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 John 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
Antoine Caldwell, Alabama, 6'3", 292 lbs., SeniorBlake Kerley, Arizona, 6'2", 285 lbs., JuniorJonathan Luigs, Arkansas, 6'4", 314 lbs., SeniorJason Bosley, Auburn, 6'2", 281 lbs., SeniorJ.D. Walton, Baylor, 6'3", 302 lbs., JuniorAlex Mack, California, 6'5", 316 lbs., SeniorColin Miller, Central Michigan, 6'3", 280 lbs., SophomoreDaniel Sanders, Colorado, 6'3", 325 lbs., SeniorKeith Gray, Connecticut, 6'2", 287 lbs., SeniorBrad Serini, Florida International, 6'4", 275 lbs., SophomoreRyan McMahon, Florida State, 6'3", 275 lbs., SophomoreJohn Estes, Hawaii, 6'2", 290 lbs., JuniorCarl Barnett, Houston, 6'3", 285 lbs., JuniorAdam Korby, Idaho, 6'2", 292 lbs., JuniorAlex Perry, Indiana, 6'7", 292 lbs., SophomoreRyan Cantrell, Kansas, 6'3", 295 lbs., SeniorJordan Bedore, Kansas State, 6'3", 308 lbs., SeniorChris Fisher, Louisiana-Lafayette, 6'2", 280 lbs., SophomoreEric Wood, Louisville, 6'4", 309 lbs., SeniorBrett Helms, LSU, 6'2", 283 lbs., SeniorEdwin Williams, Maryland, 6'2", 315 lbs., SeniorPhilip Beliles, Memphis, 6'5", 270 lbs., SeniorDominic Green, Nevada, 6'3", 295 lbs., SeniorJim Cordle, Ohio State, 6'4", 297 lbs., JuniorJon Cooper, Oklahoma, 6'2", 289 lbs., SeniorAndrew Lewis, Oklahoma State, 6'5", 290 lbs., JuniorA.Q. Shipley, Penn State, 6'1", 293 lbs., JuniorRyan Blaszcyk, Rutgers, 6'4", 285 lbs., SeniorMitch Enright, SMU, 6'2", 275 lbs., JuniorJake Griffin, South Florida, 6'4", 307 lbs., SeniorAlex Fletcher, Stanford, 6'3", 295 lbs., SeniorBlake Schlueter, TCU, 6'3", 272 lbs., SeniorAlex Derenthal, Temple, 6'4", 294 lbs., SeniorJosh McNeil, Tennessee, 6'4", 280 lbs., JuniorChris Hall, Texas, 6'4", 300 lbs., JuniorDanny Franks, Troy, 6'3", 308 lbs., JuniorKristopher O'Dowd, USC, 6'5", 300 lbs., SophomoreRyan Tonnemacher, Utah State, 6'3", 292 lbs., SeniorRobby Felix, UTEP, 6'3", 295 lbs., SeniorJuan Garcia, Washington, 6'3", 315 lbs., SeniorKenny Alfred, Washington State, 6'2", 310 lbs., JuniorMike Dent, West Virginia, 6'3", 300 lbs., Senior
