April 2012 WVU Sports with Mike Casazza
College roommates and fiveyear friends Najee Goode and Keith Tandy were drafted Saturday by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, which is a pretty cool rarity for the duo. It just not often that you see college teammates together again in the the same NFL draft class.
It happens, usually to schools that have a Michael Koenen Jersey greater likelihood of having multiple players drafted. Alabama, USC, Miami years ago, those kinds of schools. Not exactly WVU. Heck, the Buccaneers had only taken one WVU player ever Lance Nimmo in 2003.
What made this really weird, though, was that Tampa Bay new coach is the old Rutgers coach, Greg Schiano. That guy literally couldn beat the Mountaineers. He tried to. Eleven times, in fact. Never happened.
Schiano, who you remember was a defensive assistant in the NFL and then at The U, held both Goode and Tandy in high regard. Both figure to have value because of their adaptability.
Goode, a team captain, played all over the field for the Mountaineers in a complex defense, and Dominik thinks he could fit in a variety of places for the Buccaneers, as well. Most likely, he play in the middle or perhaps on the strong side.
is a guy we watched a lot throughout this whole process and a guy that we felt could play all three positions, said Dominik. physical, fast, I think he has one of the best use of hands of all the linebackers in this draft. He going to have an opportunity to play all three [linebacker positions] and really compete, whether we put him at Mike, Will or Sam. He at twotime captain at West Virginia, just the things we looking for on this football team. the Buccaneers selected Goode college roommate with their next pick, taking Mountaineers cornerback Keith Tandy in Round Six. Schiano was obviously very familiar with both defenders from his time in the Big East and respectively referred to them as pains in the butt during his Saturday evening wrapup press conference. Tandy is versatile like his teammate and could eventually see some playing time at safety, but the Bucs are going to let him do what he feels comfortable doing early on.
I talked to Coach about this selection, we going to give him a shot at corner and see how he does, because that what he did at West Virginia, said Dominik. has really good ball skills, a tough, physical tackler as well, so he an exciting element to our team. wasn the end for WVU drafteligible players, though.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Welcome to the , which is pleased it answered the phone yesterday, listened intently, if not suspiciously, and then got to writing.
Yesterday afternoon a concerned someone called and offered me a tip. In case I wasn expecting it and I wasn said person assured me Bruce Irvin would go in the first round. Apparently a team had decided to lay low for most of this draft process before jumping on the Bruce bandwagon in the past few days. This team, which was never mentioned specifically, despite my efforts, was ready to use a late firstround pick.
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
The draft is crazy, man. I suspect the Seattle Seahawks were not the team the tipper tried to tip. I was told last night Irvin and the Seahawks barely interacted before the draft. Yet we hearing now that there was plenty of firstround and even upperhalf interest in Irvin. It helps, of course, that Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll had a rather familiar relationship with Irvin, having researched and recruited Irvin when Carroll was at USC and Irvin was at Mt. San Antonio College and even played host to the defensive end on a visit.
So, yeah, that junior college run at Mt. SAC was pretty beneficial, huh? Especially when he started to figure out both football and his life.
I noticed between the first year and the second year here was that something clicked and he said, I can make a living http://www.officialbuccaneersfootball.com/Black+Michael+Koenen+Jersey doing this, Jastrab said Thursday night on campus in Walnut, Calif. was always the hardestworking player on the field in the second year for us, no matter what we were doing.
look back on it now and wish I had filmed it to show the other players because he did it the way you supposed to do it. can predict what happens next. I do think he is, at the very least, in a good spot. likes Irvin enough to make the move rather than risk moving down and losing the guy he really wanted. The coach knows and trusts Irvin, based on firsthand knowledge and not a predraft interview. The Seahawks had a need because they were just average on pass rush last season 33 sacks, t19 in the NFL. And the 43 defense has a hybrid DE/LB position called the Leo. Chris Clemons has played it in both of the seasons Carroll has been the coach and had a pair of 11sack seasons. And Clemons is also a 30yearold, eightyear veteran in the final year of his contract.
Look, the fortuitous part is done. The hardest part harder Nike Michael Koenen Jersey than anything to precede this, which, in Irvin case, says an awful lot remains. But seriously, do you think that guy is going to drop the ball now?
Onto the Feedback. As always, comments appear as posted. In other words, you better run, you better do what you can. Don wanna see no blood, don be a macho man. You wanna be tough, better do what you can, so beat it!
You can repost this tomorrow when I'm wrong, but I would bet money that Bruce Irvin is not drafted in the first round. Irvin. If you see him, let him know. But, man, what a surreal story if this happens. I have to say, one of the more amazing and irresistible ragstoriches stories we witnessed, right? It pretty special as it is, but a spot in the top 32 is the cherry. And the best best part is his steadfast refusal to consider any other outcome. And I mean, as far back as last year. I find myself oddly excited for an event about which I rarely care.
Meantime, that and some other Michael Koenen Jersey Ebay stuff figures to be part of this twosegment, 35minute bit I to on Mountain Sports Hotline at 5:20 tonight. It emanates from Charleston on 950 WBESAM, but outoftowners can listen live online. They also encourage listeners to call in I know I warned them at (304) 3449704 or 18889508181. You really could ask me about whatever it is you choose.
Well, it true. The first round of the draft is tonight and while I confident the Browns are going to do something like trade down rather than up and then have Trent Richardson run all over their backs for the next six years, I feeling good for another Clevelander.
Najee Goode, former walk on (remember that?) turned firstteam allBig East linebacker, is going to get drafted. (Aside: His dad, Youngstown State Hall of Famer and former NFL tight end John Goode, is obviously excited unless Naj gets picked by the Steelers.) Not tonight, which is for the first round only, and not tomorrow, which houses the second and third rounds, but Saturday and somewhere in the final four rounds of the sevenround event. He passed all the physical and eyeball tests and he shown he can do the things required of the modern day linebacker.
And that pretty cool. Here a high school quarterback who played almost no defense at Benedictine, who had but a few college possibilities after his father and two older brothers were college players. To hear the Goodes tell the story, Najee was something of an underdog who about to flip the script.
it is is gratifying to see a kid who sacrificed like Najee has and who has worked so hard and reaped the benefits of his hard work, said Najee father, John, who starred in college at Youngstown State and played tight end in 198485 in the NFL.
doesn always happen like that. It didn happen that way for my two older sons, but Najee made the most of his experiences and realized he was going to have to work a little harder and pay more attention to detail and never take anything for granted. And, credit to him, he hasn has two brothers who played well in college. Tariq began at Toledo and then transferred to Youngstown State, where he played receiver for a Division IAA playoff team. Wakeem was a standout linebacker at Hampton and led the team in tackles as a senior.
not the best football player in the family and he knows it, said John, who was inducted to the Youngstown State Hall of Fame in 1994 and caught 95 passes for 1,747 yards and 16 touchdown in his career before being drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in 1984. that been a great motivation for him. There a peer pressure amongst them, but we happy to see what he done with it.
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