Category: Sacred Heart Pioneers
Q and A with Sacred Heart coach Paul Gorham
Paul Gorham enters his seventh season as the head football coach at Sacred Heart University. The Pioneers are coming off a 2-8 campaign and were picked to finish eighth in the Northeast Conference’s preseason poll.
CSN: Gridiron Classic Comes to Close, Pioneer Continues Pursuit of AQ
ST. LOUIS - After a four year relationship between the Pioneer Football League and Northeast Conference, the Gridiron Classic will cease to exist according to information provided to College Sporting News writer Jason Plotkin.
- 191 words - Pioneer Football League, San Diego Toreros, Northeast Conference, Monmouth Hawks, Marist Red Foxes, Albany Great Danes, Central Connecticut State Blue Devils, Wagner Seahawks, Duquesne Dukes, Robert Morris Colonials, Saint Francis (PA) Red Flash, Sacred Heart Pioneers, Dayton Flyers, Morehead State Eagles, Davidson Wildcats, Jacksonville Dolphins, Drake Bulldogs, Butler Bulldogs, Valparaiso Crusaders, Campbell Camels, Gridiron Classic The Sporting News Tabs Wagner First In Preseason Poll
Staten Island, NY – The Wagner College football team has been picked to win the Northeast Conference by The Sporting News Preseason Football Magazine. In addition, quarterback Nick Doscher has been tabbed by the magazine as the league’s top offensive player.
- 280 words - Northeast Conference, Monmouth Hawks, Albany Great Danes, Central Connecticut State Blue Devils, Wagner Seahawks, Duquesne Dukes, Robert Morris Colonials, Saint Francis (PA) Red Flash, Sacred Heart Pioneers Sacred Heart Schedule Announced
The school announced its 2010 football schedule on Wednesday. The 2010 season marks the Pioneers’ 20th and will feature first meetings with Dartmouth and Georgetown.
Albany Favored in the NEC, All-Conference Team Named
UAlbany stands as the unanimous favorite to capture the 2009 Northeast Conference football crown, which would be its third straight. The Great Danes received eight first-place votes to finish atop an annual survey of league’s head coaches for a fourth consecutive season. Monmouth, the 2008 NEC runner-up, garnered the lone remaining first-place nod to finish second in the preseason poll, the results of which were announced during a media teleconference Tuesday morning. The Conference also unveiled its Preseason All-NEC Team during the media session, which served as a prelude to the NEC’s 14th season on the gridiron.
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Set to commence its 14th football season, the Northeast Conference (NEC) today announced plans to televise four games in 2009.
- 437 words - Northeast Conference, Monmouth Hawks, Albany Great Danes, Central Connecticut State Blue Devils, Wagner Seahawks, Duquesne Dukes, Robert Morris Colonials, Saint Francis (PA) Red Flash, Sacred Heart Pioneers Sacred Heart Repeats As Northeast Conference Commissioner’s Cup Winner
Cup Renamed In Honor Of Northeast Conference Commissioner Brenda Weare
For the second straight year, Sacred Heart is the recipient of the Northeast Conference (NEC) Commissioner’s Cup, newly renamed in honor of current NEC Commissioner Brenda Weare. Sacred Heart finished the 2008-09 athletic season as the Joan Martin Women’s Commissioner’s Cup champion for the third year in a row and also earned the Men’s Commissioner’s Cup award for the first time to complete the clean sweep. The awards were presented to C. Donald Cook, Sacred Heart Director of Athletics, at the league’s annual spring meetings in West Long Branch, NJ last week.
Hermits' Bill Giberson Finds (Sacred) Heart in Football
Bill Giberson began his football career two years ago with no expectations.
“I just went out to try it,” the St. Augustine Prep senior said, “and it blossomed into something great.”
Giberson will attend Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn., on an almost full football scholarship. Sacred Heart plays in the Football Championship Subdivision, formerly known as Division I-AA.
“I went to visit Sacred Heart, and it felt like the right place for me,” Giberson said. “The school wasn’t too big. Everything there fit me perfectly.”
Northeast Conference Announces 2008 Fall Scholar-Athlete Winners & Academic Honor Roll
Robert Morris junior linebacker Adam Lawrence (Big Run, PA/Dubois Area) is the recipient of the NEC scholar-athlete award in football.
- 269 words - Northeast Conference, Central Connecticut State Blue Devils, Robert Morris Colonials, Sacred Heart Pioneers 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 interview on Monday. On Tuesday, it was UMass head coach Don Brown, a former defensive coordinator at Yale, who was in New Haven for an interview.
