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Lamar Cardinal Stadium Renovation Plan in Works, Not Final
BEAUMONT - Jimmy Simmons wants to make something clear.
The Lamar University president said his school's current plans to renovate and upgrade Cardinal Stadium are not final.
In fact, as far as Simmons is concerned, they're not even plans yet.… more »
Mercer Needs to Pass on Football Talk
One columnist doesn't like the idea of six Division I universities playing football in the Peach State.
Last week, Georgia State unveiled a plan that we all knew was coming for some time: The school is going to start a football program.
When the P… more »
CAA Football in Growth Spurt
ODU, Georgia State will lead to nation's only 14-team league, says CAA commissioner Tom Yeager in this interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The Colonial Athletic Association tried for years to put together a football league.
Finally, a yea… more »
ODU Signs More Players, Announces Season Ticket Sales
Old Dominion secures more signings for their upstart CAA football program... and announces season ticket sales closing in on 10,000.
The flock thickens for Old Dominion's upstart football program.
James Rainey, an offensive lineman at Virginia Bea… more »
Georgia State President: "This Is Only The Beginning"
For the past year, speculation and curiosity followed Georgia State University's athletic department awaiting the formal announcement of Georgia State's football program. Well the wait is over: Georgia State football kicks off in 2010.
What started a… more »
New Georgia State Football Program Raises Questions
University President Carl Patton announced that Panther football would be in full swing by fall 2010. Director of Athletics Mary McElroy joined President Patton in the Student Center this past Tuesday, saying that "Georgia State football has the potenti… more »
Now a Football School, Georgia State Has Work to do
The record will show that Georgia State's football program officially began Thursday at precisely 2:10 p.m. when school mascot Pounce crashed through a paper sign held by the cheerleaders. The loud, enthusiastic crowd gathered at the school's student ac… more »
Schultz: Dan Reeves Would Fit at Georgia State
In hopes of creating interest and unearthing financing to back a start-up football program, Georgia State went less the buttoned-up fundraising route than the, “I know. Let’s put on a show!” route. All it took was employing a 64-year-old coming off knee… more »
Inner-city College Football Generally Struggles
This Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist talks about what inner city football is nowadays, compared to what it has been.
Exhiliration runs high. Pulse of the mid-city beats picks up with anticipation. Downtown Atlanta is about to become blessed wi… more »
How Georgia State Can Be Successful in Football
Georgia State will announce later today that it is starting a football program. It’s just one man’s opinion, but here are five things I believe the Panthers are going to have to do if they want to be successful.
1. Follow the Georgia Southern pla… more »
Georgia State Plans First Football Game For 2010
Student athletic fees are being raised to fund gridiron program. The fee hike will make Georgia State the most expensive public college for undergrads.
Georgia State University's long planned football team is becoming a reality and its students will… more »
An ETSU Football Recovery Could Be In New Conference
The return of football to East Tennessee State University may be on the horizon.
But if football eventually does make a comeback at ETSU, it could look much different than it did when the Buccaneers’ now-dormant program played its final game, a last-… more »
Familiar Names Highlight Lamar Football Coaching Search
Lamar University announced earlier this year that the Cardinals were going to bring back football with the hopes of fielding a team by the fall of 2010.
Last week, The Beaumont Enterprise released a list of 11 applicants for the vacant head coaching… more »
Lamar Head Coach Position Gets 11 Applicants
With the overwhelming support of the students on the campus of Lamar University voting to pay an athletic fee each semester, the return of Cardinal football is in plain view.
The first snap could come as early as the 2009 season and Lamar posted… more »
Lamar will issue bonds to help fund football facility renovations
BEAUMONT - Lamar University is still hunting for money. Just not as much.
To help pay for renovations to its football facilities, the university will issue bonds and gradually pay them off with money gained from its new student athletics fee, Preside… more »
