“I feel like Troy is definitely back. I’ve been saying that,” Troy defensive tackle Jamal Stadom said Monday. “I feel like the attitude, the edge is back. I don’t really want to speak too fast for myself, but I do feel like we are back.”
The Trojans, long a mid-major power from the mid-2000s to the early portion of this decade, had fallen on hard times in the last five years. From 2011-2015, Troy went 21-39 overall.
Now just three games into the second year under head coach Neal Brown, the Trojans sport a 2-1 record – with their only loss coming to then-No.