Stillman Tigers starts season against No. 25 Shaw Bears

Coach Teddy Keaton
(Photo Courtesy: Steven Lockhart/Stillman College)

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama - Teddy Keaton has only one chance to win his first game as Stillman College’s head football coach.

Stillman opens the season at 5 p.m. today against Shaw University from North Carolina. Shaw is ranked 25th in the American Football Coaches Association Division II poll and second in the Heritage Sports Radio Network for Division II Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The Bears posted a 9-3 record last season and won the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association title.

Shaw’s Charles Deas was the only CIAA player named to the Preseason HBCU All-American team as chosen by Boxtorow.com. Deas, a senior defensive lineman, had 56 tackles, 11.5 tackles for losses and 3.5 sacks in 2010.

No matter what happens today, Keaton has a plan for reviving the program at his alma mater.

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Stillman's Logan wants senior season to be special

TUSCALOOSA, AL | Thomas (T.C.) Logan’s last season with the Stillman College football team coincides with Teddy Keaton’s first as the Tigers’ head coach, but they both want the same thing.

Keaton wants to build a winning program at his alma mater. Logan, who’ll be playing for his third head coach in four years, wants to close out his career with a championship.

“I really don’t have specific goals, statistics-wise, of how many catches or how many touchdowns, but I really do want to be an All-American in this game,” said Logan, a 6-foot-3, 245-pound tight end from Gulfport, Miss. “I want to bring home a conference championship because I’m more of a team person, rather an individual stat person.”

Stillman, which won three of its last four games, finished at 3-8 overall and 2-7 in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in 2010. L.C. Cole, the head coach for two seasons, was dismissed and replaced by Keaton, who started coaching as a member of Theophilus Danzy’s staff at Stillman back in 1999.

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Stillman dismisses L.C. Cole; Names Teddy Keaton new head football coach

Coach L.C. Cole was 7-15 in two seasons

TUSCALOOSA -  L.C. Cole has been dismissed after two seasons as head football coach at Stillman College. “They were saying they were ready to make a change,” Cole said Wednesday. “That’s all I was informed of. Nothing I could do about it.”

Cole received word of the firing in a meeting on Tuesday with Curtis Campbell, Stillman’s athletics director. “We just thought we needed to go in a new direction,” Campbell said. “Our program wasn’t progressing the way I thought it should be and I just thought it was time to make a change. “I think L.C. is a good coach, but we just felt it was time to make a change at Stillman. I wish L.C. Cole the best and I’m sure he’ll do some great things in the future.”

Stillman names Teddy Keaton as football coach

Two days after dismissing L.C. Cole, the Stillman Tigers have a new football coach. Stillman officials have tapped Teddy Keaton, a 1999 graduate of the college and offensive coordinator at Webber International University in Babson Park, Fla as the new head football coach for the Tigers.

Keaton began his coaching career as an assistant football coach and director of football operation at Stillman. As an assistant coach for six seasons, he served as running backs coach, special teams coach and recruiting coordinator.

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