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BY LUCAS AULBACH AND ELLIOTT PRATT

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WKU may see a new starting quarterback on the fi eld Saturday night, coach Bobby Petrino an-nounced after Thursday’s practice.

Petrino said all four quarterbacks on WKU’s roster have a chance to start against Morgan State.

The decision to open the start-ing quarterback job up for com-petition came on the heels of sev-eral starting lineup changes that were made before last Saturday’s game against South Alabama.

“What we’ve done is opened it up like all the other positions that we go through the week, evaluate effort and how we do,” Petrino said Thursday. “We had a decent practice tonight and we’ll evaluate it just like we do every other position and then make a

decision either tonight or prob-ably tomorrow.”

Petrino said the decision to look at other potential start-ers came in part due to WKU’s turnover troubles. The Toppers have given the ball up 12 times through three games this year.

“We’re turning the ball over too much and like I said before, any time you turn it over it is the en-tire offense’s responsibility,” he said. “But a week ago we made every position really available for competition except for the quar-terback position so we decided to include them all.”

Junior Brandon Doughty start-ed the fi rst three games of the season for WKU. After complet-ing 27-of-34 passes in a win over Kentucky in the season-opener, the quarterback threw an FBS-leading eight interceptions over the next two games, both losses.

Through three games, Doughty had completed 71-of-115 passes for 775 yards, with fi ve touch-downs and eight interceptions.

Petrino said Doughty was dis-appointed but has responded well to his starting job being threatened.

“We had really good meetings today and he’s got a real positive attitude,” the coach said. “He’s a great teammate, his teammates voted him captain, and he’s been very positive. He’ll get his oppor-tunity back, there’s no question about it in my mind.”

Freshman Todd Porter has taken reps with the fi rst team in practice this week and could see the fi eld for the fi rst time Saturday night.

The freshman from O’Fallon, Ill., threw for 6,200 yards, includ-ing 3,009 in his senior season, and completed 61 percent of his passes in his three-year career at

O’Fallon High School. He holds school records at the school for career touchdown passes (45), touchdown passes in a single season (22) and passing yards in a single game (405).

Petrino said Porter is a very tal-ented passer.

“He can really throw it, make all the different throws that you need to make and he’s very ath-letic,” he said about the fresh-man. “He’s still learning — he’s still learning the pace of the game, the tempo of the game, the different looks that defenses can give you, but he’s improved a lot. He’s gotten a lot of reps in the last month and he’s improved a lot.”

Along with Porter and Dough-ty, WKU has two other quarter-backs on the roster in sopho-mores Nelson Fishback and Damarcus Smith.

Fishback has yet to see the fi eld

this season. Smith, a former four-star recruit who transferred toWKU from Central Florida, waswidely considered the second-string quarterback until thisweek. He went 0-of-2 againstTennessee in his only action sofar this year.

Petrino said each of the WKUquarterbacks have been nervous inpractice this week but all have per-formed well, and the offense is pre-paring packages for all four of them.

“Some of them have executedreal well — they’ve been incon-sistent, but there have beensome really good things, too,” hesaid. “I think it’s helped our en-thusiasm at practice and our re-ceiving core is getting better andthey’re going to continue to im-prove and that will help all of us.”

The Toppers will kick offagainst Morgan State at 6 p.m.Saturday at Smith Stadium.

Starting quarterback job open heading into Saturday


WKU players to watch

ANTONIO ANDREWSSenior running back

• Leads WKU in rushing yards this season with 343 yards on 48 attempts, with one touchdown.

• Has split carries at times with sophomore Leon Allen but currently leads the team averaging 6.9 yards per carry.

• Has caught nine passes for an additional 118 yards so far this year.

XAVIUS BOYDSenior linebacker

• WKU’s leading tackler this season with 35, including 15 solo tackles.

• Has a team-leading 6.5 tackles for a loss through three games this year.

• Leads WKU with 3.5 tack-les this season.

NICHOLAS NORRISFreshman wide receiver

• Leads WKU in receiving yards with 129 and receiving touchdowns three this sea-son.

• Ranks No. 2 on the team behind junior wide receiver Willie McNeal in total recep-tions with 10 so far.

