AUBURN -- Arkansas State hopes it will leave Auburn Saturday with valuable experience that will prepare the team for the Sun Belt schedule.Regardless, the Red Wolves will leave $1 million richer."Obviously, we're all playing these games in order to assist our athletic department budget," said ASU head coach Steve Roberts. "But they're good for our program. We're a Division I school. We need to be playing some quality Division I opponents."But Roberts said that schedules must be realistic. Too many payday games can make it difficult for teams to have enough gas left for conference play."They're games that are very, very difficult to walk away with the check and the win," he said. "You do that a couple times a year and I think it's productive for your program, productive for your kids. We won't put a lot of players on the field that haven't been in that situation before. There will be some, but most of the players have been in that situation before, whether it was Texas, or Texas A&M, Iowa, Alabama...We've played a lot of good opponents over the years."ALABAMA RED WOLVES: Arkansas State has 13 Alabama natives on its roster, including four players from Prattville.The Prattville graduates are linebackers LaAngelo Albright and Qushaun Lee, receiver Earl Lucas and defensive lineman Greg McCall. Other Alabamians are: offensive lineman Eric Allen (Daphne), defensive lineman Amos Draper (Tanner), defensive end Jeremy Gibson (Eutaw), defensive back Braton Hall (Lincoln), receiver Carlos McCants (Mobile), tight end Kedric Murry (Pleasant Grove), running back Jermaine Robertson (Tuscaloosa), offensive lineman Chris Tolbert (Birmingham) and defensive back Sterling Young (Hoover).Roberts said his coaches try to find players who have slipped through the cracks."We've been happy about the number of young men from Alabama we've been able to sign and bring in to our program," Roberts said. "We have some guys we feel are overlooked by several schools that are making a tremendous impact on our program, guys that we feel like have the opportunity to play at the next level as well. Alabama is loaded with players. The state has great football, great coaches. Players come to our program well-prepared. Obviously it's nice for those guys to go back home and compete in the type of environment we'll see Saturday."HAPPY DAYS: Senior defensive end Antoine Carter is putting his final August of college in the rear-view mirror, and he couldn't be happier. "It's a great feeling," he said. "You go through spring and summer workouts and two-a-days, and now game-week is finally here. It's like the clouds moved out of the way and the sun is coming out to shine."
Antoine is going to have a BIG year. I can feel it. 10+ sax.
I don't get it Big Dan.....
Meant the original post....
The original poster is from Prattville.He found it interesting that that many kids from Prattville, AL, are playing at a Sunbelt school in Arkansas.
Did not know that Chizad. Thanks for the clarification. Represent yo turf AWK!
Yes sir. Chizad is also from Prattvegas.
So is CCTAU.You claim one, you gotta claim 'em all.
The man has a point
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