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Thursday, October 23, 2014
Savannah State at NCCU: Young Tigers wary of tough Eagles
DURHAM, North Carolina — Size matters.
In the game of football, the bigger the players are, the harder they fall on opponents who are not as genetically gifted.
Yet strength is at least equally important with respect to smaller players possessing the power to leverage their will against larger opponents.
Second-year Savannah State coach Earnest Wilson III will tell you that he’s got some talent on his team. But the Tigers are young. And they’re not very strong.
Yet the freshmen actually have been more productive than the Tigers’ upperclassmen — the rookies just have to get stronger, Wilson said.
“Their strength is just now beginning to come. They’re beginning to find out how to work out in a Division I setting,” Wilson said.
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