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Those are the two areas in which the Texas State football team needed to improve according to head coach Brad Wright. After last season’s 4-7 campaign, the Bobcats needed a change and they needed it fast.
Texas State’s defense in 2007 was near the bottom in the Southland Conference. The Bobcats allowed 37.6 points per game, while only scoring 28.1. Offensively, Texas State was putting up the points to win, but the defense wasn’t doing its job.
“It was getting real irritating,” Bobcat running back Karrington Bush said. “We’d score and then the defense would give up another touchdown, so we’d keep having to put points on the board to stay ahead.”
Games would become glorified track meets, with points interchanged for times and meters with yards. Texas State lost many of the races before it began simply because its defense couldn’t stop the bleeding.
Bradley George has tenure.
That’s the polite way of saying the Texas State quarterback is old. George remembers graduating high school in 2000, playing catch with King Tut and trading notes with Socrates.
All right, only one of those statements is true about the 26-year-old, but his life goes in cycles.
Seven years ago, the Cincinnati Reds took George in the 12th round of the MLB amateur entry draft. After a stellar career at New Braunfels-Canyon, George signed with Cincinnati in hopes of reaching the majors.
“I gave myself about a four or five-year window, if I was going to make it in the big leagues, or getting close to it anyway” George said.
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