Some football news
December 19, 2007
Spoke with Troy head coach Larry Blakeney just now. Recruiting isn’t picking up today like we all thought, but he’s hoping to add a mid-term enrollee today. He didn’t mention names and I don’t know that he can until the guys signs (nor do I know the recruit), but it could get released by the sports information department today.
“We’re still working on it. We haven’t gotten anybody yet. We lost a nose tackle to Louisville and a quarterback to Auburn,” Blakeney said.
The quarterback, as you know, is Chris Todd. No sense in rehashing the story there. A name wasn’t mentioned in regards to the nose tackle, but I went to the Louisville rivals.com site and deducted that it is Tyler Jessen from Butler County Community College in El Dorado, Kan. That link shows an offer from Troy and if you go here, you’ll see that he visited Troy. That may be premium content, but you can see if it comes up. If you go to louisville.rivals.com and clink on a link that shows their December enrollees, Jessen is the only defensive lineman.
Troy signed five players in 2007 that grayshirted - wide receiver Richie Henderson, offensive lineman Jacob Creech, defensive lineman Brandon Boudreaux, and cornerbacks KeJuan Phillips and Stacey Williams. Assuming all are qualified, all but Henderson should enroll in January. Henderson has decided not to play college football.
Blakeney said everyone is on target to return next spring except for reserve defensive lineman Jeremy Jenkins. Jenkins isn’t academically eligible and his best option is to transfer to a junior college, Blakeney said.
There’s always players that could go home over Christmas and decide to transfer out, so keep that in mind. But Blakeney feels that everyone else will be back.
“He’s a conditional admittance, and he didn’t live up to the standard of conditional admittance,” Blakeney said.
On the offensive coordinator position, Blakeney will likely wait until after Christmas and possibly the new year to announce it.
“I don’t know. I’ve got some ideas. We’re probably going to try to promote from within and hire the best position coach available,” he said.
If a recruit signs today and I catch wind of it, I’ll let you know.
