The 2008 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team represents Louisiana Tech University

Louisiana Tech University

Louisiana Tech University, often referred to as Louisiana Tech, LA Tech, or Tech, is a coeducational public research university located in Ruston, Louisiana. Louisiana Tech is designated as a Tier 1 school in the national universities category by the 2012 U.S. News & World Report college rankings...

 in the college football

College football

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 season of 2008

2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season

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. LA Tech competes in the Western Athletic Conference

Western Athletic Conference

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 and plays their home games at Joe Aillet Stadium

Joe Aillet Stadium

Joe Aillet Stadium is a stadium in Ruston, Louisiana, USA. It is primarily used for football, and is the home field of the Louisiana Tech University Bulldogs...

 in Ruston, LA. The team is coached by Derek Dooley, who is in his second year with the program. Dooley's Dawgs enter the season after finishing 5-7 (4-4 WAC) in 2007. LA Tech kicked off the season with a victory over Mississippi State

Mississippi State Bulldogs football

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, finished tied for second place in the WAC

Western Athletic Conference

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, and capped off the year with an Independence Bowl

Independence Bowl

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 victory over Northern Illinois

Northern Illinois Huskies football

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.

T-Day spring game

On April 12, 2008, the White Team came from behind to beat the Blue Team 14-13 at Joe Aillet Stadium

Joe Aillet Stadium

Joe Aillet Stadium is a stadium in Ruston, Louisiana, USA. It is primarily used for football, and is the home field of the Louisiana Tech University Bulldogs...

. Defense dominated the first half as neither team's offense could muster a score. With nine seconds remaining in the second quarter, the Blue Team's Jay Dudley blocked a Brad Oestricher field goal attempt, and Brian White recovered the ball and ran 71 yards for a touchdown. The extra point was missed, and the Blue Team went into the locker room with a 6-0 halftime lead. In the third quarter, the Blue Team extended their lead to 13-0 on a trick play as TE Dennis Morris tossed a touchdown pass to WR Philip Beck. Just seconds into the fourth quarter, RB William Griffin rushed for a three-yard touchdown for the White Team's first score of the game. Later in the fourth quarter, QB Ross Jenkins connected on a thirty-yard touchdown pass to WR Phillip Livas to complete the White Team's 14-13 comeback win. LB Quin Harris led the White Team with four tackles including a sack. Josh Victorian had 3.5 tackles and pulled in an interception. The Blue Team's D'Anthony Smith had four tackles on the day with two sacks. Shawn Simmons led the Blue Team with 8.5 tackles. LB Jay Dudley had 5.5 tackles with a sack. Brian White added an interception to go with his return for a touchdown, and safety Deon Young added another interception.

