Wednesday, March 27, 2013

FAMU's New coordinator 2-time Pro Bowler: Kirkland teaches physical style

TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- Levon Kirkland doesn’t appear to have change one bit 12 years after he played his last game in the NFL as a two-time Pro Bowl starter.

“What people don’t understand is that when you’re physical and going after people it makes opponents don’t want to play you because you have a style and a standard,” Kirkland said Monday.

That said, Kirkland isn’t about to change now that he is the defensive coordinator at FAMU. His ultimate goal is to make the defensive unit, especially the line backers unit that he will coach, one of the most respected in the all of FSC football.

“That’s what we need to establish here,” he said. “We are going to punch at you, we are going to fight you to the very end and when you leave whatever game we play, you’re going to be black blue. It’s very simple as that.”

Kirkland is one of six new additions that head coach Earl Holmes named to his staff last week.

Holmes, who was defensive coordinator before ...

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