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Has been named "All-Region Football Player of the Year" by the Boulder Camera.
He's a Senior. Of course, no offers at all. Can't even find a profile of him on Rivals or Scout.
http://www.dailycamera.com/top-sports/ci_16940798
<h1 id="articleTitle" ="articleTitle">Broomfield's Geubelle rushes to top of all-region team</h1><div id="articleSubTitle" ="articleSubTitle">Eagles RB piled up 1,910 yards and 29 TDs on season</div><div id="articleByline" ="articleByline">By Joshua Lindenstein Camera Sports Writer</div><div id="articleDate" ="articleDate">Posted:12/25/2010 12:12:29 AM MST</div><div id="article" ="article"><div ="articleViewerGroup" id="articleViewerGroup" style="border: 0px none;"></span></div>
The Broomfield
football team had a simple strategy this season: Keep handing Dan
Geubelle the football and good things will happen.
Three yards and a cloud of dust? More like 5 yards and a chance of bust(ing one to the house).
You
might stop Geubelle short once, twice or even three times. But sooner
or later he was going to break a defense's spirit with a big gain.
Despite
a pulled hamstring that affected him all fall, the senior tailback had
lightning in his legs this season. And the Eagles rode his 1,910-yard
rushing effort all the way to a Northern League title and the Class 4A
state semifinals. For his performance, Geubelle has been named the
Camera's All-Region Football Player of the year. <div ="article2" style="width: 300px;"><div ="article" style="width: 300px;">
</span><div ="articleCaption" style="width: 100%;">
Broomfield's Dan Geubelle has been named Football Player of the Year in
Broomfield, Colorado December 20, 2010. CAMERA/Mark Leffingwell
(
MARK LEFFINGWELL
)</div></div></div>
"We've had a lot of very good tailbacks but
he's definitely very unique," longtime Broomfield coach Gary Davies
says. "He just has great vision, great cutting ability. (Those
attributes) set him apart from anybody I've ever coached. He's
definitely one of the best."
Geubelle's numbers alone put him in a class by himself this season.
The
5-foot-10, 185-pounder averaged 9.9 yards per carry, and did it mostly
out of one-back sets rather than with the lead fullback that is a usual
staple of the Eagle offense. He scored 29 touchdowns. And from Week 3
through the first round of the playoffs -- nine games straight -- he had
at least one carry of 30 yards or more every game.
"Being a
senior, it meant a lot," says Geubelle, who has been timed at 4.55
seconds in the 40-yard dash. "I couldn't really ask for much more except
for playing in the state championship game."
Some in Geubelle's shoes might have at least wished for some better luck with injuries.
Hampered
by high ankle sprains his sophomore and junior years and a broken thumb
last year as well, Geubelle hoped for the best for his senior year. But
a nasty pulled hamstring during a summer workout didn't have time to
fully heal.
So instead of taking a breather on the bench every
time he came to the sidelines, Geubelle had to hop on the exercise bike
to stay loose for the next possession. The situation was one BHS coaches
had to be vigilant of all season to make sure they weren't overworking
their star.
For a guy that carries the ball to the end zone on every carry in practice, taking it easy wasn't always well received.
"We would have to hold him out sometimes," Davies says. "He really didn't like that."
One
such instance came in the Eagles' homecomeing win over Thompson Valley.
Geubelle had 10 carries for 87 yards and a score by halftime and was
eager to keep running. But with the Eagles leading 38-0, Davies decided
to shut the back down for the second half rather than risk further
injury.
With a clash against Longmont the next week possibly
deciding the conference title, Geubelle reluctantly understood. He'd
been waiting to face the Trojans for three years after injuries cost him
the chance in the past.
"I was ready," he says.
Geubelle
rushed for 234 yards and five touchdowns on 24 carries in a 41-17 rout
of LHS. The yardage output was his third-highest of the season but
arguably his best.
"The Loveland game the first time we played
them (when Geubelle rushed 11 times for 252 yards), I didn't think a kid
could be better than that," Davies says. "And against Longmont he was."
The Longmont game was one of only three all season in which
Geubelle carried the ball 20 times or more for the 11-2 Eagles. But the
team figured out early on that Geubelle was their key to success on
offense.
In a Week 3 loss with 5A foe Legacy focusing on bottling
Geubelle up, the Eagles went away from him early only to struggle
anyway. Geubelle got rolling late, even scoring from 37 yards out. But
it wasn't enough at that point. Davies admits the early move was a
mistake, and one he didn't make again.
"We wanted to get him the
ball between 15 and 20 times, and we figured every third or fourth time
he was going to take one to the house," the coach says.
Geubelle
-- also a star on the Eagles' state runner-up baseball team last spring
-- says he embraced the pressure of such expectations.
