OL Mike Walczak commits to Louisiana
Complete list of 2005 verbal commitments Cajuns earn pledge from 320-pound lineman
LOUISIANA La. - Louisiana's Ragin' Cajun football team has gone into the junior college ranks for the second time in the 2005 recruiting season, getting a verbal commitment from offensive lineman Mike Walczak of Pima Junior College in Tucson, Ariz.
The 6-foot-4, 320-pound Walczak visited the UL campus last weekend and gave Ragin' Cajun head coach Rickey Bustle a verbal pledge on Monday. Walczak will complete the spring semester at Pima before coming to Louisiana.
"The Southern hospitality was great," said Walczak of his visit. "Everybody from the community that I talked to and the players spoke very highly of the program. The environment was great, it was lots of fun and I'm looking forward to being out there."
Walczak turned 22 on Sunday when he returned to Tucson, and said his experience was one of the factors that impressed the UL coaches.
"I was captain for all 11 games this past year," he said. "They (UL) needed to fill a spot, they needed a juco guy to come in and make an impact right away in the offensive line. And I was ready to go anywhere that I'd have a chance to play."
Walczak was a key cog in Pima's 9-3 record and a final No. 5 national ranking among junior college squads. The Pima squad of coach Jeff Scurran was invited to play in the Pilgrim's Pride Bowl in Texas and beat No. 3-ranked Kilgore JC 10-7 in the bowl game.
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Dan McDonald
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