Monthly Archives: November 2008

Army player leads the nation in…

By Sal Interdonato | Published: November 27, 2008 | Comments closed
Quick Army 2008 trivia question. Which Black Knight tops the nation in a stat category? A. Fullback Collin MooneyB. Linebacker Stephen Anderson. The answer is B. Anderson’s five forced fumbles in nine games, giving him an average of .56 per game. The five fumbles tied an academy record. Sports Illustrated’s Mark Beech named Anderson, a sophomore, the SI.com’s 2008 [...]
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Garthwaite all-American

By Sal Interdonato | Published: November 27, 2008 | Comments closed
Army senior strong safety Lowell Garthwaite always seems to be around the football. Garthwaite is a smart football player and there’s no doubt a young Army secondary have learned a lot from the senior. Garthwaite also gets it done in the classroom. He was named a 2008 ESPN The Magazine Football Academic all-American University Division second team [...]
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One more year, Bentler?

By Sal Interdonato | Published: November 26, 2008 | Comments closed
Seen a lot of questions floating around the Internet world about defensive tackle Ted Bentler’s eligibility for next season. Army coach Stan Brock confirmed with me Tuesday he plans on petitioning the NCAA to grant Bentler one more year. Bentler is a senior athletically and a junior academically. He redshirted and then played his freshman season at [...]
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Navy scouting

By Sal Interdonato | Published: November 26, 2008 | Comments closed
A good chance for the Army coaching staff to get another look at Navy tonight.  The Midshipmen are playing at Northern Illinois on ESPN Classic. Army coaches didn’t have any big get-together planned. “They will watch it on their own,” Army coach Stan Brock said Tuesday afternoon. “We’ll have a tape of it. We’ll watch it on TV and then [...]
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Jebb picks Army

By Sal Interdonato | Published: November 25, 2008 | Comments closed
Cornwall defensive end Ben Jebb has verbally committed to play football at West Point. Jebb’s parents, Joel and Cindy, both graduated from West Point in 1982. So deciding on the United States Military Academy was easy for the 6-foot-5, 225-pound senior, right? Sort of. I’m working on a story for tomorrow’s paper and you can see another reason [...]
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Throwing to tight ends

By Sal Interdonato | Published: November 25, 2008 | Comments closed
I think Black Knight Blog regular Norm had one of his wishes granted Saturday. Army quarterback Chip Bowden threw a short pass in the direction of tight end Mike Evans. The pass was out of Evans’ reach but Rutgers linebacker Ryan D’Imperio was called for pass interference. Believe that was the second pass thrown to an Army tight end’s [...]
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Upon further review: Rutgers

By Sal Interdonato | Published: November 25, 2008 | Comments closed
I’ve had a few days to sleep on the Rutgers game. Here are a few of my thoughts: *Defensive tackle Ted Bentler played his butt off. Bentler did as more than his share to compensate for the loss of defensive end Josh McNary, who was out with a shoulder injury. Bentler tied a season-high eight tackles and a sack. He’s [...]
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My AP poll after week 13

By Sal Interdonato | Published: November 23, 2008 | Comments closed
Oklahoma’s blowout 65-21 win over Texas Tech, my previous No. 1, was impressive. Still couldn’t put Oklahoma higher than No. 4 because of their loss to No. 3 Texas. Dropped Texas Tech to No. 7. Elevated Alabama to No. 1. Think Florida could be the nation’s best team. We’ll see in the SEC Championship game. 1. Alabama2. Florida3. [...]
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Players’ postgame comments: Rutgers

By Sal Interdonato | Published: November 23, 2008 | Comments closed
Senior fullback Collin Mooney On what coach Brock said at halftime “He told us at halftime before we went on the field for that first drive, just compete every single one of you individually. Just compete. We took that to heart in the second half. We played better. We didn’t get it done as much as we liked to. On [...]
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Brock’s post-game comments: Rutgers

By Sal Interdonato | Published: November 23, 2008 | Comments closed
Army coach Stan Brock’s comments after a 30-3 road loss to Rutgers Saturday. Opening “I’m proud of these guys all of the time. I asked them at halftime to just compete. That’s what I wanted them to do. They went out and they did compete.” This is a very good football team that we just played today. That’s as good of [...]
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