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Miami Herald
17-06-2025
- Sport
- Miami Herald
Bowling Green Football Preview 2025: Falcons Make Bold Move With Eddie George
Former head coach Scot Loeffler busted it to get the Bowling Green program up to might not have won any MAC titles in his six seasons, and he went 0-3 in bowl games, but in three years, he made the Falcons good, and he pulled off two winning seasons over the two then he bolted to coach Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles Green made a bold move in its head coaching search, and it might have clobbered a home run getting Eddie Ohio State and NFL legend took over Tennessee State in 2021, and in Year Four won a conference title and got to the FCS Playoffs. He's more than ready for this gig, but the roster is a bit thin.A bowl game is possible in his first year, and if nothing else, George will bring plenty of attention to the school and the MAC. - Travis Partridge will handle the coordinator duties after cranking up the passing game for Eddie Georgia at Tennessee State. The running game won't go away, but it'll be more of a pass-heavy attack for the oft-traveled Drew Pyne to run. It's his sixth year in college, getting most of his production in a 2,021-yard, 22-touchdown pass season with Notre Dame in 2022. Lucian Anderson is still around after getting in a little bit of work as the No. 2 man last year. - The receiving corps remains strong, but record-setting tight end Harold Fannin Jr. is off to the Cleveland Browns. Coming in is Arlis Boardingham (Florida), who made 44 grabs with six scores over the last two years with the Hogan is a good outside option with experience, and now he'll get the ball his way more. Rahkeem Smith is the leading returning receiver with 25 catches. - The backs won't be used as much as the receivers, but they won't be forgotten. JUCO transfer Chris McMillian has the quickness, and 22-pound Mar'Kel Porter should bring more thump.- The line has veteran parts. Tunde Fatukasi started out at Rutgers and worked last year as the Falcons' left tackle. Alex Padgett is a 330-pound interior blocker who can play guard or center, Jake Burns will likely work in the middle, and Nate Pabst can go anywhere. - Defensive coordinator Brandon Fisher comes over from Tennessee State after a strong season. His Tiger D was terrific at getting into the backfield and great at taking the ball away. Unlike the offense, the defense will rely more on the transfer portal, except for …- The line gets back a slew of Falcons. Myles Bradley can be used as an outside linebacker or pass rushing edge option, and Collins Acheampong will get his shot on the other side after not seeing time at Miami or UCLA. There's not a ton of experience on the inside, but everyone in the rotation has been around the program for a few years. - The linebacking corps needs a ton of work. Gideon Lampron (Dayton) was a monster tackler last year at the lower level - more on him in a moment - and after him it's … it'll take a bit. Several career backups need to rise up in fall camp.- The starting four/five in the secondary should be okay, but the depth isn't there, at least coming out of the offseason. Mayes Doggan (NW Missouri State) and JoJo Johnson (Indiana) are expected to step in and take over on the corners. Kal-El Pascal should grow into one of the safety gigs, and after missing a bulk of last season, Darius Lorfils will be one of the team's leading tacklers. Bowling Green Falcons Key to the Season The offensive line has to will need tweaking under the new coaching staff, but the offensive line has the potential to be an early strength. At the very least, it has more stability than other last year's starting five allowed too many tackles for loss and was just okay for the ground game. If the line is good, a slew of other things should fall into place. Bowling Green Falcons Key Player Drew Pyne, QB not big, and he's not much of a rusher, but he was good enough for a year at Notre Dame before the staff went big in the portal. He never clicked at Arizona State, and wasn't able to push for the Missouri gig. He has the big-time experience to be a leader, and he needs to make everyone around him better. Bowling Green Falcons Top Transfer, Biggest Transfer Loss Top Transfer In: Gideon Lampron, LB only 5-11ish and 215ish pounds, but he plays big, and he plays fast. After getting his feet wet as a sophomore