If Greg Bzorek's football career is over, it's ending with a flourish.

The 6-foot-6, 330-pound Edinboro University senior right tackle and Knoch graduate has been named second team Associated Press Little All-America this year after being named to the third team last season.

The AP Little All-America team includes players from NCAA Division II and III and NAIA.

Bzorek is one of eight Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference players selected. He is only the sixth Edinboro player ever named to the team twice and the first Fighting Scot to achieve the feat since Mike Kegarise in 1992 and 1993.

"He is most deserving and one of the finest offensive linemen in Edinboro history," Fighting Scots head coach Lou Tepper said in a prepared statement.

Offensive line coach Scott Browning, a member of Edinboro's coaching staff for 20 years, agreed.

"He's one of the best we've ever had," Browning said. "Greg worked very hard every day he was in our program. Not many offensive tackles are team leaders, but that's what he was to us.

"The players on our team have tremendous respect for Greg. They followed him and he led them to where they wanted to be led."

That was to the PSAC West championship.

Bzorek's red-shirt season was 2001, when Edinboro finished 4-6 — its fifth consecutive losing season. Bzorek wound up being an all-conference player his last three seasons and helped the Scots win three consecutive PSAC West titles.

"That's what I'm most proud of, being part of the class that turned things around at Edinboro," Bzorek said. "I saw that happen at Slippery Rock. It's a rare thing.

"I'm proud of the fact I was able to experience that."

Bzorek started 44 of the 45 games he played at Edinboro. He never missed a start and played at times with a broken big toe and fractured fingers.

"The guy never even missed a practice," Browning said. "The only one who ever knew whether he was hurt was the trainer — if even he knew."

"It all comes with playing offensive line," Bzorek said. "You get taped up, suck it up, go out there and play."

Edinboro has led the PSAC in fewest sacks allowed each of the past two seasons, giving up seven sacks this season and nine last year.

Bzorek did not allow a sack himself during the past two seasons.

"It's hard for a lineman to forget when he lets a guy get past him to the quarterback," Bzorek said. "I tried to avoid that feeling."

In 2004, Andre Burke rushed for a school-record 1,713 yards behind Edinboro's offensive line.

This year, despite having no tailback with even one previous carry for the Scots, Edinboro averaged 199.3 yards rushing per game."That's how good this line was," Bzorek said. "That's how much pride this line had. We've started a tradition that I hope future teams continue up there."Bzorek will graduate with a degree in environmental studies this spring. He was scouted by NFL teams this season and has spoken with scouts from the Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Bears and San Francisco 49ers.He is playing in the Cactus Bowl, the Division II All-Star Game, Jan. 6 in Kingsville, Texas."That will be his final push to show scouts what he can do," Browning said. "He's got the size and strength, I know that."The difference in speed at the pro level is what may prevent Bzorek from getting there."It has to be night and day, compared to Division II," he admitted. "Coming from a small Division II school, I know the odds are against me."The scouts like my pass-blocking. It's the footwork I need to work on. If you're mobile enough on the field, nobody cares how much weight you're carrying."If Bzorek doesn't wind up in pro football — NFL, Canadian league or Arena — next year, he has hopes of returning to Edinboro as a graduate assistant coach next season."I treated every practice, every game, every play this season like it was my last," Bzorek said. "Whether football works out for me as a career or not, either way, I have no regrets, absolutely none."