After their dramatic turnaround, Grambling eyes even more in 2015

GRAMBLING, Louisiana -- Grambling’s turnaround last season caught everyone outside the program by surprise.

The Tigers were perhaps the most improved team in the Football Championship Subdivision, taking Southern to the wire in the race for the Southwestern Athletic Conference West Division title, finishing 7-2 and 7-5 overall. That came after a disastrous 1-10 season in 2013 that led to Grambling being picked last in the West.

Did the Tigers catch lightning in a bottle? Hardly, said coach Broderick Fobbs, who engineered the turnaround in his first season.

“I thought we underachieved last year, to be honest,” he said. “I thought what we had in us was greater.”

Fobbs’ colleagues and the SWAC sports information directors seem to ...

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