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re: LSU Declared "DB U" on front page of NFL.com
Posted on 2/28/12 at 10:23 am to lsuhunt555
Posted on 2/28/12 at 10:23 am to lsuhunt555
What did Taylor run today?
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Posted on 2/28/12 at 10:27 am to stout
Ron Brooks will have a better year, IMO than anyone out of this class when he debuts.
Good/positive news for the program.
Good/positive news for the program.
Posted on 2/28/12 at 10:33 am to stout
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LSU Declared "DB U" on front page of NFL.com
Posted on 2/28/12 at 10:34 am to lsuhunt555
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Gay had more of a prominent role when he was at LSU than Brooks did
How did he? He was a backup his senior year like Brooks. Did not start on a team with poor group db's in 2001. He did not do anything on special teams like Brooks has either. The both had about the same rolls with their teams though Brooks is probably better. Its tough to start behind two Thorpe winners
Posted on 2/28/12 at 10:39 am to TheTruthPolice
There was a 3 CB rotation in 03 (Gay's SR year), Webster, Gay and Travis Daniels. Gay started more that year than Daniels did and to me played more of a prominent role than Daniels. Brooks only started one game this year at CB when TM and TS were out. Yes he contributed much more on ST, but strictly from defense, Gay was much more prominent in his final season. With all that said, Gay made a living being a nickel, I think Brooks turns into a starting CB in the league.
Posted on 2/28/12 at 11:06 am to stout
I'm pretty sure ULL was dubbed as "DB U" by a local writer this past fall.
Enjoy
Football - UL: Defensive Backs U - list of DB U Cajuns included
Tim Buckley, Daily Advertiser, Sept. 23, 2011
UL hosts Nicholls State Saturday, September 16, 2011, in a college football game at Cajun Field in Lafayette, La. UL won 38-21. By Leslie Westbrook September 17, 2011
From Penn State being Linebacker U to what was traditionally Tailback U at Southern Cal, some positions and schools go hand-in-hand like socks and shoes.
They're tagged that way largely for sending a consistent string of super ones from college to the NFL, but also simply for having a history of known names and extraordinary success on a particular part of the field.
So while the Michigans and now USCs of late jockey with the Stanfords, Marylands, Miamis, Washingtons, Notre Dames and UCLAs of days gone by for claim to being college football's true Quarterback U, little ol' UL prides itself in a moniker that fits perhaps no other NCAA team better:
Lafayette, the Ragin' Cajuns brag, is home to DB U.
UL's lengthy list of defensive backs who have played at the next level help make the Cajun case a convincing one.
Supporting evidence comes this season from a secondary that currently leads the nation in pick-sixes with four in three games, and that stars a left cornerback — senior Bill Bentley — who could be NFL-bound if he keeps picking off passes at the rate he has so far in 2011.
"It's pretty neat to see on our wall all of the great DBs who have come through," said new Cajuns head coach Mark Hudspeth, who has photos of UL stars past and present adorning the school's football facilities. "It's really quite amazing. I don't know if there's any place in the country right now that's got as many successful DBs as we've got. There's a bunch of them."
The rundown really does go on and on.
Since UL began Sun Belt Conference play in 2001, seven ex-Cajun defensive backs have played in the NFL: Michael Adams, C.C. Brown, Brad Franklin, Kyries Hebert, Antwain Spann, Ivan "Ike" Taylor and Charles Tillman.
Adams remains active today, with Arizona, as does Taylor with Pittsburgh and Tillman, the highest NFL Draft pick in UL history at No. 35 overall in 2003, with Chicago. Undrafted rookie safety Maurice Rolle Jr. lasted only about a month before Houston waived him prior to the season starting.
Still, that's three defensive backs among UL's five current NFL players, along with New York Giants receiver Brandon Stokley and Arizona offensive tackle D'Anthony Batiste.
Only one DB, Todd Scott, is among the six ex-Cajuns who've made it to the Pro Bowl.
But four ex-UL DBs — Taylor (three times with the Steelers), Adams (once with the Cardinals), Spann (once with New England) and Tillman (once with the Bears) — have participated in the Super Bowl.
And all did in the 2000s.
From XL to XVL, in fact, those aforementioned four ex-Cajun DBs were on active rosters in five Super Bowls over a six-year span.
