Prayers for O'Leary

GEORGE O'LEARY'S MOTHER PASSES AWAY
He will miss the UCF opener attending to the funeral. Our prayers are with you.

SAMFORD CONTINUES PRACTICE FOR GT
Getting ready. Two days folks. Tick Tock

JUNIOR TRANSFER BEN ARNDT NAMED PUNTER
Well, looks like we have a punter - at least for game 1. Now only the starting job between Davis / Scott remains.

SAMFORD PLAYERS NOT CAUGHT UP IN TECH TALK
Quote:

"We're very confident," Hill said. "They play football just like we do. On paper, they're going to be bigger, stronger and faster than us, but they have to put on the pads just like we do."

SAMFORD COACH COMMENTS
Funny comments from their head coach.

"We did get a W and that's about the only bright spot," Bulldogs coach Bill Gray said. "We had a lot of mistakes. We had a lot of pre-snap penalties that we usually don't do."

Gray's mood may have been tempered by the fact that this opening win hardly makes Samford the favorite on Saturday when it plays at Atlantic Coast Conference member Georgia Tech, which won last year's Humanitarian Bowl.

"The game looked a lot better on the schedule in June and July that it does now," Gray said. "The players are excited about it. The main thing is we want to come back a better football team. Budgetwise we have to play one of these (I-A) games every year.

"In five meetings we have yet to score on them so just getting to the end zone would be an accomplishment. We recruit heavily in the Atlanta area and this should help."

ANDY ANCHORS THE O-LINE
One of those "3 name guys" - Andy Tidwell-Neal, is THE vocal leader of the team....... More on the O-Line and injuries at the bottom of this article.

CALVIN JOHNSON GETS PROPS FROM ESPN
From the ESPN Mailbag, written by Bruce Feldman, senior writer for ESPN the Magazine.

Even though he didn't get the hype that some other blue-chip WRs, we're expecting Georgia Tech wideout Calvin Johnson to emerge, along with USC's Dwayne Jarrett as the nation's top rookie receiver. Johnson, at 6-4, 215, is rangy and shown great hands and ball skills in camp.

RECRUITING - WEST COAST
Story on Matt Taylor, a west coast high school athlete interested in GT (he is actually from Georgia)