FOOTBALL: UTPB a step closer to kickoff after holding open tryouts - Odessa American: Utpb : "Justin Carrigan isn’t looking for talent that can help him win games this fall. UTPB’s new head football coach and the fledgling Falcons program won’t play a down until 2016. Instead, Carrigan is looking for players that can help build an upstart program from the ground up. Carrigan said that much Saturday afternoon, looking over the group of more than 70 potential players that took part in the Falcons’ open tryouts at Permian High’s John Wilkins Field. In that group, Carrigan hopes, were a few of those men who are going to help lay bricks and build a foundation as part of UTPB’s first football team. “We’re looking for character,” Carrigan said after those Falcon hopefuls were dismissed. “We’re looking for guys that have the hard work, the blue-collar mindset, that aren’t looking for the glitz and the glamour of a great locker room or a super-nice uniform or anything like that. “We ...
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