Categories: Big South Conference, Charleston Southern Buccaneers, Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs, Liberty Flames, Presbyterian Blue Hose, Stony Brook Seawolves, VMI Keydets
FCS Conference Players of the Week
Honors from all 14 conferences.
- 5384 words - FCS News Articles, Missouri Valley Football Conference, MEAC, SoCon, Southland Conference, Pioneer Football League, Great West Conference, Big Sky Conference, CAA, Patriot League, Northeast Conference, SWAC, Big South Conference, Ivy League, Ohio Valley Conference 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.”
FCS Conference Players of the Week
All 14 league honors.
- 5018 words - FCS News Articles, Missouri Valley Football Conference, MEAC, SoCon, Southland Conference, Pioneer Football League, Great West Conference, Big Sky Conference, CAA, Patriot League, Northeast Conference, SWAC, Big South Conference, Ivy League, Ohio Valley Conference FCS Conference Players of the Week
All 14 league honors.
- 5060 words - FCS News Articles, Missouri Valley Football Conference, MEAC, SoCon, Southland Conference, Pioneer Football League, Great West Conference, Big Sky Conference, CAA, Patriot League, Northeast Conference, SWAC, Big South Conference, Ivy League, Ohio Valley Conference Big South Announces Additional Television Coverage for Football
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (BigSouthSports.com) – The Big South Conference today announced additional television coverage of its football games during the 2009 season, beginning with Saturday’s showdown between No. 6 James Madison and No. 24 Liberty. Meanwhile, Saturday’s JMU-Liberty matchup also will be the national FCS Game of the Week on all-sports radio station WCKY-AM 1360 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
WPDE/WWMB-TV in Conway/Myrtle Beach will simulcast six Big South football games live, while the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN) will simulcast two games and tape delay two others. JCTV, a division of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), will tape delay five Liberty football broadcasts airing on the Flames Sports Network.
- 382 words - Big South Conference, Liberty Flames, Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs, VMI Keydets, Charleston Southern Buccaneers, Stony Brook Seawolves, Presbyterian Blue Hose FCS Conference Players of the Week
All 14 league honors.
- 4757 words - FCS News Articles, Missouri Valley Football Conference, MEAC, SoCon, Southland Conference, Pioneer Football League, Big Sky Conference, CAA, Patriot League, Northeast Conference, SWAC, Big South Conference, Ivy League, Ohio Valley Conference No. 24 Liberty U. Big Test for Lafayette
Leopards, coming off opening win over Georgetown, will have little room for error.
If Frank Tavani and his Lafayette football team were in even a little hot water Saturday night in Washington, D.C., that was nothing compared to the Flames that will engulf the Leopards this week.
‘’That won’t be good enough,'’ Tavani said of the Leopards’ 28-3 Patriot League victory over Georgetown.
That comment came at Lafayette’s weekly media luncheon Tuesday. He said pretty much the same thing immediately after the game, and while he never mentioned any names then, it was pretty clear what he was saying: Lafayette will have to be a different team if it expects to win its home opener against the nationally ranked Liberty University Flames at 6 p.m. Saturday.
FCS Conference Players of the Week 9/14/2009
- 4356 words - Missouri Valley Football Conference, MEAC, SoCon, Southland Conference, Pioneer Football League, Great West Conference, Big Sky Conference, CAA, Patriot League, Northeast Conference, Independents, SWAC, Big South Conference, Ivy League, Ohio Valley Conference FCS Conference Players of the Week, 9/7/09
- 4122 words - FCS News Articles, Missouri Valley Football Conference, MEAC, SoCon, Southland Conference, Pioneer Football League, Great West Conference, Big Sky Conference, CAA, Patriot League, SWAC, Big South Conference, Ohio Valley Conference CSU Scrimmage and Name Starting QB
The offense seemed to come together during the second scrimmage of the fall, Thursday, scoring touchdowns on two of their first three drives. Redshirt-junior quarterback A.J. Toscano will be the starting quarterback against Florida.
Around FCS: Big South looking for playoff respect
Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Eight months might have passed when the Big South Conference gathered for its annual football media event on the final day of July, but the coaches of this fledgling Football Championship Subdivision league were still bristling about how its 2008 champion, Liberty had been left out of the playoffs.
“There is no way that Liberty should have been left out of the playoffs,” said Gardner-Webb’s Steve Patton, the dean of Big South coaches, who echoed the sentiment of almost. “Everyone said that Elon was in with a win and Liberty goes and dominates them and gets left out. How can you tell me that was fair?”
