I wonder if you guys know how critical that line of gain...

Oct 3, 2016, 7:10 AM

marker is to UL football. I spoke extensively with a UL lineman who just happens to be my ex wife's nephew. He's a real nice kid and I can testify that he's one of the good ones on their team and doesn't lie.

UL's football players need a line of gain marker on both sides of the field. When on their end of the field they do fine at knowing how far to run to get a first down. They are working on their pluses this semester and do pretty good at adding say, 34+4 and even 45+2 so they know where the line of gain is by using, well, he called it 'Higher Mathematics,' and by adding the little marks to the big marks on their fingers they could work it out.

On the opponent's end of the field it's much more complicated due to their "Algebra Professor's" policy of not work on their 'take aways,' until Spring semester.

They call counting on your fingers 'the digital method,' and he also said the prof told them "differential equations is probably impossible to get until you can do your 'adds onto(s) and take away(s), real good.' It sounded like he referred to "times and goes into's," as graduate work.

He also shared that they all intend on showing special attention in the 'take away,' semester and should be better at first downs and line of gains next year being that they will 'cipher real good,' then.