In his first year at the helm of the venerable program at Grambling State, Rod Broadway guided a young Tigers team to an 8-4 record, a Southwestern Athletic Conference Western Division title and an appearance in the SWAC championship game.Heading into his second year, the veteran coach is faced with the challenge of meeting the always high expectations in the program made famous by the late Eddie Robinson with an even younger, though highly regarded, group of players.
"We're bottom heavy right now," Broadway told the fans and friends of Tiger football who attended the 2008 Tiger Round Up sponsored by the Mildred S. Jones Alumni Chapter at the Martin Community Center in Alexandria Saturday.
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Wait a minute! How can Coach Broadway make this statement...""A few years down the road, we're going to have a team that should be a little better than just OK and a team that should be able to compete for a national championship."
Did I miss a key announcement by the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) while I was out sick for the past four days? If you don't participate in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs, how can any SWAC team talk about competing for a national championship? We certainly would like to see the SWAC back into the FCS playoff picture and it can be done with a little schedule rearranging of the Bayou Classic.
Broadway, hopefully, isn't speaking out the side of his neck and there is some internal movement a foot to get the SWAC back into the FCS playoffs as a regular participant.
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