SB Nation Atlanta: All Posts by Jarrett Carter
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2010-09-03T10:30:21-04:00
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2010-09-03T10:30:21-04:00
2010 Clark Atlanta Panthers Football Preview by Jarrett Carter
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<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; color: #222222;"><i style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Jarrett Carter, Sr. writes about HBCU football at </i><a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #002c66; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="hbcudigest.com"><i style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">HBCU digest</i></a><i style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">. Follow him on Twitter </i><a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #002c66; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="http://twitter.com/HBCUDigest"><i style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">here</i></a><i style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">.</i></span></p>↵<p>There is cautious optimism for the Clark Atlanta Panthers in 2010. Controversy over an early season coaching change still looms over the campus, and the talent returning to the AUC’s other football school doesn’t appear to be threatening enough to visualize a run to the conference title.</p>↵<p>Can the SIAC’s best running back and something to prove put CAU into a top-five finish?</p>↵<h4><span style="line-height: 11px;">2009</span></h4>↵<p>A fired coach, a forfeit win due to swine flu over Stillman, and a seven-game losing streak to end the season were the memorable moments from 2009 for the Clark Atlanta Panthers. They were bottom third in most statistical categories in the SIAC, and mistakes often marred close contests with the conference’s elite.</p>↵<h4><span style="line-height: 11px;">The Good</span></h4>↵<p>CAU’s Winston Thompson is the SIAC’s best running back, and enters the 2010 season just two yards shy of 3,000 career rushing yards. He is the pre-season first team running back for the conference, is an overwhelming choice to be Player of the Year with a breakout senior campaign.</p>↵<h4><span style="line-height: 11px;">The Bad</span></h4>↵<p>Several seniors from the fourth-best pass defense in the conference have left, and sophomore starter Jasper Hanson and 09’ reserve Dominic Hughes return to a unit that had just five interceptions last year. Senior receiver Mortimer Lightburn (319 yards, Two TDs in 09’) returns to lead the Panther receiving corps, but questions will linger around senior quarterback Mark Wright, who led the conference in interceptions last year with 13.</p>↵<p>↵<meta charset="utf-8">↵</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: bottom; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 13px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><i style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Previous 2010 Division II football previews:</i></span></h3>↵<ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; list-style-type: square; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">↵<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: bottom; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 16px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #002c66; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="http://atlanta.sbnation.com/2010/8/30/1658161/2010-morehouse-football-preview"><i style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Morehouse</i></a></span></li>↵<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: bottom; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; 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border: 0px initial initial;"><a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #002c66; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="http://atlanta.sbnation.com/2010/8/31/1658781/2010-fort-valley-state-football">Fort Valley State</a></i></span></li>↵<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: bottom; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><i><a style="color: #c8181d !important; text-decoration: none !important; background-color: transparent;" href="http://atlanta.sbnation.com/2010/8/31/1660935/west-georgia-braves-football">West Georgia</a></i></span></font></li>↵<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: bottom; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://atlanta.sbnation.com/2010/9/1/1657757/valdosta-state-blazers-football"><i>Valdosta State</i></a></span></font></li>↵<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: bottom; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://atlanta.sbnation.com/2010/9/2/1660779/albany-state-golden-rams-football"><i>Albany State</i></a></span></font></li>↵</ul>↵<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px;"><font style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" size="3"><span style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><i style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Plus check out all our Division I previews <a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; 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Jarrett Carter
2010-09-02T10:30:26-04:00
2010-09-02T10:30:26-04:00
2010 Albany State Golden Rams Football Preview by Jarrett Carter
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<p>↵<meta charset="utf-8">↵<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; color: #222222;"><i style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Jarrett Carter, Sr. writes about HBCU football at </i><a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #002c66; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="hbcudigest.com"><i style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">HBCU digest</i></a><i style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">. Follow him on Twitter </i><a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #002c66; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="http://twitter.com/HBCUDigest"><i style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">here</i></a><i style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">.</i></span></p>↵<p>The Albany State University Rams are a perennial contender for the SIAC championship, and are extra motivated to end Tuskegee’s streak of conference championships in 2010. While there are concerns at quarterback, they will have the talent on defense and offense to yield a championship-worthy finish to the year.</p>↵<h4><span style="line-height: 11px;">2009</span></h4>↵<p>The Golden Rams won all but two games in 2009, but their win-streak-busting loss against Tuskegee all but derailed ASU’s run to the championship. Senior quarterback A.J. McKenna was the SIAC’s Offensive Player of the Year, and the Rams go into 2010 as the favorite for the conference title.</p>↵<h4><span style="line-height: 11px;">The Good</span></h4>↵<p>Albany State is the SIAC’s most balanced and dominant team, leading the conference in scoring offense, rushing defense and interceptions in 2009. What they may miss on offense with A.J. McKenna, they will make up on defense with four seniors being named to the first team pre-season all-conference squad.</p>↵<h4><span style="line-height: 11px;">The Bad</span></h4>↵<p>One of the best quarterbacks in ASU history is gone, and the race to replace A.J. McKenna will be left to junior college transfer Stanley Jennings and 09’ backup Wayne Campbell, Jr.; neither of whom as emerged as the starter. Albany State has fallen short of beating Tuskegee University for the past three seasons, and they will have to exorcise the demons of those defeats if they want to win the 2010 conference title and a berth in the NCAA Division II playoffs.</p>
https://atlanta.sbnation.com/2010/9/2/1660779/albany-state-golden-rams-football
Jarrett Carter
2010-08-31T10:30:29-04:00
2010-08-31T10:30:29-04:00
2010 Fort Valley State Wildcats Football Preview by Jarrett Carter
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<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; color: #222222;"><i style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Jarrett Carter, Sr. writes about HBCU football at </i><a href="hbcudigest.com" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #002c66; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><i style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">HBCU digest</i></a><i style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">. Follow him on Twitter </i><a href="http://twitter.com/HBCUDigest" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #002c66; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><i style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">here</i></a><i style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">.</i></span></p>↵<p>The Fort Valley State University Wildcats finished below expectations in 2009, but have the personnel, the coaching and the experience to challenge for the SIAC conference title in 2010. Anything outside of a top two finish for FVSU would be a surprise for this veteran group.</p>↵<h4><span style="line-height: 11px;">2009</span></h4>↵<p>Two early season losses did not make for a trend throughout the season, as the Wildcats won six of their last eight games to end the season. Save for a mid-season out-of-conference loss to Southern University, FVSU may have easily finished in second place in the conference.</p>↵<h4><span style="line-height: 11px;">The Good</span></h4>↵<p>Wildcat senior receive An’Thon Harris (566 yards, 37 rec., seven TDs in 09’) leads an FVSU team that was best in the SIAC in scoring, passing, and total offense. </p>↵<p>Defensively, the Wildcats’ secondary will look to improve upon a sixth-ranked pass defense that recorded 15 interceptions in 2009. Senior Ricky Johnson, sophomore Dajaun Williams and Darnell Burks are all-SIAC selections that will look to take advantage of teams that will have first- time starters at QB throughout the conference this season.</p>↵<h4><span style="line-height: 11px;">The Bad</span></h4>↵<p>Fort Valley State will look to maintain its air attack without departed all-SIAC quarterback Nathaniel Samas, who led the conference in passing efficiency and was second in touchdowns and yards per game in 2009. FVSU will have to improve its offensive line play, which produced the eighth-ranked rushing unit in the SIAC, and yielded 24 sacks in 2009.</p>
https://atlanta.sbnation.com/2010/8/31/1658781/2010-fort-valley-state-football
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