September 6, 2018
HALL OF FAME BANQUET
Tonight, Denham Springs HS Athletics will have its Hall of Fame induction ceremony at Forrest Grove Plantation at 7pm. Congratulations to the incoming class, including Jim Spring, Maurice Cockerham Durbin and Jimmy Tullos, plus Tom Kelly from the Class of 2017. Please see press release below for more information.
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THE WIZARDRY OF OS By Scott Osborne Assistant Basketball Coach and Head Swimming Coach at Central High
I have read and listened to many thoughts after the LSU win over Miami, but I have yet to come across my biggest takeaway from the game. My takeaway is that you don’t need to see practice to know what is happening, because Orgeron is going to tell us. In that way is he like Mainieri. During camp, he told everyone that the offensive line needed to protect better. We saw that against Miami. Everyone was worried about the tackles, but the problem isn’t individual ability as much as working together as a unit with the backs and tight ends. That can get better as the year continues, but you won’t see LSU throw downfield much if the protection doesn’t improve. The good news is they can improve. Also, keep in mind, that going into the game every expert raved about Miami’s pass rush and how Manny Diaz pressures the quarterback. After all, Miami isn’t Louisville. Orgeron told us the receivers are talented, but need to catch the ball better. He also told us about Marshall and Chase being very talented. We saw it all against Miami. Returning receivers Dillon and Sullivan continue to struggle taking advantage of opportunities. Giles, Jefferson, Marshall, and Chase look tremendous. How about all the people predicting doom and gloom because no running back on the roster had a career touchdown entering the season? As if one of them would have a chance to score a touchdown and wouldn’t know what to do when he got there. Despite many busted assignments up front, we see that LSU is fine at running back. Brossette was very decisive. Edwards-Helaire can make defenders miss in space, and Curry made something out of nothing many times just by running hard. We also saw that the coaches have great confidence in Lanard Fournette as a receiver for him to get the first offensive play of the season. On defense, Coach O told us what he thought after the game and I agree with his summary. The defensive line was often stuck on blocks and need to detach themselves. The tackling was not very good, especially when blitzers had free shots. The secondary did not play as well as they need to in the second half. Clearly, 95% of the media was wrong about this team. Don’t get me wrong, things could still go poorly with this schedule and injuries already played a factor Sunday night. So what did the team, coaches, and the 5% know that the majority didn’t? The coaches were right to give a graduate placekicker a scholarship and recruit a preferred walk on kickoff specialist. Talented players such as Brossette, Cushenberry, Logan, Jefferson, Phillips, Lewis, Stevens, and many others that hadn’t made their mark before are going to contribute. The idea that none of these uber talented players would be ready to step in was always bewildering to me. Of course, there is Joe Burrow. Ohio State showed Saturday why the argument that Burrow couldn’t be that good because he never played at Ohio State was ridiculous. Watching Burrow play reminded me of watching Eric Walker pitch as a freshman. Both are extremely competitive, extremely poised, and understand the game. Further, both throw the ball where they want and that is not always a strike. Maybe some people stepped away during the game because there have been comments that all his throws were easy or not accurate. I guess those people didn’t see the pass in stride that Jefferson turned into a big gain or the pass to Dillon that was perfectly in stride and would have been a huge gain. The fade to Chase was missed and the pass the Sullivan dropped were dimes. Many of the other incompletions were intentionally and wisely thrown away like the last pass of the game when LSU was deep in their own territory and trying to put the game away. We have all heard about the audibles, but In the second half, Burrow also managed the game. He milked the clock and took care of the ball. Coaches would love to have blind faith in players, but reality is that coaches need to see how players respond in the game to know what to expect in the future. Hopefully this week, LSU is able to let loose more on offense and get Brennan playing time as the offense continues to develop. With the quality of the schedule and LSU not being the incompetent mess that they were portrayed to be this season, Tiger fans have plenty of reason to enjoy the competition of this season. I am not going to preview the Saints in the same manner that I did LSU last week. Thanks to crummy preseason games and not much turnover on the roster we have seen the Saints and their personnel. We know the Saints are going to be good, the question is how good? In the NFL, the answer to that question usually comes down to avoiding major injuries and winning close games. So how well are the Saints built to handle those two circumstances? Thanks to the trade for Teddy Bridgewater, the Saints are better suited to handle an injury to Drew Brees than in the past. Strangely, I am not sure that justifies the trade for Bridgewater since I don’t know if Bridgewater could guide this team to a Super Bowl if needed. But, Nick Foles did it last year and I would have written the same thing last year about him and the Eagles. I don’t think any