Category: New Hampshire Wildcats
UNH Football Notebook: CAA Expansion Won't Affect 'Cats Short-Term
DURHAM — There are numbers CAA commissioner Tom Yeager has a pleasure trying to crunch, and others that present more of a challenge.
Start with the tough ones. Two years from now, the CAA will welcome its 13th football-playing member, Old Dominion, w… more »
UMass Edges UNH in 23-17 Thriller
AMHERST – There are great victories and there are great accomplishments, and this was both.
“It was a very exciting game, maybe a little too exciting with three seconds left,” University of Massachusetts football coach Kevin Morris said after Saturda… more »
UNH Wildcats ready for Ball State
MUNCIE, Ind. — Tom Neill walked off the field at Scheumann Stadium on Friday like a kid who knows that Christmas is only a day away.
There were only a handful of stadium workers in the bleachers when the University of New Hampshire football team cond… more »
Can Richmond give CAA another title?
In some people's minds, defending national champion Richmond is one of the favorites to win the 2009 title. But the reality of the Colonial Athletic Association is that the Spiders might not even survive their own division, let alone the NCAA playoffs.… more »
Sinisi heads up final group of Payton candidates
Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Monmouth's record-setting running back, David Sinisi, is one of four players who have been added to the 2009 Payton Award watch list, bestowed annually upon the top player in FCS.
Sinisi, a 2008 Payton Award candid… more »
Defending National Champion Richmond And Villanova Selected As CAA Favorite In 2009, All-CAA Teams and TV Package Announced
Richmond, which returns 18 starters off last year’s NCAA National Championship team, and Villanova, which returns 16 starters from 2008, are picked to share the overall CAA Football Championship in 2009. New Hampshire, last season’s North Division winn… more »
Opinion: Additonal FB Expansion Could be Coming Soon to CAA
The Colonial Athletic Association will swell to 14 football schools in 2012, when Georgia State joins.
Too many? Too few? Or just right?
Rather than fret about growing too big too fast, maybe the league will say what the heck and just super-size i… more »
Sicko Standout in Annual UNH Scrimmage
Incumbent starting quarterback R.J. Toman (Mission Viejo, Calif.) completed 7 of 9 passes for 133 yards and one touchdown – a 61-yard strike to All-America tight end Scott Sicko (Stillwater, N.Y.) – in the University of New Hampshire’s annual spring Blu… more »
CAA Eyes Odd Slate
HARRISONBURG - Currently, not every football team in the Colonial Athletic Association plays every other member. In 2011 - for one season only - a school might not even face everyone in its own division.
Old Dominion will become the seventh team in t… more »
UNH Suspends WR
Terrance Fox, a wide receiver on the University of New Hampshire football team, has been suspended for the 2009 season by the NCAA for violating the association's banned substance use policy. Fox (pictured), a sophomore who lives in Piscataway, N.J., wi… more »
New Hampshire Colleges Look at Cutting Sports Back
What's so special about the number 27?
Chip Polak, the director of athletics at Southern New Hampshire University, is on a task force considering the question.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association allows Division I and II institutions to p… more »
Dartmouth AD Outlines Plan for Athletic Department - With Football Playoffs?
Incoming interim Athletic Director Bob Ceplikas ‘78 said on Monday that he is looking forward to working with College President-elect Jim Yong Kim, particularly because of the next president’s history on the gridiron.
“One of the best parts of this o… 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 »
Maine’s Canary Earns CAA Football Student-Athlete Of The Year; Academic All-Conference Team Announced
Maine senior offensive lineman Ryan Canary, the 2008 CAA Football Student-Athlete of the Year, headlines a list of 107 CAA Football Academic All-Conference honorees for the 2008 season.
Canary, who maintains a 3.70 grade point average as a Secondary… more »
UNH to Play at Ball State in ‘09
The University of New Hampshire football team announced today that it will again go on the road to play a Division I-A opponent. This time the Wildcats will head to Muncie, Ind., to take on the Cardinals of Ball State University on Sept. 12, 2009.… more »
