Bowden Names Captains At Kickoff Luncheon

It's been a big week for Greenville's Mikhal Kornegay. Bobby Bowden said earlier this week that the Florida State special teams player was awarded a scholarship. Then on Friday he named him the captain of the special teams.

"He's the hardest worker we got on special teams," Bowden told a crowd of over 1,400 at the Civic Center for the annual kickoff luncheon. Kornegay walked on after transferring from Tennessee Tech. He enrolled at FSU in spring of 2003. He was a running back and cornerback for Madison County.

Tailback Lorenzo Booker was named the captain on offense and linebacker Buster Davis received that honor for the defense.

Bowden likes the defense's progress He was cautiously upbeat in his public address on Friday, just as he has been in meetings with the media throughout preseason practice.

"The defensive team that I see out there working," they look like they got the skill and speed of our past defenses," Bowden said. "They don't quite have the experience ... but there is some real talent.

"We're further now along defensive simply because you have a quarterback with (13) games of experience."