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A&T Football: QB Kindle reinstated; CB Webb 'not playing'
The Aggies will get starting quarterback Lewis Kindle back this week but will continue to be without starting cornerback Terence Webb, N.C. A&T coach Rod Broadway said Monday.
Kindle, who was suspended with at least two teammates for the Aggies' season-opening loss to Coastal Carolina on Saturday for violating team rules, is back practicing with the team, Broadway said, and the coach expects him to play this week.
Broadway said Webb, a senior from Loachapoka, Ala., who started all 11 games at cornerback for the Aggies last year, is "not playing," and would not specify why or how long N.C. A&T would be without him.
"Right now he's not going to play," Broadway said at his Monday press conference. "And I can't comment any further on that."
Junior Ayodeji Olatoye, a transfer from Colorado, stepped in for Webb on Saturday, recording three tackles and an interception.
True freshman Kwashaun Quick took over behind center for Kindle, completing 11-of-23 passes for 155 yards, a touchdown and three interceptions, also running 14 times for 57 yards.
Kindle, a junior from Atlanta, started all 11 games for the Aggies last season.
"I think Kindle is a better quarterback with Quick at this point, but if you saw Quick play this Saturday, he's got a chance to be a really good player," Broadway said. "If I'm in a race, I'd rather have a racecar than a Volkswagen. Of course it's going to help to have (Kindle) back because he's played a lot of football for us.
"He'll be back, and I think he'll help our football team. But just having Kindle back is not going to make us better. Everybody's got to get better."
Junior running back Ricky Lewis, a Dudley grad, made the trip with the team but was held out of the game.
A team spokesman said Lewis was not one of the players suspended.
Broadway said he also expects to have Lewis back for the Aggies' home opener Saturday, and Lewis is listed as the starting punt returner and holder on this week's depth chart.
APR FRUSTRATIONS: N.C. A&T is creeping out from under the NCAA restrictions following low APR scores that have hamstrung the program over the past four seasons, but Broadway was exasperated Monday with the toll the sanctions continue to take on the team.
Along with a postseason ban, this year's Aggies get one fewer day and four fewer hours of preparation per week during the season, piggybacking on a self-imposed shortened spring practice as a show of good faith to the NCAA.
A&T doesn't get to have spring practice next year, due to its latest round of APR scores.
"We don't have the time other people do to develop their football team," Broadway said. "We're caught between a rock and a hard place because of APR problems we didn't create, we're just trying to fix.
"We're being punished severely for something we didn't do, and it's hard to overcome those things. You don't overcome overnight. With all that said. we still have an opportunity to be a good football team. But I'm tired of going and playing with my hands tied behind my back all the time and getting punched in the head because you don't have what the other teams have. And it's frustrating."
For the first time since 2008, A&T is allowed its full allotment of 63 scholarships but, because of scholarship restrictions the previous three seasons, the Aggies only have about 48 players on scholarship, Broadway said last week.
The NCAA has meted out practice reductions in each of the past three seasons to the Aggies, for APR scores recorded from the 2005-06 through 2010-11 school years.
Broadway took over at A&T in Feb. 2011.
"None of the kids here did anything wrong, nor did the coaching staff do anything wrong," Broadway said. "We are getting punished for what someone else didn't do or what someone else did. To me, it's not that these guys give all they have and we get penalized.
"With that said, we're still good enough to win."
A&T Football: QB Kindle reinstated; CB Webb 'not playing'
The Aggies will get starting quarterback Lewis Kindle back this week but will continue to be without starting cornerback Terence Webb, N.C. A&T coach Rod Broadway said Monday.
Kindle, who was suspended with at least two teammates for the Aggies' season-opening loss to Coastal Carolina on Saturday for violating team rules, is back practicing with the team, Broadway said, and the coach expects him to play this week.
Broadway said Webb, a senior from Loachapoka, Ala., who started all 11 games at cornerback for the Aggies last year, is "not playing," and would not specify why or how long N.C. A&T would be without him.
"Right now he's not going to play," Broadway said at his Monday press conference. "And I can't comment any further on that."
Junior Ayodeji Olatoye, a transfer from Colorado, stepped in for Webb on Saturday, recording three tackles and an interception.
True freshman Kwashaun Quick took over behind center for Kindle, completing 11-of-23 passes for 155 yards, a touchdown and three interceptions, also running 14 times for 57 yards.
Kindle, a junior from Atlanta, started all 11 games for the Aggies last season.
"I think Kindle is a better quarterback with Quick at this point, but if you saw Quick play this Saturday, he's got a chance to be a really good player," Broadway said. "If I'm in a race, I'd rather have a racecar than a Volkswagen. Of course it's going to help to have (Kindle) back because he's played a lot of football for us.
"He'll be back, and I think he'll help our football team. But just having Kindle back is not going to make us better. Everybody's got to get better."
Junior running back Ricky Lewis, a Dudley grad, made the trip with the team but was held out of the game.
A team spokesman said Lewis was not one of the players suspended.
Broadway said he also expects to have Lewis back for the Aggies' home opener Saturday, and Lewis is listed as the starting punt returner and holder on this week's depth chart.
APR FRUSTRATIONS: N.C. A&T is creeping out from under the NCAA restrictions following low APR scores that have hamstrung the program over the past four seasons, but Broadway was exasperated Monday with the toll the sanctions continue to take on the team.
Along with a postseason ban, this year's Aggies get one fewer day and four fewer hours of preparation per week during the season, piggybacking on a self-imposed shortened spring practice as a show of good faith to the NCAA.
A&T doesn't get to have spring practice next year, due to its latest round of APR scores.
"We don't have the time other people do to develop their football team," Broadway said. "We're caught between a rock and a hard place because of APR problems we didn't create, we're just trying to fix.
"We're being punished severely for something we didn't do, and it's hard to overcome those things. You don't overcome overnight. With all that said. we still have an opportunity to be a good football team. But I'm tired of going and playing with my hands tied behind my back all the time and getting punched in the head because you don't have what the other teams have. And it's frustrating."
For the first time since 2008, A&T is allowed its full allotment of 63 scholarships but, because of scholarship restrictions the previous three seasons, the Aggies only have about 48 players on scholarship, Broadway said last week.
The NCAA has meted out practice reductions in each of the past three seasons to the Aggies, for APR scores recorded from the 2005-06 through 2010-11 school years.
Broadway took over at A&T in Feb. 2011.
"None of the kids here did anything wrong, nor did the coaching staff do anything wrong," Broadway said. "We are getting punished for what someone else didn't do or what someone else did. To me, it's not that these guys give all they have and we get penalized.
"With that said, we're still good enough to win."
