Tinker:
"Get a job"! http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Is becoming the talk around the college football players coming out of the NFL pro football draft as the pro football teams start looking to hire the right football player. So what it going to be guys, are you going to try and work as a Pro football player, or somewhere else.
1 Corinthians 13
"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."-------------
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein
― Albert Einstein
“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
― Dr. Seuss
― Dr. Seuss
“For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
----------------― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
“Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
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With a quick flip, Shepard ups his ante
March, 28, 2013
BATON ROUGE, La. -- In four years playing for LSU, fans got to see Russell Shepard do a lot.
Coming out of high school in 2009 as one of the country's top dual-threat quarterbacks, he lined up in the backfield in college and ran with the ball as a running back. He'd line up outside and in the slot and catch passes (or, mostly not get thrown to) as a wide receiver. He'd return kicks.
What
we didn't see him do is what NFL scouts had him doing Wednesday at LSU's
pro day. Shepard backpedaled, turned to catch the ball, changed
directions and reacted, all drills he was doing at -- of all things --
defensive backs.
Russell Shepard, a cornerback?
Don't laugh.
"I had six teams come up and tell me they wanted to see me do DB work," he said. "I never knew I was going to do it. But I did decent today."
That made pro day an extension of Shepard's entire career, at least his college career. Few have ever questioned Shepard's athleticism -- he put that on display during physical testing, running a 4.5 in the 40-yard dash, and jumping 38.5 inches in the vertical leap -- but the question has always been how to utilize it.
Shepard has played every offensive skill position at LSU -- quarterback, running back and receiver -- but never was asked to flip to the other side of the ball until Wednesday.
"I've never backpedaled," Shepard said. "For my first time, I felt I did pretty decent. A lot of the teams were impressed. I could be a DB at the next level."
The thought had hardly crossed his mind before pro day. He was a high school quarterback who would alternate in college between being primarily a running back and primarily a wide receiver, all the time getting the occasional look as a wildcat quarterback.
Nothing seemed to stick and he remained on the margins of the LSU offense for his entire career. As he struggled to find a niche, the thought of playing defensive back would come up in idle conversation but nothing more, he said. Instead, he'd stay in the margins of the Tigers' offense.
Yet he was always good for one or two flashes of his athleticism a year, like the 78-yard touchdown run against Towson in his senior season. On that play, he was lined up as a running back in the shotgun.
That kind of explosiveness was confirmed Wednesday. The 4.5 40-yard dash showed up as a 4.39 (hand-timed) before the official time was posted. And he impressed with his vertical leap. None of that was shocking.
"They knew I was athletic," Shepard said. "They know I can run. They know I can jump. I just wanted to take it on the field and look smooth and look like an athlete.
"I felt I looked pretty smooth catching the ball and I felt at defensive back I looked pretty smooth."
Shepard said working out at defensive back didn't scare him. In fact, it added motivation.
"That brings value to me," he said. "It's great. For them to see me do it and for them to see that I have the potential to play the position and to come out here and look polished as a receiver and catch the ball well, it just adds value."
That value must be forecasted completely by scouts. Lacking much actual college production to gauge potential pro success, NFL teams will have to be creative in finding a way to utilize his athleticism. Shepard is ready to try whatever plan they come up with for him.
"I have no idea where I'm going to go," Shepard said. "It's out of my hands. But hopefully, I can make a 53-man roster when it comes time to go to camp."
-------------------------Coming out of high school in 2009 as one of the country's top dual-threat quarterbacks, he lined up in the backfield in college and ran with the ball as a running back. He'd line up outside and in the slot and catch passes (or, mostly not get thrown to) as a wide receiver. He'd return kicks.
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Kevin C. Cox/Getty ImagesRussell
Shepard said that while he has never had to backpedal in his career, he
did a pretty OK job of it this week at LSU's pro day.
Kevin C. Cox/Getty ImagesRussell
Shepard said that while he has never had to backpedal in his career, he
did a pretty OK job of it this week at LSU's pro day.Russell Shepard, a cornerback?
Don't laugh.
"I had six teams come up and tell me they wanted to see me do DB work," he said. "I never knew I was going to do it. But I did decent today."
That made pro day an extension of Shepard's entire career, at least his college career. Few have ever questioned Shepard's athleticism -- he put that on display during physical testing, running a 4.5 in the 40-yard dash, and jumping 38.5 inches in the vertical leap -- but the question has always been how to utilize it.
Shepard has played every offensive skill position at LSU -- quarterback, running back and receiver -- but never was asked to flip to the other side of the ball until Wednesday.
