The Bulldogs will kick off spring practice on March 9.
The Spring Game will be on April 14.
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The Bulldogs will kick off spring practice on March 9.
The Spring Game will be on April 14.
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Just curious, will any of the new Bulldogs be able to participate in the Spring Camp if there not enrolled at LaTech? Wondering about the Ruston High RB...
Not if they are not in school.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlindDog
Thanks PawDawg!Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
Anyone know if any of the JrCo. guys are enrolled at LaTech yet?
Brandon Floyd was an early enrollee and is already a LA Tech student. The other two are still on the way.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlindDog
http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/spo...ech/315667002/
EDIT 3/13/18:
Correction- LBer's Brandon Floyd and JUCO DPOY Connor Taylor are both already at Tech for spring practices!
Early enrollees/transfers: Linebacker Connor Taylor and strong safety Brandon Floyd got their jersey numbers, No. 40 for Taylor and No. 31 for Floyd. Both have been taking reps either first or second at their respective positions.
Any word out of the Spring Camp yet?
Kam McKnight has moved (at least temporarily) to RB. In HS Kam was a very tough RB to tackle per his videos. Excellent decision coaches!!!!
On the move: Bulldog head coach Skip Holtz and running backs coach Tony Ball has to replace two 1,000-yard rushers in Boston Scott and Jarred Craft and right now, they’re giving rising senior Kam McKnight a good look in the backfield. McKnight is huge back there at 6-foot-2, 232 pounds, but he played the position at East Feliciana High School and Holtz has said he likes what he’s seen.
Speaking of Connor Taylor. He has made his presence very well known in practice! He even got Amik fired up on this one on one drill!
https://twitter.com/CoryDiaz_TNS/sta...08441023401991
It was note
It was noted that Amit was getting some time as a possible kick off and punt return guy for the BULLDOGS as well!
Please don't use him for that.
I wouldn't mind so much for KO returns. He would have more time to set up blocking and pick his path. Veal does a pretty decent job at punt returns.
Many more injuries on KO than punt returns.Quote:
Originally Posted by Houston Techsan
I think the NCAA is trying to eliminate KO returns. Didn't I read that starting next season you can fair catch kickoffs anywhere inside the 25 and get it on the 25, or did I dream that?Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
It's one rule that will be discussed. http://www.latechbbb.com/forum/showt...t-in-TouchbackQuote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
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http://footballscoop.com/news/ncaa-p...acks-kickoffs/
Other proposed changes:Quote:
The NCAA Football Rules Committee on Friday proposed altering the game’s kickoff rules to allow the receiving team to fair catch the kick inside the 25-yard line and have it result in a touchback.
The committee made the proposal to address player safety on the kickoff and to address tactics that attempt to pin the receiving team close to its goal line. All other aspects of the kickoff play will remain the same.
- ban blocks below the waist > 5 yards past line of scrimmage
- pace of play - 40 second play clock after a TD (for XP). Also 40 second play clock after KO for 1st down.
- The addition of a 10-second runoff was approved when instant replay overturns the ruling on the field inside of one minute in either half and the correct ruling would not have stopped the game clock.
- The committee approved the continuation of a collaborative instant-replay decision-making model that is not limited to the press box in the stadium.
- Leaping rules on field goals and extra points were adjusted to mirror similar rules dealing with leaping the shield on punting plays. It is illegal to leap over the frame of the body of an opponent.
- On successful field goals, penalty enforcement will be the same as on made extra points. Namely, all personal fouls and unsportsmanlike conduct fouls by the defending team will have the option to be enforced on the ensuing kickoff.
But are all those injuries to the returner? A lot of the injuries are to the blockers or those being blocked.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
Another practice and the new LB Connor Taylor makes another big play. Check out the one handed INT.
https://twitter.com/connordtaylor2/s...12131657469952
Was that our rockstar throwing the ball? Or is he still recovering this spring?
nice! :dQuote:
Originally Posted by dogswin
That pass is from the hands of number 10 or number 18. His jersey is a bit crumpled so I couldn't make the distinction.
