Category: James Madison Dukes
UNH Football Notebook: CAA Expansion Won't Affect 'Cats Short-Term
DURHAM — There are numbers CAA commissioner Tom Yeager has a pleasure trying to crunch, and others that present more of a challenge.
Start with the tough ones. Two years from now, the CAA will welcome its 13th football-playing member, Old Dominion, which will be lodged in the league’s South Division and unbalance an unbalanced league schedule even more.
In 2012, Georgia State will bring the membership to 14, and play as a nominal member of the North Division, but with a specially-crafted schedule.
Dukes Demolished by Tribe
With a no. 5 national ranking and a top-rated defense, William and Mary was determined to end its five-game losing streak to James Madison.
A sellout crowd on Homecoming at Zable Stadium was ready as well.
After a quiet first half, the Tribe quickly raced to a commanding three-possession lead, defeating JMU 24-3 to move its record to 6-1 and 3-1 in the CAA.
It was the College’s first win over the Dukes (2-5, 0-4 CAA) since a 2004 victory in Harrisonburg.
Can Richmond give CAA another title?
In some people’s minds, defending national champion Richmond is one of the favorites to win the 2009 title. But the reality of the Colonial Athletic Association is that the Spiders might not even survive their own division, let alone the NCAA playoffs.
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Richmond, which returns 18 starters off last year’s NCAA National Championship team, and Villanova, which returns 16 starters from 2008, are picked to share the overall CAA Football Championship in 2009. New Hampshire, last season’s North Division winner, was also picked to repeat in the North according to a vote of the league’s 12 head coaches and selected media. The results of the poll, along with the Preseason All-Conference squads, were announced during Wednesday’s CAA Football Media Day at the ESPNZone in Baltimore, Md.
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The Colonial Athletic Association will swell to 14 football schools in 2012, when Georgia State joins.
Too many? Too few? Or just right?
Rather than fret about growing too big too fast, maybe the league will say what the heck and just super-size it.
If it does, there are two schools that would be a geographic fit for the league - surely more of a fit than Georgia State. Adding them would be cost effective at a time when schools everywhere are looking to save wherever they can.
JMU Speedster Expects To Be OK By Fall
HARRISONBURG - Speedy Scotty McGee will have to stay off his feet much of the offseason. The senior kick returner for the James Madison football team underwent surgery on his left foot Monday, the same procedure he had on his right foot after the 2006 season.
“I didn’t think I would have to have it,” McGee said Friday from his parents’ Virginia Beach home, where he is recovering. “It was one of those things where it started to flare up during spring ball.”
JMU Woos FBS QB
HARRISONBURG - As the two quarterbacks hoping to start for James Madison this fall competed on the field Saturday at Bridgeforth Stadium, a future prospect was watching from the stands.
Dustin Thomas, a 6-foot-2, 220-pound quarterback from St. Augustine Prep in Richland, N.J., who’s attracting interest from major-college programs as well as Division I-AA teams, visited JMU last weekend and attended the Dukes’ annual spring game.
JMU's Haywood, Landers, Spiders' Vaughan invited to NFL minicamps
A bunch of standout former college football players who weren’t drafted last weekend have been invited to NFL minicamps.
James Madison defensive back Marcus Haywood, a Bruton High graduate, was invited to the New Orleans Saints’ rookie camp.
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HARRISONBURG - Justin Thorpe has always enjoyed being on his own. As a small child, James Madison’s freshman quarterback said, he remembers entertaining himself for hours.
“I’ve always been kind of a loner,” Thorpe said Saturday after JMU’s annual spring football game. “When I was younger, I could just go in the corner and play with my toys by myself.”
Tailbacks Run James Madison Spring Game
Rising sophomore tailbacks Scott Noble (Baltimore, Md./Franklin) and Corwin Acker (Landover, Md./Blake) ran for touchdowns to highlight James Madison’s spring football game at Bridgeforth Stadium/Zane Showker Field Saturday.
