Richmond Football, Seven Other Sports Penalized for Text-messaging
The NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions has placed Richmond on two years of probation and imposed recruiting restrictions in eight sports for impermissible recruiting text messages and telephone calls to prospective student-athletes.
Southern Conference Announces October Players of the Month
The Southern Conference announced its October players of the month today, highlighting excellence among student-athletes in the second full month of competition for the 2009-10 academic year. The players of the month are nominated by each member institution and selected by the conference office.
- 268 words - SoCon, Appalachian State Mountaineers, Chattanooga Mocs EWU's Matt Nichols Nears Big Sky Conference Record as Milestones Accumulate
Passing the likes of Dave Dickenson, Doug Nussmeier, John Friesz and eventually Jamie Martin, the senior quarterback needs only 303 yards to break the total offense record for the 46-year-old league.
Only a bye this week for the Eastern Washington University football team has slowed the accumulation of milestones for senior quarterback Matt Nichols.
FCS Dominates CoSIDA Academic All-District Teams for Football, Again
The 2009 CoSIDA Academic All-District Teams for football have been selected. There is a University Division (Division I programs) and a College Division (DII, DIII programs) for each sport and members are selected for First Team, Second Team and Third Team honors.
Three Academic All-District teams are chosen in each district, with those student-athletes on the All-District first teams placed on the national ballot for Academic All-America® consideration.
Nominations and voting for the Academic All-America® programs are conducted by members of the College Sports Information Directors of America.
- 2981 words - FCS News Articles Richmond Unveils All-UR Stadium Team
The prestigious team features 28 Richmond Legends that played in the UR Stadium era (1929-2009)
The University of Richmond department of athletics has unveiled the All-UR Stadium Team, which recognizes the greatest Spiders to have played at the historic venue. After 81 years, 2009 marks the final season of Richmond Football at UR Stadium.
Missouri Valley Football Conference Recognizes "Silver Anniversary Team"
Founded in 1985 as the Gateway Football Conference, the Missouri Valley Football Conference is celebrating its 25th season of FCS (Football Championship Subdivision) football during the 2009 season. As part of a season-long celebration, the conference is paying tribute to its all-time greats by selecting a Silver Anniversary Team. Also selected was an NFL Greats and Institutional Greats team.
- 3203 words - Missouri Valley Football Conference, Southern Illinois Salukis, Indiana State Sycamores, South Dakota State Jackrabbits, North Dakota State Bison, Northern Iowa Panthers, Youngstown State Penguins, Western Illinois Leathernecks, Missouri State Bears, Illinois State Redbirds FCS Conference Players of the Week
All 14 league honors.
- 5042 words - FCS News Articles Black Bears Pick Up a Win to Build Upon
Maine finally adds to a halftime lead, taking advantage of UMass miscues for a 19-9 win.
ORONO — In a game of big plays, turnovers and wild momentum shifts, the University of Maine knocked off 19th-ranked Massachusetts 19-9 on Saturday.
The win was notable because the Black Bears (4-4, 3-2 Colonial Athletic Association) showed signs of growth in several areas.
“That’s a really good football team, nineteenth-ranked in the country,” said Maine Coach Jack Cosgrove. “We persevered. We matured and grew today.”
Liberty Jumps in Front Early, Goes on to Bury Presbyterian
It was an odd scene Saturday evening. As Liberty finished a 55-19 thrashing of winless Presbyterian, avenging the loss from last season that cost the Flames a berth in the FCS playoffs, the crowd at Williams Stadium looked much like the one that shows up Friday nights for LCA games.
With 2:55 left in the second quarter, SirChauncey Holloway bounded in from four yards out to put the Flames up 28-3. A light drizzle began to fall, and the stadium emptied. Announced attendance was 14,197. But by the time the second half started, there were maybe 1,000 folks left in the stands.
“I turned to Todd (Wetmore, Liberty’s director of athletic communications), and said, ‘it’s a mass exodus,’” Liberty coach Danny Rocco said. “I don’t know if it was that it had started to pour, but I was a little taken aback by that.”
Penn Tops Brown in OT to Stay in a Tie for Ivy Lead
The Quakers notched their first win over the Bears since 2004.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - For the 1,300th game in the Penn football program’s history, coach Al Bagnoli gave a nod to the team’s past.
The Quakers’ 14-7 overtime win at Brown yesterday featured an offense that recalled Bagnoli’s pass-heavy attack from earlier this decade, and a defense that made the final score look like something from many decades earlier.
That combination produced a result of some consequence for the present. It was the Quakers’ first win over the Bears since 2004 and their first overtime win since that same season. It also kept Penn tied with Harvard atop the Ivy League standings.
Richmond Becomes Third-Ever FCS Team To Earn Votes In AP Top 25
The Spiders join Appalachian State and Northern Iowa as the only FCS teams to be recognized in the Poll.
Off to its best start in school history at 8-0, No. 1-ranked Richmond became the first FCS team in two years to earn votes in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll. The Spiders were listed on one ballot and are unofficially 37th to become just third-ever FCS team recognized in the Poll.