This team needed a spark plug really badly, and it looks like they got it in Taylor.Quote:
Originally Posted by DogsWin
I think you are right. Taylor retweeted another video of him in practice blowing up somebody in a 1 on 1.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
so, our #1 QB had shoulder surgery and hadn't thrown a ball in 3 months...
I have not seen any thing about how he is doing in Spring Camp, hopefully he is out there competing!
He is out there competing.
Not true.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlindDog
So, do we have anyone that will challenge our QB for next year? If so, is it possible or is Skip just set on him?
no, yesQuote:
Originally Posted by champion110
What's not true? I am certain that I read that in an article somewhere! Maybe it wasn't his shoulder??Quote:
Originally Posted by TrueBulldog1962
I think it was a knee and he has had a pretty solid spring according to those who have watched him practice -Quote:
Originally Posted by BlindDog
Of course he has. We are also averaging over 2000 in baseball attendanceQuote:
Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden
La Tech, inflating attendance numbers since 1929 :)Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
Im sure he's doing fine.
Terry Bradshaw threw 7 picksQuote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
[QUOTE=Dixonfor6;1691047] yep
vs Southern Miss in Shreveport on thanksgiving day-- we were destroyed --Terry 6 or 7 picks --about 800 people at game--I was one of them --Quote:
Originally Posted by Dixonfor6
you and about 5000 other people...Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogsince65
I wasn't. I probably was in Shreveport at my brother's house for Thanksgiving dinner. Was that '66 or '67? I may be confusing the So. Miss game with the NM State game. We were trounced by both. We got payback on both in '68. Since So. Miss was in Hattiesburg in '68 it was probably them in '67 and NM State in '66. Two awful seasons.
so... what's happening at Spring practice?
Football and stuffQuote:
Originally Posted by TECHLAX
Rock stars are being formedQuote:
Originally Posted by TECHLAX
They're competing.Quote:
Originally Posted by TECHLAX
We are 60% of the way through spring practice, and our SID still hasn't written a single article about it. She's fallen asleep again. :sleeping3:
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Originally Posted by arkansasbob
kind of extension of the attendance thread-- reported "crowd" was tickets sold ( 4500) and actual starting attendance --pretty small--by halftime most folks had left. I stayed because I did not have a car -- of note--we beat S Miss 20-13 the next year
nov 28 1967. we beat SM 20-13 the next year (68).Quote:
Originally Posted by Houston Techsan
USM owns us
Cory Diaz had an article in the Online Times yesterday with a short clip of Skip. Actually I just saw it this PM so it might be newer.
Truth!Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
My TechFB friends and fans have asked about spring practice photos.
They can be viewed (and/or purchased) at this link:
Thanks!
https://latechsportsphotos.photoshelter.com/…/C0000C…/spring
Great pics, T-Mo. Well done again. It was a beautiful spring day in Ruston.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgpix
I'm sure glad that Jaylon Ferguson is back with us this year. He is an amazing physical specimen. He just looks like a baaaaaad man! LOL!
Color me RED & BLUE! But, I'm very hopeful we're gonna have a great year in '18. The heretofore elusive 10th win? Yep! I think it will happen.
Ummm....took another look at our '18 schedule. Four tough road games: LSU, MSU, FAU, USM. Going 2-2 in those would be just fine, thanks.
Did J'Mar put on about 15 pounds? Did McKnight lose 15 pounds?
Who are the first-team RBs right now? Dancy, Flemming, McKnight, other?
Thank you. I was beginning to wonder if we were actually having Spring practice. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Dawgpix
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Originally Posted by Dawgpix
I was beginning to wonder if TMo was still with us. ;) You've been missed my man!Quote:
Originally Posted by OLDBLUE
1-3 would be progress!Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
All these teams have problems.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
LSU - New starting QB and RB.
