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DONE! UL now has a 1,000 yard running back! Great job, T-Train and the great O-line! Outstanding job by the entire offense this season. Tonight the defense really stepped up, too! Great team win today! Conference co-champions - sure sounds good!Quote:
Originally Posted by Turbine
I cant wait to see Fenroy 3 years from now. He is already something special!
I got to talk to Tyrell & his Dad after the game. I don't know how he does it. He is not big and imposing at all. He and I are about the same size. He did let me give him a "chest bump"........like a rock.Quote:
Originally Posted by RaginCajun08
..O.. I wonder how Co-Champs Funroe feels having part of the Co-Championship, NOT being bowl eligable, and having lost to one of the other Co-Champs "LOUISIANA" BY 33 points!!! And it could have been worst!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by RedBug58
DaddyCajun!
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MONROE - They may be sharing the Sun Belt Conference title, but Tyrell Fenroy laid claim to the hardware here Saturday evening.
"We're the Sun Belt champions," Fenroy said. "We're the best team in the conference."
Fenroy also claimed something else during the University of Louisiana's runaway 54-21 win over UL Monroe, that being the title of all-time leader among Ragin' Cajun running backs.
The freshman from LaPlace powered his way for 164 yards and three touchdowns on 20 carries Saturday, giving him 1,053 yards in his first collegiate season. He became the first UL running back ever to eclipse the magic 1,000-yard mark.
"The main thing was winning," said Fenroy, who turned in a school-record fourth straight 100-yard rushing game. "Once we got it pretty well in hand, getting 1,000 yards was on my mind."
He didn't have to think long about it, going over that mark on a nifty 60-yard burst on the sixth offensive play of the second half. He easily surpassed UL's school mark of 979 season yards by a running back, that one set by Marcus Prier in 1995.
Brian Mitchell is the only other Cajun to hit that mark, rushing for 1,311 yards as a senior in 1989.
"We felt like he'd get his yards," said Cajun coach Rickey Bustle. "But he made some great runs. I'm excited for him and the offensive line. Any time you have a 1,000-yard guy, he doesn't do it by himself."
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"We got together with the offensive line, and just said we had to do it," Fenroy said of a sideline gathering of part of the UL offense in the first half. "We needed to control the ball and keep it away from them (ULM), and those guys did a great job once again. They gave me a lot of room to run."
Over the last four games - all UL wins - Fenroy has rushed for 569 yards on 106 carries and 10 touchdowns. He finished his freshman season with 12 rushing scores and as the nation's third-leading true freshman rusher.
"We thought when we recruited him, he had a chance to be special," Bustle said. "His shiftiness, his acceleration ... the thing I liked most about him was that he'd make one move and then accelerate. He's as good as I've been around."
Fenroy, though, was more worried about winning and claiming a league title, after being held to only 4 yards in the first quarter.
"This feels great," he said, "coming off a 1-5 start and to come back and get a piece of the championship. That was the best second, third and fourth quarters we've played all year."
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Its the old sayingQuote:
Originally Posted by RedBug58
"Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog"
That statement explains the general attitude of alot of the players this year I think though.
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LOUISIANA La. -- When he decided in February to sign Tyrell Fenroy to a scholarship, University of Louisiana at Lafayette football coach Rickey Bustle felt he was signing a unique running back.
After just 11 games in a ULL uniform, Fenroy's performance has matched those expectations.
Fenroy ran his way into the school's record books on Saturday after he gained 164 yards in ULL's season-ending 54-21 victory over the University of Louisiana at Monroe.
Not only was the effort Fenroy's third straight game of gaining 100 or more yards, it gave him 1,053 for the season.
Fenroy also scored three touchdowns as part of the Cajuns' rushing attack, ranked No. 7 nationally before the start of the game.
It also put Fenroy into the school's record books, making him the first ULL running back to gain more than 1,000 yards in a single season since records were kept, beginning in the 1950s.
Quarterback Brian Mitchell gained 1,311 in 1989, but the most yardage any Cajuns' running back gained before Fenroy was the 979 yards in 1995 from Marcus Prier.
Fenroy put his achievement into perspective shortly before climbing aboard a team bus for home after Saturday's game.
"I felt like I could get the thousand yards, because that was my goal at the start of the season," he said. "It's a very big thing for me, becoming the first running back (in UL) history to do that.
"You have to remember that you need a good offensive line to do that," he said. "The way they blocked all season showed that they had confidence and the certainly had a hand in getting the job done for me."
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Bustle, as the Virginia Tech offensive coordinator who coached former All-American Michael Vick, said he anticipated Fenroy's abilities.
"When we recruited him, we felt he had a chance to be a special back," Bustle said. "When he came into our camp in August, he showed us some things then. He just took it from there."
Like Fenroy, Bustle said the yardage was a by-product of competent blocking from a veteran offensive line.
"I felt like (Fenroy) would get the yards that we were expecting from him. A 1,000-yard back doesn't do all that by himself," said Bustle.
Bustle said there are two characteristics that have separated Fenroy from other running backs that he's coached.
"(Fenroy's) as good as I've ever been around," Bustle said. "He has that shiftiness and acceleration. You see him make just one move and then there's that acceleration, that's exactly what he does. When you looked a the film on him from (St. Charles High), you saw that, He'd make a cut quick and then give you that acceleration."
After gaining just 36 first quarter yards, ULL quarterback Jerry Babb said the Cajuns got back to doing what they've done best this season -- pound things out.
"We started grinding it out, which means we let Tyrell and the line do their jobs," said Babb, who rushed for 100 yards. "It's nice when you know you have a running game, because it gives you something to build on for next year."
ULL finished with a 1,000-yard-plus performance from Babb and backup quarterback Mike Desormeaux, who directed the Cajuns' victories over Middle Tennessee and Troy.
Babb finished with 437 yards in eight games, while Desormeaux ended with 574 in eight contests.
The Cajuns had 348 rushing yards on 57 attempts against ULM -- their second best running effort of the season.
ULL ended the season with 1,722 rushing yards, adding to their record-breaking single season team record which was established in a victory over Florida International several weeks ago.
Fenroy said the offense experimented with throwing the ball early in Saturday's game, merely to probe the Indians' defense.
"We were planning on running the ball all along, but we wanted to come out and see how their defense was reacting to our offense," he said. "We saw what they were going to do and then we went more with the running."
Babb said the victory over ULM was satisfying after the Cajuns lost four of their first five games.
"It was a great feeling to send the seniors out like this and it's also something to build on for next year," Babb said. "A lot of people gave up on us when we were 1-5, but as a team we believed we could come back and still having a winning season. The fact is, we believed and look at the result."
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