Categories: Big South Conference, Charleston Southern Buccaneers, Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs, Liberty Flames, Presbyterian Blue Hose, VMI Keydets
Will VMI go back to the future by rejoining the Southern Conference?
VMI has agreed to "exploratory talks" about returning to the Southern Conference, which is in search of three new members to replace departing schools. A formal invitation from the SoCon is not expected before the league's meetings May 28-31.
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Southern Conference targets VMI, ETSU, Mercer
During a conference call Thursday that lasted about 20 minutes, the Southern Conference made major progress toward adding new members to replace the departing College of Charleston, Appalachian State and Georgia Southern.
Commissioner John Iamarino w… more »
Monmouth moving to Big South Conference
Additional football scholarships. Games against FBS opponents. Some improvements at Kessler Field
All these developments appear more likely now with the announcement Wednesday of the 2014 move of the Monmouth University football program to the Big So… more »
Is Liberty's Football Bid an Evangelical Hail Mary Pass?
Falwell-founded school hopes its football team will boost evangelicals the way Notre Dame's helped Catholics.
Liberty University, the nation's largest Christian school, wants an invitation to move up to the highest level of college football.
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Negron to start at QB for SBU, but Essington likely will see action
If Stony Brook plans to contend for the Football Championship Subdivision national title, backup quarterback Lyle Negron must play a major role. Negron is listed as the starter for the Seawolves' second-round matchup with third-seeded Montana State Satu… more »
CAA in the Second Round
As one of FCS Football’s premier conferences, CAA Football certainly has no shortage of news and notes from around the league. Here are some of the latest storylines coming out of the conference and Saturday's matchups featuring New Hampshire and Old Do… more »
Stony Brook's bruising back Coker tough to tackle
It couldn't have been fun for Villanova to first try tackling 230-pound battering ram Marcus Coker and then the shifty Miguel Maysonet in Stony Brook's 20-10 first-round Football Championship Subdivision playoff win Saturday. The Wildcats got hit 54 tim… more »
SBU's Essington likely out of playoff game
Stony Brook quarterback Kyle Essington was the runaway national leader in FCS passing efficiency this season, but he likely will watch the Seawolves' first-round playoff game against Villanova from the sidelines Saturday afternoon at LaValle Stadium. Co… more »
Stony Brook's powerful run game will challenge Villanova
When Villanova visits Stony Brook on Saturday in a first-round Football Championship Subdivision playoff game, the Wildcats will be facing a team with a similar offensive mind-set, one which likes to move on the ground but can be a threat passing the ba… more »
Coastal Carolina’s risk hiring ‘billionaire coach’ pays off with FCS playoff bid
Coastal Carolina coach Joe Moglia increased the stock value of a company from $700 million to $10 billion in seven years. So he doesn’t think anyone should be surprised he could get the Football Championship Subdivision Chanticleers to the playoffs in h… more »
Coastal Carolina's Big South hopes are in Liberty
If Coastal Carolina beats Presbyterian this week, the Chanticleers will quickly become Liberty fans.
Liberty kicks off against Stony Brook two-and-a-half hours after the Coastal Carolina game starts, and a win by the Flames gives the Chanticleers a c… more »
Stony Brook QB flourishes in East, South
Brea Olinda’s Kyle Essington is having a big year quarterbacking Stony Brook, at least when epic storms don’t come to visit.
Five college football players in a house with no electricity for most of a week.
If that doesn't make you anticipate Saturd… more »
Gardner-Webb Looks to Gap-Control Wofford
Saturday night’s season opener at Spangler Stadium has all the elements college football can offer.
It pits two familiar rivals from the same region, Gardner-Webb and Wofford, not to mention that the visiting Terriers are ranked in the preseason in m… more »
Liberty on the lookout for FBS opening
First-year Liberty University football coach Turner Gill on Tuesday expressed confidence that the Flames' desired shift from FCS to FBS will be accomplished in the next four years. LU has declared itself FBS-ready, and awaits an invitation from an FBS l… more »
Coastal Carolina names its second-ever head coach
Coastal Carolina's hoping Joe Moglia has as much success with the Chants' football program as he had on Wall Street.
The team fired its only coach in program history last December, David Bennett, and replaced him with Moglia, who is best known for gr… more »