Schedule

Coaching staff

Position	Name	Year at Tech	Alma Mater
Head Football Coach Head coach A head coach, senior coach or manager is a professional at training and developing athletes. They typically hold a more public profile and are paid more than other coaches...  / Athletics Director	Derek Dooley	2nd	Virginia University of Virginia The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...  '90
Offensive Coordinator Offensive coordinator An offensive coordinator is a member of the coaching staff of a gridiron football team who is in charge of the offense. Generally, along with his defensive counterpart, he represents the second level of command structure after the head coach...  / Quarterbacks	Frank Scelfo	2nd	Louisiana-Monroe University of Louisiana at Monroe The University of Louisiana at Monroe is a coeducational public university in Monroe, Louisiana and part of the University of Louisiana System.-History:...  '81
Defensive Coordinator Defensive coordinator A defensive coordinator typically refers to a coach on a gridiron football team who is in charge of the defense. Generally, along with his offensive counterpart, he represents the second level of command structure after the head coach...	Tommy Spangler	2nd	Georgia University of Georgia The University of Georgia is a public research university located in Athens, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1785, it is the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning and is one of multiple schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States...  '84
Defensive Line	Jimmy Brumbaugh	1st	Auburn Auburn University Auburn University is a public university located in Auburn, Alabama, United States. With more than 25,000 students and 1,200 faculty members, it is one of the largest universities in the state. Auburn was chartered on February 7, 1856, as the East Alabama Male College, a private liberal arts...  '03
Linebackers	Stan Eggen	1st	Moorhead State Minnesota State University Moorhead Minnesota State University Moorhead is a four-year, public university located in Moorhead, Minnesota. The school has an enrollment of nearly 7,500 students and 337 full-time faculty members. MSUM is a part of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system...  '77
Running Backs Running back A running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running...	Chino Fontenette	2nd	Tulane Tulane University Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States...  '03
Wide Receivers Wide receiver A wide receiver is an offensive position in American and Canadian football, and is the key player in most of the passing plays. Only players in the backfield or the ends on the line are eligible to catch a forward pass. The two players who begin play at the ends of the offensive line are eligible...	Conroy Hines	15th	Louisiana Tech Louisiana Tech University Louisiana Tech University, often referred to as Louisiana Tech, LA Tech, or Tech, is a coeducational public research university located in Ruston, Louisiana. Louisiana Tech is designated as a Tier 1 school in the national universities category by the 2012 U.S. News & World Report college rankings...  '89
Defensive Backs Defensive back In American football and Canadian football, defensive backs are the players on the defensive team who take positions somewhat back from the line of scrimmage; they are distinguished from the defensive line players and linebackers, who take positions directly behind or close to the line of...  / Recruiting Coordinator	Terry Joseph	2nd	Northwestern State Northwestern State University Northwestern State University, known as NSU, is a four-year public university primarily situated in Natchitoches, Louisiana, with a nursing campus in Shreveport and general campuses in Leesville/Fort Polk and Alexandria. It is a part of the University of Louisiana System.NSU was founded in 1884 as...  '96
Offensive Line (Interim)	Art Kehoe	1st	Miami University of Miami The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...  '82
Special Teams / Tight Ends Tight end The tight end is a position in American football on the offense. The tight end is often seen as a hybrid position with the characteristics and roles of both an offensive lineman and a wide receiver. Like offensive linemen, they are usually lined up on the offensive line and are large enough to be...	Eric Russell	2nd	Idaho University of Idaho The University of Idaho is the State of Idaho's flagship and oldest public university, located in the rural city of Moscow in Latah County in the northern portion of the state...  '91
Head Strength & Conditioning Coach Strength training Strength training is the use of resistance to muscular contraction to build the strength, anaerobic endurance, and size of skeletal muscles. There are many different methods of strength training, the most common being the use of gravity or elastic/hydraulic forces to oppose muscle contraction...	Damon Harrington	5th	Louisiana Tech Louisiana Tech University Louisiana Tech University, often referred to as Louisiana Tech, LA Tech, or Tech, is a coeducational public research university located in Ruston, Louisiana. Louisiana Tech is designated as a Tier 1 school in the national universities category by the 2012 U.S. News & World Report college rankings...  '00
Character Education Coordinator Character education Character education is an umbrella term loosely used to describe the teaching of children in a manner that will help them develop variously as moral, civic, good, mannered, behaved, non-bullying, healthy, critical, successful, traditional, compliant and/ or socially acceptable beings...  / Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach Strength training Strength training is the use of resistance to muscular contraction to build the strength, anaerobic endurance, and size of skeletal muscles. There are many different methods of strength training, the most common being the use of gravity or elastic/hydraulic forces to oppose muscle contraction...	Ed Jackson	16th	Louisiana Tech Louisiana Tech University Louisiana Tech University, often referred to as Louisiana Tech, LA Tech, or Tech, is a coeducational public research university located in Ruston, Louisiana. Louisiana Tech is designated as a Tier 1 school in the national universities category by the 2012 U.S. News & World Report college rankings...  '83
Graduate Assistant Graduate assistant A graduate assistant is a position who serves in a support role at a university, usually while completing post-graduate education. The individual typically assists professors or with instructional responsibilities as teaching assistants, coaches with an athletic team, or university department...	Ben Larson	2nd	Susquehanna Susquehanna University Susquehanna University is a liberal arts college in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, United States, north of the state capital, Harrisburg.-Academics:...  '05
Graduate Assistant (Defense) Graduate assistant A graduate assistant is a position who serves in a support role at a university, usually while completing post-graduate education. The individual typically assists professors or with instructional responsibilities as teaching assistants, coaches with an athletic team, or university department...	Ryan Fournier	1st	Southeastern Louisiana Southeastern Louisiana University Southeastern Louisiana University is a state-funded public university in Hammond, Louisiana, United States. It was founded in 1925 by Linus A. Sims, the principal of Hammond High School, as Hammond Junior College, located in a wing of the high school building. Sims succeeded in getting the campus...  '06
Graduate Assistant Graduate assistant A graduate assistant is a position who serves in a support role at a university, usually while completing post-graduate education. The individual typically assists professors or with instructional responsibilities as teaching assistants, coaches with an athletic team, or university department...	Aaron Lips	1st	Louisiana Tech Louisiana Tech University Louisiana Tech University, often referred to as Louisiana Tech, LA Tech, or Tech, is a coeducational public research university located in Ruston, Louisiana. Louisiana Tech is designated as a Tier 1 school in the national universities category by the 2012 U.S. News & World Report college rankings...  '05
Video Operations	David Snyder	1st	Clemson Clemson University Clemson University is an American public, coeducational, land-grant, sea-grant, research university located in Clemson, South Carolina, United States....  '05

