Moments after Caleb Abrom’s last-second, 66-yard touchdown return gave the Lamar University football team its first Southland Conference win of the season over Incarnate Word on Saturday, Cardinals coach Mike Schultz stopped to scan the scene.
It had all the elements of a signature win for Schultz and the Cardinals — maybe even a “program-changing win,” as quarterback Darrel Colbert Jr. put it.
Still, Schultz isn’t convinced one game can change the longstanding struggles for Lamar football. It takes years to do that, he said.
“I don’t know if I’m a big guy on this belief that it’s a signature win,” Schultz said at his weekly press conference on Monday. “For that to be a fact, then the program changes in three hours on the football field, and I don’t believe that. This program started changing a year and a half ago when I got here.
“It’s been a grind and a fight. Our kids have been fighting, our coaches have been fighting. Heck, our fans have been fighting. The one thing I can say above anything else is the fight’s not ending. In fact, we’ve got a bit of a chip on our shoulder now.”
It had all the elements of a signature win for Schultz and the Cardinals — maybe even a “program-changing win,” as quarterback Darrel Colbert Jr. put it.
Still, Schultz isn’t convinced one game can change the longstanding struggles for Lamar football. It takes years to do that, he said.
“I don’t know if I’m a big guy on this belief that it’s a signature win,” Schultz said at his weekly press conference on Monday. “For that to be a fact, then the program changes in three hours on the football field, and I don’t believe that. This program started changing a year and a half ago when I got here.
“It’s been a grind and a fight. Our kids have been fighting, our coaches have been fighting. Heck, our fans have been fighting. The one thing I can say above anything else is the fight’s not ending. In fact, we’ve got a bit of a chip on our shoulder now.”
It had all the elements of a signature win for Schultz and the Cardinals — maybe even a “program-changing win,” as quarterback Darrel Colbert Jr. put it.
Still, Schultz isn’t convinced one game can change the longstanding struggles for Lamar football. It takes years to do that, he said.
“I don’t know if I’m a big guy on this belief that it’s a signature win,” Schultz said at his weekly press conference on Monday. “For that to be a fact, then the program changes in three hours on the football field, and I don’t believe that. This program started changing a year and a half ago when I got here.
“It’s been a grind and a fight. Our kids have been fighting, our coaches have been fighting. Heck, our fans have been fighting. The one thing I can say above anything else is the fight’s not ending. In fact, we’ve got a bit of a chip on our shoulder now.”
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