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DURANT, Okla. - Southeastern will hit the road for the first of back-to-back road contests, first taking on Arkansas Tech at 6 p.m. on Saturday in Russellville, Ark.
The Savage Storm come into the game with a 1-3 record overall and an 0-3 mark in the Great American Conference following a narrow 27-24 loss to No. 12 Ouachita Baptist. The Wonder Boys enter the weekend with a 2-3 record on the season and an 0-2 mark in league play following a 41-20 win over Northwestern Oklahoma State.
Against the Wonder Boys… Saturday marks just the 14th meeting all-time between Southeastern and Arkansas Tech. Last season's meeting, which ATU won 28-16, was the first in the series since SE picked up a 42-27 win in 1994. SE has won three of the last five, but ATU own the advantage int he series by a 9-3-1 mark. ATU won the first meetign in 1924, 7-0, and would win the first seven in-a-row before the teams battled to a 21-21 tie in 1963. SE's wins int he series came in 1966, 1993 and 1994.
Southeastern celebrates 100th season of football… The 2012 season will mark the 100th season of competition for SE football which fielded its first team in 1909. Southeastern has fielded a team every year since then except for the span between 1943 and 1945 during World War II. SE has played 946 games over that span, posting a 452-450-44 record.
Notes from last time out… SE dropped its third-straight contest and dipped to 1-3 on the season and 0-3 in GAC play... The SE offense posted the most yards and tied for the most points allowed by the OBU defense which came into the weekend as one of the best int he nation...SE compiled 360 yards of offense, with
Jercolby Bradley accounting for 316 of it... Bradley was SE's leading rusher for the second-straight week, becoming the first runner to pass the 100-yard mark and finishing with 135 yards and two touchdowns on the ground... He also added 181 yards passing and one score...
About the Coaches… Ray Richards (Northern Michigan, 1981) took over the reins for the Southeastern Oklahoma State football program prior to the 2005 season and quickly built on to SE's successful history. Richards has compiled a 36-37 record at SE and an overall career record of 50-67, with head coaching stints at Southeastern and Southwest Baptist University. The 2011 squad opened the year with back-to-back wins before going to a 2-8 season and a ninth place finish in the first season of Great American Conference play. SE had three all conference award winners, highlighted by first team selection
Ryan Shelley who turned in the league's best single-game receiving mark with 225 yards against East Central. In seven seasons at SE, Richards' teams have produced 25 first team all-conference honors as well as 37 all-conference second team honors. His teams also won eight specialty awards in the LSC, including his own Coach of the Year nod following the 2005 season.
Steve Mullins (Arkansas-Monticello, 1980) became the 14th head football coach in Arkansas Tech University history in the summer of 1997, he inherited a program in transition. The Wonder Boys had posted just six winning seasons and one conference championship in the previous 20 years, and they were in the infancy of a new era as members of NCAA Division II and the ultra-competitive Gulf South Conference. The Wonder Boys were the first Gulf South Conference football program in Arkansas to ever win the GSC title outright (1999), the first GSC football program in Arkansas to host an NCAA Division II Playoff game (2004) and the first GSC football program in Arkansas to win an NCAA Division II Playoff game (2004). He began his coaching career at Lamar University as outside linebackers coach in 1982. He has also had stops at Southwestern Oklahoma State, Northwest Missouri State and Northwestern State (La.).
