Enright Named To Rimington Trophy Spring Watch List

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Enright Named To Rimington Trophy Spring Watch List
Junior-To-Be One Of 42 Players Chosen

May 7, 2008

NEW YORK CITY (SMU) - SMU junior-to-be Mitch Enright has been named to the 2008 Rimington Trophy Spring Watch List, the committee announced today. The Rimington Trophy is awarded annually to the outstanding college offensive center in NCAA Division I-A.

Enright, a native of Southlake, Texas, started all 12 games at center for SMU in 2007. He was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Football Team and the C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll and was a winner of a Conference USA Academic Medal.

The nine-year old trophy is presented by the Boomer Esiason Foundation. Past recipients include Nebraska's Dominic Raiola, Ohio State's LeCharles Bentley, Miami's Brett Romberg, Virginia Tech's Jake Grove, co-winners Michigan's David Baas and LSU's Ben Wilkerson, Minnesota's Greg Eslinger, West Virginia's Dan Mozes and Arkansas' Jonathan Luigs. Rimington, the award's namesake, was a consensus first team All-America Center at Nebraska in 1981 and 1982, during which time he became the Outland Trophy's only double winner as the nation's finest college interior lineman.

In all, there are 42 players on the Watch List. While more than a dozen All-America football teams are selected annually, the Rimington Trophy committee uses these four prestigious teams to determine a winner - American Football Coaches Association, Walter Camp Foundation, The Sporting News and the Football Writers Association of America. The Center with the most first team votes will be determined the winner.

The winner will be honored at the Rimington Trophy Presentation banquet at the Rococo Theatre in Lincoln, Nebraska on January 17, 2009.


2008 Rimington Trophy Spring Watch List
Junior Mitch Enright, SMU, 6'2", 275 lbs., Antoine Caldwell, Alabama, 6'3", 292 lbs., Senior Blake Kerley, Arizona, 6'2", 285 lbs., Junior Jonathan Luigs, Arkansas, 6'4", 314 lbs., Senior Jason Bosley, Auburn, 6'2", 281 lbs., Senior J.D. Walton, Baylor, 6'3", 302 lbs., Junior Alex Mack, California, 6'5", 316 lbs., Senior Colin Miller, Central Michigan, 6'3", 280 lbs., Sophomore Daniel Sanders, Colorado, 6'3", 325 lbs., Senior Keith Gray, Connecticut, 6'2", 287 lbs., Senior Brad Serini, Florida International, 6'4", 275 lbs., Sophomore Ryan McMahon, Florida State, 6'3", 275 lbs., Sophomore John Estes, Hawaii, 6'2", 290 lbs., Junior Carl Barnett, Houston, 6'3", 285 lbs., Junior Adam Korby, Idaho, 6'2", 292 lbs., Junior Alex Perry, Indiana, 6'7", 292 lbs., Sophomore Ryan Cantrell, Kansas, 6'3", 295 lbs., Senior Jordan Bedore, Kansas State, 6'3", 308 lbs., Senior Chris Fisher, Louisiana-Lafayette, 6'2", 280 lbs., Sophomore Eric Wood, Louisville, 6'4", 309 lbs., Senior Brett Helms, LSU, 6'2", 283 lbs., Senior Edwin Williams, Maryland, 6'2", 315 lbs., Senior Philip Beliles, Memphis, 6'5", 270 lbs., Senior Dominic Green, Nevada, 6'3", 295 lbs., Senior Jim Cordle, Ohio State, 6'4", 297 lbs., Junior Jon Cooper, Oklahoma, 6'2", 289 lbs., Senior Andrew Lewis, Oklahoma State, 6'5", 290 lbs., Junior A.Q. Shipley, Penn State, 6'1", 293 lbs., Junior Ryan Blaszcyk, Rutgers, 6'4", 285 lbs., Junior Jake Griffin, South Florida, 6'4", 307 lbs., Senior Alex Fletcher, Stanford, 6'3", 295 lbs., Senior Blake Schlueter, TCU, 6'3", 272 lbs., Senior Alex Derenthal, Temple, 6'4", 294 lbs., Senior Josh McNeil, Tennessee, 6'4", 280 lbs., Junior Chris Hall, Texas, 6'4", 300 lbs., Junior Danny Franks, Troy, 6'3", 308 lbs., Junior Kristopher O'Dowd, USC, 6'5", 300 lbs., Sophomore Ryan Tonnemacher, Utah State, 6'3", 292 lbs., Senior Robby Felix, UTEP, 6'3", 295 lbs., Senior Juan Garcia, Washington, 6'3", 315 lbs., Senior Kenny Alfred, Washington State, 6'2", 310 lbs., Junior Mike Dent, West Virginia, 6'3", 300 lbs., Senior

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This is awesome. Will he win it? No, he won't.
But I say no player on the offense is going to be more important in 2008 than Enright. In the new offense, he not only has to block, but he also makes all the calls for the offensive line - if he doesn't do his job, the quarterback might get killed. We might end up using Willis and Rhodes and Turner and Mitchell and Smith and ....
Mitch is a very smart player with excellent technique, who only will get better as he gets bigger.
Congratulations on the recognition, Mitch.