The Championship Subdivision News Log

Six members of the defending SWAC champions from Prairie View A&M, including their all-conference backfield of quarterback K.J. Black and running back Donald Babers, are part of the 2010 BoxToRow.com/BASN HBCU Preseason All-American team.

The preseason team is made up of 27 of the top Black college football players in the country. The voters are comprised of some of America’s top writers and media members who cover HBCU football.

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NEW YORK – The Hampton University athletics program was tabbed as the top-ranked NCAA Division I Historically Black College & University (HBCU) program on Monday, based on the final standings of the 2009-10 Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup.

The Directors’ Cup is presented annually to the best college programs in NCAA Divisions I, II, III and the NAIA. The Pirates wound up 125th in the overall rankings with 131.88 points. Most of those points came thanks to the women’s basketball program, as well as the indoor and outdoor track & field teams.

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On paper, it seemed brilliant and simple.

The Legacy Bowl would pit the champions of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and the Southwestern Athletic Conference – against each other. Airing on ESPN, it would guarantee a $3 million payout to be split by the conferences. It would also end the arguments, such as when South Carolina State edged out Prairie View A&M for the Sheridan Broadcasting Network’s Black National Championship – neither team played each other (in fact, the MEAC and SWAC rarely play each other).

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The Heritage Bowl, pitting schools from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) and Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) will be restored under the name of the “Legacy Bowl".

This report comes to College Sporting News through sources on TSPNSports.com, who heard the initial report on the Jaguar Journal radio show out of Baton Rouge, La.

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Old Dominion football has announced a change on its 2010 schedule. ODU and Hampton University will initiate a two-year home and home series, beginning this fall with a game at Armstrong stadium on October 30th. The game with Hampton will replace the Monarchs’ return with Georgetown.

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NEW YORK – For the third straight football season, Black Athlete Sports Network and DWCommunications, LLC – the company that produces “From The Press Box To The Press Row” – will put out an HBCU All-America team (pre-season and post season) and a weekly top 10 poll voted on by members of the media who cover HBCU football.

A new historic poll was released today with the debut of the Boxtorow.com/BASN HBCU FCS Coaches Top 10 Football Poll presented by Classics Sports Radio Network.

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From the moment the 2009 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference football schedule was finalized, South Carolina State and Florida A&M have circled Oct. 17 on their calendars.

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Hampton University has established an Athletics Hall of Fame to honor student-athletes, coaches, administrators, faculty and other supporters who have contributed substantially to the evolution of HU athletics as one of the nation’s premier and most distinctive intercollegiate sports programs.

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South Carolina State Picked to Win 2009 MEAC Crown

South Carolina State’s Will Ford and Norfolk State’s Terrell Whitehead earned the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference’s (MEAC) top football preseason awards, as announced by the league on Friday afternoon at the Newport News Marriott. Ford was selected as the preseason Offensive Player of the Year for the second straight year while Whitehead was named the preseason Defensive Player of the Year as voted on by the conference’s Head Coaches and Sports Information Directors.

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Former Hampton University offensive lineman Nevin McCaskill signed on Monday with the New York Jets, a week after being released by the Green Bay Packers.

McCaskill, who was a Pirate from 2003-06, signed with the Packers on Dec. 11, 2008 after spending part of the season on the Philadelphia Eagles’ practice squad. In 2007, the 6-foot-4, 300-pound McCaskill signed a free agent contract with the Buffalo Bills, spending that season on the team’s practice squad.

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Hampton University President Dr. William R. Harvey has been appointed to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Board of Directors. The term began on April 30.

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Few casual football fans knew who Johnny Knox was until February.

That’s when Knox ran his 40-yard dash at the NFL Combine, posting a 4.34. Immediately, most football fanatics, especially those with teams that could use his blazing speed, had some homework to do.

“I knew all I had to do was go out there and run fast and everything else would work out,” said Knox, who caught 121 passes for 2,227 yards and 30 touchdowns in his two seasons at Abilene Christian, a Division II program in Texas.

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Hampton University’s football coaches might want to consider sending some flowers to David Legree’s cousins.

Legree, a 6-foot-4, 210-pound quarterback who left Syracuse earlier this month, plans to transfer to Hampton and play for the Pirates in 2009.

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HAMPTON — Hampton University will enter the 2009-10 school year with new leadership in its three most visible sports, unusual flux in what is traditionally one of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference’s most stable and successful athletic programs.

HU is the only Division I athletic program in the country to replace its football and men’s and women’s basketball coaches this year. All three replacements were hired within a matter of hours and promoted from the previous staffs or within the university.

“I consider myself to be a student of Vince Lombardi,” HU athletic director Lonza Hardy said last week, referring to the Pro Football Hall of Fame coach. “Vince Lombardi said, ‘Never apologize for trying to win.’ Consequently, I don’t apologize for putting what I believe are the right people in the right places at the right time.”

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HAMPTON - Donovan Rose understood better than most that Hampton University football was in its most turbulent period in recent history. Three head coaches in 13 months. Two consecutive sub-par seasons for a program accustomed to competing for championships.

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Pirates, coach again adjusting.

This week, the Daily Press takes a look at a few spring questions facing local and state football programs. Today, Hampton University.

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Russell Athletic, a major supplier of sports apparel to collegiate and professional sports teams, is facing an all-out blitz from campus activists.

Twenty-five U.S. colleges have cut ties to Atlanta-based Russell over alleged abuse of workers’ rights at its plant in Honduras. Russell supplies game uniforms and accessories to schools across the country, including four historically black college leagues: the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association, Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, Southwestern Athletic Conference and the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

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Fourteen schools. Two divisions. One conference.

That’s the direction the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference has set for itself in announcing last week that the league has lifted a moratorium on expansion.

The MEAC, which includes Norfolk State and Hampton, could soon be adding North Carolina Central and Savannah State. Both institutions have submitted applications to join the league, currently comprised of 11 schools, nine of which play football. Winston-Salem State, which also plays football, is working toward inclusion in the MEAC in 2011.

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The Hampton University Department of Athletics has released its 2009 football schedule and the 11-game slate includes six games at Armstrong Stadium on the HU campus.

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UNI’s Kurt Warner, TSU’s Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, and Hofstra’s Willie Colon expected to start.

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