Incentive to do well at UMass-Amherst
Bonuses can mean big bump to base salaries of coaches
Two losing seasons into his first college head coaching job, Derek Kellogg can count on a reward if he guides his UMass-Amherst men’s basketball team to a postseason tournament.
Kellogg’s contract, the richest among the university’s coaches, includes $25,000 performance bonuses for each round of the NCAA Tournament - or $5,000 for every round of the NIT - his team reaches.
ASU looking for a new QB
Freshman, junior compete to fill the big shoes of record-setting Armanti Edwards.
A sports clothing store at the Boone Mall has a sale on Appalachian State T-shirts with a gold No. 14 screen printed on the front.
Mountaineers football coach Jerry Moore now will have to look into the stands to see the number quarterback Armanti Edwards wore for four years as a starter.
Two quarterbacks - junior DeAndre Presley and freshman Jamal Jackson - are working this spring to become the starter.
Lehigh's 2010 Schedule Includes Reigning D-I Champion Villanova
Three contests against 2009 Football Championship Subdivision playoff teams, including defending national champion Villanova, highlight Lehigh University’s 2010 schedule.
- 243 words - Patriot League, Villanova Wildcats, Lehigh Mountain Hawks After A Year, South Alabama Jaguars' Future Still Bright
A year ago there were more questions surrounding South Alabama’s football program than diagrams in the Jaguars’ playbook.
After years questioning whether the school should have a football team, school officials finally gave the project a green light.
The next question then was “Will it work?”
Well, so far, so good.
Questions Remain For Coastal Carolina
More than three months after the 2009 season ended, Coastal Carolina opens spring practice today with the same nagging question hanging over the program.
Villanova’s Szczur Has Proven Winning Is In His Bones
Football or baseball?
The NFL or the Big Leagues?
Villanova University junior Matt Szczur knows he’s lucky to wrestle with those choices. The sky is the limit for the Maxwell Football Club’s Tri-State Player of the Year honored Friday at Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City.
UNI's Josh Mahoney Awarded NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship
University of Northern Iowa senior football linebacker Josh Mahoney is one of 58 student-athletes who has been awarded the prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship for fall sports.
Mahoney (Sioux Falls, S.D./O’Gorman HS) posted a perfect 4.0 grade point average while majoring in both English and Economics. Mahoney posted 247 career tackles to go along with four interceptions in his Panther career. He was a first-team all-MVFC pick in 2008 and 2009, while being named to the league’s All-Academic team three straight years (2007, 2008, 2009). Mahoney was a two-time Academic All-American.
- 356 words - Missouri Valley Football Conference, Northern Iowa Panthers Saints' Colston saddened by end of Hofstra football program
MIAMI – Marques Colston was in a meeting when his history was hijacked, when the men with the calculators and the spreadsheets took a giant eraser to his youth.
This was on Dec. 3, and the Saints’ wideout had just gathered with the rest of the team’s receiving corps to plan out how they could beat the Redskins in three days and move to 12-0 on the season. The gathering broke up, he turned on his cell phone, and the damn thing started buzzing like a hornet’s nest.
“Not the kind of news you want to start your day,” Colston said.
Montana athletic department considering trimming scholarships
With budget cuts and rising fixed costs, the University of Montana athletic department is struggling to find money for the next fiscal year and is considering dropping the number of out-of-state scholarships available.
With a budget set at around $13 million, athletic director Jim O’Day said the increase of fixed costs is causing the department to dip into savings, which he said is a cause for concern.
Analyzing the 2010 TXST football schedule
The Texas State Athletics department released the Fall 2010 football schedule Tuesday, and it looks as though Bobcat fans are in for a pretty good season.
Here is the schedule:
Lembo Announces Elon Football Staff Changes
ELON, N.C. – Elon Phoenix head football coach Pete Lembo has announced the restructuring of his staff which includes the addition of two new members and the promotion of two others. Lembo has promoted Jay Bateman to assistant head coach while Charles Porterfield will take over the role of tight ends coach. Kevin Downing has joined the staff as a defensive assistant and Corey Bass will assume the role of director of football operations.
Five-Game Road Trip Highlights 2010 Cal Poly Schedule
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – Cal Poly will play nine NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision teams, one Football Bowl Subdivision squad and one Division II opponent.
The Mustangs will play five home games and six on the road.
The Citadel Coach's Search for the Ring
“I wear the ring.”
And so begins one of the most powerful books I’ve ever read.
In Pat Conroy’s The Lords of Discipline, a book about life as an undergraduate at The Citadel—Charleston, S.C.’s famed military school—the main character seeks the ring awarded to graduates.
But there’s someone else whom you might consider to be in pursuit of that elusive metaphor of accomplishment.
He’s The Citadel’s head football coach, Kevin Higgins.
UND's Dublanko looking ahead to 2011 CFL draft
Canadians won’t be seeing Curtis Dublanko suiting up for a CFL team this season, but the 22-year-old Thorsby native has his eyes firmly set on what he considers the ultimate prize: a spot on a CFL roster in 2011.
Dublanko, who is currently finishing up his fourth year of an accounting major at the University of North Dakota (UND), was eligible for the 2010 CFL draft, which begins next month in Toronto, but opted to play a fifth and final year in the NCAA with the North Dakota Fighting Sioux.
ASU Announces Staff Changes
Head coach Jerry Moore officially announced changes to Appalachian State University’s football staff on Thursday. The changes include two new coaches and a promotion.
Joining Appalachian’s staff are new offensive line coach Bob McClain and defensive backs coach Scot Sloan. They replace former ASU coaches Shawn Elliott and John Wiley, who departed for positions at South Carolina and East Carolina, respectively. Additionally, longtime Mountaineer assistant Dale Jones has been promoted to defensive coordinator.
JSU Gamecocks Begin Spring Practice
The Jacksonville State football team began spring football practice on Wednesday as the Gamecocks look to build on back-to-back 8-3 seasons, including posting a final national ranking of No. 16 and the best record in the Ohio Valley Conference in 2009.
Texas State running back arrested on assault charge
San Marcos — A star running back for Texas State University spent Wednesday night in Hays County Jail after what police said was a dispute with his girlfriend.
Karrington Blake Bush, 22, was charged with assault causing injury/family violence. He was released from custody this morning on a $3,000 surety bond.
SU Legend Posey Dies
Odie Posey, a member of the Southern University Sports Hall of Fame and one of the most accomplished football players in school history, has died, the university announced Wednesday.
A running back for legendary coach A.W. Mumford, Posey arrived in 1947 from San Antonio’s Phillis Wheatley High School on a tennis scholarship.
But he became famous at Southern on the football field.
The Citadel's Roberts Shines at Pre-Draft Festivities
Turning heads has continued to be the motive of Bulldog standout wide receiver Andre Roberts during the offseason and he has been successful at doing so at the 2010 National Football League Combine. Notching top 10 performances among wide receivers in four different categories, the 5-11, 195-lb All-America honoree excelled in the 40-yard dash, the three-cone drill, the 20-yard shuttle and the broad jump in front of an audience of general managers and scouts.
Grambling’s Nigel Copeland Hopes To Keep Proving Them Wrong
When we last saw Grambling defensive back Nigel Copeland, he was shutting down Southern’s celebrated receiver Jaumorris Stewart — who finished the season-closing Bayou Classic with just three catches.
Stewart came into the game leading the Southwestern Athletic Conference in receptions, yards and touchdowns.
“My last game was in the New Orleans Superdome,” Copeland said. “I will never forget it. I cried like a baby when it was over.”
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