"It comes
with the position I guess," says Geubelle, who hasn't yet decided
whether he'll play football or baseball in college. "You're always going
to have those pressures. But I was confident something was going to
happen."</div>
He's a Senior. Of course, no offers at all. Can't even find a profile of him on Rivals or Scout.
http://www.dailycamera.com/top-sports/ci_16940798
<h1 id="articleTitle" ="articleTitle">Broomfield's Geubelle rushes to top of all-region team</h1><div id="articleSubTitle" ="articleSubTitle">Eagles RB piled up 1,910 yards and 29 TDs on season</div><div id="articleByline" ="articleByline">By Joshua Lindenstein Camera Sports Writer</div><div id="articleDate" ="articleDate">Posted:12/25/2010 12:12:29 AM MST</div><div id="article" ="article"><div ="articleViewerGroup" id="articleViewerGroup" style="border: 0px none;"></span></div>
The Broomfield
football team had a simple strategy this season: Keep handing Dan
Geubelle the football and good things will happen.
Three yards and a cloud of dust? More like 5 yards and a chance of bust(ing one to the house).
You
might stop Geubelle short once, twice or even three times. But sooner
or later he was going to break a defense's spirit with a big gain.
Despite
a pulled hamstring that affected him all fall, the senior tailback had
lightning in his legs this season. And the Eagles rode his 1,910-yard
rushing effort all the way to a Northern League title and the Class 4A
state semifinals. For his performance, Geubelle has been named the
Camera's All-Region Football Player of the year. <div ="article2" style="width: 300px;"><div ="article" style="width: 300px;">
</span><div ="articleCaption" style="width: 100%;">Broomfield's Dan Geubelle has been named Football Player of the Year in
Broomfield, Colorado December 20, 2010. CAMERA/Mark Leffingwell
(
MARK LEFFINGWELL
)</div></div></div>
"We've had a lot of very good tailbacks but
he's definitely very unique," longtime Broomfield coach Gary Davies
says. "He just has great vision, great cutting ability. (Those
attributes) set him apart from anybody I've ever coached. He's
definitely one of the best."
Geubelle's numbers alone put him in a class by himself this season.
The
5-foot-10, 185-pounder averaged 9.9 yards per carry, and did it mostly
out of one-back sets rather than with the lead fullback that is a usual
staple of the Eagle offense. He scored 29 touchdowns. And from Week 3
through the first round of the playoffs -- nine games straight -- he had
at least one carry of 30 yards or more every game.
"Being a
senior, it meant a lot," says Geubelle, who has been timed at 4.55
seconds in the 40-yard dash. "I couldn't really ask for much more except
for playing in the state championship game."
Some in Geubelle's shoes might have at least wished for some better luck with injuries.
Hampered
by high ankle sprains his sophomore and junior years and a broken thumb
last year as well, Geubelle hoped for the best for his senior year. But
a nasty pulled hamstring during a summer workout didn't have time to
fully heal.
So instead of taking a breather on the bench every
time he came to the sidelines, Geubelle had to hop on the exercise bike
to stay loose for the next possession. The situation was one BHS coaches
had to be vigilant of all season to make sure they weren't overworking
their star.
For a guy that carries the ball to the end zone on every carry in practice, taking it easy wasn't always well received.
"We would have to hold him out sometimes," Davies says. "He really didn't like that."
One
such instance came in the Eagles' homecomeing win over Thompson Valley.
Geubelle had 10 carries for 87 yards and a score by halftime and was
eager to keep running. But with the Eagles leading 38-0, Davies decided
to shut the back down for the second half rather than risk further
injury.
With a clash against Longmont the next week possibly
deciding the conference title, Geubelle reluctantly understood. He'd
been waiting to face the Trojans for three years after injuries cost him
the chance in the past.
"I was ready," he says.
Geubelle
rushed for 234 yards and five touchdowns on 24 carries in a 41-17 rout
of LHS. The yardage output was his third-highest of the season but
arguably his best.
"The Loveland game the first time we played
them (when Geubelle rushed 11 times for 252 yards), I didn't think a kid
could be better than that," Davies says. "And against Longmont he was."
The Longmont game was one of only three all season in which
Geubelle carried the ball 20 times or more for the 11-2 Eagles. But the
team figured out early on that Geubelle was their key to success on
offense.
In a Week 3 loss with 5A foe Legacy focusing on bottling
Geubelle up, the Eagles went away from him early only to struggle
anyway. Geubelle got rolling late, even scoring from 37 yards out. But
it wasn't enough at that point. Davies admits the early move was a
mistake, and one he didn't make again.
"We wanted to get him the
ball between 15 and 20 times, and we figured every third or fourth time
he was going to take one to the house," the coach says.
Geubelle
-- also a star on the Eagles' state runner-up baseball team last spring
-- says he embraced the pressure of such expectations.
"It comes
with the position I guess," says Geubelle, who hasn't yet decided
whether he'll play football or baseball in college. "You're always going
to have those pressures. But I was confident something was going to
happen."</div>