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Kansas

Southeastern Louisiana

Boise State

Hawaii

Idaho

Army

Fresno State

San Jose State

Utah State

New Mexico State

Nevada

Northern Illinois

Team

class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;">
	Tech	Opp
Scoring	320	308
Points per Game	24.6	23.7
First Downs	234	255
Rushing	138	71
Passing	78	166
Penalty	18	18
Total Offense	4460	4895
Avg per Play	5.2	5.4
Avg per Game	343.1	376.5
Fumbles-Lost	23-10	20-12
Penalties-Yards	79-683	77-651
Avg per Game	52.5	50.1

class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;"> Tech Opp Punts-Yards 72-2915 75-2772   Avg per Punt 40.5 37.0 Time of Possession/Game 28:46 31:14 3rd Down Conversions 62/189 73/193 4th Down Conversions 6/19 10/21 Touchdowns Scored 40 39 Field Goals-Attempts-Long 14-28-50 12-14-49 PAT-Attempts 38-40 36-37 Attendance 108,121 181,917   Games/Avg per Game 6/18,020 7/31,926

Scores by quarter

Rushing

Name	GP-GS	Att	Gain	Loss	Net	Avg	TD	Long	Avg/G
Daniel Porter	13	222	1262	98	1164	5.2	9	43	89.5
Patrick Jackson	13	143	676	23	653	4.6	8	24	50.2
Phillip Livas	13	30	342	5	337	11.2	2	78	25.9
R.P. Stuart	13	9	87	8	79	8.8	2	21	5.6
Myke Compton	12	21	96	22	74	3.5	1	20	6.2
Ross Jenkins	11	61	196	140	56	0.9	1	19	5.1
Taylor Bennett	7	20	82	27	55	2.8	0	20	7.9
Allen Gilbert	2	3	17	0	17	5.7	0	7	8.5
Quin Harris	10	1	6	0	6	6.0	0	6	0.6
Chris Keagle	13	1	4	0	4	4.0	0	4	0.3
Shane Womack	10	1	0	2	-2	-2.0	0	0	-0.2
Team	8	11	0	11	-11	-1.0	0	0	-1.4
Total	13	523	2768	336	2432	4.7	23	78	187.1

Passing

Name	GP-GS	Effic	Att-Cmp-Int	Pct	Yds	TD	Lng	Avg/G
Ross Jenkins	11	118.46	174-92-3	52.9	1155	7	68	105.0
Taylor Bennett	7	80.20	167-66-6	39.5	873	2	57	124.7
Team	8	0.00	1-0-0	0.0	0	0	0	0.0
Patrick Jackson	13	-200.00	1-0-1	0.0	0	0	0	0.0
Total	13	98.56	343-158-10	46.1	2028	9	68	156.0

Receiving

Name	GP-GS	No.	Yds	Avg	TD	Long	Avg/G
Phillip Livas Phillip Livas Phillip Livas is an American football wide receiver for the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League. He was signed by the Miami Dolphins as an undrafted free agent in 2011. He played college football at Louisiana Tech....	13	43	607	14.1	2	68	46.7
Philip Beck	13	25	268	10.7	0	53	20.6
Patrick Jackson	13	16	196	12.2	3	34	15.1
Daniel Porter	13	12	181	15.1	1	44	13.9
Houston Tuminello	11	12	117	9.8	0	16	10.6
Anthony Harrison	13	9	101	11.2	0	32	7.8
Shane Womack	10	8	109	13.6	1	26	10.9
Dennis Morris	12	7	158	22.6	1	60	13.2
Dustin Mitchell	13	7	112	16.0	1	35	8.6
R.P. Stuart	13	7	58	8.3	0	14	4.1
Josh Wheeler	2	4	63	15.8	0	39	31.5
Myke Compton	12	3	6	2.0	0	4	0.5
Adrian Linwood	4	2	48	24.0	0	34	12.0
Eric Fiege	4	2	12	6.0	0	8	3.0
Ross Jenkins	11	1	-8	-8.0	0	0	-0.7
Total	13	158	2028	12.8	9	68	156.0

