The Book: 2002-03 Louisiana Football season

[Turbine]

Seeing Autrey's work ethic in practice leaves no question as to why he is so good in games.

[sandra]

>>Green is a no-no.<<

Implication: Red is a Geaux Geaux

[cajun37]

you can,t be serious! autry doesn,t hardly do anything in practice. he may kick 10-15 punts a practice which is not a very good work ethic. go to other schools practices and you will see what real kickers and punters have to do at practice. one hour of kicking, thirty minutes of ball handling drills, thirty miutes of mental drills, forty-five minutes of running drills and thirty minutes of special team drills. you say he is so good in the games. when i saw him punt i knew he was weak. in the first three games he he kicked the ball short and then would get a good roll. i knew it would just be a matter of time before teams would see tapes and start putting their punt returners up closer. since then he has dropped from #11 to #62 and has gone from a 44.7 to a 40.2 avg.

[Turbine]

Originally posted by cajun37
you can,t be serious! autry doesn,t hardly do anything in practice . . . when i saw him punt i knew he was weak. in the first three games he he kicked the ball short and then would get a good roll. . . has gone from a 44.7 to a 40.2 avg.

Well I must admit I am not a punting guru.

However what I have noticed on the part of Grant is a tireless devotion to his practicing what I call "the drop".

I attribute the slip from his early average to his being asked to kick every ball out of bounds agaisnt LSU. In fact I was impressed with his 35.2-yard average against LSU. When you consider 12 kicks no shanks after Davis had that first great return. I thought his directional abilities were very good.

Since the all time best D1 NCAA average is 46.3, I am not ready to call his 40.2 average that you mention a poor average.

Then again if you say he has no work ethic, then who am I to argue. I certainly am no punting expert.

[Cajun1997]

Turbine,
Autrey is 4th in the SBC in Punting with an avg of 40.1 per kick. UI punter Ryan Downes is 1st with and avg kick of 42.0, since Autrey is seperated from the conference leader by less than 2 yards a kick, I would say he is not doing too bad.

[EVCajun12]

There's a bunch...5 new ones as of today:

http://www.fanstop.com/fanclub/ncaaf...lt/default.asp

[cajun37]

I didn't say his average is bad. I do think his average is misleading in that his punting at beginning of the season was mostly short line drives that the punt returners chose not to field the ball therfore he got allot of yardage on rolls. If he was so good he would not have had to punt the ball out of bounds in the lsu game. A good college punter can hang a 40-42 yd. Punt 4.2 to 4.6 seconds. If he does that lsu doesn't run the ball back. I would consider a 27,29,30 and 33yd. Punt a shank even if your punting toward the sideline. You need to know that most of the punters that rank in the top 30 have to pooch punt 30-35% of the time and still maintain a high avg. Since our offense isn't too good it is very rare for grant to have to pooch punt so he gets to kick away almost every time. I did say his work ethic was bad. At other college programs kickers and punters work as hard as all the other players not stand on the sideline doing drop drills. Drop drills are part of the equation but there is so much more to it than just that. His operation time is 2.0 to 2.2 thats bad. 1.2 to 1.5 is the norm. Good thing ul has a great deep snapper. I wish him all the luck in the world.

[Turbine]

Good points cajun37 thanks for bringing me up to speed. Keep it up, that is how we learn.

[NewsCopy]

Advertisers-Bruce Brown

LAFAYETTE - Trey Randall couldn't believe it.

The transfer from Kilgore Junior College was in his first day of spring drills, hoping to impress Rickey Bustle and the UL Lafayette coaching staff and trying to find a home at linebacker in the aggressive new defensive scheme.

Then it happened. A torn Achilles tendon ended his spring and put the talented Los Angeles native on the shelf until early fall.

Now, he's ready to make up for lost time.

"At first," Randall said, "it didn't hurt. It was more of a shock. I knew what I had done when it happened."

It was a terrible first step for Randall, who liked what he saw in defensive coordinator Brent Pry's scheme and wanted to be a part of it.

"It's a more in-your-face type of defense," Randall said. "It's a 4-4, instead of a 4-3, and we like to get in the quarterback's face. I like it a lot. It's a lot of fun. You get to run around and wreak havoc out there."

Obviously, though, Randall wasn't running anywhere until his Achilles healed.

"I got so much confidence from my teammates," Randall said. "They all pushed me to come back.

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From the Advertiser

CAJUN CLIPPINGS - Senior cornerback Charles Tillman leads the Cajuns in tackles with 54 and is within six of Damon Mason (243) for third all-time in career tackles among defensive backs at the school ... the Cajuns have 11 sacks by eight different players this season ... UL has lost 14 consecutive games when trailing at half.

[NewsCopy]

Louisiana and Western Kentucky picked to win SBC Divisions

New Orleans- Basketball is in the air, as Louisiana was picked to win the West division and Western Kentucky was picked to win the East division announced today at the Sun Belt Conference media days. Chris Marcus was also picked as SBC preseason player of the year. WKU is coming off a 28-4 season and a NCAA tournament bid. Louisiana is coming off a 20-11 season and earned a NIT bid. Sophomore Center Michael Southall also earned first team SBC honors.

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[1stTake]

Nice stuff but I hate 4 popups at once. Looks like UL and the SunBelt will get noticed on February 26.