Southern University's Mitchell: This class his most important

SU COACH STUMP MITCHELL

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana - Wednesday night, before Stump Mitchell pulled a shocker on the football-loving crowd at Southern University by unveiling the new white helmet his team will wear this season, the third-year coach reeled off his latest list of signees.

This, after all, was National Signing Day. Inside the Smith-Brown Memorial Student Union, the new recruits were the main attraction. And this group of 15 players, Mitchell said, is full with young men who can play in the Southwestern Athletic Conference — not as fifth-year seniors, not somewhere down the road. Many of the signees, Mitchell said, will play immediately.

“It’s my third class. It’s the most important class,” Mitchell said. “Our second class last year was better than our first, and I think this class is definitely better than the first two. We addressed the needs we needed, in order to be better than next year, and I’m excited about it.”

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