The All-MAC teams are out for the MAC, and its slim pickings for the orange and brown.
I guess I'm not too surprised, but I do think we had some defensive players, especially in the secondary, who deserved a ranking. Also, Dozier and Haneline? Not even third team? Doesn't seem right...
Anyway, we had no offensive players on any of the three first teams, and that has got to be a first going back through the Brandon/Meyer era. I'm certainly not suggesting that any of our offensive players had a season demanding of recognition. Corey Partridge is certainly a good enough player, but we were protecting him to avoid injury and he didn't get the chances. Barnes was injured...no RB had a good enough year. Tyler isn't ahead of Davis, Lefevour or Hillier...anyway, you get the point.
Diryal Briggs was a well-deserving first team All-MAC, and Nick Iovenelli was third team as punter.
UT had four players on the three teams (Church, Williams, Moore and Collins) but you know, I don't think you can argue with the first three anyway.
Nate Davis was offensive player of the year and Hoke coach of the year, both no-brainer picks. Larry English was defensive player of the year for the second straight year.
Update: both Ryan and Maureen at the Blade blog are taking shots at the picks. You can also head over to Bronco blog (linked on the left) and AZZ.com for further dissent.
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