at Dayton, he was unstoppable last season with 119 tackles, 6.5 sacks, and 26.5 tackles for loss, and he needs to be the same sort of game-wrecker for the Transfer Out: Alex Wollschaelger, OT the offensive line should be a plus, and the new staff can move some guys around, but the 6-7, 295-pound Wollschlaeger is a special blocker with NFL potential if he can crank up the weight. He'll get a chance to show off at Kentucky. Bowling Green Falcons Key Game Liberty, Sept. 13How fast can the program get up to speed? It should beat Lafayette to start the season, it'll get rocked by Cincinnati, and later at Louisville, and the opening two MAC games are against Ohio on the road followed up by a date with are other winnable games on the slate, so if the Falcons can get by Liberty, the dream of getting to six wins isn't crazy.- 2025 Bowling Green Schedule Breakdown Bowling Green Falcons Top 10 Players 1. Gideon Lampron, LB Sr.2. Drew Pyne, QB Sr.3. Arlis Boardingham TE Jr.4. Rahkeem Smith, WR Sr.5. Tunde Fatukasi, OT Sr.6. John Henderson, P Sr.7. Finn Hogan, WR Sr.8. Jake Burns, OG/C Sr.9. Alex Padgett, OG/C Sr.10. Collins Acheampong, DE Soph. Bowling Green Falcons 2024 Fun Stats - Fumbles: Bowling Green 18 (lost 5), Bowling Green 10 (lost 2)- 3rd Quarter Scoring: Bowling Green 73, Opponents 40- Punt Return Average: Opponents 10.4 yards, Bowling Green 4.5 yards Bowling Green Falcons 2025 Season Prediction, Win Total, What Will Happen How fast can this all be put together?The starting 22 should be okay, but the depth will be a problem over the first half of the season. The Falcons will take plenty of lumps, but Akron, at Kent State, Lafayette, and at UMass all have to be wins. There should be another victory after that, but again, any injury blips will screw this bunch a true rebuild, but as these things go, it might not be too The Bowling Green Win Total At … 5Likely Wins: Lafayette50/50 Games: Akron, Buffalo, Central Michigan, at Eastern Michigan, at Kent State, at UMassLikely Losses: at Cincinnati, Liberty, at Louisville, at Ohio, Toledo © 2025 The Arena Group Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
New York Times
01-03-2025
- Business
- New York Times
Bowling Green football job profile: Pluses, minuses and candidates to replace Scot Loeffler
The Bowling Green job is open. Scot Loeffler announced on Friday he had accepted an assistant coaching job with the Philadelphia Eagles, leaving the Falcons with a coaching search at an inopportune time. Loeffler went 27-41 in six seasons but took the Falcons to three consecutive bowl games (all losses). BG's 6-2 record in MAC play last season was its best under Loeffler's watch. Now the school must find a new coach after signing day and right before the start of spring practice. Advertisement So how good is the Bowling Green job? What names could get in the mix? How much will the timing impact the search? Based on conversations with industry sources, here is a report card for the job and the potential candidates to watch. The past decade of BG football has been difficult, but there has been success here. Dave Clawson and Dino Babers led the Falcons to three consecutive MAC East Division titles from 2013-15, including two MAC championships in 2013 and 2015. But both left for Power 4 jobs, and the Falcons have struggled since. Bowling Green has reached three consecutive bowl games, but that came after six consecutive losing seasons. The Falcons haven't won more than seven games in a season since 2015. Gone is All-America tight end Harold Fannin Jr., who is off to the NFL. Top receiver Malcolm Johnson Jr. and quarterback Connor Bazelak are out of eligibility, and top running back Terion Stewart transferred to Virginia Tech. That's life in the MAC these days. The Falcons added 15 transfers, five of them from Power 4 programs, but it's hard to predict what the roster will look like, especially since the upcoming spring portal window could create more roster uncertainty. Loeffler's $582,000 salary was the second-lowest in the MAC and the fifth-lowest in FBS among public school jobs. BG was sixth in the MAC in football spending in 2023, according to Sportico's database. Name, image and likeness efforts have not been too prominent in the MAC, and it's unclear how much BG will have to spend on revenue-sharing with players if the House settlement is approved. The Sebo Athletic Center is attached to Doyt L. Perry Stadium