Height / Weight:6-3 / 210 Major:Labor Studies and Employment Relations Game 12: Football at Maryland Scarlet Knights conclude 2016 season on the road Game 11: Football vs. No. 9 Penn State Scarlet Knights set for final home game of the season Game 10: Football at Michigan State Scarlet Knights set to travel to Spartan Stadium Game 9: Football vs. Indiana Scarlet Knights return to High Point Solutions Stadium to face Hoosiers Game 8: Football at Minnesota Scarlet Knights set to meet Golden Gophers for the first time 2016 (Redshirt Junior): Appeared in two games at quarterback ... threw 10 passes and rushed 11 times against No. 4 Michigan (10/8) ... made Rutgers debut versus New Mexico (9/17) with two passing attempts and a rush in a series in the fourth quarter ... transferred to Rutgers in the summer with two seasons of eligibility remaining ... became immediately eligible in 2016. 2015 (Redshirt Sophomore at TCU): Appeared in all 13 games ... saw action at wide receiver and holder ... played in the Alamo Bowl win over Oregon (1/2) ... caught one pass for eight yards at Iowa State (10/17).

2014 (Redshirt Freshman at TCU): Appeared in all 13 games ... served as the holder on field goals and extra-point attempts ... participated in the Peach Bowl victory over Mississippi (12/31) … saw action at quarterback against Texas Tech (10/25), completing both of his passes for a total of 17 yards ... added a rush for two yards versus the Red Raiders. 2013 (Freshman at TCU): Did not see game action … redshirted. Prior to College: Ranked by FOX Sports Next/Scout as the No. 12 quarterback in Texas and No. 67 in the nation ... District 8-5A Offensive Most Valuable Player and the Temple Daily Telegram Class 5A Co-Offensive Player of the Year as a senior ... passed for 2,175 yards and 24 touchdowns while rushing for 941 yards and nine scores despite playing just nine games due to injury ... threw for 1,753 yards and ran for 766 as a junior.Personal: A labor studies and employment relations major.– Ron Allen, a standout member of the Rutgers secondary and return specialist from 1988 to 1991, will be inducted into the Rutgers Football Hall of Fame during pregame ceremonies of Saturday's Rutgers football game against Morgan State.

Allen was a three-year starting cornerback for the Scarlet Knights as they embarked on their first season in the BIG EAST Conference in 1991. Allen earned First Team Eastern College Athletic Conference All-Star Honors as a senior with a team-high three interceptions and seven passes defended in seven games. That season, he helped guide RU to a 6-5 record in its inaugural season in the BIG EAST. Nicknamed "Rocket," Allen also served as a return specialist where he averaged more than 25 yards per return to rank 14th in the nation his junior season in 1990. He had three career touchdowns on kickoff returns. Against West Virginia as a freshman in 1988, he returned a kickoff 92 yards and later that season, returned a kickoff 94 yards against Cincinnati for a touchdown. During his junior campaign in 1990, Allen returned a kickoff 82 yards for a touchdown against Colgate. Allen received First Team Associated Press All-EAST honors along with First Team ECAC All-Star laurels as a return specialist his junior season.

The versatile athlete was the recipient of the program's 12th Man Award, honoring the special teams player of the year in 1990.  More than 15 years later, Allen still ranks fifth in Rutgers history with 1,283 career kickoff return yards and is seventh with 51 career kickoff returns.juxtapoz hoodie Allen will become the 95th member of the Rutgers Football Hall of Fame.sons of anarchy hoodie nzBrowse through our wide assortment of Rutgers Scarlet Knights Hoodies in sizes ranging men, women, youth and plus sizes to find the right Rutgers Sweatshirt for the biggest Scarlet Knights fan you know. hoodies opinioniWe have Full Zip, Pullover and Fleece Rutgers Scarlet Knights Hoodies to ensure you get the perfect style of Rutgers Sweatshirt to show off your school spirit while staying comfortable. steve harvey neighborhood awards best church choir

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An alteration of the spread philosophy, a power spread still focuses on scattering opponents both horizontally and vertically with wide splits and an open passing attack. But the power spread, popularized by schools such as Ohio State and Auburn, doesn’t abandon the run. It’s a run-first attack with I-formation principles and a focus on pounding the ball between the tackles despite not featuring heavy blocking sets. Houston won 11 games last season in Tom Herman’s first campaign, and the power spread helped the Cougars jump from 60th nationally in scoring offense to 10th. Now Rutgers, under the guidance of first-year offensive coordinator Drew Mehringer, a Herman disciple, is installing the same system with the aim of its own power-based offensive scoring binge. “For us, all the teams in history that have won can run,” Mehringer told 247Sports in a phone interview. “We want to fall in line with those types of offenses. We may just look a little different when we line up.”