NFL team can handle a rash of 3-4 injuries at one position, so keep that in mind as I look at other positions. Furthermore, every NFL team is going to be significantly hurt by losing one of their top 5 players, so that goes without saying as well. Certainly, Kamara needs to stay healthy the first four weeks of the year with Ingram suspended. Otherwise, the depth at running back, wide receiver, and amazingly every position on defense is very good. Offensive line and tight end are the two positions that the Saints appear most vulnerable. Therefore, overall the Saints appear to be built to sustain the normal scale injuries that will occur over a 16 game season. As for winning close games, that is much harder to predict. The games against the Panthers, Falcons, Steelers, Eagles, Rams, and Vikings are all expected to be close. As a Saints fan, I also know not to overlook the history of the Saints when they play the Bucs, Redskins, and Ravens. If you are keeping count, that is 11 games (the first game against Tampa without Winston should not be close). In case you are wondering, the four games I left out were the Browns, Cowboys, Bengals, and Giants. Three of those four games are on the road. The Saints will be favored in those games, but not by much. As a result, the logical expectation is for the Saints to win comfortably at home the first two weeks against Tampa and Cleveland. After that, it will be one heck of a 14 week grind. If the Saints were to split those 14 games, that would be a 9-7 season. We know the Saints will be good enough on offense to surpass that record. As always in this great era of Saints football, the defense will determine the heights of accomplishment for this team. This summer I was expecting to see more from Rankins, the linebackers, and secondary during the preseason. While the backups on defense excelled this preseason, the starters were gashed in first quarter runs and the starting secondary did not make plays. I still suspect a lot of that was the nature of preseason, but definitely is cause to be on alert. That being said, close games don’t come down to run defense. Can the pass defense make plays at the end of the game? Years ago, defenses just had to avoid giving up big plays at the end of the game. Now, the defense has to MAKE a play to stop NFL offenses at the end. The defense has to force a turnover or get a sack and both are usually caused by the pass rush. That leads me to the conclusion that the Saints success will come down to the pass rush from Jordan, Hendrickson, Davenport, Onyemata, Okafor, and Rankins. The challenge of the schedule makes this feel like a 10-6 season. But there is one caveat. The toughest games are at home where getting a lead can make the opponent one dimensional and allows the crowd to make it harder to come from behind. Therefore, if things fall in line we can expect 11-5 or 12-4. But, I am going conservative and expecting 10-6 with a playoff berth. After that, the NFC is too close to predict and it comes down to who plays the best in the playoffs. Who Dat!
HEY REF
Last weekend we saw the opening of the NCAA football season and tonight we’ll get to watch the guys that play football for lots of cash. Each year at this time the air seems cleaner, the weather not so hot and the beer as cold as it’ll get for the next six weeks. Just around the bend is the dash for cash or the beginning of the 2018 NFL season. Right now is that “SPECIAL” time of each and every year where every fan feels as though his team will be playing for a Super Bowl berth or the National Championship.
I’ve got to hand it to the people that work on scheduling games each year and especially LSU’s Head Coach Ed Orgeron, his staff and the SEC for taking a huge gamble by opening the season against a real football team in the Miami Hurricanes. Sure they aren’t in the top 10 but they are a solid team and not some type of “patsy” we see many other schools schedule just to put numbers in the “win” column. Yes, I agree there are a couple of those schools coming up for the Tigers. But when a team bolts out of the blocs and tests itself early it shows the thinking going on in Baton Rouge.
Only one of two things will happen; (A) Your team responds and plays up to the level of the opposition or (B) They fall flat on their collective faces and begin the season in a deep hole and playout the remainder of the year trying to get out of that deep hole never knowing what hit them. Now there are others more educated than I am that’ll tell you the first game of the year shouldn’t be anything more than a serious scrimmage. And I can agree with them but let’s take another look at the ups and downs of playing good teams at the start of the season.
Here’s my slant on the subject and what I think are the “pros ‘n cons” of such an endeavor. First off this type of a game is one in which you’d like to play at the later stages of the season. Expecting his team to be in mid-season form could backfire and derail the Tiger’s chances of playing in the final game of the season. No matter the financial benefits of playing a top notched team so early I’d just as soon be playing this team in a bowl game.
The “pros” are that it’s a big payday for the school no doubt. That’s the complete total of “pros” for scheduling the Hurricanes so early. LSU plays in college football’s toughest conference hands down. Even the teams that finish in the SEC’s basement are good enough to win every conference in the country. There’s no debate about that. Whenever people start to talk about teams out west I tune ‘em out simply because they don’t play the same caliber teams as LSU does in the SEC.