and provides a 42,500-square-foot training and meeting center for all of Bowling Green's sports. The Perry Field House provides an indoor practice field. Advertisement Just a week ago, athletic director Derek van der Merwe received a contract extension through 2030, so there likely won't be any changes there. The school highlighted that the athletic department has set a donations record for unique donors since he was hired in late 2022 and implemented the school's Life Design program across the department. The university continues to grow, with new student enrollment up 22 percent during the past two years. Mercer head coach Mike Jacobs is a Northwest Ohio native with an impressive 85-20 record as a head coach. He went 11-3 in his first year at Mercer, reaching the FCS quarterfinals. Before that, Jacobs went 32-9 at Division II Lenoir-Rhyne, creating a top-10 program, and he was 42-8 at Division II Notre Dame (Ohio), also creating a top-10 program. But would a sitting head coach be willing to leave his team in March? Mount Union head coach Geoff Dartt is 56-4 at the Division III Ohio powerhouse. While the program hasn't won a national title since 2017, Dartt has reached the national championship game twice in the last three years, including last season. The former Mount Union player has spent all but one year since 2017 with the Purple Raiders. Lance Leipold made the move from Division III to the MAC and won at Buffalo. Could another coach do the same? Toledo defensive coordinator Vince Kehres was Mount Union's head coach from 2013-19, winning two Division III national titles. The 48-year-old knows Ohio through and through, and he regularly has produced one of the top three defenses in the MAC since arriving in 2020. Michigan running backs coach Tony Alford has been trying hard to get a head coaching job. The Akron native spent 2015-23 at Ohio State and joined the Wolverines a year ago. He knows the area and has produced several NFL running backs, like Ezekiel Elliott and J.K. Dobbins. Alford previously coached at Notre Dame and Louisville. GO DEEPER Bowling Green head coach Scot Loeffler joins Philadelphia Eagles as QB coach Kansas offensive coordinator Jim Zebrowski spent 2017 to 2020 in the MAC at Buffalo, and he has developed quarterbacks like Tyree Jackson, Jason Bean and Jalon Daniels. Zebrowski has head coaching experience at Division III Lakeland, going 28-12 in four seasons and reaching the playoffs for the first time in program history. He was promoted from Kansas' co-offensive coordinator to sole offensive coordinator this offseason. Advertisement Minnesota co-defensive coordinator Nick Monroe coached at Bowling Green from 2010-15 winning two MAC championships under Clawson and Babers, before following Babers to Syracuse. Monroe spent seven years with the Orange and has been with the Gophers since 2023. Last year's Minnesota defense finished ninth nationally in points allowed. John Carroll University (Ohio) athletic director Brian Polian has been in the mix for several MAC jobs through the years. He went 23-27 as Nevada's head coach from 2013-16, reaching two bowl games. The former Notre Dame and Stanford special teams coordinator last coached football in 2022 at LSU. Eastern Kentucky head coach Walt Wells has reached the FCS playoffs in two of his past three years, including an 8-5 record last season. The 57-year-old Tennessee native previously coached at Kentucky and Tennessee and other stops. Chattanooga head coach Rusty Wright is 37-27 six seasons, including five consecutive winning seasons and an FCS playoff appearance last year. The South Carolina native was a Miami (Ohio) assistant from 2005-08 but has spent most of his career in the South. Could Dino Babers return? The former Bowling Green head coach was Arizona's offensive coordinator last season, but won't return in 2025. Babers went 18-9 as BG's head coach from 2014-15, including 12-4 in MAC play. Coach historically can win here, but coaching in the MAC has never been tougher in the transfer portal era, which is one reason Loeffler left. The timing makes this job very hard to predict, especially for sitting head coaches. The Falcons haven't paid up in a way to make this as competitive and appealing as it should be. Still, Loeffler showed that annual bowl games are a fair expectation. But the next coach could have his hands full trying to keep a roster together in the spring portal.
