Category: Presbyterian Blue Hose
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.”
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 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 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 PC Names Nichols Head Football Coach
Harold Nichols will return to his alma mater, PC, as head football coach
Doug Malone Named Interim Coach At PC
CLINTON, S.C. - Presbyterian College Director of Athletics Dr. William Carlton, has named Doug Malone as the interim head football coach, beginning Thursday.
“Coach Malone brings a wealth of experience in college football and is expected to be a strong and able leader in this time of transition,” Carlton said.
Presbyterian Head Coach Leaving
Bobby Bentley, who left Byrnes High School in 2006 to become head football coach at Presbyterian College, will leave the Blue Hose this week for a job in Spartanburg School District 5.
Bentley confirmed Monday night that he has accepted the position with the school district.
He said he would not comment further because he has not yet had a chance to tell his team about his decision.
PC players are scheduled to return to campus on Tuesday.
Furman Takes on Big Task against Delaware
COLUMBIA, S.C. – When Furman coach Bobby Lamb says his Paladins have a big task in front of them Saturday against Delaware, he means it literally.
Lamb noted two things about the Blue Hens – they are one of the biggest teams he has ever seen and they are winners – capturing the Football Championship Subdivision title in 2003 and losing in the title game last year.
“They’re big and they’re strong and they’re physical and they do what they do,” Lamb said. “They’re not fancy.”
CCU Chants Try to Shake off Heartbreaker
The Charleston Post & Courier talks about Coastal Carolina, Furman, Elon, Presbyterian, South Carolina State, and Charleston Southern football this week.
Coastal Carolina’s heartbreaker of a loss to Colgate on Sunday — the Raiders won, 23-19, on the last play of the game, turning a botched field goal try into a touchdown — defies description.
So we’ll let Chanticleers coach David Bennett, whose homespun style and sense of humor makes him one of the state’s most entertaining football coaches, tell the story.
Wofford, Presbyterian Renew Old Rivalry
Bentley brings Blue Hose to visit Terriers for 1st time since Gibbs Stadium opened.
Under the lights of the new facility in 1996, the Terriers’ 34-7 victory marked a separation between these similar schools located just 35 miles apart. Wofford had recently risen from Division II to I-AA and would join the prestigious Southern Conference the following season.
“We went our way, they went their way,” Wofford coach Mike Ayers said. “And it’s worked out to where we are able to play each other again.”
Presby Blue Hose Beef Up for FCS Foes
Presbyterian gets bigger, stronger to be competitive in Big South.
CLINTON — When Bobby Bentley took on the task of moving Presbyterian College from Division II to the Football Championship Subdivision, he made clear his intention to be immediately competitive.
He made good on his word. The Blue Hose finished their inaugural year in the FCS with a 6-5 mark. Included in the win column were victories against two of their future Big South Conference brethren.
This year, Bentley has stepped up the schedule and his players have responded accordingly.
Column: It Feels a Little Like ... FCS Football
Thoughts and musings on college football while we roll toward the last week in August and the opening of the season …
Even as the Big South undergoes its own Little Bang Theory with the addition of Stony Brook and the impending nuptial with Presbyterian, Coastal Carolina - and every other FCS school outside of the Colonial Athletic Association - should just be thankful they’re not suiting up in the CAA.
Wofford Prepares for Presby's Wide-Open Offense
Yes, five was correct.
The Terriers were preparing for next Saturday’s season opener against Presbyterian, where former Byrnes High School coach Bobby Bentley took his wide-open style of offense.
Liberty Hailed as Big South Favorite
CHARLOTTE — While Liberty was the runaway choice as preseason Big South conference champion Friday, it became clear one team was very difficult to pin down.
Charleston Southern had a first-place vote and two last-place votes among the 13 ballots cast by coaches and media.
Overall, the Buccaneers were picked to finish fifth. Coastal Carolina was second while Presbyterian remains ineligible during its second year in transition from Division II.
Presbyterian Gearing Up for Wofford
For Presbyterian, especially, emotions will be sky-high in the season opener Aug. 30 against Wofford as the teams renew a longtime rivalry.
“It’s going to be huge, man,” Blue Hose head coach Bobby Bentley said Friday at the Big South Conference media luncheon in Charlotte. “Our preseason is going to be devoted toward Wofford.”
Wofford is what Presbyterian wants to become. Bentley would like to measure how long that will take and accelerate the process.
South Carolina FCS Schools Featured In Exhibit on S.C. Football
“Football isn’t life or death: it’s much more important than that.” This quote from Bill Shankley, former manager of the Liverpool Football Club, could be an accurate assessment of the opinions of many South Carolinians. And it doesn’t even matter that Mr. Shankley, an Englishman, was referring to what we Americans call soccer.
Just in time for the 2008 season, the excitement, drama, history and fun of American football will explode into the South Carolina State Museum’s 401 Gallery Aug. 1 when the Museum opens the exciting new exhibit Mud, Sweat and Cheers: Palmetto State Football, 1889-2000.
Clemson's Tommy Bowden Active In Playing In-State FCS Schools
MYRTLE BEACH – Clemson football coach Tommy Bowden visited the northern South Carolina coast Tuesday, where the Tigers have become increasingly involved in recent months.
Former Myrtle Beach kicker Spencer Benton has already enrolled as a Tiger, former Loris star Jonathan Willard signed with the team in February, and last month Coastal Carolina football announced an agreement to play at Clemson on Oct. 31 next year.
That game is besides the teams’ deal to play in 2014.
Bentley, Blue Hose Deal with Tragedy
Just weeks after a tragedy rocked the Presbyterian College football team, players will gather Saturday for their spring game.
Wide receiver Larry Thomas, of Edisto, was killed in a one-car crash April 4.
SC Recruits Choose FCS Schools
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