne.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/012908aaa.html

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Subject: Hocker scores in Hula Bowl!


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Date Posted: Wednesday, January 16, 09:43:41am
Bruce scores a touchdown in the Hula Bowl. See AP article- http://goduquesne.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/011308aab.html

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[> Subject: Re: Hocker scores in Hula Bowl!- Some commentary from the Basketball Board


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Date Posted: Tuesday, January 15, 09:13:37am
Hula Bowl update: Bruce Hocker catches a 3 yard TD pass as the East wins 38-7. Game not televised and very few news articles. -- Me, Sunday, January 13, 11:21:58am

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the game was on veurses, but whenever i would go to watch it the east would be on defense (NT) -- goduquesne12, Sunday, January 13, 11:26:46am
I caught the last couple of minutes of this game. At one point the announcers were discussing a possible MVP and Hocker's name was mentioned among several others. So, congratulations Bruce and thanks for representing Duquesne in an outstanding manner. (NT) -- MikeR, Sunday, January 13, 11:35:19am
Maybe his effort will get him an invite to the senior bowl or the combine. -- ironduke65, Sunday, January 13, 12:19:23pm
I turned the game on right befor the end of the first half and saw Bruce make two catches on the TD drive. The announcers talked about how well Bruce used his body to position himself for the TD catch, and said he looked impressive. On the other catch just prior to the TD he got hit hard and hung on thethe ball. (NT) -- CLK, Sunday, January 13, 01:36:31pm

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Date Posted: Wednesday, January 16, 09:43:41am
Anybody find stats? How many catches did he have? Any other reciever stand out more?

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Subject: Bruce Hocker makes it to Hawaii


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Date Posted: Sunday, January 06, 11:56:01am
Way to go Bruce!!! -- Me, Friday, January 04, 08:05:52pm
http://postgazette.com/pg/08004/846709-100.stm


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http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_545906.html (NT) -- Wally, Friday, January 04, 10:33:55pm
Congrats Bruce. That is quite an honor! (NT) -- A83, Friday, January 04, 10:47:38pm

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[> Subject: Re: Bruce Hocker makes it to Hawaii


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Date Posted: Saturday, January 05, 12:16:27pm
Kocker has pleanty of talent and deserved to go. He had all the potential to produce even more while he was here. He'll have to work harder at a higher level.

The good news is that the Dukes still have some good recievers who actually produced more over the laat few games due to their effort and the attention on Hocker.

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Date Posted: Sunday, January 06, 11:56:01am
Congrats to Bruce Hocker. He is a truly special athlete and a nice kid (It would be great to see him playing on Sundays). Duquesne has been fortunate to have a string of gifted athletes like Leigh Bodden and others..GO DUKES!..

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Subject: Palumbo Improvements


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Date Posted: Saturday, January 05, 12:10:35pm
Dukes Court has some nice suggestions to improve the atmosphere at the Palumbo. One I'd add is to fix the message board above center court. I'm afraid that all is not being done to redo Rooney Field the right way to produce the right atmosphere at football games either. Same comentary about the band. Football halftime shows are part of the atmosphere even at high school games.

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