Sunday, July 22, 2012

Blount hopes low ranking motivates Delaware State

DOVER, Delaware - Delaware State University’s football team struggled to a 10th-place finish in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference in Kermit Blount’s first year as the Hornets’ head coach last season.

The league’s coaches and sports information staffers don’t think much will change this season, as the Hornets were picked to once again finish 10th out of the 11 teams in the MEAC at the conference’s annual kickoff luncheon in Norfolk, Va., on Friday.

Blount, whose team went 3-8 overall, 1-7 in the conference last season, took the preseason ranking in stride.

“Predictions are just what they are,” Bount said. “We are not going to let predictions keep us from moving forward as a football team. I know this is not going to be a 10th-place football team. We’ll just take what we did last year and keep moving forward.”

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