2017 Olivet Comets football team
| 2017 Olivet Comets football | |
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| Conference | Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association |
| 2017 record | 5–5 (3–3 MIAA) |
| Head coach | Dan Musielewicz (1st as Head Coach, 6th Overall season) |
| Offensive coordinator | Brad Rumsey (1st as Offensive Coordinator, 6th Overall season) |
| Defensive coordinator | Warren Maloney (5th season) |
| Captain | Robert Cuba (5th year) |
| Captain | Trent Monroe (Junior year) |
| Captain | Lane Porter (Junior year) |
| Captain |
Tyler Douglas (Senior year) Mike Sherman (Senior year) |
| Home stadium |
Cutler Athletic Complex (Capacity: 2,200) |
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| Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trine $ ^ | 6 | – | 0 | 11 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hope | 5 | – | 1 | 8 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Adrian | 4 | – | 2 | 5 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Olivet | 3 | – | 3 | 5 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Albion | 2 | – | 4 | 4 | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma | 1 | – | 5 | 4 | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kalamazoo | 0 | – | 6 | 1 | – | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2017 Olivet Comets football team, sometimes known as Team 117 in reference to the 117th season the Olivet football program had fielded a team, was an American football team that represented Olivet College during the 2017 NCAA Division III football season. The Comets played in the MIAA and played their home games at the Cutler Athletic Complex in Olivet, Michigan. Olivet was led by Dan Musielewicz, who was in his first season as Head Coach and sixth year overall with the Comets, replacing Dan Pifer as he was be hired by the Walsh University football team of the G-MAC to become their new head coach in December 2016. In January 2017, offensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator Dan Musielewicz was hired as the new head coach for the Comets.
Broadcasting
For another season, broadcasting for the Comets was done by 89.1 The One WOCR FM with play-by-play done by sports director Matt Scher and color analysis by Zach Sturgill. The games could be heard on the radio and on wocrfm.com. For the second consecutive season, Olivet Football home games were broadcast on the newly-branded OCAM (formerly the Comet Sports Network) produced by Visual Premier Productions, LLC. with audio simulcasted from WOCR's broadcast. The OCAM broadcasts were streamed through YouTube.
Schedule
| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | TV | Result | Attendance | |||
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| September 2 | 1:00 p.m. | Heidelberg* | Cutler Athletic Complex • Olivet, MI | OCAM Radio: WOCR |
L 40–24 | 1,200 | |||
| September 9 | 2:00 p.m. | at Elmhurst* | Langhorst Field • Elmhurst, IL | Radio: WOCR |
W 26–20 | 1,329 | |||
| September 16 | 1:00 p.m. | Aurora* | Cutler Athletic Complex • Olivet, MI | OCAM Radio: WOCR |
W 37–21 | 1,050 | |||
| September 30 | 2:00 p.m. | Hope |
Cutler Athletic Complex • Olivet, MI | OCAM Radio: WOCR |
L 42–20 | 7,005 | |||
| October 7 | 1:00 p.m. | at Kalamazoo | Angell Field • Kalamazoo, MI | Radio: WOCR |
W 40–6 | 633 | |||
| October 14 | 1:00 p.m. | Albion | Cutler Athletic Complex • Olivet, MI | OCAM Radio: WOCR |
W 47–26 | 485 | |||
| October 21 | 2:00 p.m. | at Benedictine* | Village of Lisle-Benedictine University Sports Complex • Lisle, IL | Radio: WOCR |
L 43–37 | 971 | |||
| October 28 | 1:00 p.m. | at Alma | Bahlke Field • Alma, MI | Radio: WOCR |
W 44–20 | 1,126 | |||
| November 4 | 1:00 p.m. Delayed– 4:00 p.m. |
Adrian | Cutler Athletic Complex • Olivet, MI | OCAM Radio: WOCR |
L 33–22 | 605 | |||
| November 11 | 1:00 p.m. | at Trine | Fred Zollner Athletic Stadium • Angola, IN | Radio: WOCR |
L 28–6 | 4,100 | |||
| *Non-conference game. | |||||||||
- Source:[1]
References
- ↑ "2017 Olivet College Football Schedule". Retrieved January 9, 2017.