"I've never backpedaled," Shepard said. "For my first time, I felt I did pretty decent. A lot of the teams were impressed. I could be a DB at the next level."
The thought had hardly crossed his mind before pro day. He was a high school quarterback who would alternate in college between being primarily a running back and primarily a wide receiver, all the time getting the occasional look as a wildcat quarterback.
Nothing seemed to stick and he remained on the margins of the LSU offense for his entire career. As he struggled to find a niche, the thought of playing defensive back would come up in idle conversation but nothing more, he said. Instead, he'd stay in the margins of the Tigers' offense.
Yet he was always good for one or two flashes of his athleticism a year, like the 78-yard touchdown run against Towson in his senior season. On that play, he was lined up as a running back in the shotgun.
That kind of explosiveness was confirmed Wednesday. The 4.5 40-yard dash showed up as a 4.39 (hand-timed) before the official time was posted. And he impressed with his vertical leap. None of that was shocking.
"They knew I was athletic," Shepard said. "They know I can run. They know I can jump. I just wanted to take it on the field and look smooth and look like an athlete.
"I felt I looked pretty smooth catching the ball and I felt at defensive back I looked pretty smooth."
Shepard said working out at defensive back didn't scare him. In fact, it added motivation.
"That brings value to me," he said. "It's great. For them to see me do it and for them to see that I have the potential to play the position and to come out here and look polished as a receiver and catch the ball well, it just adds value."
That value must be forecasted completely by scouts. Lacking much actual college production to gauge potential pro success, NFL teams will have to be creative in finding a way to utilize his athleticism. Shepard is ready to try whatever plan they come up with for him.
"I have no idea where I'm going to go," Shepard said. "It's out of my hands. But hopefully, I can make a 53-man roster when it comes time to go to camp."
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LSU fans invade Taylor Stadium for shutout of Missouri baseball team
Missouri designated hitter Jake Ivory rounds third base during
the game against LSU on Saturday. Ivory batted 2 for 3 during the loss.
| Breanne Bradley
COLUMBIA — "Root, root, root for the road team."
This could have been the refrain Saturday at Taylor Stadium, where No. 2 LSU clobbered the Missouri baseball team 8-0. Even after a five-hour rain delay, which several LSU fans spent tailgating under cover in the parking lots along Carrie Francke Drive outside the stadium, hundreds of purple-and-gold clad fans filled the seats behind the LSU dugout along the first-base line.
"We want a home-field advantage and, hell, we felt like we were in Alex Box," MU outfielder Logan Pearson said. "Their fans stomped our fans today."
The LSU fans hooted and hollered throughout the game. They had a whole lot to cheer about.
LSU's pitchers held Missouri scoreless for the second straight game. This time, it was highly touted major-league prospect Ryan Eades who shut down the Tigers, throwing a career-high eight innings.
Missouri starter Brett Graves allowed three one-run home runs in four innings, bringing the visiting crowd to its feet.
"He proved the first three innings he couldn’t throw a breaking ball for a strike, so they didn’t even pay any attention to it. They sat fastball," MU coach Tim Jamieson said. "The counts were 1-0, 2-0, 2-1 and 3-1, so you know what’s coming."
Griffin Goodrich, who replaced Graves, fared worse, allowing five runs in two-thirds of an inning, including a towering home run over the foul pole in left field, third baseman Christian Ibarra's second of the game. Chants of "L-S-U" roared from the first-base line while the considerably smaller Missouri contingent sitting opposite the purple and gold sat in silence.
Among the LSU fans, Pearson said, were six members of his own family. Born in Lake Charles, La., Pearson grew up in a family of LSU fans. It was only fitting that his "mama," aunt, uncle and three younger siblings came up to Columbia for the weekend series.
"They’re all rooting for LSU, but they’re still rooting for me, too," Pearson said.
As Pearson walked slowly toward the Tigers' postgame huddle in shallow left field with his head down, he heard a voice from behind the wall along the third base line. It was his little sister.
"It's all right. It's OK. We love you anyway," she said.
Pearson turned his head toward his family and his face lit up. For a moment, the weight of a blowout loss had been lifted.
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Four bowls vie for semi rotation
Updated: March 28, 2013, 5:05 PM ET
By
Brett McMurphy | ESPN
Four Bowls Bid On BCS Semifinal Rotation
Brett
McMurphy discusses the four bowls that made a bid for the three
openings to be a part of college football's new semifinal rotation.Tags: college football playoff, bcs bowl, fiesta bowl, cotton bowl, chick-fil-a bowl, holiday bowl, Brett McMurphy
The Tostitos Fiesta Bowl (Glendale, Ariz.), AT&T Cotton Bowl (Arlington, Texas), Chick-fil-A Bowl (Atlanta) and Bridgeport Education Holiday Bowl (San Diego) met Wednesday's deadline to bid on the semifinal sites.
