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SOU football – Dylan Young and Austin Dodge lift the NAIA Championship trophy while Heston Altenbach looks on
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P.S. Matt Sayre isn’t fat. Here is a non-distorted version…
Athletic Director Matt Sayre looks on in Daytona Beach, Florida as the Raiders win the NAIA national championship
Austin Dodge
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… this happened.
David Weider, Kolby Koberstein, Gannon Schroder, Dylan Bratlie, Keegan Lawrence, and Nathaniel Timoteo
Daniel Breaux
Dylan Young
JJ Latu
Melvin Mason
Bubba Rylance, Max Proudfit, and Austin Dodge
Ben Bachman will be a sophomore, Jeremy Scottow will be a senior, and Sean McShane will be a senior in 2015.
Grant Torgerson will be a senior in 2015.
Melvin Mason will be a junior in 2015.
Thomas Giddens will be a senior in 2015.
Nathaniel Timoteo will be a senior in 2015.
Gannon Schroder and Tylor King will be seniors in 2015.
Aldrick Rosas, whose string or 116 consecutive PATs was broken this year but he has started another string of 15 to be continued next year, will be a junior in 2015.
Matt Retzlaff will be a junior in 2015.
I’m still getting lots of requests for prints of these photos of the football team in the NAIA Championship game. Instructions are in this earlier post.
2014 SOU football team @ Daytona International Speedway finish line
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2014 Rawlings NAIA Coach of the Year – Coach Howard
Aldrick Rosas had eight kickoffs that went for touchbacks in addition to being a perfect 7-7 in PATS and 2-2 in field goals including a 48 yarder
Walking on sunshine after another Melvin Mason touchdown
Alex Stork and Heston Altenbach
JJ Latu
Austin Dodge celebrates his final collegiate game
2014 NAIA Championship Game scoreboard and trophy
Coach Ken Fasnacht enjoys bus ride after the victory
SOU football practice in Daytona with Smith, Dodge, and Singler
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With the graduation of the 2014 NAIA Player of the Year, Austin Dodge, the biggest question with regard to the future of the Raider football team is “Who will be the quarterback in 2015 (and beyond)?”
Teran Togia, Larry Bowen, Jeremy Scottow, and QB Jack Singler on the sidelines in Chicago
Kamerun Smith taking a snap in Chicago when Austin Dodge’s helmet came off
All-American Daniel Breaux has graduated
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The SOU football team will be losing many of their seniors from the championship team for next season.
Dustin Fretwell has used up his eligibility and will be graduating with a degree in business
However, the national championship should help with recruiting top student athletes in future years.
Austin Dodge will of course be gone, but Melvin Mason (over 1,000 yards and 17 TDs in 2014) will be a junior in 2015.
In addition, all three of the running backs have at least two years remaining.
Sean Tow averaged 5.6 yards per carry in 2014 and will be a junior in 2015.
Keegan Lawrence averaged over 7 yards per carry and will be a sophomore in 2015.
Julius Rucker will be a junior in 2015.
#92 David Weider will be a senior, #26 Daniel Abernethy will be a sophomore, and #42 Isaiah Carter will also be a sophomore in 2015.
#10 Tevin Lake on Marian rushed for over 5,400 yards in his career, but the Raiders allowed only 68 of those yards on 18 carries.
Jaylenn Hart had 57 tackles this year and 3 interceptions against Marian. He will be a senior in 2015.
The future looks bright. More photos of next year’s returning players coming…
offensive line
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2014 NAIA Player of the Year Austin Dodge
defensive line
Kelii Padello
Coach Greg Stewart and the running backs
Alex Stork, Mylz Blake, and Tyler Rogers
Coach Nathan Chin and the defensive backs
Senior Bubba Rylance and Coach Howard
shout out to Mr. Raider Stan Smith
outside linebackers
Thomas Giddens and Aldrick Rosas with Coach Howard
Thomas averaged about 50 yards per punt with his 5 punts in the championship game
Seniors Laurence Calcagno and Heston Altenbach
Coach Josh Winfield and the linebackers
pregame speech by Coach Howard to the future national champions
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quarterbacks
Dylan Young’s final TD catch – he holds the SOU record with 33 in just two years
Matt Retzlaff has 21 TD catches and will be a junior next year
apologies that everyone isn’t in this–things were chaos and getting this many in wasn’t easy
Julius Rucker Jr.
receivers
Michael Bryant
Michael is an Emerging Media and Digital Arts student who is also on the football team. He has helped make some incredible videos. Here is the one shown before the game in Chicago:
Here is the one shown before the game in Daytona:
He will be graduating soon so if your company needs someone who can create masterpieces like these, contact him.
This last photo was explained in this post. My favorite part of it is the smile on Jim Nagel’s face. Coach Nagel has won many state and national championships so I’d be curious to hear from him how this bus ride compared to others he has experienced after winning the big game.
SOU fans showing some muscle
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I have had lots of people asking for photos to print. I will be adding about 20 photos (from last Friday) a day to this blog. If you want to print any photos click on the photo first to get a higher resolution version, and then save the original for printing.
If you want to print any of the photos on Facebook, and they aren’t here yet, leave a comment letting me know which photo, and I will upload the original file within 24 hours. Do not print any photos off of Facebook. They will come out looking like crap, and I don’t want one of my photos hanging on your wall looking like crap.
Coach Howard talking to ESPN while Dylan Young, Drew Gibson, Max Proudfit, and Austin Dodge hold the championship trophy
Florida sunset behind the NAIA Championship game
beginning of another Melvin Mason touchdown
Alex Stork recovers the fumble and the crowd goes wild
Max Proudfit
All-American Daniel Breaux #47 🙂
Jaylenn Hart with his third interception of the night