Defense

Name	GP	Tackles				Sacks	Pass Defense		Interceptions				Fumbles		Blkd Kick
		Solo	Ast	Total	TFL-Yds	No-Yds	BrUp	QBH	No.-Yds	Avg	TD	Long	Rcv-Yds	FF
Antonio Baker	13	63	52	115	4.5-16		4		3-9	3.0	0	3	2-0	3	1
Weldon Brown	13	49	26	75	1.5-5	0.5-3	6	2	5-10	2.0	0	8	1-0	2
D'Anthony Smith	13	27	38	65	8.0-45	5.0-41	3	3
Brannon Jackson	13	29	35	64	3.5-12	2.5-11	1	2						2
Stevon Howze	13	37	24	61	1.0-1		10		1-19	19.0	0	19
Deon Young	13	33	26	59			7		3-42	14.0	0	42
Tarence Calais	13	28	22	50	3.0-3	1.0-1								1
Quin Harris	10	19	30	49	1.0-4	0.5-3	1	2	1-0	0.0	0	0	1-0
Dominique Faust	12	18	24	42	4.5-38	3.0-36	2	1	1-60	60.0	1	60
Mason Hitt	13	8	26	34	4.5-14	2.5-9	1	1
Jared Barron	13	13	20	33	7.0-20	2.5-11		1					1-0
Kiamni Washington	13	15	16	31	1.0-1		2	1						1	1
Adrien Cole	10	14	16	30	1.0-3
Terry Carter	13	16	12	28			2		2-50	25.0	1	50	1-6	1
Matt Broha	13	12	15	27	3.5-7	1.5-5	3	1	1-40	40.0	1	40
Brian White	5	7	12	19	2.0-7	0.5-5	1	1
Kwame Jordan	8	5	11	16	6.0-27	3.5-16		1
Adrian Logan	10	10	5	15	2.5-4
Myke Compton	12	6	9	15
Nolan Darby	6	1	12	13	2.0-3	0.5-1
Christian Lacey	8	6	6	12	5.0-26	4.0-24		1
Josh Victorian	9	7	4	11			3
Randy Grigsby	9	6	5	11	1.5-7	0.5-4
Breon Jackson	8	3	8	11	1.0-1
Dusty Rust	9	3	6	9
Keith Brown	11	5	3	8									1-0		1
Alex Anderson	11	5	2	7											1
Jay Dudley	4	2	4	6
Eric Harper	6	2	3	5	1.0-2
Dustin Mitchell	13	3	2	5
Anthony Harrison	13	4		4									2-0
Darrius Terry	8	2	1	3			2						1-0	1
Philip Longino	5		3	3									1-0
Thomas Graham	10	1	1	2
R.P. Stuart	13	1	1	2
Daniel Porter	13	1	1	2
Shawn Simmons	5		2	2
Phillip Livas	13	1		1
Brad Oestriecher	13	1		1
Taylor Bennett	7	1		1
Drexel Perkins	3	1		1
Roosevelt Falls	3												1-0
Allen Gilbert	2														1
Total	13	465	483	948	65-246	27-168	48	17	17-230	13.5	3	60	12-6	11	5

Special teams

Name	Punting								Kickoffs
	No.	Yds	Avg	Long	TB	FC	I20	Blkd	No.	Yds	Avg	TB	OB
Chris Keagle	72	2915	40.5	59	7	15	27	0
Brad Oestriecher									66	4051	61.4	5	2
Total	72	2915	40.5	59	7	15	27	0	66	4051	61.4	5	2

Name	Punt Returns					Kick Returns
	No.	Yds	Avg	TD	Long	No.	Yds	Avg	TD	Long
Phillip Livas	16	245	15.3	2	81	32	826	25.8	1	97
Philip Beck	12	127	10.6	0	28	13	324	24.9	0	40
Keith Brown	1	23	23.0	0	0
Antonio Baker	1	5	5.0	0	0
Stevon Howze	1	0	0.0	0	0
Alex Anderson	0	2	0.0	1	2
Dennis Morris						2	14	7.0	0	9
Weldon Brown						1	24	24.0	0	24
Patrick Jackson						1	24	24.0	0	24
Dustin Mitchell						1	6	6.0	0	6
R.P. Stuart						1	0	0.0	0	0
Total	31	402	13.0	3	81	51	1218	23.9	1	97