Category: Morgan State Bears
MEAC Expansion Could Bring 2 Divisions, Title Game
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 H… more »
At Last, a Big Game to Rile Delaware
Proximity, history could charge UD-DSU meetings.
The University of Delaware and Delaware State University have some catching up to do.
Football rivalries don't form overnight. But UD and DSU already have many of the ingredients to make this one sp… more »
MEAC Announces Its 2009 Hall Of Fame Inductees
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) will enshrine five members into its’ 2009 Hall of Fame Class on Thursday, March 12, beginning at 9:30 a.m. at the M.C. Benton, Jr. Convention Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
“We are pleased to ackn… more »
Maryland's Crab Bowl Features Future FCS Football Players
Wearing a uniform similar to the one he will don next season for the University of Maryland, running back Caleb Porzel stood near midfield after today's inaugural Maryland Crab Bowl all-star game and began to reel off the names of several of his future… more »
Dukes Play For Home Berths
HARRISONBURG - It might look like James Madison's football team is sitting pretty heading into this weekend's bye. The Dukes are undefeated in Division I-AA football and have won a school D-I record eight straight games since losing their opener at Duke… more »
FCS Teams Play Up to the Competition
Potential for big bucks, bigger upsets leads FCS schools to agree to suit up against perennial FBS powerhouses.
By now, everyone who follows college football knows about what happened when Appalachian State traveled to Ann Arbor last season to play M… more »
Year Later, Upset of Michigan Resonates
The Washington Post talks about how far FCS football has come since "the upset".
Coach Jerry Moore stopped on the edge of the Appalachian State practice field one day this preseason, turned and gazed at what his football program has become. To his ri… more »
Transfers, Tigers and Morgan State Bears, Oh my!
Two Baltimore-area FCS schools are looking to FBS transfers to lead them into 2008.
BALTIMORE - Morgan State returns 50 of 64 lettermen from a team that went 5-6 last year.
But if the Bears want to post their first winning season since 2003 and ch… more »
Morgan State RB Chad Simpson Running with NFL Opportunity
Chad Simpson touched the ball just three times in the Indianapolis Colts’ 30-16 loss to the Washington Redskins in the preaseason-opening Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio.
But two carries for 10 yards and a catch for 11 more was enough for the forme… more »
Baltimore Proving to be Bears’ Den for Morgan State
BALTIMORE - Morgan State coach Donald Hill-Eley doesn’t have to continually remind his players of their goal of winning a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference title any more — they do it for him.
“Before you had to sell them on the fact that they didn’t w… more »
Commissioner Thomas looks to lift MEAC profile
NORFOLK, Va. — For most of the two hours or so that the MEAC football kickoff luncheon lasted, Dennis Thomas quietly sat on the stage. He seemed to be admiring his work.
That more than 200 people packed a conference room at the Sheraton Waterside was… more »
MEAC Season's Recipe: 'Thicker' on Top
Hampton is picked to finish fourth, Norfolk State third in the five-team championship race.
NORFOLK - — South Carolina State is the favorite to win the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference football title. That is, if you believe the ballots cast by confer… more »
SCSU Football to be Featured on ESPNU Twice this Season
Nationally-aired games on cable television and playing in the month of November.
Those two factors have served as good omens for the South Carolina State football team under head coach Oliver “Buddy” Pough. Since 2002, the Bulldogs are a perfect 14-0… more »
FCS Committee Members Announced
MISSOULA - University of Montana athletic director Jim O'Day has been appointed as a member of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision Committee. His four-year membership on the committee begins September 1, 2008, and continues through Sep… more »