Two stories from me, but just one football-related. HERE is my Tuesday notebook leading with Troy not overlooking WKU and about its struggles with the Hilltoppers over the past couple of years.
HERE is a story about two brothers from Dothan, Terry and Shannon Collins, and how they were recently inducted into the Troy Baseball Hall of Fame and Terry’s battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease).
For all things Western Kentucky, check out Nick Baumgardner’s BLOG from the Bowling Green Daily News.
TODAY’S STORY from Bowling Green checks in on the spirits of WKU. Go HERE to read it.
Posted by Drew Champlin on 11/03 at 09:16 AM
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***The Troy-Arkansas game will be televised by CSS at 6:30 p.m. November 14. Darn, I was hoping for an earlier game.
***Troy’s 6-game win streak is tied for the longest of the FBS era with a 6-game streak in the 2007 season. If that record doesn’t get broken this weekend, there’s problems.
***An interesting note is that OL coach John Schlarman‘s brother-in-law is Michael Federspiel, who is a freshman linebacker for WKU that is redshirting. I’ll have more on that later this week.
***Larry Blakeney will be on the Tim Brando show Tuesday at noon. It’s a nationally-syndicated show on Sporting News Radio, but I don’t know those markets around here. I think it’s 560AM in Dothan.
***I should be on with John and Barry around 9:35 a.m. CST Tuesday on Sports Radio 740 AM in Montgomery. You can listen HERE
***Kicker Sam Glusman is still sore, according to Blakeney. “Sam’s still sore. I’ve kept up with him. I know he had a pretty good week (last week) but he wasn’t ready. We’ll wait and see how he does. The other boy (Michael Taylor) is kicking awfully good, but I anticipate Sam hopefully getting back. We’ll see.“
***I should have another video presentation sometime this week.
Posted by Drew Champlin on 11/02 at 05:00 PM
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Boris Lee was named Sun Belt Defensive Player of the Week for his performance against UL-Monroe. He was the only Troy player to get honored, as UNT’s Riley Dodge and his accounting for seven touchdowns against Western Kentucky edged out Jerrel Jernigan‘s 13-catch, 203-yard performance against an unbeaten ULM squad (though he had just one touchdown).
Boris Lee (Troy, Sr., LB)—Lee capped a stellar performance against ULM in which he posted a game and season-high 14 tackles, with a fourth quarter interception he returned 30 yards for a touchdown. It was Lee’s eighth career interception and the second he has returned for a score. He also returned a pick for a touchdown against ULM in 2007. Lee had one of nine tackles for loss for the Trojans in the game. His performance against ULM moved him into third on Troy’s list for career solo tackles (222), and into seventh on the career total tackles list (336). His two TD returns for scores is also tied for second in Troy history.
Last Monday, Troy quarterback Levi Brown got a chance to talk to Mr. Ho, a gotroytrojans.com legend.
I couldn’t post this unless Troy beat ULM, which it did. I’m quite certain when Mr. Ho’s phone rang and he saw a 615 area code (Levi’s home town is Mt Juliet, Tenn., which is a suburb of Nashville), then he was quite excited.
Watch for yourself. It’s around 4 minutes long, so a little patience is necessary.
Posted by Drew Champlin on 11/01 at 04:21 PM
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HERE is my game story, which focuses mainly on Jerrel Jernigan’s performance, but also on how Troy is in control of the Sun Belt right now.
Also, my NOTEBOOK, which leads with a special day for Josh Jarboe.
From the other side, HERE it is from the ULM angle.
Also, I’ve got a video. Did some editing around with Windows Movie Maker, which I just figured out. Apologize if the sound isn’t as loud as I’d like, but it’s the first time I did more than just the basic audio.
Videos here will be better from here on out. I think. (if it’s not processed yet, be patient)
Posted by Drew Champlin on 11/01 at 02:27 AM
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