WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina -- Finding the identity of his fourth Winston-Salem State team has been a little more difficult than Coach Connell Maynor thought it would be. He lost losing nearly 30 players from a record-setting 14-1 team and has been trying to find the right combinations from an influx of transfers and younger players.
The first attempt resulted in a 25-21 opening loss at UNC Pembroke. The second will come Saturday, when 20th-ranked WSSU will play Virginia University of Lynchburg at 6 p.m. at Bowman Gray Stadium.
"All phases of the game we have to improve on,” Maynor said. “And offensively (at Pembroke), we turned it over three times, and we had some drops and some blown assignments, so we really played bad, and it was a poorly coached team, and that’s my fault.
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Blue turns red: California native, 26, has fit in well at WSSU
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina -- It didn’t take long for tight end Shane Blue, a junior-college transfer from California, to get into the spirit at Winston-Salem State.
Before preseason camp began in early August, Blue dyed part of his hair red to match the school colors.
"I just wanted to kind of make a statement and to show that I was serious about being a Ram,” said Blue, a 26-year-old junior who had five catches for a team-high 67 yards in his WSSU debut, a 25-21 loss to UNC Pembroke. He dropped his first chance, a long pass early in the game, but showed good hands the rest of the way.
Blue said he never expected to be playing football again. He had last played in 2008 at City College of San Francisco. His grandmother died soon after he completed his two years of junior-college eligibility there, and he then decided to open his own production company.
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