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HAND Y'S ST ATISTICS HANDY'S STA Games/Starts Snaps/Total Snaps 3/0 30/744 10/9 511/840 13/9 541/1584
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Offensive Line 2001 2002 Totals
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three games with an ankle sprain ... Opened the season with 50 snaps in the Murray State victory ... Played just 12 snaps against Ole Miss before suffering an ankle injury ... Returned briefly for the Tulane game but played just six plays ... Returned as a starter against Louisville and played 67 snaps ... Appeared in 62-of-67 plays against Mississippi State and played a season high 85-of-85 plays against South Florida ... Closed the season playing all 66 plays against TCU ... Finished his sophomore season appearing in 511 of the team’s 840 total offensive plays ... ... 2001: Saw his first action as a Tiger in the Louisville game ... Injured an ankle in camp and missed the first three games of the season ... Appeared in the Louisville game and played eight snaps as an offensive guard ... Had five plays against Southern Mississippi ... Played a season high 17 snaps in the road victory over Houston ... Re-injured his ankle the week following the Houston contest and was not able to return in 2001 ... Spent the remainder of the fall rehabbing his high ankle sprain... Prep: Lettered as an offensive and defensive lineman at Palmetto High School in Miami, FL ... Selected to play in the Florida All-Star game on Martin Luther King Day ... Is expected to play in the Florida-California Football Classic in Santa Barbara, CA in June ... Was named first team AllDade County in 2000 by the Miami Herald ... Was considered by many to be the best offensive lineman in the Miami Dade County area this fall ... Is called by high school coach “the best lineman ever to play at Palmetto High School” ... Worked as a strong guard during his senior season and helped team to an 8-3 record ... Played tackle as a sophomore and junior ... Was named Palmetto’s MVP Lineman for three consecutive years ... Has run 4.9 40-yard dash ... Was recruited by Miami (FL), Rutgers and UMass but selected the Tigers ... Played for coach Jim Kroll at Palmetto HS ... Is the son of Valurie Handy ... Born: 11/14/82.
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The Players
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GREG HARPER Inside Linebacker 6-1, 235 r-Senior, 3L Wooddale HS Memphis, TN
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Returns to a starter’s role at the “mike” linebacker position this fall ... Was the Tiger starter at outside linebacker in 2002 before being sidelined with a broken bone in his left leg ... Is a three year letterman at linebacker for the Tigers ... 2002: Was the Tiger starter at outside linebacker in 2002 before being felled by a broken leg in the Tulane game ... Opened the season with nine tackles and a fumble recovery in the victory over Murray State ... Had six total tackles in the Ole Miss contest and added eight tackles, two tackles for lost yardage and one pass break-up in the Southern Miss contest ... Had two tackles, including a tackle for lost yardage in Tulane game before suffering a broken fibula in his left leg ... Missed the next five games before returning to action against South Florida ... Had four tackles in a part time role at USF and two tackles in the Army victory ... Finished the 2002 season with six tackles, two tackles for lost yardage and one forced fumble in the TCU game ... Was credited with 37 tackles, including 24 solo hits, four tackles for lost yardage, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery in 2002 ... 2001: Completed the 2001 season as the defense’s third leading tackler ... Was credited with six tackles in the season opener against Mississippi State ... Had eight tackles in the UT-Chattanooga victory ... Logged six tackles in the win over South Florida ... Was credited with four stops in the Louisville game ... Had a fumble recovery in the Louisville game that led to the Tigers’ first score ... Opened the Southern Mississippi game with a fumble recovery that he returned to the USM four yard line ... Also logged his lone interception against Southern Miss ... Had six tackles in the USM game ... After having six tackles at Houston, registered a season high 10 tackles against East Carolina ... Tallied eight hits in the UAB contest ... Posted eight stops in the Tennessee game in Knoxville ... Closed the season with five tackles in the win over Army and had six tackles against Cincinnati ... Finished the 2001 campaign with 73 total tackles, including 49 solo tackles, 13 tackles for lost yardage (-41), five quarterback sacks (-24), one pass interception, two fumble recoveries returned for 19 and one forced fumble ... Was a leader on defense in the spring with several key older players sitting out ... 2000: A former walk-on linebacker who started nine games for the Tigers in 2000 at outside linebacker ... Had just one tackle in the season opener against Mississippi State but came back the next week to post five tackles in the win over Louisiana-Monroe ... Registered six tackles including one tackle for lost yardage the following game against Arkansas State ... Recorded seven tackles in the Army victory including a career high six solo stops ... Registered a season and career high eight tackles against Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg ... Was credited with six tackles in the Tigers’ win over East Carolina ... Had his first career quarterback sack in the Cincinnati