Goodman's great
Goodman's great
(Via the
Roundup.)
Let's all give out a big shout to 2008 Irish WR commit <strong>John Goodman</strong>, who joins <a href="http://www.irishenvy.com/irishroundup/thats-mister-football-to-you" target="_blank"><strong>Sean Cwynar</strong></a>, <a href="http://www.irishenvy.com/irishroundup/sweet-eighteen" target="_blank"><strong>Michael Floyd</strong></a>, and <a href="http://www.irishenvy.com/irishroundup/sweet-eighteen#comment-275" target="_blank"><strong>Dan McCarthy</strong></a> as the fourth Irish recruit to win <a href="http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071129/SPORTS05/711290342" target="_blank">Player of the Year honors</a> in his home state:
<blockquote>Goodman is The News-Sentinel's PrepSports Football Player of the Year because his numbers are almost unbelievable. As Bishop Dwenger's quarterback, the senior completed 95 of 175 passes for 1,697 yards and 16 touchdowns, with only two interceptions.
Goodman was also the Saints' punter and a starting defensive back and the team's heart and soul, leading them to the Summit Athletic Conference title, a No. 1 ranking all season in Class 4A and a semistate berth.
He rushed for 535 yards on 98 attempts — including sacks — caught seven passes for 199 yards, and returned eight kickoffs for 191 yards and 22 punts for 309 yards. He also averaged 35.3 yards per punt, grabbed two interceptions and made 28 tackles.
He averaged 17.9 yards per completion and 9.5 per attempt. His combined total was 28 touchdowns.
“There's only one thing he didn't do,” Bishop Dwenger coach <strong>Chris Svarczkopf</strong> said. “He was not on our kickoff team, and if we'd have gone another week, he'd have done that, too, because at that point it doesn't make any difference and there's no reason to hold him back. He would have done a tremendous job.”
Svarczkopf charted Goodman's numbers for his three-year career, including the first two as a wide receiver. Besides earning first-team all-SAC honors twice as a receiver and this year as a quarterback, Goodman gained 5,600 yards in 480 touches, good for 11.8 yards per touch.
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Goodman threw only two interceptions all season, one in the first half of the first game against Concordia Lutheran, and the other in his last throw in the Saints' last game against Lowell.
In between, he threw 170 straight passes without a pick, a remarkable number for someone who played receiver the previous two seasons. He'll return to receiver next year when he starts his college career at Notre Dame.</blockquote>
And there's more to the player than his mind-blowing numbers:
<blockquote>“The best thing is that he's someone whom everyone on the team admires and respects,” Svarczkopf said. “He elevated the play of everyone on the team. That's what you want in your player of the year. He brought everybody else's play to another level.”
Svarczkopf said his favorite memory of Goodman will be how after making a big play, the quarterback would charge off the field, laughing and grinning from ear to ear, because he was having so much fun.
“As a versatile player, you have to be like that,” Goodman said. “You have to be the type of player that executes in all those situations and the type of player who shows other people what to do, shows them how to do it and be the type of player that kids look up to. They fed off me, and as a leader I tried to show them what to do.”</blockquote>
Congratulations, John! Here's to seeing a good deal of this on the field over the next few years:
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(HT: <a href="http://www.ndlna.com/notre-dame-football/recruiting/John-Goodman-News-Sentinels-PrepSports-Football-Player-of-the-Year">Carms</a>.)
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