Archives for: June 2010, 13
FAMU not in support of reviving Heritage Bowl
A plan that was discussed by the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference as recently as March to revive the Heritage Bowl under a new name doesn't appear to have majority support from schools in the conference, including Florida A&M.
Participating in the… more »
Idaho Football Coach: "Montana Makes Sense for WAC"
In a recent article in the Spokesman-Review, Idaho head coach Robb Akey suggested that Montana makes sense geographically for the Western Athletic Conference (WAC).
The league's commissioner, Karl Benson, has stated through the media on several occas… more »
Curry makes improbable comeback at Georgia State
ATLANTA — Bill Curry thought his coaching career was over.
Now, he's less than three months away from a most improbable comeback.
At age 67, Curry is launching a new football program at Georgia State, a school that has long languished in the shad… more »
Eagles see red: Colorful field should be ready in September
When Michael Roos and his wife, Katherine, first pledged $500,000 to jump start Eastern Washington University’s Red Turf Project, they expected the process of replacing Woodward Field’s grass playing surface to evolve in a timely fashion.
But after t… more »
WAC has big decision ahead to replace Boise
With Boise State defecting from the WAC to the Mountain West starting in 2011, it will be interesting to see what WAC officials try to do.
Football is what made Boise State the program it is today. The Broncos also won WAC championships in gymnastics… more »
MVFC, Big Sky commissioners stunned by conference expansion elsewhere
Patty Viverito has been the commissioner of the Missouri Valley Football Conference since 1982. There’s not much she hasn’t seen.
Then again, nobody foresaw what happened last week – like Nebraska joining the Big Ten Conference and Colorado jumping t… more »