Category: Towson Tigers
CAA Football Launches CAAFootballBlog.com
RICHMOND, Va. (May 28, 2010) – CAA Football has ventured into the world of blogs as the league launched caafootballblog.com earlier this week. The blog, along with CAASports.com, will both serve as usable extensions of the CAA Football brand and all of its information publicity.
- 213 words - CAA, Rhode Island Rams, New Hampshire Wildcats, Massachusetts Minutemen, Richmond Spiders, Hofstra Pride, Delaware Blue Hens, Villanova Wildcats, James Madison Dukes, Towson Tigers, William & Mary Tribe, Northeastern Huskies, Maine Black Bears Q&A With Towson Head Coach Rob Ambrose
Two weeks ago, Rob Ambrose put the finishing touches on his second recruiting class as Towson’s coach. The Tigers’ 15-man class includes six players from Florida, three from Maryland, two from New Jersey, two from Virginia, one from Pennsylvania and one from North Carolina.
Bill Would Mandate Towson, Morgan St. Football Match-ups with FBS Maryland
Del. wants Terps to help smaller in-state FCS rivals financially.
The Terrapin football team is scheduled to play Morgan State this fall and Towson in 2011. But if a state legislator has his way, there might be rematches — a lot of them.
Del. Jay Walker (D-Prince George’s) has introduced a bill requiring the Terps to play either Morgan State or Towson once every four years, arguing it would help fund the two smaller schools’ football programs. But university officials are opposing the bill, saying it would strip the Athletics Department of flexibility in scheduling and force it to subsidize the smaller programs.
“The university should be making its decisions on scheduling football, not the legislature,” university lobbyist Ross Stern said. “This really is stepping on the university’s autonomy.”
New Orleans Saints Head To Super Bowl XLIV With Three CAA Connections
CAA Football continued a strong championship reputation at the collegiate level by recording its fourth NCAA Division I National Championship in the last seven seasons in December. Next weekend, on Feb. 7, in South Florida, three former standouts from the conference will be on the NFL’s grandest stage – leading the New Orleans Saints’ efforts to raise the Vince Lombardi Trophy as winners of Super Bowl XLIV.
Saints offensive lineman Jermon Bushrod, wide receiver Marques Colston and defensive back Darren Sharper all were student-athletes in the CAA Football conference and will be part of the game slated to kickoff at 6:30 p.m., on CBS.
- 405 words - CAA, Hofstra Pride, Towson Tigers, William & Mary Tribe CAA Football Academic All-Conference Team Announced
Villanova linebacker Osayi Osunde, the 2009 CAA Football Student-Athlete of the Year, headlines a list of 106 CAA Football Academic All-Conference honorees for the 2009 season.
- 1548 words - CAA, Rhode Island Rams, New Hampshire Wildcats, Massachusetts Minutemen, Richmond Spiders, Hofstra Pride, Delaware Blue Hens, Villanova Wildcats, James Madison Dukes, Towson Tigers, William & Mary Tribe, Northeastern Huskies, Maine Black Bears CAA Teams Feeling Better
A meeting with the commissioner addresses travel concerns for four New England schools.
Tom Yeager, the Colonial Athletic Association commissioner, traveled to Boston this week to bridge the gap with the athletic directors at the universities of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island following the loss of two Northeast football programs.
Northeastern and Hofstra dropped their 70-plus-year-old programs on Nov. 23 and Dec. 3, respectively, leaving the remaining members of the North Division increasingly isolated from the Southern-heavy conference.
Ultimately the Monday meeting quelled fears that the New England schools would have to fend for themselves, either by finding another school or two to join the league, or by leaving to protect their interests.
Football Arms Race Engulfs the CAA
Conference revels in rising stature, but costs prompt two of its programs to fold.
William & Mary will play Villanova on Friday night in the division I-AA football semifinals, with the winner becoming the sixth Colonial Athletic Association team in seven years to reach the national championship game. The bid will serve as further evidence that the CAA has established itself as the preeminent conference in the country at its level.
Yet the success comes just eight days after Hofstra dropped its football program, becoming the second CAA school to discontinue football in as many weeks (Northeastern dropped football Nov. 23). Although the impetus for the two schools was different, both were byproducts of the increasing costs associated with maintaining college football teams – even in college football’s second tier.
The two contrasting fates come at a critical time for the conference, with the dominance at the top and the desertions at the bottom threatening to create a landscape of haves and have nots.
Four Teams Here, All the Rest There
With two CAA teams dropping football, Maine and three other schools find themselves isolated.