Going back a bit, since Scott was selected by Minnesota in the sixth round in 1991 — two years Green Bay picked former UL defensive back Thomas King, who never did make it — six of the 11 ex-Cajuns who've been drafted and played in the NFL were DBs.
That includes four straight ex-Cajun draft picks from 2002 to 2005: Franklin, Tillman, Taylor and Brown.
The sixth is Orlando Thomas, who spent seven seasons with Minnesota after getting drafted by the Vikings in 1995.
He and Damon Mason, whose Arena Football League career began in 1997, are the two D-backs among seven Cajuns whose jerseys are retired.
And of the 44 all-time who've attended the school and actually played it to the NFL — a rollcall that dates back to Chris Cagle, who was at what is now called UL from 1922-25 and who played on both sides of the ball in the 1930s for both the Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers — 10 were D-backs, an inordinately high number.
You get the picture.
"It seems like every year there's a guy that steps up," said Cajun safeties coach Tim Rebowe, who has been working with UL defensive backs and linebackers since 2004.
"And they (current players) see their pictures all over. They see them on the wall, and they know the history of those guys, and they all kind of feel inside that they can be the next one.
"They don't want to be the ones to let it down. "» So I think there is a lot of expectation."
Starting safeties Lionel Stokes and Jemarlous Moten both have returned interceptions for touchdowns this season, and starting right cornerback Melvin White has returned a blocked field goal for a TD.
But the Cajun secondary starter with the best shot at keeping UL's NFL DB run going is the hard-hitting Bentley, who already has two pick-sixes this season.
Heading into Saturday night's Sun Belt-opener at Florida International, he's tied with Duron Harmon of Rutgers and Vanderbilt's Trey Wilson for most interceptions this season at three.
Besides picking off passes, he's also picked up on the DB U tag UL has. And trying to preserve that reputation has become a responsibility he's readily assumed.
"It puts something in the back of my mind, just saying I've got a chance if I work hard enough and do what I've got to do to get there," said Bentley, who comes in small package but really can deliver a wallop.
"We all look at it as 'it would be an honor to keep it going,' " he added. "We don't talk about it much. But that's everybody's goal, is to make it to the next level."
The seed was planted when UL was recruiting Bentley, and it paid off when the Pahokee, Fl., high school product made his move from Dodge City (Kan.) Community College.
"They (Cajun coaches) mentioned it a couple times in my visit — that a lot of defensive backs made it out of here to the NFL," he said. "And I did the research, and there was a lot. And I came here, (thinking), 'Hey, I'm good enough.' "
Just as planned, Rebowe suggested.
"We find the good players," the Cajuns assistant said, "and say, 'Hey, man, look at the guys that come. All the scouts come here, and there is a reputation here. There's a standing you have to uphold to be here.' So we do use it."
It's not all, though, that Hudspeth hopes to utilize in the future.
He has the whole outfit in mind.
"It's DB U, but I want to make it Receiver U, Running Back U, O-line U, D-line U too," he said. "Kicker U. We would like to make it All Position U, eventually.'
DB U CAJUNS
Recent former UL defensive backs who have played in the NFL:
CURRENTLY PLAYING
CB Michael Adams "» 45 mostly reserve-role games with Arizona since 2007;
CB Ivan "Ike" Taylor "» 127 games with Pittsburgh since 2003; three Super Bowls with the Steelers;
CB Charles Tillman "» Longtime starter has 116 games with Chicago since 2003; played in one Super Bowl with the Bears.
THE PRO BOWLER
CB Todd Scott "» 83 games for Minnesota, the New York Jets, Tampa Bay and Kansas City from 1991-97; Played in 1993 Pro Bowl;
THEY LASTED A WHILE
S Orlando Thomas "» 98 games with Minnesota from 1995-2001; All-Pro in 1995, when he led NFL in interceptions with nine;
S C.C. Brown "» 81 games with Houston, the New York Giants and Detroit from 2005-10; part-time Lions starter in 2010;
REST OF THE RECENTS
CB Brad Franklin "» Four games for Jacksonville in 2003;
S Kyries Hebert "» 31 games for Cincinnati in 2008-09; released in March by Hamilton (Canadian Football League);
CB Antwain Spann "» 19 games with New England from 2006-08; on Patriots' Super Bowl XLII roster.
