While it may not be as experienced as some other offensive lines in the Mid-American Conference, the five
current starters for Bowling Green have combined to start 101 games.
Fifth-year senior center Ben Bojicic leads the way with 40 starts. The other four starters will all
return for next season.
Even with that experience, Bowling Green’s offense has been sluggish of late.
In the first three games of the season, the Falcons averaged 521.3 total yards per game. In the last
seven games, the Falcons are averaging 335.4 yards per game with a low of 217 and a high of 445.
"I’ve been doing this now for 23 years and if you have a good offensive line, you can be a good
offense," BG head coach Dave Clawson said. "I don’t care if you run the ball, throw the ball,
run option, run the spread, run a traditional offense. If you are good and you are physical up front
there are a lot of offensive schemes that work.
"When you’re not good and you’re not physical up-front there is not a lot of good things that you
can do," Clawson continued. "The better offenses in our league … They have very veteran,
very experienced and very physical offensive lines. That allows them to do whatever they want to do.
They have time to throw it. They have push off the ball to run it."
Clawson said part of the problem is a lack of experienced depth on the offensive line.
"We’ve got to get those guys to practice better. We’ve got to get those guys to play better in
games," Clawson said. "We need to develop depth at that position so there is more competition
there.
"I believe we will have it in the spring and have it next year."
BG’s problems came to a head in the Nov. 8 game against Northern Illinois when BG had 334 total yards and
scored only two touchdowns.
"Our offensive line is much improved from a year ago, but in this game we clearly took a step back
… That was without question our poorest effort," Clawson said. "We did not run the ball as
consistently as we needed to and we were not very good in pass protection."
BG quarterback Matt Schilz was under constant pressure almost the entire game.
The Falcons gave up one sack, but there were seven quarterback hurries, and Clawson said Schilz got hit
15 times when BG was trying to throw the ball.
"He took a lot of shots, but showed a lot of courage by hanging in the pocket," Clawson said.

"We did not give our passing game a chance to function," he added.
The Falcons have scored 42 points in the last three games, going 1-2 in that span.
JORDEN: Despite playing in only 22 games for Bowling Green, Kamar Jorden is eighth on the Falcons’
career-list with 163 receptions.
This season Jorden has 67 receptions for 928 yards. With 72 more yards he would become the first player
in school history to have more than one season with 1,000 receiving yards.
He’s also tied for third on the single-season list for most touchdown receptions with nine.
FINAL: The Falcons play their final home game on Wednesday against Ohio at 8:05 p.m. There are 15 seniors
on the team.
MODEL: Clawson said Ohio head coach Frank Solich has done a "great job” in his six-plus years with
the Bobcats.
"In a lot of ways I think they are a model of what we want to do," Clawson said.
TV: The Bowling Green-Ohio game will be televised on ESPN. Dave Lamont and Ray Bentley will call the
action. Kickoff is at 8:05 p.m.
"When you get that exposure you want to take advantage of it and got out there and play well,"
Clawson said. "We have to focus on things that we can control and that’s getting our football team
ready to play and make sure that we play and execute at a high level."