Associated Press
28-02-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
Scot Loeffler leaving Bowling Green to become quarterbacks coach for the Philadelphia Eagles
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) — Bowling Green coach Scot Loeffler is leaving the Falcons after six seasons to become the Philadelphia Eagles' quarterbacks coach, the school announced Friday. Loeffler had a 27-41 record at Bowling Green but led the Falcons to back-to-back winning seasons in 2023-24 and three straight bowl games. A national search has begun for his replacement. 'In these last six seasons, Scot built a very successful program in a challenging climate in collegiate sports,' Bowling Green athletic director Derek van der Merwe said. 'More importantly, he built this program while ensuring his team and coaches were truly committed to the values and mission that make this university great.' Loefler's hiring comes after the Super Bowl champion Eagles promoted Kevin Patullo to offensive coordinator following the departure of Kellen Moore, who became the New Orleans Saints' head coach. Loeffler's coaching career has included stops at Michigan, Central Michigan, Florida, Temple, Auburn, Virginia Tech and Boston College. He also spent a year coaching the quarterbacks for the Detroit Lions. Loeffler has coached eight quarterbacks who went on to play in the NFL — Tom Brady, Tim Tebow, Brian Griese, Chad Henne, Drew Henson, John Navarre, Logan Thomas and Anthony Brown. Those eight quarterbacks have won a combined 10 Super Bowl championships. ___
USA Today
28-02-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Bowling Green head coach Scot Loeffler hired as Philadelphia Eagles' quarterbacks coach
Bowling Green head coach Scot Loeffler hired as Philadelphia Eagles' quarterbacks coach Show Caption Hide Caption Joe Montana on officiating, Niners quarterback Brock Purdy and SB LIX Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana talks all things NFL, Super Bowl 59 and his partnership with Pfizer. The Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles went back to college — to find their new quarterbacks coach. On Friday, Bowling Green announced its football coach, Scot Loeffler, was leaving the program to become the quarterbacks coach for the Eagles. Doug Nussmeier previously held the position for Philadelphia before he followed former offensive coordinator and newly hired New Orleans Saints head coach Kellen Moore to the NFC South. REQUIRED READING: 'I'm just different': Travis Hunter explains why he could pull off NFL double duty "BGSU is a special university and community that truly embraces relationships, people and the student experience," said Derek van der Merwe — Bowling Green vice president for athletics strategy — in a statement. "In these last six seasons, Scot built a very successful program in a challenging climate in collegiate sports. "More importantly, he built this program while ensuring his team and coaches were truly committed to the values and mission that make this university great." The 50-year-old took over the Falcons program in November 2018 as a first-time head coach, producing a 27-41 record in six seasons. However, Bowling Green went 20-19 in the last three seasons, which included 7-6 seasons in 2023 and 2024 and three straight bowl appearances — the second-longest streak in program history. Loeffler will now be paired with new Eagles offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo to keep the Eagles offense humming. He will get to work with quarterback Jalen Hurts, who won Super Bowl MVP honors with three total touchdowns in a 40-22 victory over the two-time defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs. Scot Loeffler coaching career Loeffler joined Lloyd Carr's Michigan staff as a student assistant in 1996 after playing quarterback for the Wolverines from 1993-96. In 2000, he took over as quarterbacks coach at Central Michigan before returning to his alma mater in the same role from 2002-07. His only prior NFL experience was as the Detroit Lions' quarterbacks coach, during the 2008 season. He also served as a quarterbacks coach with Florida under Urban Meyer during the 2009 and 2010 seasons, working with Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow, who had his most efficient season in 2009 under Loeffler. As noted in Bowling Green's statement, Loeffler has worked with eight college quarterbacks who went on to the NFL: Tebow, Tom Brady, Brian Griese, Chad Henne, Drew Henson, John Navarre, Logan Thomas and Anthony Brown. Here's a look at Loeffler's complete coaching history:
Reuters
28-02-2025
- Sport
- Reuters
Eagles hire Bowling Green head coach to handle QBs
February 28 - Bowling Green head coach Scot Loeffler resigned to become quarterbacks coach of the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles on Friday. Loeffler, 50, spent the past six seasons at Bowling Green. He replaces Doug Nussmeier, who followed former offensive coordinator Kellen Moore to New Orleans, where he is the new coach of the Saints. The Falcons were 7-6 in 2024 and 27-41 with three bowl game appearances during Loeffler's tenure. The former Michigan quarterback was an NFL quarterback coach with the Detroit Lions in 2008 and has extensive coaching experience in college, including working under Urban Meyer at Florida. Bowling Green is beginning the search process for its next head coach. "BGSU is a special university and community that truly embraces relationships, people and the student experience," Bowling Green athletic director Derek van der Merwe said in a statement. "In these last six seasons, Scot built a very successful program in a challenging climate in collegiate sports. More importantly, he built this program while ensuring his team and coaches were truly committed to the values and mission that make this university great. Like other great coaches in the history of BGSU football, he has demonstrated that when you build around the strengths of this University and its mission, anything is possible. I am looking forward to this process of finding the next great leader for our program who embraces what it means to be a Falcon."
