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Big South Announces Largest-Ever Football TV Package
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (www.BigSouthSports.com) - The Big South Conference today announced that it will have its largest football TV package ever in 2010, as a League-record eight Conference games will be televised this upcoming season. Overall, the Big South will appear on television during 10 of the 12 weeks this season, including the final three weeks of the Conference campaign.
- 616 words - Big South Conference, Liberty Flames, Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs, VMI Keydets, Charleston Southern Buccaneers, Stony Brook Seawolves, Presbyterian Blue Hose Big South Announces Additional Television Coverage for Football
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (BigSouthSports.com) – The Big South Conference today announced additional television coverage of its football games during the 2009 season, beginning with Saturday’s showdown between No. 6 James Madison and No. 24 Liberty. Meanwhile, Saturday’s JMU-Liberty matchup also will be the national FCS Game of the Week on all-sports radio station WCKY-AM 1360 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
WPDE/WWMB-TV in Conway/Myrtle Beach will simulcast six Big South football games live, while the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN) will simulcast two games and tape delay two others. JCTV, a division of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), will tape delay five Liberty football broadcasts airing on the Flames Sports Network.
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Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Eight months might have passed when the Big South Conference gathered for its annual football media event on the final day of July, but the coaches of this fledgling Football Championship Subdivision league were still bristling about how its 2008 champion, Liberty had been left out of the playoffs.
“There is no way that Liberty should have been left out of the playoffs,” said Gardner-Webb’s Steve Patton, the dean of Big South coaches, who echoed the sentiment of almost. “Everyone said that Elon was in with a win and Liberty goes and dominates them and gets left out. How can you tell me that was fair?”
- 1824 words - Big South Conference, Liberty Flames, Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs, VMI Keydets, Charleston Southern Buccaneers, Stony Brook Seawolves, Presbyterian Blue Hose Big South Announces 2009 TV Package
The Big South Conference today announced its football TV package for the 2009 campaign, and the League will appear on television during nine of the 12 weeks this season. The TV slate features two games on the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN), as well as one broadcast on SportSouth. In addition, Big South members will appear on the BIG EAST Network and CBS College Sports this season, while Liberty University’s Flames Television Network will broadcast five home games involving the Flames. Additional telecasts may be added to the overall schedule at a later date.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (BigSouthSports.com) – For the third consecutive season, Liberty University has been tabbed as the favorite in the Big South Conference’s annual preseason football poll for the 2009 campaign, as voted by the League’s head coaches and media panel and announced today as part of the 2009 Big South Conference Football Kickoff Media Luncheon at the Renaissance Suites Hotel in Charlotte, N.C..
The two-time defending champion Flames enter the 2009 campaign with a Big South-record 11-game Conference win streak. Liberty, which was ranked in the Top 15 in the final national polls a year ago, was a perfect 5-0 in Big South play last year and is 24-10 overall in three seasons under head coach Danny Rocco. The Flames return 49 letterwinners and 12 starters in 2009, and received 10 of the 17 first-place votes cast and 109 total points to repeat as champions this season.
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The Citadel and Virginia Military Institute athletics departments have agreed to bring back the “Military Classic of the South.” The agreement, released on Tuesday by both schools, is for their teams to meet on the gridiron for six years, three in Charleston and three in Lexington, alternating seasons with the first at Johnson Hagood Stadium in 2011.
- 346 words - FCS News Articles, SoCon, Big South Conference, VMI Keydets, The Citadel Bulldogs VMI Lacks Beef in 56-16 Richmond Win
Stronger and thoroughly seasoned, Spiders extend recent dominance of series.
VMI’s Zach Collins returned a first-half kickoff yesterday against the University of Richmond and was forced out of bounds into UR’s bench area.
Collins ran into Brian Agnis, a 6-4, 300-pound Spiders’ reserve offensive lineman, who was holding his helmet, watching the play. Collins bounced off Agnis, went airborne in reverse and landed on his backside. Agnis didn’t move. That scene reflects Richmond’s 56-16 win over the Keydets.
VMI Sports Only Four Seniors on its ’08 Team
LEXINGTON — The skies may have opened up 10 minutes into the annual Virginia Military Institute football team’s media day Friday, but even torrential rains weren’t enough to drown the Keydets’ optimism about the upcoming 2008 season.
“11-0,” junior running back Howard Abegesah predicted as the team’s final record. “We’re going to win the Big South Conference. People have been saying that we’re going to be last, but we don’t believe that at all. They haven’t seen us practice. Our defense is flying around and hitting everybody. I think we’re going to be the Big South Conference winners.”
Q&A With VMI's Sparky Woods
Part two of our three-part Q&A series with members of the VMI athletics department features new head football coach Sparky Woods, who comes to Lexington after a year away from the game. That time was well spent. Woods got to watch son Casey play at the University of Tennessee during his hiatus from coaching. Casey was a receiver and holder for the Vols.
There will be plenty of football Xs and Os in our VMI preview story later this month. In this interview, I asked Woods about how fits in at the Institute.
Liberty Hailed as Big South Favorite
CHARLOTTE — While Liberty was the runaway choice as preseason Big South conference champion Friday, it became clear one team was very difficult to pin down.
