Mitch Erickson All-america!

[JackJD]

Here's the AFCA FCS All-America team and Mitch Erickson's on it!

LINK TO THE STORY ON COLLEGE SPORTING NEWS: http://www.collegesportingnews.com/a...rticleid=89440

MITCH ERICKSON: ALL-AMERICA!!

2007 AFCA Football Championship Subdivision Coaches' All-America Team

Offense
Pos Name Ht. Wt. Cl. School Coach Hometown (High School)
WR Ryan Maher 6-1 184 Sr. Holy Cross Tom Gilmore Boca Raton, Fla. (Boca Raton)
WR Ramses Barden 6-6 228 Jr. Cal Poly Rich Ellerson Altadena, Calif. (Flintridge Prep)
OL Jesse Padilla 6-5 310 Sr. Lafayette Frank Tavani Hawthorne, N.J. (Hawthorne)
OL David Hale 6-6 305 Sr. Weber State Ron McBride Plain City, Utah (Fremont)
OL Chad Rinehart 6-5 308 Sr. Northern Iowa Mark Farley Boone, Iowa (Boone)
OL Mitch Erickson 6-6 285 Sr. South Dakota State John Stiegelmeier Hutchinson, Minn. (Hutchinson)
OL Kerry Brown* 6-6 310 Sr. Appalachian State Jerry Moore Marietta, Ga. (Lassiter)
QB Ricky Santos 6-2 215 Sr. New Hampshire Sean McDonnell Bellingham, Mass. (Bellingham)
RB Chad Simpson 5-10 210 Sr. Morgan State Donald Hill-Eley Miami, Fla. (Edison)
RB Omar Cuff 5-10 195 Sr. Delaware K.C. Keeler Landover, Md. (C.H. Flowers)
RB Mike McLeod 5-11 200 Jr. Yale Jack Siedlecki New Britain, Conn. (New Britain)

Defense
Pos Name Ht. Wt. Cl. School Coach Hometown (High School)
DL Bryan Smith 6-3 230 Sr. McNeese State Matt Viator Newton, Texas (Newton)
DL Kroy Biermann 6-3 241 Sr. Montana Bobby Hauck Hardin, Mont. (Hardin)
DL Brian Johnston 6-5 280 Sr. Gardner-Webb Steve Patton San Diego, Calif. (Madison)
DL Kendall Langford 6-6 294 Sr. Hampton Joe Taylor Petersburg, Va. (Petersburg)
LB Jason Williams 6-3 225 Jr. Western Illinois Don Patterson Chicago, Ill. (DuSable)
LB Brian Bradford 6-2 235 Sr. Towson Gordy Combs Germantown, Md. (Gaithersburg)
LB Zach East 6-2 230 Sr. Prairie View A&M Henry Frazier III Houston, Texas (???)
DB Tony LeZotte 6-0 200 Sr. James Madison Mickey Matthews Augusta, Ga. (Westside)
DB Steven Williams 5-11 190 Sr. Harvard Tim Murphy San Antonio, Texas (William Howard Taft)
DB Derrick Huff 5-11 188 Sr. Eastern Kentucky Danny Hope Hamilton, Ohio (Hamilton)
DB Al Donaldson 5-10 170 Jr. Alabama A&M Anthony Jones Crawfordville, Fla. (Wakulla)

Specialists

Pos Name Ht. Wt. Cl. School Coach Hometown (High School)
P Chris MacDonald 6-4 215 Sr. Texas State Brad Wright Mesa, Ariz. (Red Mountain)
PK Piotr Czech 6-5 210 Sr. Wagner Walt Hameline Keyport, N.J. (Keyport)
AP Jayson Foster 5-9 164 Sr. Georgia Southern Chris Hatcher Canton, Ga. (Cherokee County)

*-2006 AFCA All-American

[Nidaros]

Re: Mitch Erickson All-america!

Congradulations to Mr. Erickson. He has earned this placement. Offensive lineman often go unnoticed as fans, we tend to follow the ball and we often dont see what these guys do to make a hole and allow a down field play to develope into a score. Mitch no doubt has had some key blocks. It would be great to see a video on what he has accompolished playing the O line at SDSU.

[footballfan]

Re: Mitch Erickson All-america!

Congrats to Big Mitch......A great guy and excellent football player. Hope we see him playing on Sunday's in the near future. A very well deserved honor. His folks are also very good people...another example of the type of athletes that are recruited by our staff......







Go Jacks !!!!!!!

[SD-STATE]

Re: Mitch Erickson All-america!

Congradulations to Mr. Erickson. He has earned this placement. Offensive lineman often go unnoticed as fans, we tend to follow the ball and we often dont see what these guys do to make a hole and allow a down field play to develope into a score. Mitch no doubt has had some key blocks. It would be great to see a video on what he has accompolished playing the O line at SDSU.

His highlight real would likely be compared to a "stack of pancakes".

[EQguy]

Re: Mitch Erickson All-america!

Just wanted to extend my congrats to Mitch. It is a well deserved honor. Hope to see him on Sunday's.

[JackJD]

Re: Mitch Erickson All-america!

Story on GoJacks.com:
http://www.gojacks.com/ViewArticle.d...ATCLID=1350980

Mitch was third-team last season.

[sf_jackster]

Re: Mitch Erickson All-america!

From the Argus

"Tyler Koch earned third-team honors on the 2007 Association Press Football Championship Subdivision All-America Team.

I have known Tyler for quite awhile and played high school sports against him. He is a great athelete and a super nice kid. He has earned everything he has got.

[EQguy]

Re: Mitch Erickson All-america!

Congrats to Tyler also. One person that went unidentified in this is Brock Gentile. There is a reason Tyler had so many opportunities to show what he is capable of those last 4-5 games. There weren't many balls thrown at Brock.