Off-season Football 2021

[NWIGuy]

RB Coach Cory Colder to Davidson in same role. tough loss. great recruiter. hurts even more to lose him to a PFL school.
per Twitter & IG

[valpotx]

He should have rode our star RB for another year, and gotten an even better job.

[valpofb16]

Losing a top recruiter from staff to a conference foe. Wonder how low the budget was.

[vu72]

Could it happen?

https://www.nfldraftdiamonds.com/2021/06/robert-washington/

[valpotx]

Yes, he has a chance.  He already has the HS pedigree and potential following from those ratings.  He just needs to put up a 1,000+ yard season, and take us to the top of the league again, and he will get invites.  It might be as an undrafted free agent, but he has NFL skills overall.

[vu72]

New Running Back Coach:

https://sports.yahoo.com/vols-max-james-hired-running-231912373.html

[valpofb16]

New Coaches

RB: Max James - Tennessee Vols Grad Assistant

TE Alex Bayer - Wake Forest Special Teams Analyst

DT Alex Land - OL Greensboro College

[valpofb16]

DJ Hutcherson lands at Northern Michigan

[IndyValpo]

Looks like Dunn is no longer on the staff. Ghilarducci now listed as DL coach. Derickson moves from TE to Nickelback coach

[valpofb16]

Dunn a big loss

[valpofb16]

Brian Robinson lands at Limestone College (D2) South Carolina

Interesting side note, looks like his HS QB is their QB and Gavin Twigg little brother is on the team

[valpofb16]

Deuce Larose lands at East Tennessee State

[vu72]

Deuce Larose lands at East Tennessee State

Look like we are bringing in some highly rated receivers with good size as well.  Guys like Trent Pennington (6'3") or Rylen Richardson (6') ranked #8 in Indiana by MaxPreps.

[IndyValpo]

Looks like we just added a grad transfer RB from U Mass. Nick Orekoya 5-10 210. Doesn't appear to have played in several seasons.

[valpofb16]

22 games played at UMass. Between him and Washington , imagine we have a pretty talented Runningback room for PFL

[valpotx]

That will help Washington over a full season.  The load that he carried last season would not be tenable for 11-12 games. 

[IndyValpo]

Deuce Larose lands at East Tennessee State

It will interesting to see if we makes the 2 deep. He
is a pretty good receiver.

[bbtds]

Deuce Larose lands at East Tennessee State

It will interesting to see if we makes the 2 deep. He
is a pretty good receiver.

Are you going with him to ETSU? Together you would be 2 deep, right? 

[valpofb16]

Fox mentioned a transfer DT from San Diego by all social media it seems to be Cody Laut 6'4 275 6th year senior

[valpofb16]

Coach Jon Robinson has left to become a head high school football coach in Michigan.

Special Teams Coordinator job now open

[valpofb16]

Have added Teryn Berry former Weber State QB , comes in as a RSJR

[IndyValpo]

Fox mentioned a transfer DT from San Diego by all social media it seems to be Cody Laut 6'4 275 6th year senior

His Twitter says North Alabama so perhaps he changed his mind.

[IndyValpo]

Coach Jon Robinson has left to become a head high school football coach in Michigan.

Special Teams Coordinator job now open

Also LB coach. Note That Ben Rohaly an unannounced coach lists Special teams as part of his title. He also coached OLB at his former job.

We now also have someone named Yoni Offit as a Defensive coach of some sort.

[vu72]

Pre-season poll is out.  I think we will continue to be underestimated.  We beat two of the teams voted a head of us, bring back the entire offensive line and the offensive player of the year.  I think we will pretty competitive!

https://www.valpoathletics.com/football/news/2021-22/20566/pioneer-football-league-releases-fall-2021-preseason-poll/?fbclid=IwAR030QKtIuDvLryNBfylBPFY2TEI1v0TBrpYbjesLkfuZobW6Ct2zH3gnF8

[JD24]

I don't know if anyone knows what to expect out of Presbyterian and I wouldn't expect, at least at this point, Valpo to be ranked ahead of any of those teams based off a shortened season in the middle of a pandemic. I'll guess this is the highest Valpo's been ranked pre-season in quite some time.