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The NCAA has ruled that all Spring Sport athletes will be granted an additional year of eligibility with no stipulations. Basketball and indoor track/field are not included. Also waves scholarship limits for the seniors. As far as Lamar is concerned most Spring Sports do not have a bunch of seniors with the exception of men’s track and field (6). I believe baseball had 3 & softball has 2. Not sure about tennis and golf. A full scholarship at Lamar costs the Athletic Department about $25k/ year, so if the athletes will stay another year (even though most are on partial scholarships), the financial cost to Lamar would probably in the neighborhood of $250k. And the …

Lamar senior Distance runner was named the SLC Student-Athlete of the year in Track and Field. He was named the outstanding men’s performer at the SLC Indoor Championships and has a cumulative GPA of 3.88. Outstanding!

Found, I think a new interview with Coach Morgan on youtube. It is about a 25 minute chat session asking Morgan different questions about what he is currently doing in preparation for the upcoming season. Title of the video is Chatting with the Cardinals: Blane Morgan

Senior guard was selected as a SLC All-Academic Team Member in men’s basketball. Congrats to VJ!

In light of the Coronavirus pandemic, I wanted to put this roll call out to be sure that everyone is well and hopefully not having to personally deal with it. Prayers for the health of everyone. We can talk LU sports in due time.

https://m.beaumontenterprise.com/sports/article/Chastadie-Barrs-named-Swiss-Basketball-League-s-15167793.php

going off the top of my head, don't feel like walking all the way across the house to get my stack of programs and rosters gotta have finished playing gimme some names 5 OL Gillam, Treadway, oubre, bowery, Brock?, 4 wr (or 3 and TE) Begelton, Roberts, hayes? mcVey 1 qb Berry 1 rb Harrington 4 DL Dickson, okafor? Murrill? 3 LB brain freeze---weve had some good LBs. 2 db Rodney Randle, Langley (I think he was over rated..but stuck for another name) 2 Safeties Xavier Bethany, Lane Taylor (for now) gotta put Case Robinson somewhere...he'd a played anywhere I know ive left off some obvious…

Football Scoop is reporting that San Diego State QB coach will be named head coach for Lamar football. https://footballscoop.com/news/sources-lamar-to-hire-fbs-assistant-as-head-coach/ https://goaztecs.com/sports/football/roster/coaches/blane-morgan/495

The SLC announced today that after a meeting this morning with the Board of Presidents, that all Spring sports competitions have been cancelled. Even though local tv stations reported this Friday, it wasn’t really decided until today (fake news?).

https://m.beaumontenterprise.com/sports/lamar/article/Lamar-gets-one-more-shot-at-McNeese-15120804.php

Thoughts on when/if the Cardinals should fly the coop to a new conference? The American South Conference was a good conference them, in my opinion. But the trips to places like Bowling Green, KY... Orlando and Jacksonville, FL... and others were a financial drain after the merger with the Sun Belt. The current configuration of the Southland has numerous schools that aren't exactly adding much to the conference in: quality of facilities, revenue added through TV ratings and/or attendance (home or away). I feel things are different from 1987 when they formed the old ASC... then again, if the ASC hadn't merged with the Sun Belt, the Cardinals might have never returned…

https://m.beaumontenterprise.com/sports/lamar/article/Southland-Conference-cancels-basketball-15126416.php

Tulane won the first game last night 14-12. Lamar had leads of 8-6 and 10-9 but the relievers couldn't hold it. Lamar gave up two runs in each of the last four at bats for Tulane. Game two this evening at 6:30.

https://lamarcardinals.com/news/2020/3/11/general-slc-limits-attendance-at-future-rounds-of-hoops-tournament.aspx

https://m.beaumontenterprise.com/sports/lamar/article/Lamar-s-TJ-Atwood-makes-all-conference-team-15118026.php

Cards give up one run in the bottom of the 1st. Looks like SFA has a good batting average as a team.

Was selected Distirict 21 - 6A MVP. Congratulations to him on an outstanding season. With Lamar losing TJ Atwood, it's awesome to have another great player from Beaumont joining the Cardinals.

Following Wednesday's games Lamar men are tied with Northwestern St for fifth place at 10-9 and a game back of Sam for fourth. Saturday Lamar women play at 2:00 followed by the men at 4:30. The men are in position to get into a tie for fourth place Saturday as Sam closes their season out at SFA and Lamar has McNeese at home. While this game probably isn't a must win for Lamar it is for McNeese so LU better be ready to play. McNeese has to win or have a UCA or AMCC loss plus be on top of the tie breaker to make the tourney. For Lamar it is mostly about seeding, but considering SFA is obviously favored to defeat Sam, depending on the tie breaker with a win Lamar could …

The 2020 Spring football practice schedule has just been posted to twitter by Lamar University football twitter. The practice schedule starts, on March 25th. There are 14 scheduled practices, with the Spring game, scheduled for April 25th. What needs, to be clarified is, are the practices open to the public? Lamar University Football @LamarFootball · 45m 2020 SPRING PRACTICE SCHEDULE *All practices are open to HS coaches

Cards host PVU Panthers in this weeks mid-week game at 6pm. A bit cool & windy out here.

Lamar Men and Women are competing in the SLC Indoor Track and Field Meet starting at 8:30am tomorrow at the Birmingham Crossplex Athletic Complex in Birmingham, Alabama. I will be posting updates and Lamar highlights from the meet both Sunday & Monday. The American Athletic Conference just completed their indoor championships tonight at the same venue.

Lamar plays a three game series versus the Akron Zips this weekend. Cards will have a mid week game next week against Prairie View before opening conference play. So far tonight the Cards are up 3-1 in the 5th inning.

This Saturday the Lamar men and women play a double header against SFA in Nacogdoches. Women are up first at 2:00 PM playing for pride as the Lady Cards are mathematically eliminated from the SLC Tourney. The men's game follows and while it is not an absolute must win for the men versus the conference leading team, a loss will possibly make next weeks McNeese game a must win. The men are currently sitting in 5th place with a 10-8 record, but depending on just how the season finishes out and how all of the tie-breaker rules work, the men could wind up anywhere from 4th to 9th. Two wins probably places the in 6th at worst. Two losses will probably put the Cards in 8th …

Atwood 16.5 ppg Buster 14.8 ppg Sullivan 12.8 ppg Holmes 10.2 ppg Kopp 10.2 ppg https://lamarcardinals.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats/2019-2020 I'm just wondering because I've followed Lamar for over 40 years and don't recall the Cardinals having five players averaging double figures.

Men are at home with an opportunity to guarantee a SLC Tourney bid after the win last Saturday. A win will put UIW with eleven losses and AMCC is at UNO and UNO win would leave AMCC with eleven losses. Ladies are in San Antonio. For the ladies they are looking to put a positive close to this season.