• Had a breakout game at South Alabama last Saturday, recording seven catches for 95 yards and two touchdowns.

TYLER HIGBEESophomore tight end

• Averaging 13.5 yards per reception, which leads WKU through three games this sea-son.

• Has recorded eight catches for 108 yards and a touchdown this year.

• Had his best game of the season against South Alabama, where he had fi ve catches for 67 yards and a touchdown.


BY LUCAS [email protected]

Before he graduated after last sea-son, Jack Doyle became WKU’s all-time leader in catches and receiving yards for a tight end while wearing No. 82 on his jersey. This year, redshirt sophomore tight end Tyler Higbee has taken his number and is looking to make a similar impact on the WKU of-fense.

Higbee redshirted last season, but was a big part of WKU during its turn-around season two years ago. He played in 11 games as a freshman, record-ing a pair of catches for 92 yards and a touchdown as a wide receiver — the 6-5 Clearwater, Fla. native has since transi-tioned to tight end.

With eight catches for 108 yards and a touchdown so far this season, he said he wants to be one of junior quarterback Brandon Doughty’s favorite targets for the rest of the season.

“Every time I take the fi eld I expect to be one of the top targets — I hope to be and I strive to be,” Higbee said after practice Tuesday. “I feel like with-out that attitude, you won’t be there, so that’s why I take that attitude on the fi eld and I just work and try to be there.”

The tight end had the biggest game of his career at South Alabama last Saturday.

Higbee caught fi ve passes for 67 yards and a score against the Jaguar defense that held the Topper offense to just 27-of-47 passing.

He said he expects WKU’s passing of-

fense as a whole to improve as the season goes on.

“We’re 1-2 — we’re not where we want to be,” Higbee said. “Everybody’s out there working though, and we’re coming from a new offense, so we’re still trying to learn some of the offense. Some people still don’t have it all to-gether, and unless you have all 11 play-ers doing their job, an offense isn’t an offense where you need it to be.”

Offensive coordinator Jeff Brohm said he was impressed with Higbee’s fi ve-catch game over the weekend, but he hopes to see the tight end improve going forward.

A tight end has a lot of responsibilities, he said, and it’s important that Higbee is capable of fulfi lling all of those duties when he’s on the fi eld.

“He’s got to fi nd ways to build his stamina and be able to go full speed at all times,” Brohm said. “At tight end, you’ve got to be able to block, you’ve got to be able to catch passes, so those guys have got to stay fresh as well.”

The coach said Higbee and junior tight end Mitchell Henry, who has eight receptions for 104 yards and a touchdown this year, need to step up if the Toppers are going to get back on track.

“We definitely need him and Mitchell Henry to be really good play-ers for us,” Brohm said. “They’ve got to dominate in the passing game, they can’t get tired, they’ve got to be physi-cal in the running game and set the edge. Those are two guys we need to play well.”

Higbee reasserts himself into WKU lineup

Sophomore tight end Tyler Higbee celebrates after scoring a touchdown on the fi rst drive of the game against South Alabama on Sept. 14. JEFF BROWN/HERALD

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Last Saturday against South Alabama, the WKU wide receiv-ers showed their collective youth.

The Topper pass-catchers hauled in three total touch-downs, including two from freshman wide receiver Nicholas Norris, but also recorded several key drops on important drives. The drops contributed to junior quarterback Brandon Doughty’s 27-of-47 day from the fi eld.

But the Topper receivers have another issue that may have contributed to their early strug-gles — youth.

None of the 13 wide receiv-ers listed on WKU’s roster are seniors. The Toppers have four redshirt juniors listed, with Willie McNeal and Joel German being the only two that receive con-sistent playing time, and the rest are sophomores or freshmen.

Offensive coordinator Jeff Brohm said it’s time for his receiv-ers to grow up a little bit.

“The youngness has to rub off,” he said after practice Tuesday. “They’ve played three games, they’ve got to continue to get better — they’ve got to be playmakers for us.”

Coach Bobby Petrino said his receivers are part of a passing game that is a “work in progress.”

“I was hoping we’d be ahead of where we are right now with it,” he said on Monday. “When you come in and everything’s new to every single player — we’ve got a lot of new receivers out there, the schemes are new, the timing that we’re working on is new.