- 1824 words - Big South Conference, Liberty Flames, Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs, VMI Keydets, Charleston Southern Buccaneers, Stony Brook Seawolves, Presbyterian Blue Hose CSU's Buccaneer Classic Summer Competition Results are In
The numbers were impressive this summer for the Charleston Southern football team, but it wasn’t just the number of athletes who showed up. According to Director of Strength and Conditioning Tobias Jacobi, 169 personal records were also set during the summer.
Approximately 45 student-athletes showed up for workouts during the first summer school term, while 67 arrived for session two.
Whitehead among final candidates on Buchanan watch list
Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Norfolk State free safety Terrell Whitehead is among the four most recent candidates added to the watch list for the Buck Buchanan Award, presented annually to the top defensive player in FCS.
Whitehead, also a member of the 2008 Buchanan Award preseason watch list, is a two-time Sports Network All-American. The playmaking secondary man has 13 career interceptions and 179 career tackles to his credit.
Other players added to the list were Stephen F. Austin linebacker Jabara Williams, Gardner-Webb linebacker Jeffery Williams and Penn cornerback Chris Wynn.
- 909 words - FCS News Articles, MEAC, Southland Conference, Big South Conference, Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs, Ivy League, Penn Quakers, Norfolk State Spartans, Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks Big South Announces 2009 TV Package
The Big South Conference today announced its football TV package for the 2009 campaign, and the League will appear on television during nine of the 12 weeks this season. The TV slate features two games on the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN), as well as one broadcast on SportSouth. In addition, Big South members will appear on the BIG EAST Network and CBS College Sports this season, while Liberty University’s Flames Television Network will broadcast five home games involving the Flames. Additional telecasts may be added to the overall schedule at a later date.
- 487 words - Big South Conference, Liberty Flames, Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs, VMI Keydets, Charleston Southern Buccaneers, Stony Brook Seawolves, Presbyterian Blue Hose Liberty Favorite to win Big South and Preseason All-Conference Team Announced
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (BigSouthSports.com) – For the third consecutive season, Liberty University has been tabbed as the favorite in the Big South Conference’s annual preseason football poll for the 2009 campaign, as voted by the League’s head coaches and media panel and announced today as part of the 2009 Big South Conference Football Kickoff Media Luncheon at the Renaissance Suites Hotel in Charlotte, N.C..
The two-time defending champion Flames enter the 2009 campaign with a Big South-record 11-game Conference win streak. Liberty, which was ranked in the Top 15 in the final national polls a year ago, was a perfect 5-0 in Big South play last year and is 24-10 overall in three seasons under head coach Danny Rocco. The Flames return 49 letterwinners and 12 starters in 2009, and received 10 of the 17 first-place votes cast and 109 total points to repeat as champions this season.
- 1389 words - Big South Conference, Liberty Flames, Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs, VMI Keydets, Charleston Southern Buccaneers, Stony Brook Seawolves, Presbyterian Blue Hose Stony Brook Installs New FieldTurf Playing Surface
Stony Brook University Athletics recently completed the installation of a new FieldTurf surface in Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium, replacing the original Field Turf which was installed when the facility opened in 2002. The new, 89,298 square foot surface was provided by Field Turf Tarkett and installed by the Land Tek Group Inc.
Opinion: Additonal FB Expansion Could be Coming Soon to CAA
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.
'Best Of The Best' Video Around Charleston Southern Among Final Nominees For Global Media Awards
The Big South Conference’s 25th Anniversary “Best of the Best” video vignette of Charleston Southern’s 2005 football season, featuring the Buccaneers’ improbable run to the Big South co-championship following the death of star receiver Eddie Gadson, is among the final nominees for the “College Sports Video of the Year” by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and the Sports Video Group.
Big South Conference Spring Meetings Recap
New Executive Officers Elected, New League Initatives Approved
The annual Big South Conference Council of Chief Executive Officers meeting was held on Friday, May 29 on the campus of Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C., in conjunction with the League’s annual Spring Meetings and 25th Anniversary Banquet. High Point University President Dr. Nido R. Qubein has been elected President of the Conference, Radford University President Penelope W. Kyle has been elected Vice-President, and UNC Asheville Chancellor Dr. Anne Ponder has been elected Secretary of the League.
- 501 words - Big South Conference Liberty Captures Second-Straight Sasser Cup
For the second year in a row and the seventh time in the last 12 athletics seasons, Liberty has captured the Big South’s George F. “Buddy” Sasser Cup, an award given annually to the top performing athletics department in the conference during each academic year.
Additionally, Liberty also won the Men’s All-Sport Trophy for the third-consecutive year and the fourth time since the award was established six years ago.
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