Western Kentucky has announced that the BG-WKU game will now occur on Friday night, August 29 at an unknown time, presumably in the evening. The announcement says that it was done to accommodate the television partners of the Sun Belt Conference. Whatever that means.
The other news is that BG has its first two verbals...and they are from Australia.
I would be surprised if they are not the first Australians in our program, or even possibly the Mid-American conference. They are pretty good-sized fellas...
They are Dylan Harrison and Elijah Sinapati, both from Queensland. They were "discovered" last year at the Gridiron Australia Future Stars Camp on the Gold Coast. Elijah (6′ 5" and 310 pounds) and Dylan (6′ 7″ and 336 pounds) and were assisted in their recruiting by Paul Manera, who is the coach of the Australian National team.
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| Queensland is the part of Australia nearest to Papua New Guinea. |
Anyway, very interesting stuff. They certainly LOOK like football players. And they have the LOOK down. I assume they are both o-lineman...
Anyway, the only better thing would to hear Dave Clawson spend signing day contorting Australia into the State of Bowling Green.
Let's just agree on this...the Babers era will not be dull.
I'm thinking this is an April Fools joke.
ReplyDeleteCould be...there is an original source externally.
ReplyDeleteOh it's no joke. There's been alot of work done to get these guys over by Paul and BGSU and I for one am looking forward to seeing them contribute to the Falcons program.
ReplyDelete2 good footballers who will add some heart and talent to BGSU. There are some great players in Australia so it is terrific to see these guys being identified and given an opportunity.
ReplyDeleteAre there any updates to this? All I heard is this initial announcement in April 2014, then nothing. I guess the deal fell through?
ReplyDeleteNo idea. A couple people have wondered. I heard something about one of them enrolling in the Fall...time will tell, but for sure, no updates.
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