Northwestern State University of Louisana

Football 1996-99

Two-time All-American, one of 15 National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete winners from all levels of college football in 1999, an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient, and elected “Mr. NSU” and Homecoming King by the student body, Broussard is one of the more decorated student-athletes in school history ... made Southland Conference All-Decade Team for 1990s ... center on two straight Southland Conference champion teams that reached the FCS (then Division I-AA) playoffs, and the 1998 semifinals, as the Demons finished with a No. 3 national ranking in his junior year ... a second-team 1998 Sports Network I-AA All-American ... 1999 Walter Camp I-AA first-team All-American ... First-team All-Southland as a junior and senior, unanimous All-Louisiana first-team as a senior, All-Louisiana as a junior ... started 29 games as a three-year starter, played in 47 career games ... won 1999 Joe Delaney Memorial Leadership Award as offensive team captain, voted by teammates ... nominated as a Rhodes Scholar candidate, Broussard was one of 20 Division I-AA players chosen as a Burger King Scholar-Athlete after his senior season ... one of only two I-AA scholar-athletes honored at the 1999 NFF dinner in New York City ... earned doctoral degree, served as assistant AD at NSU and was later athletics director at Centenary and Southern, and remains in higher education … chosen for Top 100 Demon Players of All-Time roster selected in 2007 football centennial celebration.