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South Carolina safety Emmanuel Cook was arrested on a gun charge and suspended from the university on Friday, making him ineligible to play for the Gamecocks.
Cook, 19, was charged with unlawful possession of a pistol, according to a police report.
Cook and James Gore III, 21, were arrested by University of South Carolina police Thursday night at a parking lot near campus dormitories, the report said.
The athletic department issued a statement saying Cook was suspended from the university because of an arrest involving a weapon.
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Cook, a sophomore from Riviera Beach, Fla., played in 10 games a year ago, starting five of them. He had 47 tackles last season and was named to the all-Southeastern Conference freshman team.
When police arrived at the campus dormitories Thursday, officers saw Gore try to hide something inside a car, according to the police report. Cook told police there was a gun in the car, and a loaded magazine was found on Gore, authorities said.
Gore, 21, was charged with unlawful carry or display of a firearm.
Both were taken to the Richland County jail, where they remained Friday afternoon, according to the detention center's Web site.
Athletic spokesman Steve Fink said coach Steve Spurrier would be available after Friday afternoon's practice.
Cook's arrest comes a day after Spurrier said three players, including starting quarterback Blake Mitchell, would sit out the first game against Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns on Sept. 1 because of excessive absences during summer school. The other players were running back Bobby Wallace and defensive back Chris Hail.
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<b> UL Fans are invited to attend the taping of Coach Bustle's show every Monday, starting 11:15 a.m. at Baja Beach Grill </b>
LOUISIANA La. - With the start of the 2007 football season around the corner, KLAF-TV will begin airing Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns head football coach Rickey Bustle's Coaches Show every Monday, beginning Sept. 3. Coach Bustle's show will begin taping every Monday morning at 11:15 a.m. at Baja Beach Grill located on Bertrand Drive.
UL fans are invited to join the KLAF television crew during the taping. The show will air at a new and improved time of 9:30 p.m. on Monday nights, only on KLAF.
A total of 12 UL football coaches shows will be taped this year, airing on the following dates: Sept. 3, Sept. 10, Sept. 17, Sept. 24, Oct. 1, Oct. 8, Oct. 15, Oct. 22, Nov. 5, Nov. 12, Nov. 19 and Nov. 26. No coaches show will air on Oct. 29 (UL's Open Date week).
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Every football team is filled with special situations, and UL's football team did its best to go through most of them Saturday.
In what has become an annual session just before the start of game week, Cajun coach Rickey Bustle showed his team 72 scripted scenarios for the morning workout, and went over procedures for each.
"There's so many situations, you're never going to get to all of them," Bustle said, "but we started some of these yesterday and the day before so the guys could get a look. We had some snafus, but we took them through a lot."
The Cajuns, who open their 2007 season next Saturday at South Carolina, went through a full game-day experience during the morning session including pre-game warmup procedures that begin precisely 55 minutes before kickoff.
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UL also went through alignment on the sidelines and each unit's location in the bench area.
"Good sideline organization allows for good communication," said Cajun strength and conditioning coach Rob Phillips, who prowls the game sidelines as the "get-back" coach and keeps players behind the restraining line between the bench area and the coaches' box.
The script included odd situations such as safeties, blocked kicks and other mistakes in the kicking game, fake field goals, tipped balls and the unique scenarios that present themselves at the end of games and in overtime.
Bustle's attention to detail included making sure that players hand the ball to an official after touchdowns and avoiding excessive celebration. "Celebrate with your teammates" was often heard through Bustle's megaphone during the play simulations.
"You don't assume anything," Bustle said.
Ironically, one of the odd occurrences that UL goes through every preseason popped up the last time the Cajuns met South Carolina. In the 2003 opener, cornerback Michael Adams blocked a USC field goal attempt on the last play of the first half, and after a midfield lateral Pat Lamy finished off an 89-yard return for a touchdown.
On Saturday, a similar situation came up on a staged interception by Jarrett Jones on the last play of a half. Jones intentionally fumbled when he was being tackled and teammate Scooter Rogers scooped the ball and returned it the rest of the way.
