CAA makes best of difficult situation
Now that the excitement has worn off from the Colonial Athletic Association’s food chain addition of Elon, it’s worth asking: What did you expect?
A moderately successful athletic program that’s competed at the NCAA Division I level for all of 14 years, from a lower-rated league, doesn’t begin to compensate for losing marquee programs and charter members.
Elon’s parting shots: Genius move or just ungrateful?
Elon University athletics might lead the country. Congratulations — sort of. Elon will be joining its fourth conference affiliation in about a 17-year span when it buddies up with the Colonial Athletic Association for its next foray in its nomadic NCAA existence. Even in this era of conference realignments, Elon tends to be a here-today, gone-tomorrow operation.
Delany, Big Ten ADs should show FCS more respect
Unsolicited advice to Shawn Eichorst for how he can curry favor among the masses:
Using his best tough-guy voice, the Nebraska athletic director could proclaim that the Huskers intend to beef up their nonconference football schedules. In other words, goodbye to Football Championship Subdivision programs.
Bison move to FBS? Leave well enough alone
Can’t NDSU just leave well enough alone? What’s the point of fixing something that isn’t broken?
Judge to decide if former B-CU coach was fired over age
Alvin Wyatt, the winningest football coach in Bethune-Cookman history, will learn next week whether he will add another “W” to his win column — only this time it would be against his old university which he is suing for $1.2 million, accusing it of breach of contract.
Wyatt, 65, is suing B-CU, accusing it of breach of contract and age discrimination after he was fired in 2009 and replaced by then-39-year-old Brian Jenkins. Circuit Judge Terence R. Perkins said he would issue a ruling on Wednesday after the nonjury trial this week at the City Island Courthouse Annex.
FAMU coach eager to restore pride in Rattlers
Holmes, who is in his first season leading his alma mater, says he is eager to get back to rich winning tradition
New Florida A&M coach Earl Holmes refused to let his players step on a football field without going through a history lesson.
During meetings that spanned three days, he taught the current class of Rattlers about the program’s rich tradition.
Montana Grizzly Coaches Barbecue: For Delaney, retirement can wait
A year ago Mick Delaney came to Great Falls for the Grizzly Scholarship Association Coaches Barbeque as a recently unretired, 69-year-old charged with saving a floundering program in his first head coaching position in two decades.
Now 70, the University of Montana head football coach was back in the Electric City Wednesday for this year’s event with one year left on his contract and the always-high expectations of Griz Nation hoping last year’s 5-6 record was merely an aberration.
And Delaney has more energy now than ever and hopes to once again postpone retirement.
Laundry worker misses out on Bison national title ring
The game was over for several hours and Ciarra Beckstrand was one of the few remaining people in the Fargodome. It was her job to make sure the North Dakota State football laundry was washed and dried.
Columbia player charged with hate crime, students shocked by offensive tweets, admins respond
Police charged a Columbia football player with aggravated harassment on Tuesday after he allegedly assaulted and threatened another student with racial slurs.
According to NBC New York, the victim was a 19-year-old Asian student, who reported that as he was leaving a dormitory on W. 113th Street with two female friends, the suspect, Chad Washington, CC ’15, heckled the women.
After the victim tried to defend his friends, Washington followed him and called him racial slurs. He then shoved him against a wall, NBC reported.
New Mexico State presidential candidate open to moving to FCS
New Mexico State was saved from an uncertain future in football when it was invited to join the Sun Belt as a football-only member in March. Conference realignment had picked apart the WAC to the point of extinction, leaving NMSU and Idaho to fend for themselves and find a new home.
Disproportionate Paychecks: Education vs. Sports in College
If you’re an instructor in the Western Athletic Conference, the football coaches at your university and your fellow WAC member institutions are only making triple what you make. Only, because in the Southeastern Conference, the coaches’ salaries are eight times that of the faculty’s. (Well, 8.3 times as much.)
Furman's Clark confident in SoCon's future
Less than two months after learning it would soon lose two of its football powerhouses, the Southern Conference discovered it will lose its basketball bell cow.
Big Sky commissioner gives his thoughts on changing FCS landscape
The college football landscape is rapidly transforming. So, where is it heading?
There are no definitive answers – only a laundry list of hypothetical possibilities.
As the veteran commissioner of the Big Sky Conference, Doug Fullerton is at the forefront of these swift changes.
Big Sky should look toward NDSU
The Big Sky Conference is looking for a travel partner for UND.
It shouldn’t be looking too far.
An ideal addition sits just 75 miles away — UND’s longtime rival, North Dakota State.
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.
