Category: Villanova Wildcats
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 »
LeGree heads latest Buchanan watch list release
Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Mark LeGree, the record-setting free safety from Appalachian State, heads up the latest group of players added to the watch list for the 2009 Buck Buchanan Award, presented to the top defensive player in FCS.
LeGre… 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 »
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 »
FCS Is Anything but "Small" Ball
The University of Delaware tight end traveled to Florida recently to train for his aspiring NFL career.
When he arrived at the private facility, he didn't know what to expect, where he'd fit or how he measured against some of the country's elite coll… more »
Delaware, Villanova Teams to Host Event to Promote Bone Marrow Donorship
Head coach K.C. Keeler and the University of Delaware football program has joined with Villanova University and the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) in an effort to recruit 5,000 new members to the bone marrow registry.
Team members and coaches f… more »
Football Supplier to FCS Schools Facing Blitz from Campus Activists
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’ right… 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 »
CAA Football Growth Raises Money Issues
The Colonial Athletic Association football conference is getting too big, but league administrators still aren't sure how to handle the growth.
That seemed to be the consensus after a meeting among athletic directors from the 12 current members and t… more »
CAA Will Remain One Conference
There are still logistics to be worked out as the Colonial Athletic Association football conference prepares to expand to 14 teams, but Commissioner Tom Yeager said the league will stay together.
Splitting into two separate conferences was one option… more »
CAA Athletic Directors to Study 14-team Puzzle
Colonial Athletic Association athletic directors will convene in Washington next week and discuss the league's coming football expansion.
In general, the agenda is this question: Can a 14-team football conference work?
The ADs will be together for… more »
Maryland's Crab Bowl Features Future FCS Football Players
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… more »
Front-runner for Yale job is UMass’ Brown
There has been no lack of qualified applicants for the vacant Yale football coaching job.
Holy Cross head coach Tom Gilmore, a former Bushnell Cup winner as the most valuable player in the Ivy League during his playing days at Penn, was in for an int… more »
‘Something Special': Griz Prove Doubters Wrong En Route to Berth in Title Game
HARRISONBURG, Va. - Not many people thought the Montana Grizzlies could survive a detour through the Shenandoah Valley and make it to Chattanooga, Tenn.
But the Griz believed.
“To be with these guys is something special,” said sophomore running ba… more »