The “cons” are too many for me to begin to list but the one at the top of my list is injuries. Injuries are a huge part of every team’s season but the Tigers also have to contend with suspensions of key players due to alcohol. For the life of me I just can’t figure out what some players think when they visit local watering holes. If ever there was something everyone on theteam should abstain from its patronizing bar rooms and consuming alcohol. Nothing and let me repeat, NOTHING good can come of such behavior. Yes, I know boys will be boys but can anyone tell me what good or benefit players will get out of frequenting such establishments?
Its (Drinking alcohol) a rite of passage so to speak here in south Louisiana but common sense should always be exercised when you are playing a sport on a national stage. If the NCAA wants to be seen as doing some good then here’s the solution; no matter the age of the player(s) if caught consuming alcohol or being found inside a bar room that would result in the forfeiture of all remaining eligibility. No ands, ifs or butts. One and done, no grey area.
I’ll say it again; the SEC is hands down the number one conference when talking football. This year is no different from any other in that no less than four of its teams could and probably will contend for the National Title. Stumble once and your season could be done as far as the title goes. LSU will again be facing the likes of Florida, Alabama, Auburn, Arkansas and Tennessee. Each of those teams can rise up and dash your hopes of a successful season. So why gamble your team’s chances of a winning season by getting in a fight or chancing a DWI charge?
Let’s just hope we can get off to a fast start after winning the season opener in Jerry’s house. If we do then maybe with a little luck Coach “O” and the Tiger Nation will be calling themselves Nation Champions.
Til next week… … … … … …
Press Release
School officials and title sponsor Sport-N-Center are pleased to announce the Denham Springs High School Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2018 will be enshrined on September 6 at Forrest Grove Plantation in Denham Springs.
Headlining the event as keynote speaker will be LSU head basketball coach Will Wade, an entertaining and colorful spokesman entering his second season at the helm of the Tigers. Given the smaller size of this year’s class, planners seized this occasion to introduce a high profile speaker into the format for the first time.
Two All State athletes and one selectee in the joint category of Athlete/Supporter, plus one member from the Class of 2017, will be inducted this year. All four enjoyed their time as celebrated Yellow Jackets in the 1960s.
Maurice Cockerham Durbin and Jimmy Tullos were outstanding All State athletes during their glory days at DSHS. Durbin was a tenacious competitor and defensive star in an era when girls’ basketball teams played on a divided court, with three offensive forwards at one end and three defensive guards at the other. She complemented her high scoring teammate Celeste Gully, a fellow All Stater, making the Lady Jackets regular playoff contenders.
Tullos was a versatile three-sport athlete who occupies a prominent place in local football lore with 16 career interceptions from his defensive safety position. His senior campaign was shortened by injury, limiting him to 17 games in two seasons, but he still produced a remarkable average of nearly one interception per game.
Selected in the dual role of Athlete/Supporter, Jim Spring was a hard-hitting center and linebacker in football who was a two-time All District and All Parish pick for the Yellow Jackets. He was also an All Regional selection at a time when this all star category existed between All District and All State. Spring was the first in school history to earn a four-year football scholarship to an SEC university.
Sharing the spotlight with this year’s class will be Tom Kelly, a carry-over member from the Class of 2017 who was unable to be inducted last year. Kelly was a four-sport letterman and All District quarterback who led the first great DSHS football team of the modern era. He was also the first Jacket to play football at LSU during a walk-on season with the Baby Bengals freshman team in 1960.
Below are the highlights of the athletic, scholastic, and civic achievements of these honored sports figures:
Maurice Cockerham Durbin (Athlete)
Class of 2016
A four-year letterman in softball and basketball at DSHS, Maurice Cockerham was a Class A All State basketball star in 1960. She was the defensive counterpart to offensive phenom Celeste Gully, also an All State choice.
With Cockerham’s hustling, shut-down style of defense and Gully’s prolific scoring, the Lady Jackets were perennial District Champions. Cockerham was selected to a number of all star teams including the prestigious Livingston Parish Tournament which showcased several of the state’s best teams.
As a spirited first baseman, she helped the Lady Jacket softball team to a state runner-up finish in 1960. A well-rounded campus leader, Cockerham was named DSHS Best Defensive Player in basketball and was a two-time Class Favorite and Most Beautiful choice by her classmates. After her high school sports career, she later played in an independent women’s basketball league for the local team sponsored by Varnado Plumbing.
Following her graduation from LSU, she taught elementary school for two years, earning Bachelor of science, Masters of education, and Specialist in education degrees. She then founded Maurice Durbin & Associates and launched a successful 25-year career as a political lobbyist at the parish, state, and federal levels.
