The 6-foot-2 quarterback with astute pocket presence and a quick release started three games in Jonesboro and played in five others. He’d only be a sophomore, so Guidry thought Tabary could sit behind juniors Grant Ashcraft and Joe Lissard and absorb this new coaching staff’s offense.
Tabary required 16 fall practices to turn this plan askew.
Wednesday, Guidry named Tabary the Cowboys’ starting quarterback for their Sept. 3 season opener against Tarleton State, beating out Ashcraft and Lissard in what turned into a two-man race last week.
Guidry, who said Monday he’ll play his backup for at least one series in the first few games, named Ashcraft the backup. Lissard, Guidry said, was “moved out of the equation” last week.
“After the Friday scrimmage, I think that’s when James kind of put a stamp on it after evaluating everything,” Guidry said. “With the offense that we’re running, it’s going to be in the quarterback’s hands more than it ever has been. We need a guy that’s a cleaner pocket guy, a guy that understands getting up in the pocket, having some awareness and has a quick release because this could be a quick release offense.”
Tabary led the starting offense throughout that scrimmage, but his quick absorption of Guidry and offensive coordinator Landon Hoefer’s new offensive language and scheme in such a limited time wooed the staff into this decision.
“Him picking up the type of plays wasn’t a surprise. But just the language and the lingo and having him get the signals from the sideline, what we call it and flip the call if he needed to and make checks, that was surprising,” Guidry said. “His knowledge of the offense is probably about like all the quarterbacks — they’re probably all the same, it’s probably a wash. The only difference is James has only been doing it for 16 practices whereas the other quarterbacks had all spring. That he kind of showed us a lot of things in that he’s only going to get better.”
A three-game starter during his redshirt freshman season at Arkansas State, Tabary — a New Orleans native and Holy Cross graduate — threw for 788 yards and four touchdowns in eight total games.
He announced on Twitter his intentions to transfer on April 20, which was soon followed by a statement dismissing him from Red Wolves’ coach Blake Anderson, whom Guidry called when he learned of Tabary’s interest.
“(Anderson) said he really liked the kid,” Guidry said. “He said the kid made a mistake and he doesn’t think he’ll ever do it again. He went into detail with me what happened, he kind of broke the circle of trust. Got advice from a former coach that used to be there because it was a guy that recruited him. But it broke the circle of trust at Arkansas State.”
He found a new home in Lake Charles, where he spent most of his summer dissecting film and Hoefer’s tendencies, alerting Guidry that this addition he didn’t think was necessary could play his first team’s most important position.
It moved to the field. Tabary, along with other quarterbacks, was prohibited from speaking to the media during fall camp. But he operates, by all accounts, with a fiery emotion that Guidry hopes can spread to the entire offense.
“And that’s not a key thing, some guys do it with a very calm disposition,” Guidry said. “But he’s very emotional and I think the players will feed off of him.”
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