Defense Rules the Day in 2016 Football Spring Game
Apr 16, 2016 | Football
NEW ORLEANS - Tulane
Tulane head coach Willie Fritz ran a controlled scrimmage of 70 plays and kept the quarterbacks off limits from being tackled. Kennedy was one of six defenders to record a sack and sophomore safety Roderic Teamer corralled a tipped pass from freshman quarterback Darius Bradwell for the game's lone interception.
"It was good to get out there today and simulate as close as we could to a live game even though the quarterbacks were off limits," Fritz said. "I tried to limit plays because we don't have a lot of depth right now so there were quite a few players who did get quite a few plays. I saw some good things and now we can evaluate and see what we did well and see what we did poorly and create a pecking order as far as a depth chart is concerned. There's a lot of things we need to work on and as a head coach you are never satisfied and you shouldn't be as a football play either."
Junior running back Dontrell Hilliard finished behind Badie in rushing with 48 yards on three carries but did register the longest play of the day with a 40-yard gallop down the right sideline that set up Badie's touchdown three plays later. Redshirt-senior running back Josh Rounds finished with 44 yards in helping the Tulane offense roll up 192 yards on the ground.
Redshirt-senior quarterback Devin Powell completed his first four pass attempts and finished the day 5-of-7 for 59 yards and recorded the longest pass play of the day with a 20-yard completion to classmate Larry Dace III. Dace led the receiving corps with 30 yards on a pair of catches.
Redshirt-sophomore quarterback Glenn Cuiellette hooked up with sophomore receiver Chaz
Tulane will close out its spring campaign with its final practice on Monday, April 18 at 8:15 a.m. at Yulman Stadium.