“We knew that we were go-ing to have to continue to im-prove as the year went on. You’d like to do that as you’re

winning games.”Young receivers have been a

major part of the WKU passing attack so far this year.

Norris has caught a team-high three of Doughty’s eight touchdown passes this year and leads WKU with 129 receiving yards on 10 catches. He caught seven passes for 95 yards and two touchdowns against the Jaguars last Saturday.

Freshman Taywan Taylor in-serted himself into the starting lineup in the fi rst game of the season and has caught fi ve pass-es for 24 yards this year, while fel-low freshman Aaron Jackson saw his fi rst regular season action Saturday, recording a six-yard re-ception.

Norris said he’s already de-veloped good chemistry with Doughty and every other quarterback on the roster in practice.

“I’m getting a different feel for every quarterback in practice ev-eryday,” he said. “Whoever they can throw in at anytime in the game, I just know I have a great relationship at anytime.”

With the receivers playing such an important role in the pass-happy WKU offense — through three games, the Top-pers have already thrown the ball 37 more times than they had through three games last season — Brohm said he needs his receivers to step up and do their part to help the team snap its two-game losing streak.

“They’re out there all the time and we need big plays from those guys,” he said. “We need to distribute the ball and give them a chance to make the play, but they defi nitely have to come through for us and make big plays.”

Young receiving core looks to put mistakes behind them

Freshman wide receiver Nicholas Norris is picked up by junior off ensive lineman Cameron Clemmons as they celebrate after scoring a touchdown against Tennessee on Sept. 7. JEFF BROWN/HERALD



The guy everyone has heard of is An-drew Jackson, but WKU has several other linebackers that have begun to play a ma-jor role in the Topper defense this season.

Jackson, a senior, is the man in the mid-dle, but the top performer at the position so far this year has been senior Xavius Boyd.

Boyd has been a consistent starter since his freshman season in 2010, but he saved his best performances for WKU (1-2, 0-1 Sun Belt Conference) for this year. He leads the Topper defense in total tackles (35), tackles for loss (6.5) and sacks (3.5) three games into the 2013 season.

Jackson, WKU’s middle linebacker, has started two games and has racked up 19 tackles himself, while sophomore Daqual Randall and senior Chuck Franks have seen playing time as well.

Franks, who has recorded fi ve tackles so far this year, said he’s been pleased by the collective play of the linebackers through the fi rst three games.

“I’ve done a lot to contribute to the team by playing my role and doing what I’m supposed to do on the fi eld, as well as the other two linebackers,” Franks said Mon-day. “Andrew Jackson has done a good job this season as well as Xavius Boyd, and also the other backup linebackers, (ju-nior) Terran Williams and Daquall Ran-dall. They’ve been doing well also.”

Defensive coordinator Nick Holt is in his fi rst year leading the WKU defense.

He said while Jackson and Boyd have stood out to him as playmakers so far this season, the defense needs them to give their best effort on every play if the Top-pers are going to succeed this year.

“They’re two guys that need that day-in and day-out play-in and play-out — to be consistent in all their plays,” Holt said. “That’s not happening on a 100-percent basis, and we need to get that going. They need to play more con-sistent.”

Last season, the linebackers had the benefi t of playing behind a defensive line

that had four experienced seniors — they aren’t that lucky this year.

WKU has replaced its entire starting defensive line from a year ago, with mid-dling results so far. The Toppers are giving up 200 rushing yards per game on average so far this season.

The holes in the defense have caused

some changes to the starting lineup. Ran-dall replaced Jackson at middle linebacker at the start of the game against South Ala-bama, one of many changes WKU made to the starting lineup at the start of the game.

Coach Bobby Petrino said the starting lineup will be determined moving for-ward by who gives the best effort in prac-tice in the week leading up to the game —

Randall impressed him most that week,he said.

“We need to learn as a team that you goout and you earn the right to win on thepractice fi eld with your effort,” Petrinosaid. “We go out there and we grade oureffort and the guys that gave the best ef-fort will start the game.”

