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Post by catsfan on Feb 17, 2012 2:03:58 GMT -5
Colton's Josh Straughan Picks Stillman: Quarterback Broke State Passing Records while with Wildcats
Posted: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 12:00 am | Updated: 9:50 pm, Tue Feb 14, 2012.
By Andrew Nemec Daily News staff writerMoscow-Pullman Daily News | 0 comments
Washington State 1B Player of the Year and three-sport Colton star Josh Straughan has been a varsity athlete for four years. He's led game-winning drives as the Wildcats' quarterback, shot game-deciding jumpers for the basketball team and come up to bat in many key spots, never showing any sign of nerves. Simply put, the guy has ice in his veins - exactly the type of poise and maturity a coach wants to see in his star player. However, on Tuesday morning, Straughan, wearing his familiar blue Colton football jersey, was admittedly nervous as he sat at a desk and prepared to sign his letter of intent. In front of 30 or so friends, family and media members, the Wildcat senior announced he'd be accepting a full-ride scholarship to play college football for Stillman College, a Division II program in Tuscaloosa, Ala. "They were one of the first schools that was really interested in me. They have got a great coaching staff, and it's a high level of college football," Straughan said. "I feel like I fit the offense well. They are an air raid offense and they had a four-year plan for me. That was one of the big things."
While that four-year plan may, in fact, turn to five years with a redshirt season, Stillman College football coach Ted Keaton said he expects big things from Straughan in the near future. "I really feel like he was overlooked. He has all the proper mechanics of a good quarterback. He makes great throws," Keaton said. "His film tells you that he's got a chance of being great. He's got the possibility of being a superstar here, but we've got to take it one day at a time and let him adjust (to 11-man football)." Straughan's senior year was a testament to what he brought to Colton - both on and off the field. He completed 232 passes for 3,569 yards and 41 touchdowns through the air and also ran for 796 yards and another 19 touchdowns. Those numbers helped him earn multiple area awards, including several area prep athlete of the week honors and the league's offensive MVP award. For his career, the four-year starter completed 662 passes for 10,407 yards and 114 touchdowns, setting records for the state of Washington.
In the classroom, Straughan maintains a 3.9 G.P.A. and is a member of the National Honor Society, which helped him make his way onto back-to-back Washington Football Academic Championship teams. Straughan's athletic honors extend beyond the football field, as he has also been an all-league and all-state standout in basketball and baseball, a fact that caught the attention of Keaton. "I was impressed with the fact that he's a winner. When a kid excels in three sports and does as well as he's done, I think it takes a tremendous amount of discipline for a kid to be able to that and excel in classroom," Keaton said. "I thought he would be a perfect fit for what we are trying to do here at Stillman."
Straughan was recruited by several colleges, and even had walk-on offers from the University of Miami, Notre Dame and TCU, but in the end, Tuscaloosa was too good to pass up. "They really like what they saw in me in the classroom and on the field. They are looking to throw it around, and I feel, and they feel, I fit that role," Straughan said. "They are looking for me to do great things there." For Colton football coach Clark Vining, Straughan's departure is bittersweet. The coach is thrilled for his four-year starter, who he said found his "perfect fit" in terms of a college. On the other hand, he'll miss a player and person he's come to respect.
"It's a great ending," Vining said. "He's put in a ton of work through the years and it says a lot about Josh and his family - our whole community, we're proud of him." It seems fitting that Straughan's first real signs of nerves in a Colton uniform came on the day he announced he'd be leaving the community that embraced him throughout his athletic career. For four years Straughan helped build a legacy at Colton High School - not just for himself, but for all three of the Wildcats' sports programs. He put them on his shoulders, without reservation, and carried them to great heights, breaking state records along the way. Now, that role has changed. In Tuscaloosa he'll become the baby-faced freshman quarterback from way out in Washington, and he will have to make a name for himself all over again. Don't bet against him.
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Post by catsfan on Sept 4, 2012 12:48:01 GMT -5
Straughan has Stellar Debut for Stillman College Posted: Tuesday, September 4, 2012 12:00 am | Updated: 11:51 pm, Mon Sep 3, 2012. Former Colton High School quarterback Josh Straughan was named Most Valuable Player in a season-opening football game called the Dayton Classic, which pitted his Stillman College team against Central State University at Dayton, Ohio. The true freshman entered the game in the fourth quarter Sunday and led Stillman to three touchdowns and a 28-27 win. Straughan was the Tigers main offensive threat hitting 7 of 12 passes for 143 yards and two touchdowns.The Alabama team had trailed 20-7 when Straughan took the field. Josh Straughan was also selected as one of the outstanding conference players of the week for the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC): thesiac.com/news/2012/9/4/FBALL_0904123021.aspx and www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20120908/NEWS/120909804/1062/sports?Title=Eight-man-star-takes-on-starting-role-for-Stillman
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2012 13:16:52 GMT -5
I assume he will be playing 4 quarters this weekend.... ;D Congratulations to Josh (and catsfan).
