{"id":4478,"date":"2013-07-17T18:51:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T18:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yesiball.com\/sports\/?p=4478"},"modified":"2013-07-17T18:51:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T18:51:14","slug":"2013-c-usa-football-preseason-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/2013\/07\/17\/2013-c-usa-football-preseason-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 C-USA Football Preseason Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cusa.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cusa.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cusa\" width=\"294\" height=\"172\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4479\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new look Conference-USA have released their Preseason awards for the upcoming season. <\/p>\n<p>2013 C-USA FOOTBALL COACHES PRESEASON AWARDS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Offensive Player of the Year<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rakeem Cato, Jr., QB, Marshall<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defensive Player of the Year<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Phillip Gaines, Sr., DB, Rice<\/p>\n<p><strong>Special Teams Player of the Year<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cairo Santos, Sr., K, Tulane<\/p>\n<p><strong>First Team Offense<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>QB\tRakeem Cato, Jr., Marshall<br \/>\nRB\tVintavious Cooper, Sr., East Carolina<br \/>\nRB\tDarrin Reaves, Jr., UAB<br \/>\nOL\tJake Alexander, Jr., Tulsa<br \/>\nOL\tStetson Burnett, Sr., Tulsa<br \/>\nOL\tScott Inskeep, Jr., UTSA<br \/>\nOL\tNate Richards, Sr., Rice<br \/>\nOL\tMatt Shepperd, Jr., Louisiana Tech<br \/>\nOL\tWill Simmons, Sr., East Carolina<br \/>\nWR\tJustin Hardy, Jr., East Carolina<br \/>\nWR\tRyan Grant, Sr., Tulane<br \/>\nWR\tTommy Shuler, Jr., Marshall<br \/>\nTE\tGator Hoskins, Sr., Marshall<\/p>\n<p><strong>First Team Defense<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DL\tChristian Covington, So., Rice<br \/>\nDL\tJustin Ellis, Sr., Louisiana Tech<br \/>\nDL\tGreg Hickman, Sr., FIU<br \/>\nDL\tRakeem Nunez-Roches, DL, Southern Miss<br \/>\nLB\tShawn Jackson, Sr., Tulsa<br \/>\nLB\tDerrell Johnson, Sr., East Carolina<br \/>\nLB\tAndre Kirk, Jr., Florida Atlantic<br \/>\nDB\tKevin Byard, So., Middle Tennessee<br \/>\nDB\tLorenzo Doss, So., Tulane<br \/>\nDB\tPhillip Gaines, Sr., Rice<br \/>\nDB\tMarco Nelson, Sr., Tulsa<br \/>\nFirst Team Special Teams<br \/>\nK\tCairo Santos, Sr., Tulane<br \/>\nP\tTyler Williams, So., Marshall<br \/>\nKR\tReggie Whatley, Jr., Middle Tennessee<br \/>\nPR\tTrey Watts, Sr., Tulsa<\/p>\n<p><strong>PREDICTED ORDER OF FINISH<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nEAST DIVISION\t       Pts<br \/>\n1. East Carolina (11)\t95<br \/>\n2. Marshall (2)\t        82<br \/>\n3. Middle Tennessee (1)\t70<br \/>\n4. UAB\t                54<br \/>\n5. Southern Miss\t40<br \/>\n6. Florida Atlantic\t28<br \/>\n7. FIU\t                23<br \/>\nWEST DIVISION      Pts<br \/>\n1. Tulsa (14)\t        98<br \/>\n2. Rice\t                76<br \/>\n3. Louisiana Tech\t72<br \/>\n4. UTEP\t                46<br \/>\n5. North Texas\t        39<br \/>\n6. Tulane\t        31<br \/>\n7. UTSA\t                30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new look Conference-USA have released their Preseason awards for the upcoming season. 2013 C-USA FOOTBALL COACHES PRESEASON AWARDS Offensive Player of the Year Rakeem Cato, Jr., QB, Marshall Defensive Player of the Year Phillip Gaines, Sr., DB, Rice Special Teams Player of the Year Cairo Santos, Sr., K, Tulane First Team Offense QB Rakeem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1703],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4480,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478\/revisions\/4480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}