Scouting report on Southeastern Louisiana

Fridays come quickly during football season and that means game day is nigh.

Things I can tell you about the Southeastern Louisiana Lions:

• If you want a lesson in football formations and variations on a theme, then be in Amon G. Carter Stadium tomorrow at 11:07 a.m. USL employs just about every formation known and then some, intertwining motion and misdirection to add to the intrigue.   Wideouts will motion back into the backfield and, at the snap, become the trailing back on an option play. You’ll see two-tight end formations, one-tight end, five wides, one back, split backs, diamond/inverted wishbone. Get the idea? Oh, and they do like to throw it, too.
• Quarterback Bryan Bennett (No. 3) is a transfer from Oregon, who played in 18 games in Eugene before leaving the Duck dynasty for a new lease on life at USL. And he can play.
• Bennett is just one of a handful of FBS transfers, joining linebacker Cqulin Hubert from Texas Tech, runningback Kody Sutton from Wyoming and wide receiver Jarrell Bennett, who used to be an Arizona Wildcat.
• Defensively, the Lions feature a 3-3-5 scheme. No. 5 John Graves, who plays the “LION” position (a linebacker/safety hybrid), knows how to get to the ball. He had 70 tackles last year. No. 23 Tyler Stoddard is an All-Southland Conference free safety.

Parking lots open at 6 a.m., and the Walk of the Frogs, where the team walks by the new horned frog statue and rubs its nose for good luck, takes place at 8:30 a.m. on the east plaza of Amon G. Carter Stadium.

It’s Breakfast at The Carter!  See you there.

Kick ‘Em High!

(Photo courtesy The Advocate)