Since 2004, each national champion finished 32nd or higher in rushing offense. In an era of wide-open passing attacks, the ability to pound the football remains critical. Not every successful running team runs a power spread – Auburn and Ohio State are the only national title-winning examples – but the reasonably new system, the origins of which can be traced to Gus Malzahn’s 2006 season as Arkansas’ offensive coordinator, produces results. Malzahn introduced the attack at Auburn in 2010 as an offensive coordinator and won a national title with Cam Newton. He reintroduced it as head coach of the Tigers in 2013 and took them to the BCS title game — a year after the Tigers won three games. Chad Morris, another early innovator, brought the offense to Clemson in 2011, and the Tigers made a jump from six wins to 10 in his first season. Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer, who used some of the power option principles while at Florida, went to the offense in full with offensive coordinator Tom Herman in 2012, and the result of the partnership was 38 wins from 2012-14 and a national championship.

Herman, as a first-year head coach in Houston in 2015, used the power spread to help the Cougars make a jump from eight wins to 13. A shift to the power spread doesn’t always procure instant success. Despite Morris’ offensive brilliance, SMU won just two games in his first year as head coach in 2015. But, at least for teams with measurable talent already on the roster, it can make an immediate impact. Mehringer, who’s been a part of power spread instillations at Ohio State (graduate assistant), James Madison (he served as the co-offensive coordinator in 2014), Houston (wide receivers coach) and now Rutgers, said each transition is unique even if the overall principles of the system remain the same. “You always have to make adjustments and concessions here,” Mehringer said. “You have to make changes of who you are here and there based on personnel. There’s no waiver wire in our level of ball.” For Houston and Ohio State, the spread base was already in place when the new staff took over.

The same could be said of James Madison, where Mehringer helped the Duke Dogs jump from six wins to nine in 2014. But the pace of transition could be a bit more glacial for Rutgers, which won four games in 2015 and finished 78th in scoring offense. The Scarlet Knights were a pro-style offense under the previous regime, and many of the pieces in place, including eight returning starters, aren’t used to the up-tempo pace of the spread. Incumbent starter, junior Chris Laviano, had the eighth-best passing season in school history last year, but he’s not a traditional spread quarterback. At 6-foot-2, 221 pounds, Laviano is a pure pocket passer, whereas quarterbacks in the power spread (from Cam Newton to Braxton Miller to Greg Ward Jr.) are rushing threats. “Since they got here in January, I flipped the switch on (the system), Laviano told 247Sports. “The entire offseason I’ve been preparing myself to be the quarterback they want and need me to be.” Rutgers’ other main option, TCU graduate transfer Zach Allen, is athletic enough to run the offense.

After falling behind in the quarterback room with the Horned Frogs, Allen made the switch to wide receiver for a season before transferring with the intent of playing quarterback again. Mehringer insisted he will adapt his system to the team’s talent, but Allen may have an advantage due to his familiarity with spread principles and his athleticism. Ward, as a part of an offense Mehringer helped engineer, ran for 1,108 yards last season. Laviano, in a very different offensive system, totaled minus-38 yards (including sacks). “Do you have to have a pure running quarterback? No you don’t,” Mehringer said. “Do you have to tweak what you do a little bit? You can’t say this is what we’re doing no matter what we’ve got. That’s not a smart way to play offensively.” Quarterback might be a question mark, but the Scarlet Knights at least feature the running backs to make the system go. Juniors Robert Martin and Josh Hicks each rushed for 650 yards or more last season, and they’ll give Rutgers something to rely on offensively.

Martin said the running backs are quite eager to play in any system that predominantly features the word power. “I definitely get excited,” Martin said. "I think we can do big things in this offense. It’s a real fast system that can catch a lot of people sleeping.” A Houston-like turnaround might be difficult for the Scarlet Knights in the Big Ten, but they have the staff in place for a long-term rebuild. New head coach Chris Ash, formerly Ohio State’s defensive coordinator, takes a lot of Meyer’s program trademarks with him to New Jersey. Mehringer previously worked under Meyer as did Rutgers special teams coordinator Vince Okruch, defensive backs coach Bill Busch, running backs coach Zak Kuhr and strength and conditioning coach Kenny Parker. There is plenty of Buckeye flavor in New Brunswick, and Mehringer expects that culture to most aide the transition. “I think people get caught up in the Xs and Os a lot more than they should the program values,” Mehringer said.