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Sources told ESPN, the Fiesta, Cotton and Chick-fil-A are the "overwhelming favorites" to join the Rose, Sugar and Orange bowls in the six-bowl semifinal rotation.
On Tuesday, ESPN reported that Cowboys Stadium was a "virtual lock" to host the first championship game in the new playoff format on Jan. 12, 2015. Arlington and Tampa, Fla., were the only two cities to bid for the national title game.
The six semifinal bowls will rotate during the 12-year contract. The Rose and Sugar bowls will host the semifinals after the 2014, 2017, 2020 and 2023 seasons; and the Orange Bowl after the 2015, 2018, 2021 and 2024 seasons.
One of the other three bowls will host the same years as the Orange Bowl, with the remaining two bowls hosting the semifinals after the 2016, 2019, 2022 and 2025 seasons.
In years those bowls don't host semifinal games, they will host their conference-affiliated teams or the top remaining "at-large" teams as ranked by a selection committee.
The semifinal sites and corresponding years will be announced at the commissioners' meeting in Pasadena next month.
Besides the three already named semifinal sites, 13 additional cities that currently host bowl games met the 65,000-minimum seating requirement to bid for the semifinals.
However, of those 13 cities, nine did not bid for the semifinals: Birmingham, Ala. (BBVA Compass); Charlotte, N.C. (Belk); Detroit (Little Caesar's); Houston (Meineke Car Care of Texas); Jacksonville (Taxslayer.com Gator); Nashville, Tenn. (American Mortgage Music City); Orlando (Capital One); San Antonio, Texas (Valero Alamo); and Tampa (Outback).
Sources said a number of bowls did not bid for the semifinals because it's "fairly common knowledge" that the Fiesta, Cotton and Chick-fil-A bowls are the likely hosts.
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College Football Conference Call
Publish Date: Mar 28, 2013, 10:34 AM ETDuration: 05:44
Rating:
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Prim Siripipat and the college football bloggers go around the country to see which coaches open spring practice firmly on the hot seat.
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| 2012 STATS LEADERBOARD [More] |
| Passing | Cmp | Att | Pct | Yds | Yd/A | |
| 1. | Zach Mettenberger | 207 | 352 | 58.8 | 2609 | 7.4 |
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| 1. | Jeremy Hill | 142 | 755 | 5.3 | 12 | |
| 2. | Kenny Hilliard | 82 | 464 | 5.7 | 6 | |
| 3. | Michael Ford | 71 | 392 | 5.5 | 3 | |
| 4. | Spencer Ware | 94 | 367 | 3.9 | 1 | |
| 5. | Alfred Blue | 40 | 270 | 6.8 | 2 | |
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| 1. | Jarvis Landry | 56 | 573 | 10.2 | 5 | |
| 2. | Odell Beckham | 43 | 713 | 16.6 | 2 | |
| 3. | Kadron Boone | 26 | 348 | 13.4 | 4 | |
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Baseball
Baseball Sweeps Again; Best Start Since 1986
by David Steinle, Special to LSUsports.net
COLUMBIA, Mo. – A five-run third inning allowed LSU to erase a
four-run deficit, and stellar relief pitching made it stand up as the
Fighting Tigers (No. 2 USA Today/ESPN, No. 3 Baseball America, No. 4
Collegiate Baseball) completed a three-game Southeastern Conference
sweep of Missouri with a 6-5 decision on Easter Sunday.
LSU (26-2 overall, 8-1 SEC) won its eighth consecutive game and will end the weekend tied with Vanderbilt for the SEC lead.
This was LSU’s first conference series with Missouri (9-15, 2-7), which joined the SEC in July 2012. Until this weekend, the schools faced each other only three times, and not at all since 1987.
Trailing 5-1 entering the third, LSU immediately created trouble for Missouri starting pitcher Alec Rash when Alex Bregman led off with a ground ball single and Raph Rhymes walked, bringing up the team’s home run leader, Mason Katz.
For the third time in as many games, Katz made Missouri pay on a high fastball, depositing one over the right-center field fence for the three-run home run which trimmed the margin to 5-4.
Reliever Keaton Steele walked Christian Ibarra before his defense betrayed him. Steele should have been out of the inning, but Missouri third baseman Shane Segovia misplayed a ground ball by JaCoby Jones, and right fielder Dane Opel dropped a fly ball by Ty Ross.
