The first time I heard the name Quincy Black was back in spring of 2004. I was covering the Rocky Long football camp and found out that UNM had 3 recruits in that weekend one of them by the name of Quincy Black of William Rainey Harper JC… So being the internet guy I am, I went home and looked up Mr. Black and some of the information about him.

Fast forward a couple months later and we were able to see “Q” on the practice fields. A soft spoken young man that packed a wallop every time a ball carrier came along, not to mention he had some wheels did this young linebacker, but it wasn’t enough for Quincy who said the first time I interviewed him, “I can always work harder to get quicker and stronger.”

Soph. Quincy Black

In 2005 as a junior Quincy secured a starting position and you could see that there was definitely a star in the making as he finished the year with 63 tackles, and Lobo fans were looking forward to seeing “Q” anchor the linebacker corps his senior year. Well a funny thing happened on the way to the 2006 season.

Coach Rocky Long decided to move Quincy Black to the “Lobo” position which anyone familiar with Coach Long’s system knows that the “Lobo” is the playmaker in this defense, for outsiders it is “the position that made former Lobo and current Chicago Bear linebacker Brian Urlacher famous.” As soon as that bit of news was sprung the unfair comparisons were brought out and said over and over and over again. It seemed like every day that fall camp and into the season that fall camp Quincy was asked about the former Lobo in Chicago… While it may have become an annoying question and one that Quincy answered a million times, I have to admit that he took it better then most and while he may have been tired of answering “the question” he did it.

More importantly, not only did he answer “the question” with his mouth, but he also answered it on the field of play with 114 tackles, 3 interceptions, 1 run back for a touchdown, and a forced fumThis all culminated with Quincy being named to the 2006 All-MWC team as a defensive back…

Quincy has some guns!

With all that behind him the confident Black went to work to become an NFL player and that is exactly what happened on Saturday afternoon as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers used the 68^th pick in the 2007 NFL draft to select Quincy Black to play for them.

TheRedMenace.com was able to get in touch with the down to earth Quincy Black and discuss his dream come true…

Click here to listen to our podcast with Quincy Black

We would like to thank Quincy for his time and sharing his special day with us Lobo fans. So from now on when future Lobo players and Lobo fans here about the famous “Lobo” position they will say, “You know, the position that made Quincy Black famous. He plays for Tampa Bay.”

In other news

 Former Lobo “Hitmen” Robert Turner has signed a free agent deal with the 2007 NFL football champion Dallas Cowboys.

Former Lobo kicker Kenny Byrd has signed a 3-year free agent deal with the Detroit Lions.