Auburn’s Price knows how to coach DEs

By Robert Rousseau  |   Monday, June 23, 2008  |  Comments( 0 )

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If you take a look at the Auburn Tigers over the last decade or so, you’ll notice that the defense has truly been playing well. In fact, if you just decide to look at the past few seasons, you'll see a trend.

Specifically, their defensive ends have been terrific. Look no further than recent first-round NFL draft pick Quentin Groves, who's now a Jacksonville Jaguar. Replacing Groves in Auburn is Antonio Coleman, who seems very impressive.

And there have been many more big-time DEs at Auburn lately.

When you have success at a certain position on a college football team for a period of time, it’s only natural to want to know why. Of course, there are plenty of reasons; but one is Auburn defensive ends coach Terry Price.

Price’s success is in part thanks to the fact that he was a pretty solid defensive end in his playing days at Texas A&M. In fact, he was even good enough to get drafted and compete in the NFL for a couple of years. But playing is not coaching; hence, his time with Texas A&M (graduate assistant), Western Kentucky (defensive line, strength coach), and Mississippi (defensive ends) obviously played a large part, too.

That said, Price has been with the Tigers as their defensive ends coach since 1999. In other words, he’s really done most of his growing up on the job with the Tigers. He’s coached All-SEC selections like Groves, Marquies Gunn, Stanley McClover, Reggie Torbor and Marcus Washington. As was stated earlier, Coleman is also well on his way to making a name for himself.

All of that doesn’t even mention the excellent rankings the defense has put up over the last several years, including leading the SEC in sacks in 2005. That, by the way, was in no small part thanks to Price’s defensive ends.

Plain and simple: Price has done a very good job coaching Auburn’s defensive ends, and the Tigers are lucky to have him. On the flip side, the rest of the SEC may not be feeling very lucky that he’s with Auburn.






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Robert Rousseau is a sports writer that has been published in a variety of print and online venues. He’s been writing for RealFootball365.com for almost three years now. When Rousseau isn’t writing about college football he tends to be penning mixed martial arts pieces for MMAFighting.com or ...
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