During this time, Durbin was the first Livingston Parish resident appointed to serve a six-year term on the Louisiana Board of Regents, the supervisory body that oversees Louisiana state colleges and trade schools. She was also elected to serve on the Democratic state central committee and then on the Democratic state executive committee for eight years. She was a past board member of the Livingston Parish Chamber of Commerce as well.
Durbin has been a devoted community leader for nearly three decades, having founded Pet Aid, Inc., a non-profit that spays and neuters dogs and cats within Livingston Parish. In 2000, she began a vital and ongoing role in city beautification through the founding of Denham Springs Green. Perhaps her most passionate contribution has been as a volunteer leader at the Denham Springs Animal Shelter, a relationship that has spanned 30 years. In 2003, it became the first no-kill municipal animal shelter in the state. Durbin was also instrumental in securing the property for the construction of an animal shelter in the town of Livingston.
Married to former three-term Denham Springs mayor, Jimmy Durbin, she served as the city’s First Lady for 12 years, helping transform the quiet town into a vibrant small city. Throughout these years Durbin worked to improve the city’s landscape and image, while championing programs at the local animal shelter.
She is the mother of a son and daughter.
Jimmy Tullos (Athlete)
Class of 2018
Jimmy Tullos was a talented athlete who was a stalwart of the gridiron, earning Class AA All State honors as a defensive safety his senior year (1968) and honorable mention All State as a junior. He was twice named to the All District and All Parish teams as a safety (1967, 1968).
Tullos was a rare, instinctive defensive back who was a magnet for the pigskin, having stolen nine interceptions as a junior and seven as a senior, a stunning performance believed to be the school record. During his senior campaign, abbreviated by injury, he intercepted seven passes in seven games, including three in one game. Not only was he a tenacious ball hawk, Tullos was a hard-nose tackler that punished Yellow Jacket opponents for two seasons.
He played for Hall of Fame football coach Louis Carlisle, advancing to the Class AA state semi-finals as a junior and defeating Covington in the Jaycee Bowl as a senior. He earned the DSHS Best Defensive Back award twice.
Tullos was also a three-year letterman for Hall of Fame basketball coach Alton Leggette, reaching the Class AA state semi-finals his junior year.
Upon graduation from high school, he served seven years in the U. S. Army as a medical corpsman, including a tour of duty in Berlin, West Germany, where he and nine other soldiers set a world record for Marathon Basketball. Playing five-on-five, full court, with no substitutes, the teams competed for 48 non-stop hours, breaking the old record by six hours.
As a civilian, Tullos worked 17 years for Peavey Electronics in Mississippi, performing computerized tests on circuit boards, before returning to Louisiana where he served as a Deputy Sheriff in Caldwell Parish. Beginning as a road deputy, he would eventually retire as a lieutenant at the Caldwell Parish Correctional Center, having received a host of awards for superior performance.
In 2014, Jimmy Tullos, the former Yellow Jacket football star, married Patricia Morrison, his homecoming queen and DSHS Most Beautiful honoree. They now live in Denham Springs.
He is the father of a son and daughter.
Jim Spring (Athlete/Supporter)
Class of 2016
The last of three brothers who were rugged athletes at DSHS, Jim Spring was a two-time All District and All Parish football center and linebacker (1961, 1962), and a 1962 All Regional pick. He was the first player in school history and in Livingston Parish to receive a four-year athletic scholarship to play football at an SEC university.
A student of the game who called defensive signals for the Jackets, Spring was named DSHS Best Lineman, Team Captain, and Most Valuable Player, and also received recognition for Most Minutes Played in 1961 and 1962—all but one minute in two seasons. He was a two-year track letterman in the discus as well. Spring was an Eagle Scout, Vice President of his senior class, and represented the school at the State Literary Rally.
At the college level, he was a three-year letterman at Tulane University and, as a sophomore, was the smallest starting center in the SEC at 190 pounds. In 1966 against LSU at old Tulane Stadium, he played before the largest crowd (82,567) to witness a night college football game in NCAA history at the time.
Spring spent 30 years as an active duty Army officer (1969-1999), retiring as a full colonel with 10 years of overseas assignments in southeast Asia, the middle east, and Europe. Among his duties at the colonel level were Post Commander of Oakland Army Base, CA; senior U. S. officer in the UN peacekeeping force in Iraq; and senior Military Advisor to the Ambassador at the American Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, during the period when the Islamic nation became a nuclear power.
At the lieutenant colonel level as a battalion commander, his battalion was selected Unit of the Year for its type in a geographic region west of the Mississippi River to the Indian Ocean. As the commander of Oakland Army Base, his command was awarded $40,000 in the Army’s Most Improved Installation competition.
