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D1 College Football News
MONDAY'S CHALKTALK
News and Notes from around college football for May 22, 2006
Source: www.footballfoundation.com
Bowden, Paterno, Heisman Winners Lead 2006 Division I-A Class of College
Football Hall of Famers
Coaches Bobby Bowden (Florida State) and Joe Paterno (Penn State), the two
winningest coaches in Division I-A history, former Heisman Trophy winners
Mike Rozier (Nebraska) and Charlie Ward (Florida State), and first-year
eligibles Bruce Smith (Virginia Tech) and Emmitt Smith (Florida) led a
star-studded class of Division I-A legends to earn induction into the
College Football Hall of Fame in 2006, the National Football Foundation
announced last Tuesday. Rounding out the class of 15 to be inducted at the
National Football Foundation’s Annual Awards Dinner on December 5 in New
York City are Bobby Anderson (Colorado), Bennie Blades (Miami (Fla.)), Carl
Eller (Minnesota), Steve Emtman (Washington), Thomas Everett (Baylor), Chad
Hennings (Air Force), Chip Kell (Tennessee), Mike Phipps (Purdue) and Jeff
Siemon (Stanford). Hennings, B. Smith and Ward spoke at press conference
announcing the class last Tuesday in New York, and help comprise a class
that includes three Outland Trophy winners (Emtman, Hennings, B. Smith); two
Maxwell Award winners (Rozier, Ward); two Jim Thorpe Award winners (Blades,
Everett); winners of the Lombardi Award (Emtman), Davey O’Brien Award (Ward)
and Johnny Unitas Award (Ward); and the first two Hall of Fame inductees who
played in the 1990s (Emtman, Ward). Following induction, this group will be
permanently enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend,
Ind., in the summer of 2007. “You never set out to win honors or awards,”
said Hennings at the press conference. “You set you to be the be the best
teammate that you can be, and that’s where I would like to recognize the
teammates that I played with at the Air Force Academy.”
College Football Hall of Famer Dan Ross Dies
Northeastern University great Dan Ross, a tight end who led the nation in
receiving in 1978, died Tuesday night at his home in New Hampshire. He was
49. A 2004 College Football Hall of Fame inductee, Ross still holds the
school records for receptions in a season (68) and in a career (217).
Following his record-setting senior season, Ross earned recognition as the
Bulger Lowe (Outstanding Player) and Harry Agganis (Outstanding Senior)
Award winner, both for football players in New England. The school retired
his #84 immediately following his final game. Ross parlayed his success in
college into a productive career in the NFL and USFL, and still holds a
share of the record for most receptions in a Super Bowl (11) while a member
of the Cincinnati Bengals.
ABC Enters Prime-Time with Full Slate of Saturday Night Games in 2006
ABC will re-enter the primetime television football foray next year with a
full slate of 8 p.m. EST starts for 12 weeks this coming season. The
network, which is surrendering its coverage of the NFL’s Monday Night
Football to ESPN starting this year, will put Brent Musburger alongside Bob
Davie in the primetime booth starting September 2, with occasional
commentating from Kirk Herbstreit, analyst on ESPN College GameDay. The
schedule begins with a showdown in Atlanta between Georgia Tech and Notre
Dame and also includes games such as Ohio State-Texas (Sept. 9),
Oregon-California (Oct. 7), Michigan-Penn State (Oct. 14) and Notre Dame-USC
(Nov. 25).
Two-Minute Drill
The May 22 edition of USA Today profiled the success of the National
Football Foundation’s Play It Smart program, which sends 80 percent of its
participants on to college. Launched in 1998, Play It Smart places academic
coaches on high school football teams to help at-risk student-athletes. The
article featured the program’s impact on USC’s Dwayne Jarrett, who
participated in the program at New Brunswick High School in New Jersey. The
article and a sidebar can be found on page 12C or at
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/preps/football/2006-05-21-play-it-smart_x.htm
.
Chuck Bennis, a two-time All-America guard from the University of Illinois,
died last Sunday at the age of 95… Former Tennessee Tech football coach Jim
Ragland, a two-time Ohio Valley Conference Coach of the Year, died Tuesday.
The school has already established a scholarships fund in his honor for the
TTU football program… Former Cincinnati and Virginia head coach George
Blackburn, who coached the Bearcats for six seasons from 1955-60 and the
Cavaliers from 1965-70, died in Ohio at the age of 93…
Michigan approved a $226 million stadium renovation, which will add luxury
boxes and club seats by the 2010 season. Kansas announced plans to build a
new, $31 million football complex with construction planned to start next
summer… Cincinnati just opened their new, $109 million Richard E. Lindner
Varsity Village, which includes a center for many of the school’s athletics
facilities… Iowa State has already set a new school record for the most
number of season football ticket sales in a single year… Florida and Georgia
hope to remove all references to the billing of their annual rivalry game as
the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party…
Texas Tech head coach Mike Leach will be the guest speaker at the NFF’s
Touchdown Club of Houston chapter banquet on June 8… George O’Leary and his
Central Florida Golden Knight football staff will talk football during the
2006 UCF Women’s Football Clinic on June 3… Sports Business Journal featured
a one-on-one interview with Michigan athletics director Bill Martin in its
May 8-14 issue… Oklahoma AD Joe Castiglione spoke to the Oklahoma Business
Ethics Consortium about integrity in recruiting last Wednesday… Notre Dame
athletics director Kevin White announced last Tuesday that the team will
start scheduling games at neutral sites beginning in 2009…
1984 Heisman Trophy winner Doug Flutie (Boston College) announced his
retirement from professional football following 21 seasons… Current NFF
Chairman and 1992 College Football Hall of Fame inductee Ron Johnson
(Michigan) had the football field at Northwestern High School in Detroit,
his alma mater, named in his honor last week… Former Texas A&M head coach
R.C. Slocum spoke at the scholar-athlete banquet for the Greater Austin
chapter of the National Football Foundation last week… The NCAA News
recently ran a feature article on Central State University assistant coach
Henderson Mosley for his invitation to a boy with cerebral palsy to visit
practices and the impact felt on the newly restarted football team at the
school… AFCA announced it will campaign the NCAA to add a fifth year of
eligibility for all Division I football players… The Atlantic Coast
Conference celebrated a record 51 NFL draft selections from league teams and
its best-ever television year during its annual meetings in Florida last
week…
Central Arkansas named John Thompson, former head football coach at East
Carolina, as their new athletics director… Marshall hired Phil Ratliff, a
former All-America offensive lineman for the Thundering Herd, as their new
tight ends coach…
Schedule Spotlight: The Big 12
Team – Date – First Opponent (Home/Away)
Baylor – September 2 – TCU (H)
Colorado – September 2 – Montana State (H)
Iowa State – August 31 – Toledo (H)
Kansas – September 2 - Northwestern State (H)
Kansas State – September 2 – Illinois State (H)
Missouri – September 2 – Murry State (H)
Nebraska – September 2 – Louisiana Tech (H)
Oklahoma – September 2 – Alabama-Birmingham (H)
Oklahoma State – September 2 – Missouri State (H)
Texas – September 2 – North Texas (H)
Texas A&M – September 2 – Citadel (H)
Texas Tech – September 2 – SMU (H)
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