Larry Blakeney
Larry Blakeney
Larry Blakeneyis a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Troy University from 1991-2014, compiling a record of 178–113–1 in 24 seasons. He is one of only two coaches to have taken a college football program from NCAA Division II to NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, the other being UCF's Gene McDowell...
besides bit brightest maybe spot
He may be the brightest spot of the spring. Maybe besides Omar. He's pretty lean, but he's not the least bit shy.
missouri worried
I'm worried more about Troy than I am Missouri and they're probably worried more about Missouri than they are with Troy.
athletes defense everybody faced facing gives guys scheme
I think these guys will get better, ... They faced a scheme that gives everybody problems. It's a more traditional defense this week, but we're facing a better set of athletes in UAB.
athletes defense everybody faced facing gives guys scheme
I think these guys will get better. They faced a scheme that gives everybody problems. It's a more traditional defense this week, but we're facing a better set of athletes in UAB.
execute kids mainly sure trying
Mainly we've just been trying to get the defenses called and making sure the kids execute them.
ability great job less might plays studying
Dockery's done a great job studying the offense. He might have less ability. Julian's probably the most talented, but we'll see how it plays out.
bad practice
He wouldn't let us have a bad practice,
florida last senior sophomore time year
I think his first year at Florida was our last year at Auburn. And the only other time was in 1966 - when I was a sophomore at Auburn and he was a senior at Florida.
associated best everybody players team
(Lucas) was one of the best players I've ever been associated with. I told the team the other day that he was one person everybody should find out something about, so they could be like him.
comedy totally
It's another comedy of errors. It's something that's totally unacceptable.
bad demanded figured force freshman hard played teammates year
After his freshman year when figured out what was going on around here, he wouldn't let us have a bad practice. He played hard every day and demanded his teammates do the same. He was a force in our program.
entire establish order period practice short tempo
We have a lot to get done in a short period of time. For the first two days, we need to establish a tempo for practice in order to get done what we need to get done over the entire 15 days.
children coming people school sending university
Troy University has got 100 years of alumni, of people coming to school here and people sending their children here,
college community good guys help high impressed kids players school signed
We feel like we signed some good players at the high school level, and some of these community college guys can come in and help right away. I'm real impressed with the way some of those high school kids looked.