A devoted Yellow Jacket fan and supporter, in 2011 Spring proposed the creation of a DSHS Athletic Hall of Fame and arranged the initial meeting between DSHS and the Denham Springs Athletic Association. Butch Wax and he were tasked to plan and organize the many guidelines and protocols that have culminated in what today has become a community treasure, now in its eighth year.
He also prepared the proposal and negotiated with Sport-N-Center to become the title sponsor which underwrites many of the expenses associated with the Hall of Fame. To build community support and promote the Hall of Fame and DSHS athletics, Spring has written over 75 press releases for area newspapers.
In 2008 Spring formed the first Board of the area Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA), serving as President for three years. He organized the annual FCA Variety Show for five years, raising $25,000 for the spiritual welfare of students, athletes, and coaches at DSHS and throughout Livingston Parish.
In 2012 he proposed that “Yellow Jacket Sports” be showcased during a four-month public exhibit at Old City Hall sponsored by Denham Springs Main Street. He borrowed historic DSHS trophies, plaques, photographs, and sports memorabilia; publicized the event in the press; and organized an opening ceremony for the community.
In 2015 he proposed to the City of Denham Springs that the Yellow Jacket logo be prominently displayed on the water tower closest to the interstate. He prepared the formal documents, presented the proposal at a public meeting with the Mayor and City Council, and coordinated with Forte & Tablada Engineering until project completion.
During the Great Flood of 2016, the Hall of Fame display case in Hornsby Gym was destroyed, and funding for its replacement was a low priority for the school district. While the plaques were saved, it was unlikely they could be displayed there again in the near future. Spring proposed the Hall of Fame be relocated to Big Mike’s Sports Bar & Grill. He prepared and coordinated the Memorandum of Agreement between DSHS and Big Mike’s and organized the recent grand opening.
Spring is a graduate of Tulane (English) with a master’s degree from Ball State University (psychology). He is married to the former Kathy Brummett and is the father of a son and daughter.
Tom Kelly (Athlete)
Class of 2017
As a three-year starter at quarterback (1957-1959), Tom Kelly ran for 865 yards and scored 73 points while passing for 1,350 yards and 16 touchdowns in a backfield that boasted two-time All State running back Randy Rushing. Kelly was such a fierce tackler that head coach Charles Borde elected to also play him at linebacker on defense, a rare decision to expose the team’s quarterback to injury at such a rugged position.
A spirited athlete and natural leader, he was selected the team Most Valuable Player not because of his size or his statistics, but because he led by example and had a gift for inspiring his teammates. Kelly was also a star second baseman on Yellow Jacket softball teams that won State Championships in 1958, 1959, and 1960.
He embodied the student-athlete ideal as President of his sophomore and junior classes and Vice President of his senior class. Voted Most Energetic Student three times, he also served as FFA president and Key Club president. Kelly would eventually earn an athletic scholarship to play football at USL (ULL) after a walk-on season with the LSU freshman team. He is believed to be the first DSHS athlete to play football at LSU and to have played four years of collegiate football.
The leadership ability Kelly developed on the playing fields of his Denham Springs youth would later distinguish him as a leader on the football field at USL and the battlefields of Viet Nam. Having played quarterback in his formative years, and during his freshman season at LSU, he was at heart still a hitter who was called upon by legendary USL coach Russ Faulkinbery to play linebacker once again.
Though small in stature for the position, he nonetheless became a three-year letterman, a two-year starter, and defensive captain as a senior. In 1963 he would receive the USL Most Valuable Back award and recognition as an honorable mention NAIA Little All-America linebacker.
Kelly continued to be a campus leader off the football field, cited as a member of the 1964 Who’s Who in American Colleges & Universities, serving as a member of the USL student council and Blue Key Honor Society, and receiving an award as the USL student contributing the most to the College of Commerce.
Upon graduation he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the USMC as an armor officer, serving as a tank platoon leader in Viet Nam at age 24, an assignment for which he received the Bronze Star medal with “V” device signifying valor, a rare award for a second lieutenant to receive. He would later return to Viet Nam at the rank of captain as a tank company commander at age 27.
Between those tours he had the unenviable assignment as the Marine Recruitment Officer in the San Francisco Bay area during two volatile years of unrest on college campuses.
After 26 years of active duty service, Kelly retired as a full colonel before spending another 18 years with General Dynamics working as a contractor on military programs. His overseas tours were in Viet Nam, Okinawa, and Panama. He is a graduate of USL (business) and is married to Meredith Kelly.
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