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...
both proud
I'm very proud of them already because I know they're both academically strong. They're here in mid-year. That's something to be said.
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.
good hate hurt lead leaders rate sure
I'm not sure where that will lead to now. There is a good rate of recovery, but you hate to see one of your leaders get hurt in the spring.
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.
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.
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.
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.
execute kids mainly sure trying
Mainly we've just been trying to get the defenses called and making sure the kids execute them.
al players
I told our players that if there's a player they all wanted to be like, it was Al Lucas,
comedy totally
It's another comedy of errors. It's something that's totally unacceptable.
bad practice
He wouldn't let us have a bad practice,
best business knows offense run serious shown
He's shown that he knows best how to run this offense so far. He's got leadership, and he's very serious about his business on and off the field.
football good guys negative plays total
We had some guys who made plays on offense. But we had 15 or so negative plays. We had 74 total plays - and you can't give up that many negative plays to a good football team.
chance extra gain games knew order shock visibility
Those games were going to give us visibility and some extra money, for starters. From the get-go, we knew that in order to gain credibility and respectability and have the chance to shock the world, we were going to have to play with the big boys.