Saturday, August 8, 2015

Players, coach preview Lane College football season

JACKSON, Tennessee -- With Derrick Burroughs in charge again after a one-year absence, the 2015 theme for Lane football might be best described as Back to the Future.

The Dragons had slowly progressed to six wins in 2013 before plummeting to one last year. The question now is how long it takes Burroughs and his staff to get the DeLorean back up to 88 miles per hour.

At the team’s Media Day session Friday morning, Burroughs gave a mixed review of his recruiting success this past offseason. The combination of newcomers and returnees must approach the year differently following an ugly finish to last season.

“We like to think that we’ve got the kind of kids that can face adversity well, but you never know until they do, right?” Burroughs said. “ ... It’ll be interesting to know who can address it well and who can’t.

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