I-AA - The Big Picture
Big Sky Conference
Steve Spacek Passes Away
Memorial service is Wednesday at 2 p.m. for the loyal EWU educator and supporter of Eagle Athletics
Mar 27, 2006, 19:28
Big Sky Conference
Bobcats start first spring drills of post-Lulay era today
When Montana State head football coach Mike Kramer announced plans last week to push back the start of spring football practice, it wasn't because the Bobcats were doing all they could to delay the official start of the post-Travis Lulay era. But it's certainly a valid enough reason.
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Mar 27, 2006, 08:30
I-AA Independents
Former Govs see positives in move to OVC
Many of those in town for Austin Peay's football reunion weekend are pleased with, and excited about the changes occurring with the Govs football program. And they can't wait for their 2007 re-entry into the Ohio Valley Conference.
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Mar 27, 2006, 08:28
I-AA Independents
APSU made right move for future with McCray
With the three-year contract extension handed out to Govs football coach Carroll McCray, the administration signed off on the football program's stability.
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Mar 27, 2006, 08:27
Southern Conference
UTC’s Lomax suffers serious leg injury
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga lost a player it couldn’t lose on the first play of its first spring scrimmage. Starting noseguard Brian Lomax broke his left tibia and fibula Sunday at Finley Stadium when a teammate fell on the back of his leg.
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Mar 27, 2006, 08:26
Southwestern Athl. (SWAC)
Learning continues during in-state tour
Jackson State's spring football practice sessions are long over. But that doesn't mean new coach Rick Comegy has allowed the learning to stop. This week, Comegy took his coaching staff on an in-state football tour of sorts.
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Mar 27, 2006, 08:25
Southwestern Athl. (SWAC)
Southern signing class adds depth
Southern’s football team pushed almost every qualified freshman into action, with most of them starting, last season. That’s not how SU coach Pete Richardson has done things for more than a dozen years. But that’s how thin the Jaguars, who went 4-5, were.
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Mar 27, 2006, 08:23
Mid-Eastern Athl. (MEAC)
MEAC should stay in I-AA playoff fold
Separate but equal was a bad idea when the principle was validated by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision in 1896. Separate but equal finally was struck down in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, although it took longer for the idea to disappear.
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Mar 26, 2006, 08:40
Southern Conference
Powers back coaching Cats
CULLOWHEE — One name and one year come to mind whenever someone mentions the “glory days” of Western Carolina University football: Bob Waters and 1983. The only head coach in school history with a career winning record, Waters guided the Catamounts to the brink of a Division I-AA national championship that year.
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Mar 26, 2006, 08:39
Southern Conference
Curtain rises on VanGorder era at GSU
STATESBORO - Well, they were still wearing blue and white. That's about the only thing the same at Georgia Southern in this off-season of change that has already brought a new coach, a new offense and more new questions than at any time in the last 20 years of Eagle football.
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Mar 26, 2006, 08:37
Southern Conference
UTC tight ends bigger, stronger
John Parkinson and Joseph Pitman both know they’ve gotten stronger since last fall. They both think that will make them more complete tight ends, but they won’t know for sure until the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga puts on pads today for the first time this spring.
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Mar 26, 2006, 08:36
Patriot League
Coen's way refreshing for players
BETHLEHEM | It didn't take Andy Coen long to start raising the hopes and lifting the spirits of Lehigh University's football team. From the opening day of spring practice, the new head coach of the Mountain Hawks inspired everyone to think big.
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Mar 26, 2006, 08:35
Ohio Valley Conf. (OVC)
Crowded QB race to start Monday
CHARLESTON -- Still not kicking, Steve Kuehn has returned to a key role in Eastern Illinois football. The guy who place kicked for three years before being sidelined last year by an injury now has duties that could help decipher what has to be one of the most crowded quarterback competitions in the country.
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Mar 26, 2006, 08:34
Ivy League
Quakers must speak out on Ivy playoff ban
Sometime in the next week or two, Penn's Undergraduate Assembly will likely vote on a proposal calling for University President Amy Gutmann to vote to overturn the Ivy League's ban on postseason play for football. If the proposal passes, Penn's UA will be in the same company as Princeton and Harvard -- both schools' undergraduate governing bodies have passed similar legislation in recent weeks.
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Mar 26, 2006, 07:02
Gateway FB Conference
Q & A: SIU head coach Jerry Kill
Philadelphia, PA - Five years ago, Jerry Kill took the head coaching position at Southern Illinois knowing that he had a reclamation project on his hands. In just three seasons, Kill transformed the Saluki program from a perennial loser to a Gateway Conference champion.
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Mar 26, 2006, 07:01
Southland Conference
Redshirt freshmen shine in Demons' scrimmage
NATCHITOCHES — Redshirt freshman quarterback Roch Charpentier completed 8 of 9 passes for 106 yards while rookie tailbacks Patrick Earl and Byron Lawrence each ran for nearly 70 yards Saturday morning as Northwestern State held a 45-play spring football scrimmage at Turpin Stadium.
Mar 26, 2006, 07:00
Southern Conference
Mountaineers Receive Rings at Championship Banquet
BOONE, N.C. — A sellout crowd of over 700 witnessed Appalachian State University football players and coaches receive their 2005 national title rings during Saturday night’s national championship banquet at the Holmes Center.
Mar 26, 2006, 06:57
Big Sky Conference
Offense shows promise, defense forces six turnovers
The University of Montana's first spring football scrimmage began and ended with big hits, and featured six turnovers on a sunny Friday inside Washington-Grizzly Stadium. But in between, the offense showed flashes of promise for 2006.
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Mar 26, 2006, 06:56
I-AA Independents
McCray receives 3-year extension
Austin Peay announced Wednesday that it extended head football coach Carroll McCray's contract through the end of the 2008 season. On Thursday, The-Leaf-Chronicle obtained the specifics of McCray's new three-year, $68,952 deal that runs from June 22, 2006, through Dec. 31, 2008.
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Mar 26, 2006, 06:53
Atlantic 10 FB Conf.
URI: Nichols Promoted To Associate HFBC
The architect behind one of the nation's premier ground attacks is elevated to an even more prominent role with the program.
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Mar 26, 2006, 06:51
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