Category: Chattanooga Mocs
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 University of Montana plans to make bid to host FCS title game
University of Montana officials told Missoula’s businesses community Monday they want to bid for the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision national title game in 2010.
University administrators and athletic officials presented the idea in a late-afternoon meeting with representatives of the Missoula Area Chamber of Commerce, Missoula Convention and Visitors Bureau, Mayor John Engen and others gathered at the Canyon Club, atop Washington-Grizzly Stadium.
UM’s stadium can compete well with other FCS venues, they said.
SoCon Media Sets Appalachian State as Preseason Favorite
Mountaineers look to win fifth consecutive SoCon football title
Following the lead of the league’s coaches on Monday, the media members who cover Southern Conference football have selected Appalachian State as the overwhelming favorite to capture the conference championship in 2009.
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Fans of SoCon football will have an opportunity to take an in-depth look at the league’s nine football programs with the launch of Southern Conference Football, a magazine produced by SportsUnlimited and the conference office. Scheduled to hit newsstands in late August, the magazine will include feature stories on each team as well as historical information about the conference.
“We think our fans will really enjoy reading a feature-driven magazine focused on Southern Conference football,” said Southern Conference Commissioner, John Iamarino. “There are so many interesting facets to the players, coaches and programs that make up this Conference and this publication will help tell those stories.”
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Mountaineers look to win fifth consecutive SoCon football title
The Southern Conference football coaches have unanimously selected Appalachian State as the preseason favorite to win the league crown in 2009.
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The Southern Conference preseason football media teleconference on Tuesday, July 28 will be streamed live throughout the day on SoConSports.com, giving SoCon football fans the chance to hear the league’s head football coaches and select players discuss the upcoming season.
In addition, fans will have the opportunity to contribute to this year’s event by submitting questions for coaches and student-athletes – one of which will be chosen for each participant in the teleconference. Fans should email their questions to SoConFootball2009@gmail.com, including the following information:
- 283 words - SoCon, Western Carolina Catamounts, Appalachian State Mountaineers, Wofford Terriers, Elon Phoenix, Furman Paladins, Samford Bulldogs, Georgia Southern Eagles, The Citadel Bulldogs, Chattanooga Mocs Mocs Mission Review - UTC Student-Athletes Engaged the Community in 2008-09
Part of the mission of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga athletics department is to guide, encourage and support our Student-Athletes in their quest for comprehensive excellence - academically, athletically and socially. The 2008-09 season was an amazing year for the Mocs in all three areas and GoMocs.com is currently taking a look back at the accomplishments of the student-athletes at UTC.
In the first week, we recapped the academic achievements of the Mocs in 2008-09. Last week, we delved into the performances of UTC student-athletes in their respective arenas of competition over the last year. Now we look at the last part of the Mocs Mission and how UTC student-athletes represented themselves, the program and the University in the community.
New Sound in Tune for Division I Title Game?
College Sporting News has learned that the poor sound quality at Finley Stadium, home of the Division I football championship, was on the agenda as Stadium Corp. held their monthly meeting on Tuesday.
SoCon To Participate in myPlaybook
SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The Southern Conference has announced it will participate in myPlaybook, a pilot program designed to prevent alcohol and other drug related harm among student-athletes. It will be the first time the program is implemented throughout a Division I conference. The program is a joint venture between the Southern Conference, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Center for Drug Free Sport, the UNC Greensboro Department of Public Health Education and Prevention Strategies, LLC.
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SoCon Saturdays Return Sept. 19 with Western Carolina @ Georgia Southern
The Southern Conference and SportSouth today announced the 2009 Southern Conference football telecast schedule. Branded SoCon Saturdays, the Southern Conference football schedule on SportSouth includes eight football games and features all nine conference schools. Former Super Bowl player and coach Sam Wyche and play-by-play announcer Tom Werme return for their third season in the SportSouth booth for the SoCon Saturdays package.
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The nonconference portion of a Football Championship Subdivision team’s schedule is like a land of opportunity. It can provide riches or reward — ideally both.
In the case of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and its Southern Conference colleagues, each 11-game schedule in 2009 features eight SoCon games and three slots they can fill as they please. Seven of the nine teams will each play one guarantee game against a Football Bowl Subdivision opponent, and Furman and Wofford will play two such “money” games.
