Fourth? B.J. Coleman to Joel Bradford – the Butch and Sundance of FCS football – and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Mocs are still picked fourth by the Southern Conference coaches and media?
Linebacker Ryan Consiglio is back to smack down enemy ball carriers and UTC is fourth?
Mocs coach Russ Huesman is entering season No. 3 of his personal crusade to “Restore the Glory,” and the Blue and Gold are picked fourth in a nine-team league?
“We were pretty average last year,” Huesman said Tuesday afternoon. “At least we’re not on the bottom of the heap. We were picked last my first year.”
If you need one more reason to appreciate Huesman’s worth to his alma mater, there it is. The man’s never going to get too high or too low about a preseason football poll. He’s not even that upset that Appalachian State senior quarterback DeAndre Presley nosed out Coleman for preseason first team.