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Football in UVU's future?
The announcement that Utah Valley University will join the Great West Conference surely must have sparked football dreams in the minds of some UVU students, alumni and administrators.
After all, sports and daydreams go together. How would Babe Ruth d… more »
CoC AD Joe Hull Pressed On Adding Football
Charles Bennett of the Charleston Post-Courier broaches the subject of CoC football - might it be on the horizon?
The College of Charleston started the new year with a new athletic director. Joe Hull, a former associate AD at Maryland, is the new man… more »
Georgia State a UTC foe? Maybe
In two years, Georgia State University will begin competing at the Football Championship Subdivision level. The Panthers will play in the shadow of Georgia and Georgia Tech but hope to build a quick tradition much like Georgia Southern did a generation… more »
Football coach Curry tries to build Georgia State from scratch
Georgia State football coach Bill Curry was in high school when he memorized Ogden Nash's poem "The Panther." Little did he know that a line from that poem -- "if called by a panther, don't anther" -- would come in handy some 50 years later.
But befo… more »
Building, and rebuilding, taking place at West Georgia
Former GSU assistant returns to college football with Wolves
After a year away from college football, Daryl Dickey is back at home on the sidelines.
The former Georgia Southern University offensive coordinator is the new head coach at Division II… more »
Erskine, Winthrop Ponder (FCS?) Programs
As new teams spring up in the Southeast, two S.C. schools tackle the feasibility of adding football, including Divison I Winthrop.
Benedict College scoffed at the cynics and launched the bring-back-football idea in this area. At a time when some scho… more »
Curry Ready for Challenge of Football at Georgia State
When Georgia Southern College was minutes away from announcing Erk Russell as its football coach to revive the school’s long dormant program, they realized they didn’t even have so much as a football for the news conference.
Georgia State University… more »
ODU Drops W&M from 2009 Football Schedule
NORFOLK, Va. -- Old Dominion University has opted out of its contract to play William and Mary in its second football game of the 2009 season.
The Monarchs found a substitute opponent rather than paying the $75,000 to buy out of that game. They will… more »
Georgia Pigskin Prevew Features Two GSU's And A SSU
With just barely a hint of football in the air, the coaches and some players, representing 12 college and university football teams throughout the state made themselves available to the media Tuesday at the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in Macon for the s… more »
UND may have new conference
UND and other programs moving to NCAA Division I this fall want as smooth a transition as possible.
A key to that smooth move is finding a conference. So, instead of waiting for a conference to add them, they might just create their own.
UND, Sout… more »
South Dakota Admits Talks To Form Great West Into All-Sports Conference
The University of South Dakota is making an effort with several other independent Division I schools to form an all-sports conference, athletic director Joel Nielsen said Monday.
USD, which will be an independent Division I transitional school next s… more »
Curry's Georgia State salary: $350K per year
Georgia State has offered new football coach Bill Curry an annual salary of $350,000, according to documents obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution through the Freedom of Information Act.
This is not a contract but a memorandum of understanding… more »
UTPA Looking To The... Great West?
The plans of the Great West Football conference may include the possibility of becoming an all-sports conference.
EDINBURG - The University of Texas-Pan American is looking west in its decade-long search for conference affiliation.
Great West Comm… more »
Opinion: Georgia State Football the Right Pick
Can a football program succeed at Georgia State University? With the school announcing that former Georgia Tech coach Bill Curry will coach the Panthers in their inaugural 2010 season, that question remains.
According to the pundits I’ve read, the an… more »
Curry Faces Different Obstacles at Georgia State
We feel quite safe in assuming that Bill Curry won't ever come to work at Georgia State and find his office window shattered by a brick.
He doesn't have to worry about irate football fans aiming dangerous projectiles his way. There are only rose peta… more »