Charleston Southern had a first-place vote and two last-place votes among the 13 ballots cast by coaches and media.
Overall, the Buccaneers were picked to finish fifth. Coastal Carolina was second while Presbyterian remains ineligible during its second year in transition from Division II.
VMI Offers Big Challenge for Sparky Woods
Football coach up against tradition.
Sparky Woods is older now, but still lean and balding and quick to smile, the spitting image of the guy fired by South Carolina following the 1993 season. He’s still a southern boy at 54, the drawl we first heard back when he was turning Appalachian State into a Division I-AA football power intact.
Now, though, after a year away from the game, Woods has returned as coach at Virginia Military Institute, attempting to turn around a program that was 2-9 a year ago, a program that is tough to turn around because of its discipline-laden, military traditions.
FBS West Virginia's Coaching Staff Has FCS Flavor
West Viriginia’s staff has veterans from FCS national champions, and FCS schools around Virginia.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Here in the war room at West Virginia University, the newly assembled football staff is building its offense, but the braintrust has hit a snag .
Offensive coordinator Jeff Mullen, who helped Wake Forest to an ACC title in 2006, is stumped. So is associate head coach Doc Holliday, who helped Florida win a national championship in 2007 . Receivers coach Lonnie Galloway, who came from an Appalachian State staff that won the past three I-AA national titles, has no answers.
The group turns to the youngest, least-experienced coach in the room. He offers simple advice, his career-long mantra.
“I know one thing,” Chris Beatty says. “You don’t take the ball out of your best player’s hands. You just don’t. Let’s start there.”
Three of Virginia's Seven FCS Teams Add An Extra Game
As college football fans check schedules for the upcoming season, there will be head-scratching among those following programs in the Football Championship Subdivision, formerly Division I-AA.
Three of the seven FCS programs in Virginia (Richmond, Liberty and Norfolk State) play 12 games in 2008. The other four (William and Mary, James Madison, VMI and Hampton) play 11.
So what’s up? In 2008, there are 13 Saturday playing dates that fall between the allowable NCAA kickoff time of Labor Day weekend and the NCAA close of regular-season business on Thanksgiving. Usually, there are 12.
W&M Grad And Steeler Head Coach Tomiln Tells Graduates To 'Dream Wildly'
Sports Illustrated’s Peter King talks in his Monday Morning Quaurterback column about current Steeler head football coach Mike Tomlin and his path through I-AA to the NFL.
Nice doubleheader for Steelers coach Mike Tomlin last weekend. He made the commencement address at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa. (summer home of the Steelers) on Saturday, and then at William & Mary (his alma mater) on Sunday. He did both without a written transcript. Which stuns me, by the way. Winging a speech that significant is not something Dale Carnegie could do.
Keydets Decide on New Football Coach
VMI will be veteran Sparky Woods’ third head coaching job after stints at Appalachian State and FBS South Carolina.
Nobody likes being fired, but Sparky Woods found some good when he and the rest of Mike Shula’s coaching staff were sent packing by Alabama last year.
“It probably ought to be a rule that every 30 years you get to take a year off,” he said.
Woods’ sabbatical is over.
On Tuesday, Woods became the new head coach of the VMI football team. The former head coach at South Carolina and Appalachian State agreed to a five-year contract with an annual base salary of $122,000, director of athletics Donny White said.
Davis Will Keep Number, Make Name at UMass
Lynchburg, VA paper talks about three FCS signees at UMass, VMI, and Winston-Salem State.
Heritage running back Korrey Davis will follow in the footsteps of a few NFL-caliber running backs at Massachusetts when he arrives there next fall.
He’ll even get to keep his No. 5 jersey, the same number worn by of two of them - Arizona Cardinal Marcel Shipp, UMass’ all-time leading rusher, and Steve Baylark, who was drafted by the Cardinals after playing in the NCAA Division I-AA championship game as a senior in 2006.
VMI Head Coach Jim Reid Joins Miami Dolphins Staff
Taking Dolphins’ post wasn’t an easy decision for VMI’s head coach.
He said he wasn’t looking to leave. He didn’t sound as if he wanted to leave.
But Jim Reid resigned as VMI’s football coach Wednesday after two seasons and a 3-19 record because he didn’t feel he could pass up the chance to join the Miami Dolphins’ staff.
More Georgia Recruits On FCS Schools' Radar
More reports out of Georgia about recruits choosing - or considering - FCS schools.
Most folks in recruiting circles know about Stockbridge’s Tyler Bass, the run/pass threat at quarterback who’s being recruited by several schools, including Louisville (where he visited last weekend) and Maryland (where he has a visit scheduled for this weekend).
But the Tigers have several players who will move on to the next level in the fall.
Five other Stockbridge players are being recruited by Div. I, I-AA and Div. II schools — defensive lineman Randy Salmon (Louisville, Southern Miss and Georgia Southern), defensive back Rickie Hubbard (North Carolina Central and Middle Tennessee), linebacker Trey Powell (North Carolina Central and Alabama A&M), and offensive linemen D’Angelo Smith (VMI and Bucknell) and Darius Brown (Alabama A&M, Tusculum and Winston Salem State).
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