Lamar Football Scrimmage

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BEAUMONT - With just three weeks remaining before its season opener at McNeese State, the Lamar University football team played its first intra-squad scrimmage of training camp Saturday night on the Coach Vernon Glass Field of Champions practice field.

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[TexasTerror]

Even their mascot is getting ready...


Robert Boudwin, better known as the Rockets mascot Clutch, brought his mascot expertise to eager learners Saturday at the first Fantasy Mascot Camp at Toyota Center.

Mascots included participants from area high schools, middle schools, Lamar University, the University of Houston, corporate mascots from Chick-fil-A and mascots from the minor league and professional levels. Out of the 36 campers, ages varied from 12-year-old Samuel Paul Davis , who came all the way from Oklahoma to attend, to 38-year-old Armando Reyes.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/7154010.html

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It was a fine scrimmage. I happened to be there. :)

Great to hear our Mascot is getting some training from a professional, hopefully he will have some high flying acrobatics, he is a cardinal after all.

Thinking about it though, the formal auditions aren't until the end of august. This guy must be one of the potential Big Red's.

[TexasTerror]

Welcome to the board CardAmbassador! :)

Is Andre Bevil going to be the real deal? Or is he going to be setback some by lots of the youth around him?

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I think he will be the real deal, he actually has a pretty good TE and WR (JJ Hayes) to throw to. The other receivers have talent but they aren't as physically imposing as those two. So he will have so weapons. We called about two passes for every one run, (which our OC said wasn't indicative of how we will play at McNeese) so the run game will be a big question mark to me, and it looks like it wont be resolved in front of me since the next scrimmage is probably going to be closed to the public. If they can give Andre a good running game and the O line does its job which they did for most of the night at the scrimmage, then people will really be impressed with him.

He only played QB his senior year of HS, I bet he would have went straight to an FCS or maybe sat the bench at an FBS school if there was more tape on the kid, and more experience. Needless to say I like him. It's good that in one of the most critical positions we already have a strong front runner for the #1 spot. The weakness seems to be the secondary, special teams, and the O line looked a bit shaky at the beginning of the scrimmage but I think it was the fact that this was the first scrimmage since fall that had them wobbly.