ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY /// 2015 HORNETS FOOTBALL ASU COACHES Breast Cancer Awareness Brian Jenkins (Cincinnati, 1993) Game Six ASU Record 2-3 (1st Year) Alabama State (2-3/2-2 SWAC) vs. vs. Southern 0-0 Overall Record 47-17 Southern (2-2/2-0 SWAC) Mark Orlando (Florida State, 1975) Oct. 10, 2015 - 6 p.m. Offensive Coordinator Radio: ASU Hornets Sports Network Ted Daisher (Western Michigan, 1978) Satellite Radio: HSRN Sirius 113 XM 204 Co-Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers Television: none Lou West (Cincinnati, 1977) Co-Defensive Coordinator/Safeties ASU Stadium (26,500) Montgomery, Ala. Donald Hill-Eley (Virginia Union, 1991) THE GAME Associate Head Coach/Quarterbacks/Tight Ends *The Hornets are looking for their third consecutive win this season while the Jaguars are Allen Suber (Bethune-Cookman, 2003) looking to remain undefeated in conference play. Assistant Head Coach/Wide Receivers *Today will be the 39th meeting in the series with Southern holding a 27-11 lead when the James Joseph (Auburn, 1991) two teams hit the field. Running Backs *Over the past five years the final scores have reflected how close the games have been...The DeMarco McNeil (Auburn, 2003) average winning margin since 2010 has been 3.2 points...Last year’s seven point Southern Defensive Tackles win was the largest margin of victory during those five years. John Hendrick (Pittsburgh, 1982) Special Teams *First year ASU Head Coach Brian Jenkins has not faced the Jaguars as a head coach. Prince Pearson (Minnesota, 1993) *Today’s game is the third of four games the Hornets are playing over a 20-day period...The Offensive Line string of game started with a road game at Mississippi Valley followed by last Thursday’s game at Texas Southern...The fourth game will be another Thursday night affair, this time at Amp Campbell (Michigan State, 2000) Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Oct. 15. Cornerbacks Desmond Robinson (Pittsburgh, 1978) Director of Football Operations Medgar Harrison (Louisiana, 2005) Head Strength/Conditioning Coach Date Opponent Score/Time Broadcast Sept. 6 at Tennessee State L, 14-24 ASU Sports Network/HSRN Joycelyn Riley (Bethune-Cookman, 2011) John Merritt Classic Assistant to the Head Coach/Player Personnel Dir. Sept. 12 Alcorn State* L, 14-31 ASU Sports Network Sept. 19 Grambling State* L, 10-34 ASU Sports Network/HSRN Rodney Coachman (Bethune-Cookman, 2011) Prince Hall Masons Americanism Football Classic Video Coordinator Sept. 26 at Mississippi Valley State* W, 45-15 ASU Sports Network Oct. 1 at Texas Southern* W, 41-23 ESPNU/HSRN Oct. 10 Southern* 6 p.m. ASU Sports Network/HSRN Oct. 15 at Arkansas-Pine Bluff 6:30 p.m. ESPNU/HSRN/ESPNU Oct. 31 Alabama A&M* 2:30 p.m. ESPN 3/ESPNU 74th State Farm Magic City Classic Nov. 7 at Jackson State* 6 p.m. ASU Sports Network/HSRN Nov. 14 Prairie View A&M* 2 p.m. ASU Sports Network Nov. 21 Miles 2 p.m. ASU Sports Network Homecoming 1 www.bamastatesports.com ASU Hornets Sports Network Family ASU Media Relations Darrell Orand (Football Contact) 100.5 FM Montgomery, Ala. [email protected] Media Relations Specialist 102.7 FM Montgomery, Ala. Peter Holohan Sports Information Associate 95.7 FM Greenville, Ala. [email protected] 96.7 FM Pine Hill, Ala. 96.3 FM Selma, Ala. LaTonia Thirston Program Assistant [email protected] HSRN Radio Sirius/XM Satellite Radio Office Phone: 334-229-4511 BROADCAST TEAM Stadium Phone: 334-832-2624 Maurice Carter Play-by-Play Eddie Robinson Color Analyst WOW Wings Swarm and Sting Football Coaches Show: Head Coach Brian Jenkins will host his radio show Thursdays at 6 Live broadcast will begin 30 minutes before kickoff. p.m...The show will be held at WOW Wings Restaurant in Eastdale Mall...The Hornets Play-by-Play person Duane Lewis will host the show...The show will be available live on line at bamastatesports. com and on 100.5 FM (Montgomery), 102.7 FM (Montgomery), 95.7 FM (Greenville) and 96.7 FM (Pine Hill). Jenkins Press Conference: Head Coach Brian Jenkins will host a weekly press conference Follow ASU Athletics at: each Wednesday at 1 p.m. The press conference will be held in the Multi-Purpose room at the Houston Markham Football Complex. facebook.com/asubuzz Berry Picks Up Preseason Honors: Junior linebacker Kourtney Berry has made a name for himself in the SWAC and was named as the 2015 SWAC Preseason Defen- sive Player of the Year...He is now beginning to pick up national twitter.com/asubuzz recognition after registering a league-high 128 tackles last season... He has been named to nine preseason teams including, two SWAC Defensive POTY honors and three All-America teams. ASU Back on Television: Over the past three years, the Hornets have had the opportunity to showcase the program on national television several times and that will be no different this season...The Hornets will have three games broadcast on the family of ESPN...Both of ASU’s Thursday night contests will be on ESPNU...Oct. 1 ASU is at Texas Southern and Oct. 15 the Hornets travel to Arkansas-Pine Bluff...The kick off for both games will be at 6:30 p.m...ASU’s Oct. 31 game against Ala- bama A&M in the 74th Magic City Classic is scheduled for a 2:30 p.m. kick on ESPNU with a later showing on ESPN3...The Hornets could appear on television one more time should they appear in the Toyota SWAC Football Championship on Dec. 5. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 3 p.m. 8:15 p.m. 8:15 p.m. Leave for Pine Bluff UAPB Off Off SWAC Telec. 10 a.m. Press Conf. 1 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 2 www.bamastatesports.com 2015 Preseason Honors Kourtney Berry STATS FCS Second Team All-America STATS Defensive Player of the Year Award Watch List SWAC Preseason Defensive Player of the Year SWAC Coaches Teleconference Call (Monday Mornings) All SWAC First Team CSM SWAC Preseason Defensive SWAC News and Notes 10:00-10:05 Player of the Year James Spady, Alabama A&M 10:05-10:15 CSM First Team All-SWAC Brian Jenkins, Alabama State 10:15-10:25 College Football America 2015 Yearbook Jay Hopson, Alcorn State 10:25-10:35 FCS Starting Lineup Monte Coleman, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 10:35-10:45 CSM FCS Second Team All-American Broderick Fobbs, Grambling State 10:45-10:55 Boxtorow First Team All-American Harold Jackson, Jackson State 10:55-11:05 Rick Comegy, Mississippi Valley State 11:05-11:15 Damian Love Willie Simmons, Prairie View A&M 11:15-11:25 All SWAC First Team Dawson Odums, Southern 11:25-11:35 CSM All SWAC First Team Darrell Asberry, Texas Southern 11:35-11:45 Jylan Ware Media members are invited to use the weekly SWAC Coaches Teleconference to get infor- All SWAC First Team mation from the league’s head coaches. The toll free number for the call is 800-356-8278 CSM All SWAC Second Team and the participant code is 298779#. To mute/unmute *4. DeMario Bell 2015 SWAC Standings All SWAC Second Team East Division Conf. Overall CSM All SWAC Second Team Alcorn State University 3-0 4-1 Alabama State University 2-2 2-3 Daerius Washington Alabama A&M University 1-1 1-3 All SWAC Second Team Jackson State University 1-2 1-4 CSM All SWAC First Team Mississippi Valley State University 0-3 0-5 Khalid Thomas West Division CSM All SWAC Second Team (punt returner) Grambling State University 3-0 3-2 Southern University 2-0 2-2 Prairie View A&M University 2-1 2-2 SWAC Media Services Texas Southern University 1-3 2-3 2101 6th Avenue North University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff 0-3 1-4 Suite 700 Birmingham, Ala. 35203 Last Week in the SWAC Oct. 1 Alabama State at Texas Southern ASU, 41-23 Oct. 3 Univ. of Faith at Prairie View A&M (Waller, TX) PVAMU, 42-0 Mississippi Valley State at Jacksonville State Jacksonville St., 49-7 Alcorn State at Arkansas-Pine Bluff (Little Rock) Alcorn, 61-14 Alabama A&M at Coastal Carolina Coastal Carolina, 55-0 Jasher Cox -- Director of Communications Grambling State at Jackson State GSU, 59-27 SWAC Office: (205) 251-7573 SWAC Fax: (205) 297-9820 This Week in the SWAC Office Phone: (205) 251-2247 [email protected] Oct. 10 Mississippi Valley State at Prairie View A&M (Waller, TX) 1 p.m. website: www.swac.org Alabama A&M at Grambling State 3 p.m. twitter: @theswac Southern at Alabama State 6 p.m. youtube: www.youtube.com/user/swactube 3 www.bamastatesports.com HEAD-TO-HEAD Alabama State Opp. CATEGORY Southern Opp. ASU-Southern Series 124 (24.8) 127 (25.4) Scoring 121 (30.2) 154 (38.5) Southern Leads Series 27-11-0 87 100 First Downs 78 91 53 34 By Rushing 36 34 2014 Southern 28-21 26 57 By Passing 35 53 2013 Southern 31-28 8 9 By Penalty 7 4 2012 Alabama State 31-30 979 740 Rushing Yardage 629 711 2011 Southern 26-23 187 182 Rushing Attempts 139 128 2010 Alabama State 21-19 5.2 4.1 Average Per Rush 4.5 5.6 2009 Southern 34-24 195.8 148.0 Average Per Game 157.2 177.8 2008 Southern 15-0 11 8 TD’s Rushing 11 7 2007 Southern 21-2 810 1165 Passing Yardage 908 1207 2006 Southern 38-20 81-131-2 110-181-2 Comp-Att-Int 62-108-3 89-139-6 2005 Alabama State 45-35 162.0 233.0 Passing Yards Per Game 227.0 301.8 2004 Southern 42-41 6 8 Passing TD’s 3 12 Southern* 40-35 1789 1905 Total Offense 1537 1918 2003 Southern 35-10 318 363 Total Plays 247 267 Southern* 20-9 5.6 5.2 Average Per Play 6.2 7.2 2001 Southern 32-7 357.8 381.0 Average Per Game 384.2 479.5 2000 Alabama State 37-33 36-299 52-434 Penalties-Yards 33-239 28-268 1999 Southern 36-13 24/29 (35%) 37/86 (43%) Third Down Coversions 20/52 (38%) 20/48 (42%) 1998 Southern 34-27 4/10 (40%) 5/7 (71%) Fourth Down Coversions 3/5 (60%) 3/4 (75%) 1997 Southern 27-16 1996 Alabama State 16-14 Individual Stats 1995 Southern 29-19 Alabama State Southern 1994 Southern 31-0 Rushing Att Yds Avg TD Rushing Att Yds Avg TD 1993 Southern 23-14 Ellis Richardson 47 311 6.6 6 L.