"There's so many situations that depend on the clock," Bustle said. "If you only have a few seconds left, you may want to scoop the ball and try to score rather than fall on it."
PERSONNEL: Four true freshmen - linebacker Grant Fleming of St. Thomas More, cornerback Orkeys Auriene of Daytona Beach, Fla., defensive end Jeremy Cook of Baker and punter Spencer Ortego of Teurlings Catholic - worked with UL's units that held the Saturday simulations. Those units will likely make up the travel squad for the opener. UL's other top local signee, wide receiver Lance Kelley of STM, worked with the scout team during Saturday's drills.
Offensive tackle Jesse Newman (sore back) and linebacker Tre' Green (hamstring) also worked with the top units, but their status for the opener is still questionable with those injuries.
QUIET, PLEASE: Inmate labor was being used early Saturday in the Cajun Field grandstand area for cleanup after Friday's Lafayette Kiwanis Jamboree. The workers had to stop the power blowers during practice so that the players could hear Bustle's scenarios.
NEXT: UL begins its normal game-week routine with a 7:30 p.m. practice tonight at Cajun Field. The squad will take Monday as its NCAA-mandated day off during the week and will return to practice at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.
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A long time before he was playing football, Brad Bustle was hanging around football coaches.
He was born in 1987, not long after his father went to Virginia Tech as quarterbacks coach. By the time dad became the Hokies' offensive coordinator and Tech made the first of what is now 13 straight bowl
Six years later, the Hokies played for a national championship, and Brad was at the Louisiana Superdome taking it all in.
When his family took another trip to South Louisiana in 2002, this time when father Rickey became head coach at UL, he had a whole new set of coaches to evaluate and emulate.
Is there any wonder that his future plans, after he finishes his playing career under his father, are to enter the coaching ranks?
"I've always thought of myself doing that," Brad said. "I've never thought about doing anything else."
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There's time before that happens, of course. He still has three more playing seasons ahead of him, with his sophomore year in the Cajun offensive front beginning Saturday at
South Carolina. He's a likely starter at guard, a position where he made a surprising first-year impact as a freshman last season.
"He really surprised me with the small amount of mental mistakes he had," said Rickey. "But a lot of that probably comes from just being around the game. He takes it seriously, and he has a lot of fun playing the game."
He also knew that, as the coach's son, he had to more than earn his way.
"I wasn't going to be a guy that came in here and was lazy," Brad said. "I felt like I had to work harder to gain respect, and coach (Ron) Hudson isn't the type of guy that's going to
give anyone a spot. He makes sure you earn it.
"The other guys made it easy for me. I heard all the jokes, but we have such good guys here. They helped me a lot. Out of high school I wasn't highly recruited and I had no idea as a redshirt freshman that I'd be playing."
That may not have been that much of a surprise, considering his background with the sport.
"He's been really close to it," said mom Lynn. "And he always was kind of nosy about it, learning as much as he could."
That's the kind of knowledge he hopes to pass on when the playing days end.
"Sometimes I think he's a little nuts for wanting to do this," his father said. "But it's whatever he wants to do. I think coaching is a great profession. It's not the most stable profession sometimes, but you get to be a part of so many things and there are so many kids' lives that you come in contact with.
"I'm proud of him for having a good idea of what he wants to do. I don't know if I had that idea for sure when I was his age."
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Unlike its professional counterpart, college football is known for creating wildly unique offenses.
The Single-wing. The Wishbone. The Run-and-Shoot.
Each offensive scheme is a college creation.
These days, the spread is currently in vogue, with more and more collegiate offenses going to some variation of the no-huddle attack. Teams are incorporating more traditional attack variations into their own version of the spread, but the intent is the same - put the offense in control of how quickly the game takes place.
UL has used a version of the no-huddle over the past two years, one that featured the option, and had some measure of success, including back-to-back seasons among the nation's top 15 rushing teams.
"I don't know if anyone out there is trying to do what we're doing with tempo," said new offensive coordinator Blake Anderson. "What we're doing between the whistles is different."
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What the Cajuns are doing in their actual attack isn't revolutionary or radical. It's being used by several other programs. The difference is the pace of play.