- 923 words - SoCon, Western Carolina Catamounts, Appalachian State Mountaineers, Wofford Terriers, Elon Phoenix, Furman Paladins, Samford Bulldogs, Georgia Southern Eagles, The Citadel Bulldogs, Chattanooga Mocs B.J. Coleman Will Sign to Play Football at UTC
In a decision that has been widely expected for several days, former McCallie School quarterback B.J. Coleman made it official Wednesday night by confirming to the Times Free Press that he will sign scholarship papers with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga today.
Coleman, who left the University of Tennessee program two weeks ago, had spoken with several other teams before deciding to return home. He was in Knoxville on Wednesday but planned to return to Chattanooga Thursday morning to sign the paperwork and there is a 2:30 news conference scheduled today at McCallie.
Mocs Recovering from Slow Academic Progress Start
Russ Huesman inherited an academic mess when he became the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s football coach in late December. The mess has led to the Mocs being banned from the postseason this fall, and it won’t be cleaned up for at least a year or two.
But the program’s Academic Progress Rate problems will be resolved, he said.
“I have no questions that we’re going to get it fixed,” Huesman said. “I feel strongly about that.”
UT Chattanooga Loses Coordinator Elko to FBS Bowling Green
Less than two weeks before the start of spring practice, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football coach Russ Huesman is looking for a new defensive coordinator.
After a little more than two months on the job, Mike Elko resigned from UTC last week to accept the defensive coordinator position at Bowling Green under coach Dave Clawson, Elko’s and Huesman’s old boss at Richmond. Elko also coached with Clawson at Fordham University before joining him at Richmond.
Elko will take over for Joe Trainer, who left Bowling Green to become the head coach at Rhode Island. Huesman, who hired Elko away from Hofstra on Jan. 4, said he was surprised by the move.
Southern Conference Announces Cost-Cutting Measures
The Southern Conference on Friday announced several cost-saving measures that will go into effect for the 2009-10 academic year, including trimming one day off baseball trips and cutting the number of teams eligible for postseason league tournaments in six sports.
Only four teams - down from eight in some sports and even more in others - will make SoCon tournaments in volleyball, men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s tennis and softball next season.
Weekend baseball series will be reduced from three days to two.
UT Chattanooga: Huesman’s Salary in Middle of SoCon Pack
For years the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s football coaches have been at or near the bottom of the Southern Conference in both wins and pay. The latter is no longer the case, and it’s up to new coach Russ Huesman to change the former.
A memorandum of understanding — essentially a contract — was approved this week by UT system president John Petersen for Huesman to receive a base salary of $150,000 for six years. That is about $35,000 a year more than UTC paid Rodney Allison last year.
Chattanooga AD Hart Very Satisfied with Hire
As the weeks passed and the murmurs of the impatient began to grow louder, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga athletic director Rick Hart never lost faith or focus. He remained ever confident that he was on the right track to finding the Mocs’ next football coach.
“The search will last as long as it needs to,” he said more than once during the nearly nine weeks that passed from his Oct. 21 announcement that Rodney Allison’s contract would not be renewed to hiring Richmond defensive coordinator, and UTC graduate, Russ Huesman on Sunday.
UTC Fans See Hope in Huesman Hiring
Finally, a moment to celebrate. An excuse to brag. A reason to talk about University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football without rubbing your head or looking at the ground or using sarcasm to hide the pain.
All for the first time in 24 years.
The news conference introducing Russ Huesman as the UTC coach is the most inspiring moment for this program since it shared the Southern Conference crown in 1984. Very few have suffered more than UTC fans.
Huesman Has a Lot to Do
Russ Huesman barely had time to celebrate winning a national championship Friday night before turning his attention to interviewing for the job of University of Tennessee at Chattanooga head football coach.
Now that the UTC graduate and former Richmond defensive coordinator has been hired as the Mocs’ coach, he said his to-do list is longer than ever. The first order of business, he said, was hiring a coaching staff.
Ex-Moc Huesman Greeted Warmly as Head Coach
A crowd gathered at Finley Stadium on Monday not for a homecoming game, but for a homecoming.
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football family came together in the Stadium Club to welcome and celebrate the hiring of one of its own, Russ Huesman, as the new Mocs coach. Huesman was introduced by athletic director Rick Hart at a news conference attended by as many as 200 current and former players, alumni, staff and boosters.
Huesman, the defensive coordinator at Richmond the past five years, said he was overwhelmed by what he saw.
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