The Championship Subdivision News Log

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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Open Letter to the HBCU Conferences - Please Post & Pass Along

The following letter was sent to each of the HBCU Conference Commissioners on Thursday 24 June 2010 . As an Alum & Fan I was concerned about the direction in which HBCU sports were headed. As a business man I am disappointed with the process and conduct as a whole in regards to the way that ” our business” was being managed. With that in mind and in an effort to assist with the correction of our path I reached out to the leaders of the CIAA, MEAC, SIAC, & SWAC. This gesture was to offer assistance in creating an aggressive plan that will benefit ALL HBCU’s athletically and academically!!! I am pleased to say that I have gotten positive, open-minded responses from most of the commissioners and we are now into the next phase of planning a summit.

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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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Aggies to play Morgan State for Homecoming

North Carolina A&T’s director of athletics Wheeler Brown announced on Wednesday that the North Carolina A&T football team will play in the 2010 Circle City Classic in Indianapolis on October 2.

It will be the first classic the Aggies have played in since playing in the Angel City Classic in Los Angeles against Prairie View A&M in 2007. They will make their first Circle City appearance in five years. The Aggies are 3-0 in the Circle City Classic, including their 16-3 win over Tennessee State in 2005. Tennessee State will be the Aggies opponent in 2010.

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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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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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The commissioner of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference is reviewing a decision by Delaware State to forfeit a league game next year because of a conflict with a big-money contest at Michigan. But the school said it does not plan to play its conference game with North Carolina A&T and fully expects some kind of fine from the MEAC.

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Four hopefuls on list for Bulldogs receivers coach

Three months after losing receivers coach Roger Totten to Alabama State, Alabama A&M coach Anthony Jones said he’s close to finding a replacement.

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GREENSBORO – The sky was gray, the field green, the jerseys blue and gold.

And for one day, at least, the outlook was rosy.

With new head coach Alonzo Lee running the show from the sideline, N.C. A&T’s Blue team defense eked out a 27-26 victory over its Gold team offense in the annual spring game Saturday at Aggie Stadium.

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Coastal Carolina finalized its 2009 football schedule on Thursday, utilizing the simplest solution to resolve its scheduling conflict.

Coastal will now travel to Towson on Sept. 19, will host N.C. A&T on Sept. 26 and have its bye on Oct. 3, coach David Bennett said. No other changes were necessary to the schedule Coastal released earlier this month. The conflict was created when N.C. A&T mistakenly double-booked two opponents, Coastal and N.C. Central, for Oct. 3.

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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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Winston-Salem State University’s move to Division I athletics could be hitting the wall.

Chancellor Donald Reaves of WSSU asked the UNC board of governors to approve an increase in student-athletics fees at a meeting in January, said Joni Worthington, a vice president of communications for the UNC system.

Worthington also said that Erskine Bowles, the UNC president, sent a letter to board members recommending against the increase.

The 32-member board will vote on Reaves’ request and others from other UNC system schools Feb. 13, but without the additional fees, WSSU might not be able to afford to stay on course.

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GREENSBORO – Alonzo Lee’s first two weeks as N.C. A&T’s new head coach have been anything but quiet.

Lee was introduced Jan. 16 and immediately met with recruits and current players while trying to fill out the rest of his coaching staff. Between meeting with recruits and trying to find a house in Greensboro, Lee sat down with the News & Record to talk about myriad issues surrounding Aggie football, next week’s national signing day, A&T’s recruiting budget and how long he thinks it will take to turn around a program that has lost 36 of its last 39 games:

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Alonzo Lee Sr. becomes the 17th head football coach in A&T’s history

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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 teammates standing nearby.

“We’re all playing as a family,” said Porzel, a senior, who had just played with and against eight future Terrapins. “It’s a great way to end up a high school career.”

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NORFOLK - Holding on to the ball was a problem for Norfolk State on Saturday at Price Stadium. Despite that, the Spartans were able to hold on 27-21 in their MEAC opener against North Carolina A&T.

It was an evening when a surprise shower soaked the field to start the fourth quarter, a respite from the humidity of late afternoon, when many Spartans suffered cramps. That was just something else for NSU to overcome - along with four fumbles, a blocked punt and a momentum swing after the Aggies rang up 14 third-quarter points.

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It was electrifying. It was uniting. It was indeed a monumental event in the history of this school year. It was the first football victory in recent years.

However, something was different about this victory. After Saturday’s game, many students were celebratory and optimistic about the season.
There were even students who felt the win foreshadowed the victories Aggies will achieve in all endeavors throughout this academic year.

“Aggie Pride just surpassed the first hurdle in its long road to rehabilitation,” says Marcus Bass, 21, SGA President and senior business education major.

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