LOUISIANA TECH
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LINEBACKER
ZEKE
WARREN
Baton Rouge, La. (Southern Lab)
Plaquemine, La. (St. John)
ALSANDER
BATES
6-6 • 300 • Fr. • HS
6-0 • 205 • Fr. • HS
High School: Rated as a three-star athlete by Rivals.com … Graduated from St. John High School in 2011 … Earned four letters in football and track and two letters in baseball, playing varsity football as a freshman … Registered 95 tackles and six sacks his junior year … Garnered all-district honors in football … Coached by Barry Tut Meushmech. Personal: Full name is Warren Benjamin Bates, Jr. … Son of Warren and Sharon Bates … Born Oct. 16, 1992 in Plaqumine, La.
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DEFENSIVE BACK
74
OFFENSIVE LINEMAN
LARRY
BANKS
Fayette, Miss. (Copiah-Lincoln CC) 6-4 • 325 • Jr. • JC
2011: Played occasionally throughout the season ... 2010 (Copiah-Lincoln CC): Rated as a three-star athlete by Rivals.com … Athletic offensive lineman with great size and power … Ranked seventh in the nation among junior college interior offensive lineman for the 2011 recruiting class … Helped guide Co-Lin to the MACJC state championship game and a 9-2 record … Paved the way for Co-Lin to rush for over 175 yards per game and for the team to average almost 335 offensive yards per game … Coached by Glenn Davis. 2009 (Copiah-Lincoln CC): Guided Co-Lin to a 6-3 record … Paved the way for the team to rush for over 118 rushing yards per game … Was a teammate of current Tech DB Ryan Williams … Coached by Glenn Davis. High School: Graduated from Jefferson County High School in 2009 … Earned letters in football and basketball … Garnered all-state, all-region and all-metro honors … Named the offensive lineman of the year … Coached by James Herrington. Personal: Full name is Larry Darnell Banks, Jr. … Son of Flora Banks … Born Sept. 4, 1990 in Fayette, Miss.
CHAD
BOYD
Westwego, La. (Archbishop Shaw) 5-10 • 200 • Jr. • 2L
2011 Second Team All-WAC 2011: Recorded five total tackles at Southern Miss (9/3) with two solo stops and three assisted tackles ... Led the team with 10 total tackles and 1.5 tackles for a loss in Tech’s 48-42 overtime win over Central Arkansas (9/10) ... Tallied three assisted tackles at Mississippi State (9/24) as Tech fell in overtime, 26-20 ... Recorded six total tackles, including one for a loss of one yard, and one pass break-up against Hawai’i (10/1) ... Tallied four total tackles at Idaho (10/8) with one pass break-up ... Recorded eight total tackles (three solo, five assisted) at Utah State (10/22) ... Tallied five total tackles against San Jose State (10/29) while recording one of the team’s four interceptions and getting credited with a pass break-up ... Registered six solo tackles at Fresno State (11/5) ... At Ole Miss (11/12), became the first Tech player since 2001 to return a fumble recovery for a touchdown while he also recorded five tackles and was credited wtih two pass break-ups in a 27-7 win over the SEC opponent ... Matched a season-best 10 tackles in Tech’s 24-20 win at Nevada (11/19), ending the Wolf Pack’s 16-game home winning streak ... Became the first Tech player to record multiple interceptions in a game since last year with two picks to complement his
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2011: Has not played ... High School: Ranked 73rd overall and fifth among offensive tackles in Louisiana for the 2011 recruiting class by Louisiana Football Magazine … Graduated from Southern University Lab School in 2011 … Selected to play in the All-World Gridiron Classic game in Charleston, S.C. … Helped guide his team to an 8-5 record and a berth in the state quarterfinals … Coached by Michael Roach. Personal: Full name is Ezekial Alsander … Goes by “Zeke” … Chose Louisiana Tech over Houston, Louisiana-Lafayette, Memphis, Nicholls State, Southeastern Louisiana, Southern Miss, Southern and Tulsa … Chose Louisiana Tech because of the high graduation percentages the school and football program boast … Recruited by Pete Perot.
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OFFENSIVE LINEMAN
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