Enjoy
Football - UL: Defensive Backs U - list of DB U Cajuns included
Tim Buckley, Daily Advertiser, Sept. 23, 2011
UL hosts Nicholls State Saturday, September 16, 2011, in a college football game at Cajun Field in Lafayette, La. UL won 38-21. By Leslie Westbrook September 17, 2011
From Penn State being Linebacker U to what was traditionally Tailback U at Southern Cal, some positions and schools go hand-in-hand like socks and shoes.
They're tagged that way largely for sending a consistent string of super ones from college to the NFL, but also simply for having a history of known names and extraordinary success on a particular part of the field.
So while the Michigans and now USCs of late jockey with the Stanfords, Marylands, Miamis, Washingtons, Notre Dames and UCLAs of days gone by for claim to being college football's true Quarterback U, little ol' UL prides itself in a moniker that fits perhaps no other NCAA team better:
Lafayette, the Ragin' Cajuns brag, is home to DB U.
UL's lengthy list of defensive backs who have played at the next level help make the Cajun case a convincing one.
Supporting evidence comes this season from a secondary that currently leads the nation in pick-sixes with four in three games, and that stars a left cornerback — senior Bill Bentley — who could be NFL-bound if he keeps picking off passes at the rate he has so far in 2011.
"It's pretty neat to see on our wall all of the great DBs who have come through," said new Cajuns head coach Mark Hudspeth, who has photos of UL stars past and present adorning the school's football facilities. "It's really quite amazing. I don't know if there's any place in the country right now that's got as many successful DBs as we've got. There's a bunch of them."
The rundown really does go on and on.
Since UL began Sun Belt Conference play in 2001, seven ex-Cajun defensive backs have played in the NFL: Michael Adams, C.C. Brown, Brad Franklin, Kyries Hebert, Antwain Spann, Ivan "Ike" Taylor and Charles Tillman.
Adams remains active today, with Arizona, as does Taylor with Pittsburgh and Tillman, the highest NFL Draft pick in UL history at No. 35 overall in 2003, with Chicago. Undrafted rookie safety Maurice Rolle Jr. lasted only about a month before Houston waived him prior to the season starting.
Still, that's three defensive backs among UL's five current NFL players, along with New York Giants receiver Brandon Stokley and Arizona offensive tackle D'Anthony Batiste.
Only one DB, Todd Scott, is among the six ex-Cajuns who've made it to the Pro Bowl.
But four ex-UL DBs — Taylor (three times with the Steelers), Adams (once with the Cardinals), Spann (once with New England) and Tillman (once with the Bears) — have participated in the Super Bowl.
And all did in the 2000s.
From XL to XVL, in fact, those aforementioned four ex-Cajun DBs were on active rosters in five Super Bowls over a six-year span.
Going back a bit, since Scott was selected by Minnesota in the sixth round in 1991 — two years Green Bay picked former UL defensive back Thomas King, who never did make it — six of the 11 ex-Cajuns who've been drafted and played in the NFL were DBs.
That includes four straight ex-Cajun draft picks from 2002 to 2005: Franklin, Tillman, Taylor and Brown.
The sixth is Orlando Thomas, who spent seven seasons with Minnesota after getting drafted by the Vikings in 1995.
He and Damon Mason, whose Arena Football League career began in 1997, are the two D-backs among seven Cajuns whose jerseys are retired.
And of the 44 all-time who've attended the school and actually played it to the NFL — a rollcall that dates back to Chris Cagle, who was at what is now called UL from 1922-25 and who played on both sides of the ball in the 1930s for both the Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers — 10 were D-backs, an inordinately high number.
You get the picture.
"It seems like every year there's a guy that steps up," said Cajun safeties coach Tim Rebowe, who has been working with UL defensive backs and linebackers since 2004.
"And they (current players) see their pictures all over. They see them on the wall, and they know the history of those guys, and they all kind of feel inside that they can be the next one.
"They don't want to be the ones to let it down. "» So I think there is a lot of expectation."
Starting safeties Lionel Stokes and Jemarlous Moten both have returned interceptions for touchdowns this season, and starting right cornerback Melvin White has returned a blocked field goal for a TD.
But the Cajun secondary starter with the best shot at keeping UL's NFL DB run going is the hard-hitting Bentley, who already has two pick-sixes this season.
Heading into Saturday night's Sun Belt-opener at Florida International, he's tied with Duron Harmon of Rutgers and Vanderbilt's Trey Wilson for most interceptions this season at three.
