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Hornets meet UNO in homecoming
Published Friday, October 2, 2009
SELMA — Concordia College celebrates homecoming every year about this time, and Saturday’s 2 p.m. game with the University of New Orleans will be no exception.
This year, however, will be especially joyous after last week’s 23-21 victory over Savannah State in the Southern Georgia Heritage Classic in Valdosta. Ga.
For Hornets football coach Shepherd Skanes, however, the celebration will come with each victory.
“We’ve moved on since Savannah State,” Skanes said Thursday. “We want to make sure we concentrate on the job at hand.”
Concordia College (2-3) will have its hands full with UNO Saturday at Memorial Stadium. The Privateers are members of the Midwestern Club Football Conference, competing in the South Division with Miami (Ohio), Xavier (Ohio) and Southern Illinois-Edwardsville.
Skanes said he has been impressed by the Privateers’ defense.
They are 2-0 and have only had three points scored on them all year,” he said.
UNO, however, did not play football from 1971 until 2008. It finished 0-2 last year playing club football, which does not require the expensive athletic budgets of full-fledge Division I football programs.
Skanes said Grambling State transfer Larry Kerlegan will start again for the Hornets after filling in for injured starting quarterback T’Chelpio Woods of Selma.
“He’ll play for awhile, then Woods will play,” Skanes said. “And we’ll just see how it goes.”
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Posted by redbird (anonymous) on October 2, 2009 at 3:03 p.m. (Suggest removal)
"Grambling State transfer Larry Kerlegan will start again at quarterback for the Hornets". Another transfer? Take away the transfers and the Hornets would be honeybees. Please, somebody give me an intelligent answer to this question: Why in the world would anybody elect to transfer to Concordia if they had another choice?
UNO plays club football? Give me a break! Club Football is one step up from "flag football" played on college campuses by fraternities. They should be playing high school teams. I must say that is a worthy homecoming opponent. This game might draw, what, a crowd of 100-200? What a joke.
Posted by realitybites (anonymous) on October 2, 2009 at 4:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Where do you think any program trying to build from scratch starts. Check ESPN for an article on Texas Southern. There you will find a more positive spin on what you are trying to make into a horriblee thing! Whats wrong with giving kids a second or even a third chance to make something out of their life other than giving up hope! As far as the enrollment requirements that benefits the student body as a whole and just not the athletes! What type of effect do you think Concordia athletics will have on the city once the program is established?
Posted by redbird (anonymous) on October 3, 2009 at 7:42 a.m. (Suggest removal)
"Enrollment requirements " and Concordia. I'm not sure those words actually go together. An oxymoron in its truest sense.
Posted by He_Is_Love (anonymous) on October 3, 2009 at 10:53 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Envy lives among humans....get a job....opportunity, money, wealth and greatness can land in the people of selma hands and some will not change their mentality towards progress sad...but keep hating on success
Posted by jus4par (anonymous) on October 3, 2009 at 11:24 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Redbird I bet you were the last kid picked for sports...when's the last time you've done something good for the city of Selma...besides taking in air from those Transfers.
Posted by redbird (anonymous) on October 4, 2009 at 8:58 a.m. (Suggest removal)
He_is_Love, I doubt that most people in Alabama think that Selma has made any progress or had much success. In fact, it's just the opposite. If you think it has, you have your head in the sand or in this case,, the mud of the Alabama River. Concordia is just another symbol of mediocrity (or worse) of Selma, Alabama. No academic standards to speak of, a diploma mill, an institution of higher learning in name only. Concordia is a a perfect example of "dumbing down" to getting a diploma without having to do too much to get it.
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