Several linebackers anchor WKU defense

Senior Chuck Franks (25), left, and senior Xavius Boyd (13) tackle South Alabama's Montell Garner (16) during the fi rst half of WKU’s game against South Alabama on Sept. 14 at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Ala. MIKE CLARK/HERALD


The assets are the ones making news-paper headlines, choreographing touch-down dances and stealing the autographs and the spotlight for the rewards on SportsCenter Top 10.

They’re the anchors that hold the ship. Without these lumberjacks, there are no headlines, no touchdowns and no spot-lights.

The offensive line holds one of the most important jobs on a football team and en-dure more battles and rough patches than any other position on the fi eld. They've seen it all in the trenches – from fi ngers in the eyes at the bottom of a dog pile to the holding calls a referee never sees.

Two linemen for WKU have seen every-thing in their expiring time on the Hill.

Redshirt seniors Sean Conway, a cen-ter, and Luis Polanco, WKU’s starting left guard, have been through the whirlwind of Topper football over the last fi ve years.

The two were redshirted in 2009 when former coach David Elson and the Top-pers went 0-12 in their fi rst year of Divi-sion I-A football. Since that winless year,

Conway has been on the fi eld the start of every game since 2010, making Saturday’s game against Morgan State the senior’s 41st consecutive start for WKU.

Polanco has seen plenty of playing time as well. The lineman from Tampa, Fla. started all but one game last season and has seen action in all but three games in his college career.

Needless to say, the two have had time to formulate a tight chemistry with one another.

“I think throughout the years we have become tighter,” Polanco said. “We know each other better. We kind of know what to expect from each other, blocking for each other, having each other’s back.”

As the senior leaders on the offensive line, it’s their responsibility to make sure the younger guys are in check. After all, their resume shows they know how to work the trenches unlike any other group.

The two linemen are responsible for helping pave the way for two of WKU’s greatest rushing performances in the past

Times in the trenchesHusky, rugged, tough, fi lthy, vicious — all are

words eligible of defi ning the unsung heroes in football.

On a chalkboard of x’s and o’s, their job isn’t connected with zigzagged arrows or dott ed lines. They don’t have to decode a hitch route or a post patt ern 15 yards out from a barking quarterback during a two-minute drill.

Their circles on the board stay rooted with one job in mind — protect the assets.

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two years. In 2011, the team rushed for a Sun Belt Conference-best 181 yards per game behind running back Bobby Rainey, who set the record for most rushing yards in a single season with 1,695 yards.

They bulldozed for even more last year, clearing the path for Antonio Andrews to eclipse Rainey’s landmark by 33 yards at 1,728 yards.

“Those guys defi nitely have to be leaders for us,” offensive coordinator Jeff Brohm said about his senior linemen. “They’ve played a lot of games and they have to pick guys up when things aren’t going well. But those two guys defi nitely need to be leaders for us and be vocal and take over the team.”

Being the leaders on the fi eld in the

past have earned the two men a healthy combination of preseason accolades from many sporting publications — Conway is on the watch list for the Rimington Tro-phy, awarded to the nation’s top center.

For Conway, starting every game in his time on the Hill is a feat he hasn’t given much thought to. It’s just a part of his life now.

“It’s been fun. A lot of good times, a lot of ups and downs,” Conway said. “Foot-ball teaches you about life. Different head coaches, you get different perspectives in different things throughout the organiza-tion and it’s been fun.”

When Conway was a senior at Father Ryan High School in Nashville, Tenn. he received offers from WKU and rival Mid-dle Tennessee. When he chose WKU, the team was making its transition to Divi-sion I-A and Conway wanted to be a part of something big.

“Back in ’09, I thought they had all the facilities,” Conway said. “They were get-ting the right coaches and the right play-ers and I wanted to be a part of that.”

With Polanco being one of those play-ers, the two have grown to become a tight fi t. The men at one point found them-selves at a position battle for center, but now that they’re in the fi nal leg of their long journey, they depend on each other to protect the assets.

“We have gotten to know each other better and better as the years go by,” Po-lanco said. “We came in together, at one point we kind of went for the center po-sition at one time, so that brought us to-gether, too, with the competition. So now playing next to each other, we know what to expect from each other.”

The values Conway and Polanco hold for themselves are the same ones they hold the younger linemen up to as well.

