Category: South Dakota State Jackrabbits
Football Recruiting Scene Changing Fast
Area colleges know they have to get to prospective players first; schools ‘want to defend turf’.
BROOKINGS - Encircled by campers hailing from the areas that he recruited, South Dakota State football assistant Luke Meadows gave a word of caution before dismissal: Don’t panic if you don’t get a scholarship offer today.
That’s where things are right now in the Football Championship Subdivision. Upcoming juniors and seniors in the Upper Midwest expect to get an offer either during an elite camp - which is against NCAA rules - or immediately afterward.
Football conference in flux at South Dakota?
Beginning with the 2011-2012 school year, the University of South Dakota athletic department will move from the Great West Conference to the Summit League for all sports.
All sports that is except football.
For now, the department’s premier program will remain a member of the far-flung Great West Conference.
New USD athletic director Dave Sayler is keeping his options open when it comes to football’s current home and potential future conferences.
Summit League Will Conduct Football Feasibility Study
ELMHURST, Ill. - The Summit League conducted its annual President’s Council Meeting on June 21 in Chicago and announced that the league will conduct a feasibility study into having football as a league-sponsored sport.
- 160 words - Missouri Valley Football Conference, Great West Conference, North Dakota Fightin' Sioux, South Dakota State Jackrabbits, South Dakota Coyotes, North Dakota State Bison, Western Illinois Leathernecks, Southern Utah Thunderbirds SDSU Finds Success As D-I Trek Continues
There was no guarantee that South Dakota State’s second year of wholesale eligibility for the Division I postseason would be more successful than the first. But it turned out that way.
- 748 words - Missouri Valley Football Conference, South Dakota State Jackrabbits Spring in their steps: Walk-ons key in offseason
Positioned like a safety, South Dakota State assistant Jay Bubak takes two steps forward and leans over.
“Third group, third group!” he screams. Then it hits him: There is no third group of defensive backs.
Welcome to the skeletal reality of spring football practice - the seniors are done and the recruits aren’t here yet. Factor in injuries, offseason surgeries, and it’s challenging to find enough bodies to run a typical workout.
Jacks tab UND for last 2010 opening
SDSU, USD still open to renewing football rivalry
South Dakota State got what it was looking for - and probably more - in landing a home game to round out its 2010 football schedule.
The school announced Friday that it will host the University of North Dakota on Nov. 20, the finale of an 11-game regular season.
Jackrabbit athletic officials view the home-and-home deal - SDSU will visit Grand Forks in 2013 - as a successful end to a long and difficult process. They got a fifth home date at Coughlin-Alumni Stadium against a fellow Football Championship Subdivision opponent - vital in terms of playoff possibilities - that should be a decent draw considering the two were longtime North Central Conference foes.
UND football: Rivalry renewed
UND, South Dakota State once again to meet after a six-year break
UND’s 2010 football season starts with back-to-back road games against two teams that played in bowl games last season. It ends with back-to-back road games against two teams that advanced to the Division I FCS playoffs in 2009.
UND announced Friday the addition of South Dakota State to its 2010 schedule. The game is set for Nov. 20 in Brookings and it caps perhaps UND’s most demanding schedule in school history.
SDSU reached the FCS playoffs last season, as did Montana. The Sioux will play Montana in Missoula on Nov. 13. To start its 11-game season, UND will play at Idaho on Sept. 2 and at Northern Illinois on Sept. 11.
The Citadel introduces new defensive coordinator
Charleston, S.C. – After a couple months of restructuring, The Citadel Football coaching staff recently promoted newly hired Josh Conklin to defensive coordinator and safeties coach and welcomes Denny Doornbos, formerly of St. Norbert College and Northern Illinois, as assistant defensive coordinator and d-line coach.
Coyotes face athletic crossroads
Herbster is interim AD once Nielsen departs
The process to bring a new athletic director to the University of South Dakota at a pivotal point in the school’s Division I transition will not be rushed, president Jim Abbott said this week.
The university leader, who has been involved in hiring two previous athletic directors at USD, will appoint associate athletic director David Herbster to the interim job, then assemble a search committee comprised of coaches, boosters, faculty and students to be headed by faculty athletic representative Tina Keller.
USD will also hire a consultant to help facilitate a national search for a replacement for Joel Nielsen, who was named athletic director at Kent State in March and will leave Vermillion in May.
Jackrabbits running at full steam
BROOKINGS - In the never-ending quest to keep progressing, South Dakota State is ratcheting up its effort during spring football practice.
That was obvious Monday during a half-pad workout. Running back Kyle Minett took exception to being decleated by linebacker Mike Lien, shoving defensive end Tony Thompson upon getting off the ground.
Just a couple plays later, receiver Dan Schmidt got leveled on a crossing route, fumbling the ball. A wild scramble to recover ensued.
SMSU's Eidsness Resigns, Takes Job At SDSU
MARSHALL, MN - Eric Eidsness, who has served the past six seasons as the head football coach at Southwest Minnesota State University, has resigned from his position effective immediately to become the quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator at South Dakota State University in Brookings, S.D.