CAA Eyes Odd Slate
HARRISONBURG - Currently, not every football team in the Colonial Athletic Association plays every other member. In 2011 - for one season only - a school might not even face everyone in its own division.
Old Dominion will become the seventh team in the CAA’s South Division in 2011, while the North will remain at six teams. CAA commissioner Tom Yeager said Wednesday that four of the South teams will play all six divisional foes, while three will play only five.
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HARRISONBURG - It’s not BCS money, but James Madison turned a small profit by hosting three rounds of the NCAA Division I-AA football playoffs this past season, according to the university.
Figured finalized last month show that JMU took in $37,301 on the three games, mostly in ticket sales, but incurred $22,462 in additional costs because of housing and meals for the athletes during the school’s Thanksgiving break.
That translated into a $14,839 profit.
JMU QB? Battle Begins Next Week
HARRISONBURG - Just over a week before the start of spring practice, James Madison’s two quarterback candidates seemed loose and relaxed Tuesday afternoon as they went through conditioning drills at Bridgeforth Stadium.
Junior Drew Dudzik, who played the second half of the Dukes’ Division I-AA semifinal loss to Montana last season, will compete with redshirt freshman Justin Thorpe for the starting job, a battle that coach Mickey Matthews says likely won’t be decided until the fall.
Maine’s Canary Earns CAA Football Student-Athlete Of The Year; Academic All-Conference Team Announced
Maine senior offensive lineman Ryan Canary, the 2008 CAA Football Student-Athlete of the Year, headlines a list of 107 CAA Football Academic All-Conference honorees for the 2008 season.
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The Colonial Athletic Association football conference is getting too big, but league administrators still aren’t sure how to handle the growth.
That seemed to be the consensus after a meeting among athletic directors from the 12 current members and the two others coming in the next three years.
CAA Will Remain One Conference
There are still logistics to be worked out as the Colonial Athletic Association football conference prepares to expand to 14 teams, but Commissioner Tom Yeager said the league will stay together.
Splitting into two separate conferences was one option that was on the table as the conference’s athletic directors met Wednesday in Washington, D.C., to discuss changes resulting from the addition of Old Dominion in 2011 and Georgia State in 2012. But Yeager said the league’s athletic directors agreed that remaining together was best for all involved.
JMU Defensive Tackle Banned After Positive Test
J.D. Skolnitsky’s college football career is over because the senior defensive tackle tested positive for a banned substance during the NCAA playoffs, James Madison coach Mickey Matthews said Thursday.
CAA Athletic Directors to Study 14-team Puzzle
Colonial Athletic Association athletic directors will convene in Washington next week and discuss the league’s coming football expansion.
In general, the agenda is this question: Can a 14-team football conference work?
The ADs will be together for the NCAA convention.
Old Dominion begins playing CAA football in 2011. Georgia State is scheduled for a 2012 CAA football arrival. The Colonial already has 12 football members, including the University of Richmond, William and Mary and James Madison. Starting Wednesday, CAA directors of athletics and Tom Yeager, the commissioner of the league since its creation in 1985, will explore options.
Maryland's Crab Bowl Features Future FCS Football Players
Wearing a uniform similar to the one he will don next season for the University of Maryland, running back Caleb Porzel stood near midfield after today’s inaugural Maryland Crab Bowl all-star game and began to reel off the names of several of his future teammates standing nearby.
“We’re all playing as a family,” said Porzel, a senior, who had just played with and against eight future Terrapins. “It’s a great way to end up a high school career.”
Opinion: Griz Play like Road Warriors Against No. 1 Dukes
The Shenandoah Valley invokes history book images of Robert E. Lee or the battle of New Market.
On Friday this hallowed ground was home to a different kind of skirmish. It’ll never make the history books, but Montana football fans will be talking about it for a while.
This was the night the Griz staged their own kind of uprising on the home turf of the No. 1 team in the nation, James Madison.
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