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Post by catsfan on Dec 12, 2012 17:34:31 GMT -5
Straughan Proving Doubters Wrong: Former Colton Star Flourishing at Stillman College
Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 12:00 am | Updated: 6:11 pm, Wed Nov 28, 2012.
By Tom Hager, Daily News staff writer Moscow-Pullman Daily News | 0 comments
Josh Straughan's career couldn't have gone much better as a high school quarterback.
The local product put up ridiculous stats in eight-man football as a quarterback at Colton High School. Straughan, who went on to receive the AP Washington State 1B player of the year award, threw for 141 touchdowns and more than 10,000 yards in his career - in addition to tallying 1,256 yards on the ground.
Unfortunately for Straughan, the video game-like numbers weren't enough to impress many Division I coaches, who hesitated to give him a a full ride scholarship offer.
They may be regretting that decision now.
"You know I figured I wasn't going to get a lot of looks," Straughan said. "And of course I had a little bit of a chip on my shoulder, especially coming from a smaller school. ... I had a fair share of people who were supportive of me and I had people who told me I couldn't do it, so it was definitely in the back of my mind, especially coming from an eight-man school. I knew it wasn't going to be easy."
The odds may have been stacked against him, but it didn't take long for Straughan to make his doubters look foolish with the opportunities he was given as a true freshman at Stillman College, an NCAA Division II school in Tuscaloosa, Alabama some 2,500 miles away from his home.
In the first game of his college career at Stillman, Straughan came off the bench to lead the Tigers to an incredible comeback victory. With his team trailing Central State University 20-7 in the fourth quarter, Stillman coach Teddy Keaton ignored his gut feeling and sent Straughan in the game.
"He's a freshman who played eight-man football - you're thinking I don't want to put him in this situation. I want him to learn. He had been doing it all camp so he had been doing really well, but I really didn't give him the start only because I wanted him to grow," Keaton said. "But he kind of put the handles forth. I went to him and I said, 'Josh you're going in and take over.' Never once did he blink."
By the game's end, Straughan had thrown for 143 yards and two TD passes and led Stillman on three touchdown drives in the 28-27 win. He was named the Most Valuable Player of the Dayton Ohio Classic and the outstanding Newcomer of the Week for the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC).
"Before the game I was nervous, but once I got in the fourth quarter and they put me in, I was ready to go. I had been working for that experience ever since I've been playing football, so I was ready to go when I got in there," said Straughan, who instantly became a hero to his team. "I'm not going to lie, I was pretty excited and so was the team. ... It was a pretty unrealistic game and my dad was there to see my first college game and my first college touchdown passes, so it's pretty surreal to be honest."
The momentum from the Tigers' season opener was quickly halted when Straughan and the offense was shut out in their following game, but Stillman soon regrouped to put together a three-game winning streak, defeating Kentucky State, Lane and Benedict, with two of the wins coming on the road.
"Well, he went through a small learning curve, but Josh is a guy that doesn't make the same mistake twice," Keaton said. "As a coach, he's almost an extended coach on the football field. When you come in with your game plan he comes in with his four or five plays that he feels like may work. He adds value to what you're trying to do and it feels good to know that you have a guy that you can put enough confidence in, that he's watched enough film to know exactly where to go with the football just about 90 percent of the time."
Stillman faced more adversity when it lost three straight games to fall below .500, but just as he did earlier in the season, Straughan stepped up when his team needed him the most. He threw for 234 yards and four touchdowns against Clark Atlanta University to put the Tigers at 5-5 on the season, and followed it up with a 248-yard and three-touchdown performance against Concordia University.
"It was huge for us. Our last game was homecoming, and down there homecoming's a pretty big deal. We had thousands and thousands of fans at our game and it was nice to send out the seniors on a win," Straughan said. "I mean when you go from the amount of people in the stands at Colton High School, compared to down there, I mean it's a shock. You can't hear yourself. Your line can't hear you. Playing in front of tens of thousands of people it's different, but there's really nothing like it."