They are fierce rivals on the football field.
Off the field, the universities of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island are about to come together like never before.
In the wake of the news that Northeastern and Hofstra have dropped football, athletic directors from the four programs will meet Dec. 21 with Tom Yeager, the Colonial Athletic Association commissioner, to advocate for themselves in a league whose alignment and dynamic has changed dramatically.
UMass athletic director John McCutcheon says football program is not in jeopardy
Saying the news caught him by complete surprise, University of Massachusetts athletic director John McCutcheon said Thursday that Hofstra’s decision to drop football was disappointing, but not a harbinger that UMass might follow suit.
McCutcheon reiterated the response he gave to Northeastern’s decision to cut football on Nov. 23. The UMass AD had expected the Northeastern announcement, but not the decision at Hofstra, which was announced Thursday morning.
Wire reports that said the move at Hofstra came at the end of a two-year study, but it still startled the football community.
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, which will be lodged in the league’s South Division and unbalance an unbalanced league schedule even more.
In 2012, Georgia State will bring the membership to 14, and play as a nominal member of the North Division, but with a specially-crafted schedule.
Towson Suspends McCants
Sophomore defensive back Josh McCants (Gaithersburg H.S./Rockville, Md.) has been suspended from the Towson University football team for two weeks due to a violation of team rules, it has been announced by Coach Rob Ambrose.
Big Plays Highlight Towson’s Intrasquad Scrimmage
With two weeks remaining before Towson University’s season opener at Northwestern University, Coach Rob Ambrose and his staff conducted the longest and most intense scrimmage of the pre-season on Saturday afternoon at Johnny Unitas® Stadium.
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.
- 3447 words - FCS News Articles, CAA, Rhode Island Rams, New Hampshire Wildcats, Massachusetts Minutemen, Richmond Spiders, Hofstra Pride, Delaware Blue Hens, Villanova Wildcats, James Madison Dukes, Towson Tigers, William & Mary Tribe, Northeastern Huskies, Maine Black Bears Towson Scrimmage Shortened By Lightning
Continuing their preparation for the 2009 season, the Tigers held their first pre-season scrimmage at Johnny Unitas® Stadium on Tuesday afternoon. However, the scrimmage was suspended after 36 plays due to a line of thunderstorms that passed through the area.
Towson's Leading Rusher Leaves Tiger Team
Veteran running back Matt Castor (Linganore H.S./Mt. Airy, Md.) will not be returning to the Towson University football team for personal reasons, it has been announced by Coach Rob Ambrose.
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 winner, was also picked to repeat in the North according to a vote of the league’s 12 head coaches and selected media. The results of the poll, along with the Preseason All-Conference squads, were announced during Wednesday’s CAA Football Media Day at the ESPNZone in Baltimore, Md.
- 1760 words - CAA, Rhode Island Rams, New Hampshire Wildcats, Massachusetts Minutemen, Richmond Spiders, Hofstra Pride, Delaware Blue Hens, Villanova Wildcats, James Madison Dukes, Towson Tigers, Northeastern Huskies, Maine Black Bears Game Times Set For 2009 Towson Tiger Football
TOWSON, Md. – Game times are now set for all games on the 2009 Towson University football schedule.
The Tigers will open their 41st season at Northwestern University on Saturday, September 5 at 11:00 a.m. (Central Time). The Towson-Northwestern game, which will mark the debut of Rob Ambrose as the Tigers’ new coach, will be televised by the The Big Ten Network.
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 it.
If it does, there are two schools that would be a geographic fit for the league - surely more of a fit than Georgia State. Adding them would be cost effective at a time when schools everywhere are looking to save wherever they can.
Mike Bruno, 1976 Team To Be Inducted Into Towson Hall Of Fame
All-American wide receiver Mark Orlando, ’95, three-time All-Mason-Dixon Conference soccer selection Mike Bruno, ’76, All-ECAC gymnast Carrie Leger, ’96,and record-setting swimmer Meilani Smith Snellenberger, ’96 have been selected as this year’s inductees into the Towson University Athletic Hall of Fame.
New Sheriff In Town Opens Towson Eyes
Shock waves were sent through the Towson University athletic department in early December when longtime football coach Gordy Combs, who had spent 39 years in the program as a player and coach, was “relieved” of his duties.
Nearly a month passed before Rob Ambrose was introduced as the new coach. Ambrose, a 1993 Towson graduate, returned to his alma mater after spending a year as coach of Catholic University (2001) and seven years as offensive coordinator at the University of Connecticut.
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