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A Conversation with Southland Commissioner Tom Burnett (Part 1)
As the 2010-11 academic and competitive year comes to an end, Southland Conference Commissioner Tom Burnett answered questions about the state of the Conference and its future, NCAA issues and other items of interest. Here is part one of the Q-and-A.… more »
NACDA FCS Athletic Directors of the Year Announced
The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) announced the 28 winners of the Under Armour AD of the Year Award (ADOY) today. Charlie Cobb of Appalachian State University was honored in the Southeast, Robert Hill of Stephen F. A… more »
‘Thunder foot’ Adams worked to get noticed at Pigskin Classic
Ryan Adams was easily the best player in the area at his position last football season. But unlike scores of other great players and even teammates, he wasn’t close to landing a college athletic scholarship.
No matter that he had crisscrossed the Mid… more »
Houston Baptist plans to add football program
Houston Baptist plans to add football contingent on an invitation to a "suitable conference," school president Dr. Robert B. Sloan said Friday.
"We're prepared to start football with one contingency that we are invited to a conference that is suitab… more »
Lamar to play Louisiana Tech in 2012
Lamar University football will open the 2012 season at Louisiana Tech, and will earn a $175,000 payout to play there, coach Ray Woodard said Tuesday.
A contract for the season-opening game that will take place Sept. 1, 2012, in Ruston, La. was signed… more »
Southland Conference Television Network Earns College Sports Video Summit Mention
Production of Stephen F. Austin vs. Sam Houston State football game ranks among broadcasting’s best
The Southland Conference Television Network, the league’s three-year-old in-house broadcasting effort, picked up a national honorable mention award at… more »
Financial realities put restrictions on Lamar schedule
Think the Texas A&M football team is coming to Beaumont to play Lamar?
Think again.
It just wouldn't make sense financially, said Lamar coach Ray Woodard.
On its best day last fall, the Lamar football team made more than $160,000 on its… more »
Nicholls State Colonels look improved
The difference was obvious to Nicholls State head football coach Charlie Stubbs and I.
When Nicholls held its annual Spring Game, it capped the first full cycle of Stubbs’ program.
Stubbs has said all along that once the program goes through “a fu… more »
Lamar announces football games in SLC conference
Lamar University will open its 2011 football schedule on Sept. 3 with a home game against Langston University, who the Cardinals defeated in their 2010 Homecoming.
For the second-straight season, the Cardinals, who are coming off an encouraging 5-6 s… more »
NSU spring football practice begins Thursday
After being the nation's fourth most-improved football teams in Division I last fall, the Northwestern State Demons kick off their spring practices Thursday afternoon hoping to make more progress heading into the 2011 season.
Third-year coach Bradley… more »
SFA ’Jacks’ offensive coordinator takes assistant coaching position at WVU
Stephen F. Austin offensive coordinator Shannon Dawson has resigned to take a coaching position at West Virginia announced Mountaineer Media Relations Office Wednesday afternoon. Dawson just completed his third season with the Lumberjacks.
"I am so… more »
Southland Conference Reaffirms Membership Withdrawal Policies
Texas State, UTSA to depart Southland on June 30, 2012
The Southland Conference's Board of Directors met recently to review the Conference's constitutional articles related to membership withdrawal. The meeting took place after Southland members Texa… more »
Bearkats shift focus to Demons following difficult loss to SFA
Last Saturday’s loss in the Battle of the Piney Woods was a bitter pill for Sam Houston State to swallow.
A determined Bearkat squad went toe-to-toe with fourth-ranked Stephen F. Austin and were a few breaks away from pulling off an upset in a 31-28… more »
'We want to finish this week right'
Sam Houston State head coach Willie Fritz called the Bearkats into a huddle at the end of Thursday afternoon's workout at Bowers Stadium.
After talking over the basics that come with every post-practice speech, Fritz told the team that the only thing… more »
Sometimes A Fine Line Exists Between Spectator And Player
University of Central Arkansas linebacker Jacob Bundrick. along for the ride in the early part of the season, didn’t realize how much he would be tossed into a Hurricane situation.
Bundrick is a true freshman linebacker from Springdale Har-Ber who ha… more »