As a true freshman, Straughan helped the Tigers secure their first consecutive winning seasons in six years. He also completed 203 passes for 1,849 yards, and 14 touchdowns. Straughan finished first in number of pass completions, second in passing touchdowns, third in passing yards, and fourth in passing yards per game in the SIAC.
Straughan doesn't plan on leaving the field anytime soon. Not only does he plan on becoming a coach someday, he still has three more years left at Stillman. And that's music to Coach Keaton's ears.
Josh Straughan's Stillman College Highlights (2012):
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Post by piratesfan on Oct 3, 2013 16:47:55 GMT -5
Former Colton QB Straughan Wins POTW HonorsPosted: Oct 01, 2013 3:03 PM PDT Updated: Oct 01, 2013 5:10 PM PDT COLTON, Wash. - The quarterback position is a family business for the Straughan brothers of Colton, Washington. On Friday night, Colton High School Quarterback and Idaho Vandal basketball commit Jake Straughan threw five TDs and ran two TDs to lead Colton to a 64-22 defeat of Garfield-Palouse. Twenty four hours later, his older brother and former Colton star QB Josh Straughan, who started his career last year as a true freshman at Stillman College by coming off the bench in his first game and throwing three TD passes to lead the Tigers to a come-from-behind win against Central State University, must have been thinking déjà vu. On Saturday, the sophomore QB once again led Stillman to a spectacular come-from-behind victory against Kentucky State University in Frankfurt, Kentucky some 2,500 miles away from his home. Trailing 14 points going into the second half, Straughan launched an aerial assault against KSU that left the Thorobred crowd stunned. The 6'3" 190 lbs sophomore QB completed 19-of-32 passes for 326 yards and four touchdowns to four different receivers. The Tigers (3-1, 2-0) got their first score of the second half when Straughan on third and long threw an 18-yard strike to Hudson Cain with 1:00 remaining in the third quarter. KSU responded with its own touchdown. But from there on it was the Straughan show. The young gunslinger threw three TD passes in the fourth quarter to overtake the Thorobreds. Straughan first hit Dondre Purnell on a 56-yard touchdown pass with 9:53 to play. On the next possession, Straughan engineered a long drive culminating in him throwing a 20-yard TD pass to Charles Payne to pull the Tigers within two. Straughan then started his final drive on Stillman's own 27-yard line with 2:32 on the clock, completing several passes that covered 73 yards. His biggest throw may have come on fourth down when he was being tackled by two defenders and somehow escaped their grasps enough to complete a 7-yard shovel pass to Reese Sturgis. Two plays later, Straughan threw the go-ahead touchdown pass to Octavian Ford with just 36 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter after the Tigers trailed the entire game. Riding the arm of Straughan, the Tigers defeated KSU 26-21 and pushed Stillman to the top of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC). For his come-from-behind win the sophomore QB was named the Offensive Player of the week for the SIAC. So far this season Straughan is one of the top quarterbacks in the SIAC. He has passed for over 300 yards in two separate games and completed 67 of 111 passes for 897 yards and seven touchdowns with a 147.25 quarterback efficiency rating. The next game for Stillman is against Lane College, and the Tigers will later play on national television against Alabama State University on Thanksgiving Day. www.khq.com/story/23583339/former-colton-qb-straughan-wins-potw-honors
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Post by 12thman on Dec 31, 2014 15:03:23 GMT -5
Colton’s Straughan Named First Team All SIAC
Stillman College quarterback Josh Straughan of Colton was selected as the quarterback of the 2014 All-Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) First Team and the Beyond Sports Network All Super Region II Team.
He also was twice named the SIAC Offensive Player of the Week, along with being selected the Beyond Sports Network and BoxToRow National Player of the Week.
So far at Stillman, Straughan has completed 470 passes for 5,405 yards and 50 touchdowns. He leads the conference in passing efficiency with a 154.6 quarterback rating. When asked about his success, Straughan readily admits that playing with a chip on his shoulder has driven him to get where he is. But the former Colton High three-sport star athlete gives most of the credit to his offensive line, receivers, defensive teammates, coaches, and especially God. “Without them,” Straughan said. “None of this would even be possible.”
In his first game as a true freshman playing 11-man football, the 18-year-old quarterback came into the fourth quarter trailing Central State University 20-7. He led the Tigers to a come-from-behind win by throwing three touchdowns for 143 yards to defeat the Marauders 28-27. He was named the Most Valuable Player of the Dayton, Ohio Classic and Newcomer of the Week for the SIAC. The true freshman went on to start for the rest of the year, throwing 203 competitions for 1,849 yards and 14 touchdowns. He was selected as the Offensive Rookie of the Year.