Florida offensive line coach Steve Addazio, who coached Cheshire to three consecutive state titles and a 34-game winning streak in the 1990s, former Sacred Heart University coach Jim Fleming, and Stanford offensive coordinator Dave Shaw also met with Yale officials.
Injuries Force Flash to Pass on the Run
LORETTO — For St. Francis, there is no place like home.
Coach Dave Opfar’s football team has played four of its first five games on the road, and the Red Flash return to DeGol Field today for a two-game home stand.
The Flash (0-4, 0-2), who are looking for their first win, host Northeast Conference rival Sacred Heart 1 p.m. today.
They defeated the Pioneers in 2006 (21-14) and in 2007 (35-30). St. Francis took advantage of key mistakes by the Pioneers to earn that victory last year.
Sacred Heart Off to 5-0 Start After 31-28 Win over Robert Morris
FAIRFIELD – Sacred Heart University celebrated Homecoming on Saturday afternoon, and the campus was in a festive mood.
SHU’s football team contributed to the jovial atmosphere.
The Pioneers defeated Robert Morris 31-28 before a lively crowd of 3,019 at Campus Field. SHU is 5-0 for the first time since 2001, when it finished at 11-0 and won the NEC championship.
WR Tedesco is Sacred Heart's Big Catch
FAIRFIELD — The young quarterback rolled out of the pocket and was on the move, looking downfield for someone, anyone in a Sacred Heart University jersey to break free from a defender and bail him out of this predicament.
Dale Fink spotted his man and eluded the fierce Assumption pass rush just long enough to unload the ball — somewhere close to where the target was headed. When it comes to receiver Steve Tedesco, close enough has been good enough. The 6-foot-1, 190-pound receiver has built his reputation in the Northeast Conference over the past two years on close calls like the one in the season opener last season.
SHU Football Getting Ready for Kick-off
The Sacred Heart football team is the midst of preseason training camp as they gear up to kick-off the 2008 season in just two short weeks playing host to Assumption College under the lights. The Pioneers reported to SHU’s campus just over a week ago to start preparations for the university’s 17th season of competition.
Sacred Heart welcomes back lots of offensive talent from a team the scored the third highest total of points in a season (293) last year. Led by the 2007 Northeast Conference Offensive Rookie of the Year in quarterback Dale Fink the Pioneers looked poised to put up some big numbers again in 2008.
Sacred Heart Has Questions to Answer in NEC
FAIRFIELD — The lights are up at Campus Field, but the question is will the Sacred Heart football team see the light this season?
According to the coaches in the Northeast Conference, that remains to be seen after they voted the Pioneers seventh in the eight-team league before Tuesday’s teleconference media day. Defending champion Albany earned the top spot with five first-place votes while Monmouth (two votes) and Central Connecticut (one) rounded out the top three.
Wagner, newcomer Duquesne, Robert Morris, SHU and St. Francis, Pa., round out the field.
NEC Football Getting Bigger and Better
NEW BRITAIN - As the Northeast Conference’s first football preseason Media Day went on Tuesday, there was one thing everyone could agree on. Every coach touted his own players, and each team’s case for why it will have a good season was presented. Much of it was “coachspeak", the art by which every coach spins things to make his team look as good as it can. The part about how good the Northeast Conference is going to be was not.
Automatic NCAA Bid Perks Up NEC Coaches
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Movin’ on up was the dominant theme yesterday when the Northeast Conference coaches spoke during a preseason teleconference.
Whether asked or not, all the coaches made reference to the league’s impending automatic bid to the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly I-AA) postseason championship tourney and to the possibility of the NEC champion getting a bid this season and next if its members post a cumulative above-.500 record against teams whose conference champions receive automatic bids.
NEC Tabs Duquesne as Fifth-Place Team
Duquesne’s relentless dominance of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Football League earned it 10 titles in 14 years. But when the league’s membership dwindled to four it folded, and the Dukes joined the Northeast Conference as an associate member.
On Tuesday, Duquesne was chosen to finish fifth in a preseason poll of coaches for the NEC’s eight championship-eligible teams.
NEC to add two football scholarships for next 5 years
Beginning in 2009, the Northeast Conference will be adding more football scholarships to the 30 currently allocated to each of its programs.
NEC Commissioner Brenda Weare said NEC presidents agreed at a June 11 meeting to add two per year over the next five years bringing its total to 40 by 2013.
Kevin Callahan, Monmouth University football coach, said, “It’s certainly a possibility” the NEC could eventually boost that number to the 63 the NCAA allocates for its Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) schools.
Football: NEC granted AQ access to playoffs
According to Monmouth University football coach Kevin Callahan, NCAA approval of playoff expansion for the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) has been a long time coming.
It was approved Thursday.
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