Friday, October 6, 2017

Grambling State cleaning up growing penalty problem

GRAMBLING, Louisiana – Head coach Broderick Fobbs and Grambling State have experienced just about everything a team could over the last couple of seasons.

In a new experience for players and coaches this past Saturday playing at historic Soldier Field in Chicago, the Tigers ventured further out into uncharted territory.

Grambling amassed 17 penalties for 181 yards in its 31-20 victory over Clark Atlanta, drawing attention to a problem that’s been metastasizing through five games this season.



“I’ve never been in that situation before,” Fobbs said. “That’s not our character. We’ve never been that type of team. I’m not going to sit up here and blame the officiating, but there were some things that were questionable. At the end of the day, you have to play the game and you have to do things the right way. We just didn’t.

“We didn’t play well. I didn’t think that we came ready to play, I didn’t think we played with any passion, I didn’t think we played hard the entire game. It’s one of those situations where it just wasn’t our day.”

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