Friday, March 8, 2013

Stillman spring football update: Tigers looking to run and stop the run

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  --  Run and stop the run.

Those are two of Stillman College's primary goals as they began preparing for the 2013 season, opening spring practices this week.

The Tigers went 6-5 in 2012, going 4-3 in NCAA Division II's Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference behind in-state foes Tuskegee and Miles.

They were dead last among 10 teams in the conference in rushing, gaining just 585 yards on the ground for the season. That's an average of 53.2 yards game. They were fifth in rushing defense, allowing 20 touchdowns and 150 yards a contest.

"That's one of our biggest issues--the o-line and d-line play and the running back play," Keaton said. "The o-line play, I really feel it's unfair to judge them and say they didn't do a good job. We didn't have a running game to really help ourselves out. Our running backs were nowhere near what we thought we had."

Their inability to run the ball forced them ...

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