Besides picking off passes, he's also picked up on the DB U tag UL has. And trying to preserve that reputation has become a responsibility he's readily assumed.
"It puts something in the back of my mind, just saying I've got a chance if I work hard enough and do what I've got to do to get there," said Bentley, who comes in small package but really can deliver a wallop.
"We all look at it as 'it would be an honor to keep it going,' " he added. "We don't talk about it much. But that's everybody's goal, is to make it to the next level."
The seed was planted when UL was recruiting Bentley, and it paid off when the Pahokee, Fl., high school product made his move from Dodge City (Kan.) Community College.
"They (Cajun coaches) mentioned it a couple times in my visit — that a lot of defensive backs made it out of here to the NFL," he said. "And I did the research, and there was a lot. And I came here, (thinking), 'Hey, I'm good enough.' "
Just as planned, Rebowe suggested.
"We find the good players," the Cajuns assistant said, "and say, 'Hey, man, look at the guys that come. All the scouts come here, and there is a reputation here. There's a standing you have to uphold to be here.' So we do use it."
It's not all, though, that Hudspeth hopes to utilize in the future.
He has the whole outfit in mind.
"It's DB U, but I want to make it Receiver U, Running Back U, O-line U, D-line U too," he said. "Kicker U. We would like to make it All Position U, eventually.'
DB U CAJUNS
Recent former UL defensive backs who have played in the NFL:
CURRENTLY PLAYING
CB Michael Adams "» 45 mostly reserve-role games with Arizona since 2007;
CB Ivan "Ike" Taylor "» 127 games with Pittsburgh since 2003; three Super Bowls with the Steelers;
CB Charles Tillman "» Longtime starter has 116 games with Chicago since 2003; played in one Super Bowl with the Bears.
THE PRO BOWLER
CB Todd Scott "» 83 games for Minnesota, the New York Jets, Tampa Bay and Kansas City from 1991-97; Played in 1993 Pro Bowl;
THEY LASTED A WHILE
S Orlando Thomas "» 98 games with Minnesota from 1995-2001; All-Pro in 1995, when he led NFL in interceptions with nine;
S C.C. Brown "» 81 games with Houston, the New York Giants and Detroit from 2005-10; part-time Lions starter in 2010;
REST OF THE RECENTS
CB Brad Franklin "» Four games for Jacksonville in 2003;
S Kyries Hebert "» 31 games for Cincinnati in 2008-09; released in March by Hamilton (Canadian Football League);
CB Antwain Spann "» 19 games with New England from 2006-08; on Patriots' Super Bowl XLII roster.
This post was edited on 2/28/12 at 11:13 am
Posted on 2/28/12 at 11:33 am to SCUBABlake
quote:
For Claiborne's weakness... They sure didn't find a whole lot.
quote:
Claiborne is such a gifted athlete that he can often times get lazy in his technique. Working in off-man coverage, he has a tendency to get his pad level high in his back pedal and delude the explosiveness that makes him so effective out of his breaks.
so basically, when the ball is not going near him and he is covering no one he lets his pad level up?
Posted on 2/28/12 at 11:35 am to Stromile Swift
tl;dr
Posted on 2/28/12 at 11:37 am to TFS4E
:fap:
Posted on 2/28/12 at 12:07 pm to lsuhunt555
Posted on 2/28/12 at 12:46 pm to stout
Posted on 2/28/12 at 1:00 pm to stout
Wow, I am retarded. I kept trying to click "read" to take me to the article until I remembered it was an unlinked picture.
Posted on 2/28/12 at 3:06 pm to stout
Damn you Ron Cooper!
Posted on 2/28/12 at 9:37 pm to Stromile Swift
Impressive list ULL 
Posted on 2/29/12 at 2:39 am to TH03
frick yeah
Posted on 2/29/12 at 3:58 am to Bmath
I didn't push on the pic ,but I was wondering why the poster would start this thread without a link.
Posted on 2/29/12 at 4:41 am to stout
Posted on 2/29/12 at 4:43 am to stout
Is this their clever way of calling us douche bags? 
Posted on 2/29/12 at 7:27 am to Rickdaddy4188
quote:
but I was wondering why the poster would start this thread without a link.
quote:
front page of NFL.com
Are you that retarded that you need a link to NFL.com?
This post was edited on 2/29/12 at 8:11 am
Posted on 2/29/12 at 8:10 am to stout
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