Brad Boyd

[Turbine]

I watched West Virginia almost beat Louisville with the three pointer and it dawned on me, with Green, Mitchell, Cameron, Hamilton, and Wade having a 6th player like Brad Boyd and the Cajuns might be in the final-four.

I'm being a tad facetious but it seems to me that if Brad Boyd had redshirted . . ., with his ability to hit the three pointer. . ., it would have been the difference maker.

[Clutch0364]

Antoine Landry could have been redshirted to...he would have helped out point guard problem and have added much needed depth.

[Corndog308]

hopefully Francis can step up as our point guard. But is he too goo to be redshirted?

[Clutch0364]

I don't think his talent is what would get him redshirted his freshmen year...it would be his size. He does have ability but his weight will be an issue when he is banging with guys much bigger.

[NewsCopy]

One of Acadiana Prep's favorite sons has returned to the Opelousas campus.

Brad Boyd, who starred at Acadiana Prep early in his basketball career, has joined the coaching staff as an assistant coach for boys basketball.

"I jumped at the opportunity," Boyd said of the opening to help the Eagles basketball team. "I know what coach (David) Barham is trying to do here, and I just want to help youth too.

"I just want to give back because people helped me learn every thing I know about the game," Boyd said. "I feel it is my duty to give back to these young kids."

The son of Beth and Tim Boyd, Brad Boyd was a student at Prep from kindergarten through eighth grade before he transferred to St. Thomas More.

"My mom taught me how to play the game at a young age," Boyd said. "I am not sure if I had grabbed it like I did if I hadn't been taught at four or five years old."

Boyd said his practice at home and his playing days at Prep helped set the stage for the rest of his career.

"I scored over 1,500 points when I was at Prep and more than 3,000 points total in my varsity career," Boyd said. "Playing for Danny Broussard at STM helped me improve my game."

Boyd then went on to star at the University of Louisiana, where he was a member of the Ragin' Cajun 1,000 point club (1,130).

He set the career 3-point record (271) and the Cajundome assist record (17) for a single game, one away from the school record set in 1975.

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By Tom Dodge
tdodge@dailyworld.com

[JMV JustMyView]

Good luck Brad!!!!!!!!1

[NewsCopy]

I was recently discussing the hot new sports movie Glory Road with former Louisiana Ragin' Cajun and St. Martinville Senior High standout Tyrone Jones when something occurred to me. It brought to my mind a conversation I had two years ago with the head of AAU boys basketball in Louisiana, Roch Weilbaecher. Weilbaecher told me back then that he was working on a movie, so I asked him if the now-popular Glory Road was that movie, and it was. Many Acadiana area residents, including former Cajun guard Brad Boyd, played small roles in the movie, but Weilbaecher was a behind-the-scenes consultant for the film. His job was to make sure that the directors and actors ran the same plays that Texas Western and Kentucky coaches and players ran back in 1966. Weilbaecher is an athletic director and assistant boys basketball coach at Karr High in New Orleans, in addition to his duties as the state's head of AAU basketball. Miami Heat coach Pat Riley, who played on that Kentucky team, visited the set and told Weilbaecher that he was impressed with the way the actors were running the plays from that game. The rest of the story Dave Thibodeaux sports@theadvertiser.com