Hall of Honor
Long joined the Bearkats for the 2004 season from Texas A&M and made an immediate and immense impact in his lone year on campus.
Up to his arrival on campus, no other Bearkat signal caller had compiled the numbers that Long put up in 2004. The former Port Neches-Groves HS quarterback led the Bearkats to an 11-3 record and a berth in the semifinals of the Division 1-AA playoffs.
Long finished the year completing 333 of his 531 passes for 4,588 yards and 39 touchdowns. At the year's completion, each of those marks stood as the single season record at SHSU and those marks stood until the 2016 or 2017 seasons.
He totaled eight games with 300 yards passing and four with five touchdown passes. He still holds SHSU single-game records with 577 passing yards and 598 yards of total offense in the Kats' win over McNeese that season.
Along the way he was named the Southland Conference Player of the Year and was the runner-up for the Walter Payton Award, given annually to the top offensive player in the nation at the FCS/1-AA level. Additionally, Long was named a second team All-American by the Sporting News and a third team All-American by the AP.