MSU - New coaching staff, but they do get their qb back.
FAU - New QB. Could they have a sophomore slump?
USM - Probably a new QB and lost a bunch of players/coaches.
lsu - SEC team, Holtz can't/won't beat themQuote:
Originally Posted by SouthernMiss3613
msu - SEC team, Holtz can't/won't beat them
FAU - really our best shot, hoping for the sophomore slump
USM - Holtz's daddy
We have a QB problem too....ours is back!Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthernMiss3613
From the Nixer..."You gotta love it"Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
maybe we can transfer in the quarterback from frisco bowl that got the offensive mvp !!! That guy was really good and heard he had 1 full year in our system.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
what a great attitude! Holtz is the reason we lose to SEC team--- and Holtz is responsible for lifetime record of 34-15 against S Miss. FAKE News. HOLTZ is my coach-- love the posts before SMU bowl game ripping Skip and posting how great Dykes isQuote:
Originally Posted by Blue Dawg
That guy was so good! He had four pick-6s, a couple more TOs that set up the O in point blank range.....Oh wait! that was our defense that did all that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogsince65
Which I have to was also a surprise.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
I sure hope that QB plays for us next year.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Dogsince65
It is astonishing that some of our fans have watched LA Tech football for many decades and still haven't learned that our QBs almost always significantly improve in their junior and senior seasons. Smith had one of the most productive sophomore seasons in school history; he SHOULD have a spectacular redshirt junior season (especially since the baseball distraction is finally gone).
FWIW, I agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by DogsWin
FAU will likely have major QB problems this coming season. Last year's starter Jason Driskel, quit the team after the bowl season and announced he would no longer play football. Yep, only a junior, Driskel won 10 straight football games and then walked away to focus on his engineering studies.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
To compound the problem, FAU's backup QB De'Andre Johnson, is recovering from surgery to remove blood clots from his arm. Johnson will most likely battle Chris Robison, a redshirt freshman. Robison ran the scout team after transferring to FAU from Oklahoma, where he had been dismissed from the Sooners after his arrest for public intoxication.
http://fauowlaccess.com/floridaatlan...40/2018/03/29/
It's not that some of us don't know history. It's that some of us watched what appeared to be lack of ability to throw simple passes, when to run, and how to slide. He is a great athlete so some of us chalk it up to coaching. Only one of the QBs you mention was actually coached by our coaches. I'm not sure that one didn't overcome his coaching rather than learn from it. Which of the Holtz QBs improved their junior season? Also, 6-6 is not productive even for a sophomore IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by DogsWin
I'll say the same exact thing I said prior to the 2016 season when I questioned Holtz's choice of Higgins as our starting QB. And it's this: I hope Holtz is right and Smith (in this case) turns out to be a good (great?) QB and enjoys a great year. I also admitted then, and will again, Holtz was right to stay with Higgins. I hope I can say the same thing re: Smith.
We all have to hope that J'Mar Smith works out to be a great QB, and that he doesn't get injured, because Holtz has bet the farm on it. The lack of alternatives in the QB depth chart is almost unforgivable.
How so? Your man Weston Elliot threw that TD against Miss St and you were ready to name him starter. And Elijah walker has had two full years in the system.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
The curse of Jack Abraham!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dixonfor6
agree 100% -- so many posters live in a fantasy world. most of us saw the talent he has and the offers from SEC teams from high school-- not going to bring up the tired posts about injuries to team etc etc. I will take his talent and full year of experience --first time in years we are starting a gifted QB with experience in our system. No way you or I can educate the know it alls-- they wanted Higgins benched and I always trusted Tim-Skip amd various coaches-- so many posters so much smarter than Tim ..... so much for my promise to myself to ignore the folks I absolutely do not understand their attitude --Quote:
Originally Posted by TYLERTECHSAS
Another first for Tommy's resume... First time without a single article written about spring football practice.
