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G&T blog matters: Ernie Kent adds to Cougs’ 2015 class, Vandals’ Sun Belt stats

A sampling from the past week of entries in The S-R blog, Sportslink at spokesman.com/ sportslink.

6: King’s commitment appears to have been first announced on the Twitter page of his AAU team,  the Compton Magic. It was later confirmed by recruiting websites.

(Going into Saturday’s game), quarterback Matt Linehan leads the Sun Belt in total offense and passing yards (346.3 per game, which is also sixth nationally, making him one of two freshmen in the top 30), is completing just shy of 60 percent of his passes and has eight touchdowns. With four different targets ranking among the Sun Belt’s top seven in receptions per game, the Vandals lead the league in passing offense. But after a promising start against Louisiana- Monroe – with Jerrel Brown rushing for 117 yards – UI’s running game has slipped dramatically, and now ranks last with just 75.7 yards per game.

“We need to get it back a little bit,” coach Paul Petrino said. “I felt at times (at Ohio) we had a good rhythm and Elijhaa (Penny) was running strong. We had times when we had runs called and they were blitzing quite a bit and we checked out of them. We need to run the ball better to keep the pressure off Matt.”

John Blanchette