Category: Murray State Racers
OVC Preview: UTM expecting improved season
NASHVILLE - Tennessee-Martin coach Jason Simpson had some company for the first time Tuesday at the 2008 Ohio Valley Conference Media Day held at LP Field in Nashville.
This is the first year in which players from the nine OVC football teams were par… more »
LSU transfer Puts Jacksonville State as OVC Favorite
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Even with the new twist bringing star football players to Ohio Valley Conference media day, Tuesday’s most talked-about guy was not present.
Understandably, Jacksonville State’s representative was not someone who has not yet parti… more »
Perrilloux the Talk of OVC Media Day
NASHVILLE -- There was no denying what the underlying theme of the Ohio Valley Conference's annual football media day.
The buzz was all about Jacksonville State's new quarterback -- former LSU QB Ryan Perrilloux.
The league's coaches and media swa… more »
WPSD 6 Offers Six Reports From OVC Media Day
Below the fold are six video interviews from OVC media day courtesy of WPSD 6 TV, featuring interviews from players from SEMO, Murray State, and UT-Martin.
Murray State's Matt Griffin From OVC Media Day
Murray State's Nathan Williams From OVC… more »
Perrilloux is Good for OVC, Not so Much for Other Teams
NASHVILLE — A lot of the talk at the Ohio Valley Conference Media Day at LP Field on Tuesday centered on a quarterback that wasn't there — Jacksonville State's Ryan Perrilloux.
To refresh the memory circuits, Perrilloux — the SEC Championship Game MV… more »
Perrilloux's Shadow Casts Over Conference
NASHVILLE — Coming out of spring football practice, Jacksonville State didn't have an established quarterback.
The Gamecocks were expecting to toss the dice with two freshmen, knowing they would likely take their lumps in a conference stacked with qu… more »
EKU Colonels Picked Second In OVC
RICHMOND — In the past few years, the Ohio Valley Conference has slowly, but steadily started to re-emerge as one of the better Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) leagues in the country.
That resurgence hasn’t resulted in playoff victories or na… more »
Jacksonville State Heads Closest Pre-Season Vote in OVC History
NASHVILLE — Eastern Kentucky finished a perfect 8-0 in the Ohio Valley Conference last season and boasts the league's 2008 pre-season offensive player of the year in quarterback Allan Holland. Despite losing coach Danny Hope to Purdue during the off-sea… more »
FCS Schedules Through The Looking Glass
It's easy to see how prevalent it is for major-college football programs to buy off their smaller brethren in order to get them to come in for what is typically an easy victory (though Michigan and mighty Appalachian State would surely tell you otherwis… more »
Murray Football Will Lose Scholarships
In the state of Kentucky, both Murray State and Morehead State had APR's below 925... but since Morehead State is non-scholarship, what's the penalty?
None of the sports teams at the universities of Louisville and Kentucky and Indiana University will… more »
Murray State Football Completes Annual Spring Game
Four weeks, 14 practices and one spring football game later, the Murray State football team is closer to its goal of competing for an Ohio Valley Conference championship in the 2008 football season.
After 10 days of turmoil during spring conditioning… more »
Murray State QB Cited For Second Degree Robbery
A Murray State University football player was issued a citation and charged with robbery earlier in the week.
According to a uniform citation issued by the MSU Public Safety department, Racer sophomore quarterback Jeff Ehrhardt allegedly bumped a Rac… more »
Super Fat Tuesday
Sure it's "Super Tuesday" and it's "Fat Tuesday". But only one day before high schools ceremonies where their players sign national letter of intent on National Signing Day, many followers of college football had their own "Super Fat Tuesday" compiling… more »
AAFL Draft Features 47 FCS Alumni
The All-American Football League, a for-profit, professional football league, held their inaugural draft on Saturday, January 26th. In that draft were 47 alumni of schools who played Football Championship Subdivision football (formerly known as I-AA fo… more »
Matheny named offensive coordinator
In the midst of a three-month long basketball season, the football program took the spotlight at the weekly press conference Monday morning by announcing the hiring of new offensive line coordinator Keeth Matheny.
Football Head Coach Matt Griffin ann… more »