When a play ends, under optimum conditions, all 11 offensive players race to line up for the next snap. The goal is to be over the ball and ready when the umpire places the ball on the turf and the referee blows the ready-for-play whistle.
"If we're not snapping it or we're not in motion in two seconds, something's wrong," Anderson said.
"When he first told us about it, it was like, 'What?'" said tailback Tyrell Fenroy, who had rushed for over 1,000 yards in his freshman and sophomore seasons in the earlier no-huddle incarnation. "It was so quick. You're on the ground, and three seconds later we're lined up."
"When we started talking about tempo, how we were going to be unique in the country, that excited me," said quarterback Michael Desormeaux. "When we're on the same page, it's a lot of fun."
Is this the next big thing? Because of this, does the game undergo a quantum change, becoming more of a non-stop sport like basketball or its rugby cousin? Will there be no more breaks for commentators to fill with inane analysis, or for some of us to write down what just happened?
Probably not. Change comes slowly, and revolution happens even more infrequently. And UL could have selected a better opponent for its new-look debut than a South Carolina team that's picked among the favorites in the SEC East.
But if the Cajuns' high-octane attack causes defenders problems, they'll be satisfied.
"All we're trying to do is get them out of position," Desormeaux said.
When Cajun head coach Rickey Bustle was shopping for someone to run the offense, he had something similar in mind.
"We wanted to continue the no-huddle and pick up the pace," Bustle said. "I liked what Blake and some of their guys were doing when he was at Middle Tennessee, and how it gave our defense some trouble."
He found a kindred spirit in Anderson, who helped the Blue Raiders increase their pass offense every year he was there from 2002-04. The last year, MT averaged 267.7 yards per game passing.
But Anderson is quick to point out that the Cajuns' offensive system aims at the magic balance between rushing and passing - it just tries to do both of them quicker.
"West Virginia does a lot of the same things we do," he said, "and in some years they've been among the national rushing leaders one year and the passing leaders the next. The great thing is that everybody is involved. I played wide receiver where we had to stunt block 40 times a game. That's no fun.
"The guys have embraced the offense, and they've stepped up to that challenge. They've had a lot on their plate since the spring."
They've also run a lot of plays when they've had the opportunity. In UL's first scrimmage, the offense ran 108 plays from scrimmage in an hour and 20 minutes, including a 10-minute "halftime" break.
"We made mistakes that day," Anderson said, "and we've made them every day. That's normal. We just want to make them going full speed."
Overlooked in the rush to line-of-scrimmage judgment is the toll taken on the offensive line. The front wall has to pop up and get back into position a fraction of a second after whatever violent collision occurred on the previous play.
"The big guys up front, they've got my respect more than ever now," said Desormeaux. "They're doing the same thing we're doing, getting ready for the next play, and they're doing it carrying 300 pounds."
Fenroy has been the offensive go-to guy for two seasons, and after 2,250 yards and 22 touchdowns that probably won't change a lot.
"You're not going to take touches away from a great tailback," Anderson said. "But he's going to touch it in different ways. We're going to try to get him the ball where he doesn't have someone right in his face."
"He's talked to me about that a lot," Fenroy said of Anderson. "He wants us to be a dual threat and make our receiving game better. If we can do that, teams are not going to be able to line up eight in the box."
Getting lined up is the whole key. The entire goal of the tempo offense is to take advantage of one defensive mistake, one matchup, one bad alignment.
"That's what we're trying to do, get them out of position," Desormeaux said. "We're busting our tails to catch them and have that one big play. When you get that play, it's exciting."
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Can anybody please tell me what games will be televised this football season? I seem to remember a thread about this already being started, but I can't find it.
Peace and God Bless
I do not know of any game that will be on TV this season. I guess that we will have to go to all of them in person.:p
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09/01 @ South Carolina (CSS) Picked up by ESPN Gameplan
10/06 vs North Texas (ESPN+) Picked up by CoxSports
10/20 vs Florida Atlantic (ESPN+) Picked up by CoxSports
11/03 @ Tennessee (CSS) We will find out ESPN Gameplan info closer to the game...I would guess that it will be.
Can you get the game if you have Cox digital cable