The Coaching Career of Stanley Benbow

[Jsiraek16]

The EMU Eagles took the short trip to East Lansing and got embarrassed by the Spartans. Despite throwing for 708 yards, the running game never got a chance to get going. Quarterback Tyler Benz had a career game, throwing for 708 yards 5 touchdowns, and 2 interceptions. The game should have been closer but the two interceptions were returned for touchdowns.

Coach Benbow in the post game press conference said, "We should have had a chance in this game. A good Spartan defense wasn't on top of their game, but the two picks that were returned for touchdowns, that's what took us out of contention."

Former quarterback Alex Gillett also had a career game receiving, catching 13 passes for 369 yards and 4 touchdowns. Despite the offensive numbers, the defense couldn't stop the Spartans offense. Hopefully our Eagles can keep the offense at this level for the remainder of the season, and improve the defense, after two straight games letting a receiver catch over 150 yards.

[Jsiraek16]

September 21, 2012

Coach Stanley Benbow got his very first recruiting commitment today. He received a phone call from Jeremy Ward, a 3 star Free Safety recruit out of Ohio.

Jeremy Ward is overall the 29th rated FS in the country, and the 2nd rated FS out of the state of Ohio.

Hopefully this signing will help shore up the secondary coverage which has been quite porous early in the season.

EMU Commitments Recruiting - 2012
NAME	POS	CLASS	HOMETOWN	HT	WT	CALIBER
Jeremy Ward	FS	HS	Ironton, OH	6'3"	186

[NDGipper32]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jsiraek16

Yeah I have Florida as a pipeline but that is going to be hard to keep, I think I'm going to focus on Ohio and Michigan and possibly see if I can develop a good recruiting base in Pennsylvania too.

Yeah would be really nice to keep Florida. Michigan and Ohio are a good base to work with though. If you can create a pipeline is PA too, even nicer.

Tough outing at MSU. Crazy Passing numbers though. Nice work. Hopefully you can get on the right track going into the MAC schedule.

[mpejkrm]

Tough loss to MSU man but they are a bigger school and a better program. You had a nice couple wins to start off and picked up a nice recruit. Following.

[Jsiraek16]

Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders at Eastern Michigan Eagles
Sep 29, 2012	1ST	2ND	3RD	4TH	SCORE
Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders (2-2)	10	21	0	13	44
Eastern Michigan Eagles (3-1)	14	28	7	0	49

Team Stats Comparison
	MTU	EMU
Total Offense	506	542
Rushing Yards	259	158
Passing Yards	247	384
First Downs	12	26
Punt Return Yards	6	55
Kick Return Yards	193	141
Total Yards	705	738
Turnovers	0	3
3rd Down Converstion	3-10	5-13
4th Down Conversion	0-1	3-3
2-Point Conversion	0-1	0-0
Red Zone Touchdowns/Field Goals	2-1-1	5-5-0
Penalties	3-28	0-0
Posession Time	12:15	27:04

Scoring Summary
FIRST QUARTER SCORING		MTU	EMU
4:39	(EMU) TD EMU: A. Gillett, 15 yd pass from T. Benz (K. Fulkerson kick)	0	7
3:57	(EMU) TD EMU: D. Scott, returned punt 55 yds (K. Fulkerson kick)	0	14
1:19	(MTU) FG MTSU: C. Lopez, 24 yd FG	3	14
0:12	(MTU) TD MTSU: B. Cunningham, 1 yd run (C. Lopez kick)	10	14
SECOND QUARTER SCORING		MTU	EMU
7:38	(EMU) TD EMU: D. Scott, 9 yd pass from T. Benz (K. Fulkerson kick)	10	21
7:11	(MTU) TD MTSU: L. Kilgore, 68 yd run (C. Lopez kick)	17	21
6:58	(EMU) TD EMU: A. Gillett, 69 yd pass from T. Benz (K. Fulkerson kick)	17	28
6:41	(MTU) TD MTSU: B. Cunningham, 76 yd run (C. Lopez kick)	24	28
4:02	(EMU) TD EMU: J. Fleming, 3 yd pass from T. Benz (K. Fulkerson kick)	24	35
3:09	(MTU) TD MTSU: B. Cunningham, 61 yd run (C. Lopez kick)	31	35
0:30	(EMU) TD EMU: N. Olds, 26 yd pass from T. Benz (K. Fulkerson kick)	31	42
THIRD QUARTER SCORING		MTU	EMU
4:43	(EMU) TD EMU: D. Sherrer, 7 yd run (K. Fulkerson kick)	31	49
FOURTH QUARTER SCORING		MTU	EMU
8:48	(MTU) TD MTSU: K. Gilstrap, returned interception 78 yds (2-pt failed)	37	49
1:44	(MTU) TD MTSU: K. Griswould, 33 yd pass from L. Kilgore (C. Lopez kick)	44	49

Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders PASSING C/A YDS TD INT Logan Kilgore 18//30 247 1 0 RUSHING ATT YDS AVG TD Benny Cunningham 16 192 12.0 3 Logan Kilgore 7 70 10.0 1 RECEIVING REC YDS AVG TD Anthony Amos 5 82 16.4 0 Marcus Henry 3 49 16.3 0 Tavarres Jefferson 3 29 9.6 0 Christian Collis 2 35 17.5 0 Kyle Griswould 2 42 21.0 1 Drayton Calhoun 1 4 4.0 0 Jacob Corbaley 1 6 6.0 0 BLOCKING PANCAKE SACK Benny Cunningham 0 1 Isiah Anderson 0 1 DEFENSE TACK SACK INT TD Christian Henry 11 0 1 0 Kenneth Gilstrap 11 0 1 1 Jajuan Harley 9 0 0 0 Omar Mclendon 7 0 0 0 Kevin Byard 6 0 0 0 Roderic Blunt 6 0 0 0 Jimmy Staten 6 0 0 0 Kendall Dangerfield 3 1.0 0 0 Patrick McNeil 1 1.0 0 0 KICKING FG XP PTS LONG Carlos Lopez 1/3 5/5 0 24 PUNTING NO YDS AVG IN20 Josh Davis 2 88 44.0 0 KICK RETURN RET YDS AVG TD Tavares Jefferson 7 171 24.4 0 Kenneth Gilstrap 1 22 22.0 0 PUNT RETURN RET YDS AVG TD Tavares Jefferson 1 6 6.0 0

Eastern Michigan Eagles PASSING C/A YDS TD INT Tyler Benz 29/40 384 5 2 RUSHING ATT YDS AVG TD Dominique Sherrer 32 141 4.4 1 Dominique White 2 10 5.0 0 Nick Olds 1 6 6.0 0 RECEIVING REC YDS AVG TD Alex Gillett 9 143 15.8 2 Garrett Hoskins 7 95 13.5 0 Nick Olds 3 42 14.0 1 Tyreese Russell 2 22 11.0 0 Demarius Reed 2 60 30.0 0 Donald Scott 2 26 13.0 1 Joe Fleming 1 3 3.0 1 BLOCKING PANCAKE SACK Corey Watman 2 1 Andrew Sorgatz 1 1 DEFENSE TACK SACK INT TD Colin Weingrad 8 0 0 0 Kevin Johnson 7 0 0 0 Justin Cudworth 6 1.0 0 0 Jerry Haymon 4 0 0 0 Pudge Cotton 4 0 0 0 Steve Brown 3 0 0 0 Cy Maughmer 3 0 0 0 Matt Price 3 1.0 0 0 KICKING FG XP PTS LONG Kody Fulkerson 0/1 7/7 0 PUNTING NO YDS AVG IN20 Jay Karutz 1 39 39.0 0 KICK RETURN RET YDS AVG TD Donald Scott 5 118 23.6 0 Dominique Sherrer 1 23 23.0 0 PUNT RETURN RET YDS AVG TD Donald Scott 1 55 55.0 1

[Jsiraek16]

Finally our EMU Eagles played at home in Ypsilanti, hoping to play well in front of their most faithful. When game time rolled around the stands were only about one third full. "It's rough not having the stands full but that happens when our program has had no success," stated Athletic Director Derrick Gragg.

The Eagles came out flying, with a beautiful pass from starting quarterback Tyler Benz to former quarterback Alex Gillett. Then the defense held their ground (for the first and what felt like the only time in the game) and allowed Donald Scott to return the MTSU punt 55 yards for a touchdown.

Coach Benbow was frustrated saying, "Our defense looked awful, there will be some major changes before next week, because we cannot win with a defense that just allows players to run rampant over them."

Quarterback Tyler Benz has thrown for 1,864 yards and 18 touchdowns in the first 4 games. He is making coach Benbow look like a genius by electing to start him. Coach Benbow is also being made out to be an offensive genius because of the stellar play of former quarterback turned wide receiver Alex Gillett, who leads the NCAA in catches (40), yards (764), and tied for first in touchdowns (10).

The Eagles dive back into MAC conference play after beating Ball State in week 1. They will once again stay home in Ypsilanti and welcome Kent State into their stadium. Athletic Director Derrick Gragg hopes that more fans will turn out to support the Eagles stating, "I'm no great football mind, but I believe that if our football stadium is at least half full, our defense will thrive off the energy that our fans will bring to the game and perform better."

[Jsiraek16]

Other action around the MAC.

FCS East-6 @ Bowling Green-45
Ohio-31 @ UMASS-21
Miami U-24 @ Akron-17
Central Michigan-13 @ #20 Northern Illinois-31
Toledo-48 @ Western Michigan-17
Ball State-17 @ #17 Kent State-45
Buffalo-31 @ UCONN-19

Toledo remains undefeated.
Kent State remains undefeated.

[Jsiraek16]

Quote: Originally Posted by mpejkrm

Tough loss to MSU man but they are a bigger school and a better program. You had a nice couple wins to start off and picked up a nice recruit.

Yeah our offense looked great against a BIG 10 defense so I'm pretty excited to see them perform against the MAC defenses. I am trying to recruit defensive player because our defense is just lacking in nearly every department...

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