Former Tyrone Area High School football star Brandon Hoover has left the nationally-ranked Lackawanna football program after one year as backup quarterback.
\nLackawanna head coach Mark Duda said he was sorry to hear of Hoover\u2019s decision to pass up both football and his classes at Lackawanna.
\n\u201cBrandon is a great kid, a great quarterback and a good person,\u201d said Duda. \u201cYou don\u2019t like to lose someone who has all of those things. I think that he needed school and that he needed football. We wish him the best.\u201d
\nHoover, a 6-1, 190-pound sophomore, made his decision early this week after participating in preseason practice, which officially got under way on August 17. He came into preseason camp as the Number One quarterback following an outstanding performance in Lackawanna\u2019s 2001 finale.
\nIn that game, a 49-21 loss to Ricks College of Pocatello, Idaho, in the final Real Diary Bowl in Pocatello, Hoover came off the bench to replace the Lackawanna quarterback, who suffered a concussion early in the game.
\nHoover proceeded to complete five of 14 passes for 118 yards and two touchdowns and was not intercepted. Two of the completions were scoring strikes of 71 and 28 yards. He also carried eight times for a minus 18 yards. Those statistics represented Hoover\u2019s statistics for the 2001 season, which saw the Falcons ranked Number Nine in the final National Junior College Athletic Association poll.
\nAt Tyrone, Hoover passed for 1,408 yards and 16 touchdowns as a junior in leading Tyrone to the State Class AA championship. A two year starter in football, he also participated in baseball and basketball at Tyrone
\n\u201cI have decided to take a semester off,\u201d explained Hoover. \u201cI just wasn\u2019t really happy with the way things were going at Lackawanna, didn\u2019t have a feel for the program. Transferring to IUP was one option, I thought about this year, but wasn\u2019t sure at the time if I could. I just felt, I needed to take some time off and think about what it is that I need to do. Hopefully, I will find a job and get some money put back and then apply at IUP in the spring. I want to talk to the IUP football coaches and find out about the possibility of walking on the team next fall.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Tyrone Area High School football star Brandon Hoover has left the nationally-ranked Lackawanna football program after one year as backup quarterback. Lackawanna head coach Mark Duda said he was sorry to hear of Hoover\u2019s decision to pass up both football and his classes at Lackawanna. \u201cBrandon is a great kid, a great quarterback and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}