Category: Cal Poly Mustangs
Cal Poly’s new-look receivers
This fall camp has a different feel for Cal Poly quarterback Andre Broadous.
For the first time in three seasons, the redshirt junior won’t be battling Tony Smith for the starting spot when football training camp starts Monday at the Upper Sports Com… more »
Speed key to Asa Jackson’s success this season at Cal Poly
It’s cliché to say time is money, but for cornerback Asa Jackson, it’s a fact.
Jackson’s projected draft position moves up with every tenth of a second he shaves off his 40-yard dash. The senior cornerback goes to great lengths to ensure that everyth… more »
Mustangs' Jackson determined to prove his fans right
After collecting another major preseason honor, Cal Poly's Asa Jackson says he is ready to prove his supporters right.
The senior cornerback is one of twenty players named to the Preseason Buck Buchanan Award Watch List. The award is given annually t… more »
Ranking the top non-FBS players
Occasionally, I get some emails from folks wanting to hear more about non-FBS football. The subject doesn't usually get much time in the spotlight, outside of a little coverage during the FCS playoffs in December or when there's a rising prospect flashi… more »
Big Sky commish: 'We're in a better place than the WAC is'
On the day that the rebuilding Western Athletic Conference added Seattle University as its ninth member beginning in 2012, Big Sky commissioner Doug Fullerton disputed the popular opinion that members of his league are not ready to move to the WAC.… more »
Facilities improvements are the top priority for new Cal Poly AD
New AD wants department to fundraise similar to rest of university, not be isolated
Two months into his job at Cal Poly, new athletic director Don Oberhelman is still forming a plan for the direction of the department.
Two of the top needs are und… more »
Big Sky Conference Deals With Expansion
The Big Sky Conference had to send out a few extra invitations to its spring meetings with expansion on the horizon in 2012.
Representatives from the four schools joining the league in 2012 - Cal Poly and UC Davis for football only, and Southern Utah… more »
Cal Poly brings triple threat
For the fourth straight game, the Fresno State defense will be forced to game plan against a mobile quarterback.
The difference with Cal Poly, however, is the Bulldogs’ defense will also have to strategize against an offensive style a Pat Hill-coache… more »
Cal Poly athletic director Alison Cone to retire in December
Cal Poly athletic director Alison Cone said she is announcing her December retirement at a department staff meeting this morning.
The news comes just two weeks after Cone helped solidify the future of the Mustangs' football program, which cemented pl… more »
Letdown in Texas for Cal Poly
Cal Poly remains winless on the road in two seasons under Walsh
Coming into Saturday night’s game at Texas State, No. 17 Cal Poly had not won a game on the road under head coach Tim Walsh.
The Mustangs were winless in their past six games away fro… more »
Tough Team To Tame
When Cal Poly finished 4-7 in 2009 with a 1-3 mark in Great West Conference play, many said it would be a while until the Mustangs regained their swagger.
Those same critics must be searching for the perfect seasoning for that crow a year later.
C… more »
Montana learned lessons from last year's Cal Poly game
Montana coach Robin Pflugrad looks at Montana's 35-23 win over Cal Poly last season and sees some of the same red flags he saw in the Grizzlies' 73-2 demolition of Western State.
"I've watched it a couple of times, and I think we can come away with s… more »
Cal Poly's knocking on the door
Tim Walsh has been on the road into the Big Sky Conference before.
"This is the second time I've done this," said Cal Poly's football coach, who'll see his Mustangs added to the Big Sky by 2013 - or 17 years after his former team, the Portland State… more »
Southern Utah eyes shifting Big Sky Conference
So, where does Southern Utah University go from here?
On Tuesday, the Thunderbirds were left without a viable football league when it was announced that UC Davis and Cal Poly will take their programs to the Big Sky Conference.
Montana athletic dir… more »
Great West nears end as schools shift plans
The end is near for the Great West Football Conference, which learned Tuesday that next season will be the last in the league for two of its five members.
UC Davis and Cal Poly, charter members of the seven-year-old FCS conference, announced they wer… more »