Jaguars acquire new talent

 
Southern University football program celebrated yesterday welcoming 15 new Jaguars to the Bluff in its annual National Signing Day Recruitment Bash.
The event was held in the Royal Cotillion Ballroom among members of the SU quarterback Club, the Blue and Gold Century Club and SU athletics.
“It’s our third class its the most important class, our second class was better than our first, and our third is definitely better than our first two,” said head coach Stump Mitchell, who is entering into his third year as head coach of the Jaguars.
The Jaguars addressed needs defensively mainly to a lack in defensive linemen reeling in six recruits.
“We wanted to get some guys who had some girth inside, we did not have much of that last year”. Said Stump addressing the media during the bash.
The Jaguars also addressed the issue at the kicking position signing Greg Pittman a 5-10 170 pound kicker/punter from New Orleans. We all remember the fourth quarter meltdowns were games ended with the Jags loosing games with to five teams by five points or less.
Also Southern branched out of the state of Louisiana going all the way to the “Sunshine state” getting six players to sign letters of intent.
“Alonzo Phillips, a Southern alum who was in the Miami area contacted us he was at several games he saw the depletion we had at that position and asked us to come down to Miami and we were fortunate enough to get a few of them guys to become Jaguars,” Mitchell said.
One of the six players from Miami the Jaguars signed was running back David Chin a 6-0, 230-pound running back out of Norland High School.
SU also have signed players Donald Phillips, a defensive end/ linebacker Archbishop Shaw in New Orleans; Matthew Moody, a 6-3, 240-pound offensive lineman from Orlando, Fla., who attended Winter Park High School; and Christopher Scruggs a 6-0, 240-pound defensive end from Jacksonville, Fla., who attended Jean Ribault High School.
All three players were grayshirted, which means they will be able to participate in spring football drills.
After the Mitchell showed video highlights of the new signees to the members of the Jaguar nation, Mitchell looked towards Christopher Jones, assistant athletic director for media relations, who unveiled the new football helmets to the public for the first time.
The new helmet is white with a gold, royal blue, and Columbia blue strip going down the middle of the helmet, along with royal blue facemask with a pretty cool SU logo.
The new helmets are supposed to complement the new uniforms that were worn last season.
Also unveiled was a tentative football schedule, where the Jaguars first game will be a trip to Albuquerque, N.M.,to face the University of New