Either our SID is that lazy, or Skip has gotten super secretive/paranoid like Harbaugh at Michigan.
Our HC is a micro manager and his boss (our AD) is scared of him.
All I ever asked for was A LOOK at Weston Elliot. (We never got one.) More specifically, I stated that J'Mar could have benefited from a little time on the bench last season when he was struggling, and Elliott needed the work. And I was right on BOTH accounts. Only a fool would say otherwise.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dixonfor6
Has Elijah Walker ever even taken a single snap during a college game?
OK--I get it-- Holtz-Tim Rattay and Fitch are all wrong and you are brilliant explaining what should have happened. I feel like I am reading CNN -CNBC talking about Trump and wishing Hilliary was elected. I never posted anything about Higgins except my trust in Tim and Skip and doing same with JMar -- put me in the Fool category --that being on the side of our coaches -- no rip on Elliott -just confidence in coaches ( which definitely make me a fool in your opinion)Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
I agree -- in bowl he was MVP of course and 15-23 with 3 tds -- he has the talent, just hope the offense stays healthy and he gets confidence in self, line and receivers--Quote:
Originally Posted by Cal&Ken
Offensive MVP was not given for playing defense, it was for these stats-- 15-23 and 3 TD passes --trying to help you understand how well the offense performed when we had most of them healthy -- I came into game frustrated like everyone about things but left Bowl game hoping the QB we saw that day will be the QB play we need ( especially with that defense we saw last year) -- what's the value of being negative ?? its assuming everything sucks and you desparatly want to be right!! how does that make you happy??Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
Oh! Oh! There ya go! Let it all out bud!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogsince65
Trump!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh! Old white people running the world aaaaaaaaa national guard sent to our own border truuuuump!
Wrong bud! CONSERVATIVE people running the world! Can't just say "Old white people." That includes Krooked Killary and Crazy Bernie Sanders, and that Creepy Uncle Joe Biden. Don't want any of them running the world.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dixonfor6
Did that a long time ago. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogsince65
Interesting evolution. Skip didn't micromanage press releases during his 5 previous spring camps.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
He has NEVER allowed a press release by one of his SIDs w/out proofing the content and/or giving them the content when he is ready. He answers to nobody.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
Yes, we get it. You were extremely happy for LA Tech to finish the season 6-6, including three embarrassing late game 1-point losses to UAB, UNT & USC, as well as suffering a double OT late, late, late, comeback loss to USM. With a record like that, it was obvious that we didn't need to change a thing or consider any other options. ;) We get it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogsince65
What if J'Mar goes down with a season-ending injury in GAME 1??Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogsince65
We had 75 players our with injuries. Only played 9 on offense.
Hearing that J’Mar and Elliott were not so fun to watch today.
I’m glad I was too hungover to make the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
According to my dad and a buddy, J’Mar is fat and slow and Elliot is the best player for the defense. Loves to throw to DB’s.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dixonfor6
At least we have some backups...Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
That was pretty true of Elliot. As for J'Mar it there were many instances where he had a 1st down run easily, and the play had to be called dead due to him being down by a mere touch. He overthrew a few WR, and many of the ones he hit with a well thrown pass dropped the ball or couldnt grab it.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Let’s hope none of our backups play well this season since they all play for other schools.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue Dawg
Impossible! We have one of the best S&C coaches in America.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
So according to our best writer, J’Mar was a bit high on most of his throws and finished 13/34. I guess we should be happy Cory Diaz didn’t have to write that he short hopped every receiver.
Beat writer.
Yeah I noticed mid-ranged throws 10-20 yards were a bit high. There was only one I can remember that went low. All of the high ones werent necessarily out of reach.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Oh dear
For those who didn’t see it, there is a free stream on CUSA TV.
I'd sure like to hear from some people who were there about their overall impressions. I know there were some bright spots, but looking at the stats I'm concerned for next fall.