- 306 words - FCS News Articles CCSU Alone in First after Topping Danes
NEW BRITAIN — The irony wasn’t lost on Central’s football team. A year ago at Albany, the Blue Devils staged a stirring comeback, only to miss the would-be-tying two-point conversion with 55 seconds left. Saturday, Albany needed a two-point conversion to tie the game with 59 ticks on the clock.
This time, the Great Danes missed and Central had a great win.
An offensive pass interference call wiped out Albany’s first try at the conversion, and Central’s Ray Saunders tackled quarterback Vinny Esposito to stop the Danes’ second try as Central hung on for a 31-29 win before 3,698 raucous fans at Arute Field.
“The tables turn fast,” CCSU quarterback Aubrey Norris said. “We had to get this win.”
Monday night football coming to Lamar campus
BEAUMONT - Monday night football - Lamar University style - will hit campus under the lights and with all of the other normal trimmings at the Lamar Soccer Complex on Nov. 9.
Coach Ray Woodard and his staff will put their 65-man squad of scholarship players and walkons through a game-like scrimmage that will conclude the Cardinals’ fall workouts in preparation for their fulltime return to football during the 2010 season. The scrimmage, which will be open to the public free of charge, will begin at 7 p.m.
- 405 words - Southland Conference, We Want FCS Football, Lamar Cardinals UTSA names Shane Elder as Director of Football Operations
SAN ANTONIO — UTSA head football coach Larry Coker announced Tuesday that he has hired Shane Elder as Director of Football Operations.
Elder’s appointment is effective immediately and he will be responsible for coordinating team travel, on-campus recruiting visits, the walk-on program and housing and meal programs for student-athletes, assisting with summer camps, overseeing the program’s compliance paperwork, scheduling and organizing community service outings and serving as the NFL and high school coaches liaison.
- 239 words - Southland Conference, We Want FCS Football, Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners Big Sky Suspends Sacramento State Football Player
OGDEN, UTAH (Oct. 28, 2009) - The Big Sky Conference announced it has suspended Sacramento State football player Avery White for his actions in last Saturday’s game against The University of Montana.
White, a freshman linebacker from Manteca, Calif., will be suspended for Sacramento State’s Oct. 31 home game against Northern Arizona.
Jacks Hit Stride in Banner Season
Saturday certainly was, as the slogan goes, a good day to be a Jackrabbit. Actually, the past 10 years have been pretty decent for the blue and yellow.
A 24-14 triumph over sixth-ranked Northern Iowa on Saturday in Brookings was the 63rd win for South Dakota State since the 2000 season, breaking the program mark for the most victories in a decade.
The previous record of 62 wins was set in the 1990s. Prior to that, No. 11 SDSU had never won more than 55 games in any decade.
Leopards Keep their Feet on the Ground after Win
They didn’t dance in the Lafayette locker room Saturday following the Leopards’ 26-21 Patriot League victory over Fordham.
It wasn’t that the victory was insignificant. It was that the dancing was inappropriate.
‘’That was for the first half of the season,'’ coach Frank Tavani said Sunday. ‘’There will be no more dancing until the proper time.'’
He never identified ‘’the proper time,'’ but it doesn’t take a genius to read between the lines. It’s about focus. The next dance should not be expected until the Leopards can check off the phrase ‘’Patriot League champions'’ on their 2009 goals list.
Appeals panel overturns postseason ban for Eastern Washington football
The NCAA Division I Infractions Appeals Committee has overturned a postseason ban for Eastern Washington University’s football program, saying that the competitive advantage the school gained through the violations was not as significant as the Committee on Infractions had claimed.
The February 2009 case involved violations of impermissible participation by ineligible student-athletes in practice activities, the use of too many countable coaches, failure to monitor by the former head coach, and a lack of institutional control and failure to monitor by the university.
- 549 words - Big Sky Conference, Eastern Washington Eagles, NCAA Griz Trickery Surprises Sac State
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gerald Kemp is a redshirt freshman quarterback who has made only one pass - an interception - for the Montana Grizzlies, though he’s shown himself to be a dangerous runner.
On Saturday, in Montana’s 45-30 Big Sky Conference football win over Sacramento State, it was his sticky hands and not his arm or legs that boosted the Griz.
Kemp had a Marc Mariani-like leaping grab of Brody McKnight’s onside kick to set up the Grizzlies’ go-ahead TD.
Spoo, EIU Staff Find Ways to Beat the OVC Power
JACKSONVILLE, Ala. – In this time of the year when some struggling football teams start blaming people, Eastern Illinois had its finger pointing Saturday.
All of it was praise following the Panthers’ finest hours in years, Saturday’s 28-20 upset win over a Jacksonville State team that had been looking nearly invincible in the Ohio Valley Conference.
Credit started at the top.
“I will tell you our head coach did a great job this week, not that he doesn’t every week,” defensive coordinator Roc Bellantoni said. “But he had some ideas, he brought them to the staff and we used them. I don’t know if we outcoached them but our head coach did a great job even though he won’t want take the credit.”
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