Spring Football Practice #7; Team nearing halfway point The Georgia Southern Football team is down to their final practice before taking a week off for Spring Break. That last practice also indicates the halfway point of spring drills. On Thursday… more »

STATESBORO - Billy Lowe jokes when he says he has the body of a 50-year-old. AARP probably wouldn't find that funny. Neither does a 20-year-old, really. But the junior quarterback has stopped worrying about his bad back. He sat out a year from foo… more »

What a difference one week makes. Last week when the Eagles began spring football Tuesday morning the temperatures and wind chill was in the 30s. Exactly a week later in practice number six, many were sporting shorts outside. Spring Football Pra… more »

MOULTRIE — It has been a gratifying late winter for Carter Jones. The former Packer, now the walk-on long snapper for the Georgia Southern football team, was awarded a full scholarship by Eagles head football coach Chris Hatcher. He also — after m… more »

The weather warmed up during Georgia Southern Football’s third spring practice session on Thursday morning (March 5). It marked the third of four straight practice days this week. Thursday also marked the first day in shoulder pads for the Eagles. Ac… more »

The Georgia Southern Football team returns to the practice fields on Monday (March 2) as the Eagles officially begin spring drills. Monday will be the first of 15 scheduled sessions, capped by the annual Blue-White game on Saturday, April 4. The team… more »

Head football coach Chris Hatcher announced Tuesday afternoon (Feb. 17) that quarterback Antonio Henton has left the program to seek playing opportunities elsewhere. Henton, a sophomore last year, played in all 11 games and started nine times. He com… more »

STATESBORO — In early January the rumor mill had Antonio Henton leaving Georgia Southern, possibly transferring to Albany State. But that talk slowed when the former Peach County quarterback enrolled for the second semester at Georgia Southern and be… more »

The Southern Conference on Friday announced several cost-saving measures that will go into effect for the 2009-10 academic year, including trimming one day off baseball trips and cutting the number of teams eligible for postseason league tournaments in… more »

Consider Georgia Southern's in-state monopoly on Division I-AA football broken. Georgia State signed 26 players to its first recruiting class last week and directed a silent challenge toward the boys of Beautiful Eagle Creek by signing 14 in-state pl… more »

ATLANTA -- Georgia State coach Bill Curry wondered how many recruits would commit to a program that won't start play until 2010. So the longtime coach decided to keep his selling points simple to recruits: Work closely with him and his staff on a dai… more »

Eagles open the season at home, one of five games at Paulson Stadium A season-opening game at Paulson Stadium and the program's first-ever game against Atlantic Coast Conference member University of North Carolina highlights Georgia Southern Universi… more »

Coastal Carolina will meet two Southern Conference powerhouses and the defending national champion over the course of the next three seasons. Georgia Southern returns to Coastal's football schedule for a two-game series that begins in 2010, when the… more »

The Southern Conference announced today (Jan. 28) the inaugural class for the league’s newly created Hall of Fame. Former All-Americans Adrian Peterson of Georgia Southern, Sam Huff of West Virginia, and Charlie “Choo Choo” Justice of North Carolina wer… more »

Two seniors receive the Erk Russell Award Georgia Southern University held its annual Football banquet Saturday night (Jan. 17), and announced team awards for the 2008 season. The event was held in the Nessmith Lane Continuing Education Building.… more »