SWAC teams ‘motivated’ as practice starts

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana - The poll released at Southwestern Conference Media Day on July 16 represented one of the last gasps of speculation that fuels football fans during the offseason, but a few coaches in the room were happy to use it for their purposes as well.

Southern coach Stump Mitchell, whose Jaguars were picked fourth in the five-team SWAC West, made extra sure his players saw that prediction, and it made an impact.

“It brings up a bit of anger inside of me because I know we shouldn’t be in this position,” defensive tackle Casey Narcisse said. “But we got ourselves here, and all we have to do is get in a dog fight and win it all out so six months later we’ll be crowned champs.”

Though the first punches in that fight are a little more than a month away, the SWAC’s teams will begin lacing up their gloves in the next few days.  With the exception of Texas Southern, which will hold its first ...



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