FAMU football will not settle for second

Just as quickly as the question was posed for a reaction to Florida A&M being picked to finish second in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, linebacker Brandon Hepburn fired off his response. Just the reference of South Carolina State being predicted to win the conference for a third consecutive season was enough to get Hepburn fired up.

"I don't really care what they had to say," Hepburn said Tuesday. "We worked too hard during the summer and me and my brothers are going to the championship. Point blank. Period. That's all I have to say about it." But he went on. "We're not being No. 2 — at all. The MEAC is ours and it's time to reclaim what is ours. If you don't want to be the best, why do we play football?"

FAMU will actually have to play football like it didn't play last year when it finished 8-3 and and finished in second place for the second straight year. The Rattlers finished as predicted last season, but the previous year they beat the odds in coach Joe Taylor's first season at the helm by finishing second instead of seventh as was predicted.



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