Instead of three outs and Missouri still ahead, LSU was still alive with one out and the bases loaded. Sean McMullen cashed in the gifts with a two-run single back through the box to put LSU on top again.
Four relievers, led by Brent Bonvillain, kept the scoreboard frozen at 6-5 the rest of the way.
Bonvillain worked 4 1/3 hitless, scoreless innings to earn the victory, improving to 2-0 on the campaign. He entered the game with two out in the third and worked through the seventh.
Joey Bourgeois retired the first two batters of the eighth before hitting Shane Segovia.
Closer Chris Cotton came in to face left-handed Logan Pearson, and the LSU southpaw struck out Pearson looking.
Case Munson led off the bottom of the ninth with a single under the glove of third baseman Ibarra, but he retired the next three batters for his second save of the series and eighth of the season.
Missouri was shut out 2-0 and 8-0 in the first two games of the series, but it broke through in the bottom of the first on an RBI single by Kelly to tie the game at 1-1.
LSU starter Cody Glenn retired the first two batters in the Missouri second, but he loaded the bases by walking Segovia, allowing a single to Logan Pearson, and hitting Case Munson on the right knee.
Glenn hit the next two batters, Opel and Kelly, to force in a pair of runs and put Missouri in front for the first time in the series.
Reliever Kevin Berry gave up a two-run single to Jake Ivory before striking out Kendall Keeton on a pitch out of the strike zone.
The Tigers return to action with non-conference games Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at home versus Alcorn State, and Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Zephyr Field in Metairie vs. Southern Mississippi.
LSU hosts Kentucky (21-6, 6-3) next weekend in SEC play.
Missouri plays Illinois at Busch Stadium in St. Louis Tuesday before traveling to Georgia for a three-game conference series next weekend.
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LSU (26-2 overall, 8-1 SEC) won its eighth consecutive game and will end the weekend tied with Vanderbilt for the SEC lead.
This was LSU’s first conference series with Missouri (9-15, 2-7), which joined the SEC in July 2012. Until this weekend, the schools faced each other only three times, and not at all since 1987.
Trailing 5-1 entering the third, LSU immediately created trouble for Missouri starting pitcher Alec Rash when Alex Bregman led off with a ground ball single and Raph Rhymes walked, bringing up the team’s home run leader, Mason Katz.
For the third time in as many games, Katz made Missouri pay on a high fastball, depositing one over the right-center field fence for the three-run home run which trimmed the margin to 5-4.
Reliever Keaton Steele walked Christian Ibarra before his defense betrayed him. Steele should have been out of the inning, but Missouri third baseman Shane Segovia misplayed a ground ball by JaCoby Jones, and right fielder Dane Opel dropped a fly ball by Ty Ross.
Instead of three outs and Missouri still ahead, LSU was still alive with one out and the bases loaded. Sean McMullen cashed in the gifts with a two-run single back through the box to put LSU on top again.
Four relievers, led by Brent Bonvillain, kept the scoreboard frozen at 6-5 the rest of the way.
Bonvillain worked 4 1/3 hitless, scoreless innings to earn the victory, improving to 2-0 on the campaign. He entered the game with two out in the third and worked through the seventh.
Joey Bourgeois retired the first two batters of the eighth before hitting Shane Segovia.
Closer Chris Cotton came in to face left-handed Logan Pearson, and the LSU southpaw struck out Pearson looking.
Case Munson led off the bottom of the ninth with a single under the glove of third baseman Ibarra, but he retired the next three batters for his second save of the series and eighth of the season.
Missouri was shut out 2-0 and 8-0 in the first two games of the series, but it broke through in the bottom of the first on an RBI single by Kelly to tie the game at 1-1.
LSU starter Cody Glenn retired the first two batters in the Missouri second, but he loaded the bases by walking Segovia, allowing a single to Logan Pearson, and hitting Case Munson on the right knee.
Glenn hit the next two batters, Opel and Kelly, to force in a pair of runs and put Missouri in front for the first time in the series.
Reliever Kevin Berry gave up a two-run single to Jake Ivory before striking out Kendall Keeton on a pitch out of the strike zone.
The Tigers return to action with non-conference games Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at home versus Alcorn State, and Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Zephyr Field in Metairie vs. Southern Mississippi.
LSU hosts Kentucky (21-6, 6-3) next weekend in SEC play.
Missouri plays Illinois at Busch Stadium in St. Louis Tuesday before traveling to Georgia for a three-game conference series next weekend.
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