“I’m all about the team,” Conway said.“I’m not worried about me right now. Iwant to win the Sun Belt and I want to goto a bowl game.”

Being all about the team is the job ofthe offensive line. It’s their duty to anchorthe offense, protect the quarterback andhis blind side and come off the snap withfurious, malicious intensity that strikesfear into the opposition.

They understand it’s not about them.It’s about protecting the team, being self-less and having each other’s back.

“When we have a call, we look at eachother and I’m like, ‘Sean, you got me?’ He’slike, ‘I got you,’” Polanco said. “He saysLuis, ‘You got me?’, I say, ‘I got you,’ andwe just go.“Every time we step on the fi eld, I tell mycenter, ‘I got your back. You got my back?’I tell my left tackle, ‘You got my back?’ Sowe have each other’s back.”

Senior center Sean Conway (65) prepares to snap the ball during WKU's 52-20 loss to Tennessee on Sept. 7. TYLER ESSARY/HERALD

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BY ELLIOTT [email protected]

Athletics director Todd Stewart looked at a small crowd at Smith Stadium two days after Thanksgiving last year during WKU’s fi nal game against North Texas. With so many bowl game implications riding on the team’s fi nal Sun Belt Confer-ence game, Stewart was unhappy with the attendance he saw that afternoon.

The fi nal count per the NCAA was 10,117 fans in attendance — one of the smallest crowds to watch a WKU football game in recent memory.

The Toppers won the game against the Mean Green and fi nished 7-5, earning a place in the Little Caesar’s Pizza Bowl in

Detroit a month later.“It was really disappointing because we

really had a lot at stake that day,” Stewart said. “We weren’t assured a bowl bid if we won, but we were sure that we weren’t go-ing to a bowl if we lost. We needed to win that game because there were other bowl eligible teams battling to get to a bowl game.”

Last year’s bowl bid and the hiring of coach Bobby Petrino have expectations set at a new level.

Junior safety Jonathan Dowling said he has respect for the fans that did show up but in the end, the team has to do their job regardless of the occupancy in the bleach-ers.

“I support and I appreciate any fans that come out and support us,” Dowling said. “But at the end of the day, we still have to handle our business as a team.”

The response so far is overwhelmingly greater than what was seen on that cold Saturday afternoon in November.

Season ticket sales are higher than they have ever been, Stewart said, but they won’t have fi nal season ticket numbers until after the game against Navy on Sept. 28.

“We actually sell season tickets up through the Navy game,” Stewart said. “But I would expect once we get to the Navy game, we’ll have an all-time high, which would be in that 8,500 to 8,600 range. The most we’ve ever sold from back in 2008.”

But Stewart said the season ticket numbers don’t serve as a true defi nition for what the crowd will really be like this season.

“The more important number is the overall number,” Stewart said. “I’d rather sell 8,000 season tickets and 10,000 single-game tickets and students have a sell out every single game than sell 10,000 season game tickets and not many single game tickets and have a stadium that’s 25 per-cent empty.”

That idea has prompted the athlet-ics department to start the social media

movement, “#TOP7472,” wanting stu-dents to break the student attendance re-cord of 7,472.

One action taken last year to attractthe students of age that could enhancethe game experience at Smith Stadiumwas selling beer during the game. Onlytwo beers can be bought at one timeand fans who sign up to be designateddrivers receive free non-alcoholic bev-erages.

The reaction to the move last year pro-duced few alcohol-related problems, theathletics director said.

“We had less than fi ve alcohol-relatedarrests the entire season,” Stewart said.“We didn’t have any incidents inside thestadium at all. There was no increase inalcohol-related incidents or arrests at allfrom the year prior to last year.”

Either way, Dowling said the Toppersare fi nally ready to play in their own sta-dium after opening up with three gamesoutside of Bowling Green.

“Everybody’s just fi nally ready to haveall our fans to be able to come, everybodywe know in Bowling Green,” Dowlingsaid. “Even though we had the game inNashville, I’m pretty sure that everybodythat wanted to come wasn’t able to makeit. It’ll be nice to fi nally play in front of allour fans.”

