The Book: 2003 Football

[CajunGuru]

Pos. No. Player Class Ht.
LE 47 Antonio Floyd Sr. 6-1, 237
55 Derace James Sr. 6-3, 255

RE 40 Eugene Kwarteng So. 6-4, 240
90 Travis Bass Jr.-JC 6-1, 240

LT 93 Darryl Blappert Jr.-JC 6-7, 275
99 Shawn Williams Sr. 6-1, 313

RT 63 Daniel Taylor Sr. 6-1, 283
5 Kendrick Haynes Jr.-JC 6-4, 285


LB 4 Stanley Smith So. 6-1, 234
10 Mack Fair or Fr.-RS 6-1, 225


LB 59 Ross Brupbacher Sr. 6-1, 231
32 Tyler Norman So.-RS 6-2, 210


S 27 Patrick Lamy Sr. 5-10, 195
Whip 36 Wes Simon Fr.-RS 6-0, 200

S 26 Jamal Smith Sr. 5-10, 195
Rover C.C. Brown Jr.-JC 6-2, 205

S 31 David Prater Jr.-RS 5-11, 205
Free 3 Wendall Williams Jr. 6-2, 215

LCB 20 Terryl Fenton So. 6-1, 200
Antwain Spann Jr.-JC 6-0, 185

RCB 34 Jerrell Carter Jr. 5-8, 185
29 Ricky Thomas Jr.-JC 6-0, 190



Look for battles to continue until the first game. Surprises so far, Haynes(strong),C.C.Brown(athlete), Bass(first two steps) and Spann(smooth).

[1stTake]

How about a pepper pile on. One pepper jumps on the pile for every point scored.

[1stTake]

Cool!!! You getting me ready for the season. Does Justin have a chance?

[GreyGoose]

What about the old scoreboard? Some of the players are asking about it. If you dont know it is all right. But
I would like to know.

[Cajun1997]

Good to see you back Ryan. Are you coming in for 9-6?

[TuffGuy84]

Get someone at cajunfield who is willing to eat a red hot jalapeno pepper for each point we score, much like i think Tex AM does pushups for each point they get. we score 30 points, and someones throats gonna be on fire.

Tuffguy

[Turbine]

Only 4 players on the list under 6' tall.

Is that an alltime low?

[Crawfish]

Note: The following is my alway uninformed and biased report on football pratices I attended this week. Take it for what it is worth.

Guys and gals, I am trying my best to not get too excited about the football team, because I know in my heart we still have some positions that need some help, BUT...

Man, this weeks practices have been encouraging. There are several positive things that are hard to ignore about this team, at least from a Crawfish point of view. Here are a few of those:

The huge JC kid that plays on the defensive line who is wearing # 5 in practice. I am guessing his name is George Benson, who is listed at 6'3" 290. Guys, this fellow is almost another a monster, he is so big and MEAN! I stand corrected on the name, this guy is Kendrick Haynes (6" 4' 285).

The line on both sides of the ball is more lean, faster, yet still has adequate size.

The wide receiver corp is the deepest I have ever seen. If teams double team Stamps, one of the several speedsters will burn them up. Then again, Stamps is a ball vacuum that will pull in one from 5 yards away. He will play on Sunday next season.

The running Back corp is much improved over last years group. If I were to guess, I'd say Lindon will be the starter at tailback, but that could change as well.
Both of the Tight ends can catch the ball, and I expect they will be getting thrown to more this year for short yardage and as a relief valve.

Babb is looking more like the starting QB all of the time. Today he took 90% of the snaps. I would say that if we were going to have a QB controversy, that Rekeita would be splitting more practice time by. now. Babb was hitting all of his receiver today in practice, especially Fred. Fred was involved in several long pass plays today, and most of them were completions.

The defensive secondary has improved immensely since the spring, some of this is due to additional players being available. The one player that no one can cover is Stamps.

The conditioning of the teams is light years better than in years past. After a couple of hours of practice in the blazing sun, the guys are still fired up and hitting with gusto.

These are some of my observations from attending 4 practices this week. Of course I am no expert, and I do not know how this may convert into wins. I will say this though: As of today, this is a much better team than I have seen in a 1st week camp in a number of years. They are in better condition, they know there roles better and they are more enthusiastic. Who knows whether that will mean more wins.

[Cajun1997]

Great report Don, I think #5 is Haynes not sure but it seems at the recruiting bash that they had his number as 5. But I could be wrong.

[TuffGuy84]

Thanks for the report, I was starting to wonder if practices were dull, cuzz i remember this time last year, there as much more talk about the practices. Also, I want to say that the articles in the paper that one of the players is writing (cant think of this name, I wanna say lawrence) is awesome, From that I get a feel that this team is getting more and more pumped up. I still keep hearing that line in my head from last year after we lost to ULM that coach Bustle said "this will never happen again", and the more I read, the more I have faith that he has gotten us in a position to win more games.

Tuffguy

[TheScout307]

I dont think it really matters how many guys are 6ft its all about how "big" they play . I can tell you this much you got 11 guys who can play some good ball and are willing to go that inch for each other . Screw the weight,height or anything else its all about making the play, getting to the ball first and being aggressive and I can assure you our D is very aggressive. Go cajuns! Our D is right this year

[NewsCopy]

Friday Aug 8th
I think the both the offense and the defense got something out of the work we put in Friday. Offensively, I feel like we got much better, especially on the offensive line. I think we put in a much better effort.

One-on-one drills are a test of strength and fortitude between two players. It is a one- on-one dog fight. Whoever plays with a lower pad level and more strength usually wins. I feel like we did much better in this part of practice.

Guys are starting to understand technique matters now. As a player in the trenches, you cannot just fire off the ball and hit the guy in front of you. You could get away with that in high school (believe me, I know), but now you have to have use certain types of footwork on certain plays.

The rest of Lawrence Johnson's football practice report