In his sophomore campaign, Straughan picked up where he left off. He started the year throwing for 518 yards against Concordia and Clark Atlanta University. He then threw for almost 800 yards and eight touchdowns over a span of two weeks. Against Kentucky State University, Straughan engineered another comeback to beat the Thoroughbreds 26-21. He passed for 326 yards and four touchdowns in the second half and tossed the go-ahead touchdown with 36 seconds left. The next game Straughan set a school record by throwing four touchdowns for 437 yards before suffering a broken clavicle to his throwing shoulder. He was named twice the SIAC Offensive Player of the Week and one of the Top Five Division II HBCU Quarterbacks, along with being selected to the All-SIAC Academic Team. Straughan threw 99 completions for 1,334 yards and 10 touchdowns before his sophomore season came to an end in the fifth game.
Straughan then worked hard to get back to form. It took only a few games for the 6’3″ 205 lb. junior to show why he has become one of the top SIAC quarterbacks. In a span of just two weeks, Straughan accounted for 800 yards of offense and 12 touchdowns. He first led Stillman to a 55-16 win against Lane College. He threw for 292 yards and six touchdowns, while rushing for another. The next week, Straughan helped the Tigers defeat Benedict College 46-36, completing 27 of 40 pass attempts for 488 yards and five touchdowns.
He went on to lead Stillman to a 31-26 win against Clark Atlanta University, throwing for 272 yards and four touchdowns in his final home game. After overcoming his injury, the junior quarterback returned to the field by completing 167 passes for 2,223 yards and 26 touchdowns.
At Colton High School, Straughan accounted for 662 completions, 11,663 yards, and 141 touchdowns. He was an all-league and all-state quarterback, along with being named the 2011 Washington State 1B Player of the year.
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Post by piratesfan on Sept 1, 2015 12:12:04 GMT -5
Colton’s Straughan Named All-AmericanPosted Wednesday, June 24, 2015, 12:00 amColton High graduate Josh Straughan was a first-team pick on the USA College Football Division II Preseason All-American team, which was released Monday.
Straughan will be a senior quarterback at NCAA Division II Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
As a junior in 2014, Straughan completed 168 passes for 2,225 yards and 29 touchdowns. In a span of just two games the Alabama gun slinger accounted for 800 yards of offense and 12 touchdowns.
Straughan was also a first-team QB in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference awards after last season, and was recently an all-academic pick by the conference for his 3.96 cumulative grade-point average.
So far during his Stillman career, Straughan has completed 470 passes for 5,412 yards and 53 touchdowns.
QB Josh Straughan 2014 Highlights: www.hudl.com/athlete/2298432/highlights/207895399/v2
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Post by piratesfan on May 12, 2016 19:55:41 GMT -5
Josh Straughan's 2 TD Passes Lead the Saluki Offense to Big ScrimmageThe Southern Illinoisan, Todd Hefferman, April 8, 2016. CARBONDALE -- Josh Straughan completed 7-of-8 passes for 67 yards on the opening drive to kick off a big day by the offense at Southern Illinois University's second spring scrimmage Friday night. Straughan, a 6-foot-3, 205-pound transfer from Division II Stillman (Alabama) College, led two of the Salukis' first three scoring drives at Saluki Stadium. Straughan led the first team offense 75 yards to open the scrimmage, getting three straight first downs at one point and ending it with a 21-yard touchdown strike over the middle to Connor Iwema. Straughan, a senior from Colton, Washington, escaped the pocket to his right and found Darrell James behind the defense for a 76-yard touchdown on his second drive. "That's what he kind of brings to the table, as far as an athletic passer," SIU coach Nick Hill said. "I wouldn't say he's a running quarterback, but he extends plays with his feet, and he's always looking down the field to throw it. Scramble to throw it, so, that's hard to stop, and that's realistic football. A lot of times you've gotta escape the pocket and we practice that scramble drill. Get open, and he did a good job of that tonight." Straughan completed 13-of-17 passes for 165 yards and the two scores. The three other quarterbacks in the race for the starting job combined for 17 completions, 164 yards passing, 1 interception and 2 touchdowns. www.siusalukis.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/040716aaa.htmlwww.siusalukis.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/040816aaa.htmlwww.siusalukis.com/sports/m-footbl/recaps/042316aaa.htmlwww.wsiltv.com/story/31800110/offense-tops-defense-in-siu-spring-game
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