Grambling coach Rod Broadway has kept a watchful eye on his team this offseason, looking for hints of complacency after a breakout year.
Save for catastrophic injury, there may not be a more likely rock to trip over as GSU turns its attentions to 2009.
“That’s the thing you are aware of,” Broadway told me. “We’ve got to keep them out of the comfort zone, every opportunity we get. It’s easy to understand: You get caught up in that. But last year doesn’t mean a whole lot anymore.”
Broadway reports nearly 100 percent participation in the offseason training program.
“We have some guys who have missed, but they are pretty good about doing what we ask them to do,” Broadway said.
As for scouting reports, Broadway sticks to a by-now familiar script: “We have a chance to have a decent football team, but we have a tough non-conference schedule. We’ll have to get them ready early.”
ON BUDGET CUTS
Broadway said he still evaluating how proposed statewide higher-education cuts will trickle down into the Grambling athletics department.
“I don’t know how it works. All I can do is get the players ready to play football,” he said.
GSU administrators have put together a plan to slash $1,413,071 from the university’s sports funding as part of a mandated series of budget trims across the University of Louisiana System. (TheDerisoReport was the first to detail the complete figures, here.)
Home games, Broadway told me, will be a focus for the department. That’s the easiest way for the average fan to contribute during these difficult times.
“Hopefully, they can make up some of the difference,” Broadway said, “but that’s a lot of money for one department.”
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