WKU looking for big crowd Saturday

Sophomore kicker Garrett Schwettman celebrates with his sister, Murray junior Madison Schwet-tman, and Crestwood senior Zach Talton after WKU's 35-26 win over Kentucky on Aug. 31. IAN MAULE/HERALD


BY ARLA O’[email protected]

People in the WKU community are preparing for the fi rst home football game — and tailgating will be bigger than in years past.

President Gary Ransdell sent an email earlier in the week to students to saying the whole campus is now available for tailgating.

“Tailgating on home football games is an opportunity for you and other mem-bers of the WKU Family to show your sup-port for the Hilltoppers and socialize with friends prior to the football game,” Rans-dell said.

Tailgating will begin at 8 a.m. on Sat-urday, with more than 30 different areas located a half mile away from the stadium

to park and set up. Areas on campus such as McLean Hall,

the Valley and Bates-Runner Hall are now fi rst-come, fi rst-serve to tailgate. In the past, there was a $20 fee to reserve a spot at these locations.

Ransdell also made a point about drinking on campus during tailgating.

“Tailgating is not a license for alcohol abuse,” he said. “The university is com-mitted to making the campus a safe, wholesome, clean environment for all students, families and fans at all times and during events.”

In the email, Ransdell also warned students of the repercussions of drinking underage. Offi cers from the state Alcohol Beverage Control will likely be present on campus looking for students drinking un-derage, Ransdell said.

In his email, Ransdell listed some general rules for tailgating on campus. Kegs, glass bottles and visible alcohol brands are not allowed, nor are clear cups or containers. He also said tail-gaters should clean up after themselves, and those attending tailgating without the intention to go to the football game are not welcome.

Kara Neidell, alumni events coordina-tor, organized an area for tailgating at the Augenstein Alumni Center for Saturday’s game. The building, located on Alumni Avenue, will open three and a half hours before kickoff.

“This will be the fi rst football season that we’ve had the Augenstein Alumni Center open, and we’re trying to make this a new home for alumni, students and fans in general,” Neidell said.

WOVO radio station will be presentat the alumni event, with giveaways andgames for kids. T-shirts and food will besold as well.

“You want students to have pride intheir school, have fun and enjoy gameday,” Neidell said.

Louisville junior Paige McCord hasbeen involved with tailgating throughouther college career. She said she is lookingforward to the Hilltoppers playing theirfi rst home game.

McCord is also looking forward to ex-periencing the student side of cheeringfor her team, after having been in the BigRed Marching Band in the past.

“I hope we win,” she said. “I will be atthe game after tailgating and cheeringwith the marching band, students and ev-eryone else.”

Tailgating expands for 2013 season

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Student resident tailgating area

Reserved parking

Free tailgating area on lawn

Free general parking

HAF season pass sales, $100 per season

Road closings


2013 Tailgating Map

Student Tailgating Lots

* Student Resident Tailgating Area

• Creason Lot• Normal Lot

• University Blvd. Lot• Pearce-Ford Lot

• Barnes Lot

• Poland Lot• Chestnut St. South Lot

• Mimosa Lot• Minton Lot

• Chestnut St. North Lot

• Adams St. Lot• Kentucky St. Lot• College Hill Lot

• Potter Lot

Sept. 7WKU at Tennessee

Knoxville, Tn. L 52-20

Oct. 26WKU vs. Troy

Smith Stadium, 3 p.m.

Aug. 31WKU vs. KentuckyNashville, W 35-26

Oct. 15WKU vs.

Louisiana-Lafayett eSmith Stadium, 7p.m.

Sept. 14WKU at

South AlabamaMobile, Ala.

L 31-24

Nov. 2WKU at

Georgia StateAtlanta, 12 p.m.

Sept. 21WKU vs.

Morgan StateSmith Stadium, 6 p.m.

Nov. 9WKU at Army

West Point, N.Y.,11 a.m.

Sept. 28WKU vs. Navy

Smith Stadium, 1 p.m.

Nov. 23WKU at Texas StateSan Marcos, Texas,

6 p.m.

Oct. 3WKU at

Louisiana-MonroeMonroe, La., 6:30 p.m.

Nov. 30WKU vs.

Arkansas StateSmith Stadium, 3 pm.

Football Schedule

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