SMSU Director of Athletics Chris Hmielewski announced that current SMSU offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Cory Sauter has been named interim head coach. A national search for a permanent head coach will start immediately.
- 1591 words - Missouri Valley Football Conference, South Dakota State Jackrabbits Missouri Valley Football Conference Announces 2009 All-Academic Team
Forty-three student-athletes, including 12 who earned first-team honors, highlight the 2009 all-Missouri Valley Football Conference all-academic team, announced by the league office today.
Nominees must be starters or important reserves with at least a 3.20 cumulative grade point average (4.0 scale). Student-athletes must have reached sophomore academic and athletic standing at their institutions (freshmen are not eligible) and must have completed at least one full academic year at their institution. League sports information directors voted on the team by designating 11 players for first-team honors and 11 players for second-team honors.
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Quick question:
When you’re trailing by four touchdowns — when the momentum has swept out of the stadium, when you’re staring down the barrel of an embarrassing playoff exit — what do you do?
If you’re most football teams, you pack up, crawl into a hole and start thinking about next year.
If you’re the Montana Grizzlies, you rally.
Then you finish off an inconceivable comeback.
- 670 words - Big Sky Conference, Montana Grizzlies, South Dakota State Jackrabbits Griz beat South Dakota State 61-48 in playoff opener
Top-seeded Montana staged one of its most remarkable comebacks ever to down South Dakota State 61-48 in a Football Championship Subdivision playoff game Saturday at Washington-Grizzly Stadium.
The Griz, 12-0, advance to face the winner of the Stephen F. Austin-Eastern Washington game next Saturday in Missoula.
The Griz trailed 41-14 in the third quarter before outscoring the Jackrabbits 47-7 to close out the game.
COSIDA's Academic All-America® Team Announced
FCS represented with 17 student-athletes
Repeat selections on the 24-member ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Football University Division first team include junior running back Kyle Minett of South Dakota State, senior defensive lineman Brandon Wingeier of Dayton, and senior defensive back Beau Hadley of Weber State.
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BROOKINGS, S.D. - Southern Illinois University’s defense took the drama out of Saturday’s Missouri Valley Football Conference de facto championship game.
Going up against the top scoring defense in the country, the No. 3 Salukis flirted with their second straight shutout on the way to a 34-15 victory over No. 9 South Dakota State. With its fourth league road victory in four tries, SIU earned its seventh straight trip to the postseason and at least a tie for the MVFC title.
A win against Missouri State next weekend - in McAndrew Stadiums’ final regular-season game - will give the Salukis (8-1, 7-0 MVFC) the first-ever 8-0 league mark and an outright championship.
SIU, SDSU Showdown to Have Playoff Atmosphere
CARBONDALE - Deji Karim had to stop himself momentarily after he was asked if Southern Illinois University’s football team is treating Saturday’s game with co-conference leader South Dakota State as a playoff game.
“Oh yeah,” he said, before pausing. “We’re treating it as another conference game, but you know what I’m saying? Every game for us has been a playoff game, basically a playoff atmosphere, because we don’t want to lose and not have a chance to be conference champions. This has been what it comes down to all the way from the start of the season in conference play, so we’ve got to finish it.”
Missouri Valley Football Conference Recognizes "Silver Anniversary Team"
Founded in 1985 as the Gateway Football Conference, the Missouri Valley Football Conference is celebrating its 25th season of FCS (Football Championship Subdivision) football during the 2009 season. As part of a season-long celebration, the conference is paying tribute to its all-time greats by selecting a Silver Anniversary Team. Also selected was an NFL Greats and Institutional Greats team.
- 3203 words - Missouri Valley Football Conference, Southern Illinois Salukis, Indiana State Sycamores, South Dakota State Jackrabbits, North Dakota State Bison, Northern Iowa Panthers, Youngstown State Penguins, Western Illinois Leathernecks, Missouri State Bears, Illinois State Redbirds Jacks Hit Stride in Banner Season
Saturday certainly was, as the slogan goes, a good day to be a Jackrabbit. Actually, the past 10 years have been pretty decent for the blue and yellow.
A 24-14 triumph over sixth-ranked Northern Iowa on Saturday in Brookings was the 63rd win for South Dakota State since the 2000 season, breaking the program mark for the most victories in a decade.
The previous record of 62 wins was set in the 1990s. Prior to that, No. 11 SDSU had never won more than 55 games in any decade.
Nothing fancy for Jacks
Football coaches use trailers until new facility finished
BROOKINGS - The South Dakota State football staff has moved closer to the Dykhouse Center while taking a step back in accommodations.
Everyone except head coach John Stiegelmeier - who hasn’t had time to pack up all the paper piles and pictures in his office of 21 years - has relocated into four trailers at Coughlin-Alumni Stadium.
Why is a Football Championship Subdivision program spending the season in what amounts to tenement housing?
Because construction is ongoing at the Dykhouse Center, SDSU’s $6 million future home, and cosmetic upgrades - fresh paint, new flooring - are under way inside the Stanley J. Marshall HPER Center.
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