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D1 College Football News
5-30-06
Gold Medal Rewards Two of Football’s Greatest Leaders
Source: www.footballfoundation.com
Bobby Bowden and Joe Paterno, both one week removed from earning election
into the College Football Hall of Fame, received another honor last Thursday
as the 2006 recipients of the National Football Foundation’s Gold Medal, the
highest award bestowed by the Foundation. The coaches become the 49th and
50th recipients of the award and join a list of former honorees that
includes seven U.S. Presidents, four U.S. Generals, John Wayne and Jackie
Robinson. Bowden, current coach at Florida State, and Paterno, longtime
head man at Penn State, have won a combined 713 games and 40 bowl games and
collectively produced 141 First Team All-Americas and 20 National
Scholar-Athletes. The two met this past bowl season in the FedEx Orange
Bowl, a triple-overtime thriller won by Penn State, 26-23. Both coaches
will received their Gold Medals and their Hall of Fame induction during the
NFF’s 49th Annual Awards Dinner on December 5 in New York City.
Tillman, GameDay, Dodds, Lamberts Honored by NFF
A former Army Ranger, a pioneering television show, the leader behind one of
the nation’s most successful athletics programs and a father-son officiating
tandem highlighted the list of other 2006 award winners announced by the
National Football Foundation last week. Pat Tillman, the former Arizona
State standout who lost his life fighting with the Army Rangers elite
infantry regiment in Afghanistan, will receive the Distinguished American
Award. The Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football Award will go to
ESPN College GameDay, which is entering its 20th season of providing
unparalleled coverage of weekly match-ups each Saturday during the college
football season. University of Texas athletics director DeLoss Dodds will
be recognized with the John L. Toner Award, presented to a director of
athletics who has shown outstanding dedication to college athletics,
particularly college football. The Outstanding Football Official Award will
honor the late Buddy Lambert, Sr., and his son, Buddy Lambert, Jr., both
longtime officials in the SEC. These awards will be part of the NFF’s 49th
Annual Awards Dinner in New York City on December 5.
ABC, ESPN Unveil Announcing Teams for 2006 College Football Saturdays
College GameDay wasn’t the only television news coming from the ABC/ESPN
college football family last week. The networks announced their broadcast
teams for their coverage of college football during the 2006 season.
Analysts Bob Davie and Kirk Herbstreit will join Brent Musburger in the
booth for ABC’s inaugural primetime Saturday night telecasts this fall. The
ESPN Saturday night crew will feature Mike Patrick and Todd Blackledge.
Other teams slated for announcing duties include: the three-man booth of
Brad Nessler, Paul Maguire and Bob Griese; Tim Brant joining play-by-play
man Dan Fouts, who slid over from the color analyst spot he held last year
alongside the since-retired Keith Jackson; Doug Flutie joining the studio
for college football analysis; and GameDay host Chris Fowler taking over the
play-by-play duties on Thursday night ESPN broadcasts from Mike Tirico.
Ivy Football Association Donates $50,000 to Play It Smart
The Ivy Football Association (IFA) stepped forward last week to donate
$50,000 to support the National Football Foundation’s highly successful Play
It Smart program. The program, currently in 136 schools nationwide, trains
academic coaches to work with high school football teams year-round in
applying the lessons learned on the football field to their work in the
classroom and the community. The IFA recognized the role served by Play It
Smart to encourage educational and professional accomplishment in the lives
of over 10,000 student-athletes each year. “The support of the Ivy Football
Association brings an important and prestigious group to the table as part
of a diverse collation backing this unique program,” said Ronnie Lott,
chairman of the National Advisory Board and honorary chairman of the Play It
Smart Fundraising Committee.
Two-Minute Drill
Tony Sardisco, the longtime president of the S.M. McNaughton (Shreveport)
chapter of The National Football Foundation and a former Tulane All-America,
died this past weekend at the age of 73... Former Florida Gators star and
University of Miami assisant coach Joe Brodsky died last week from prostate
cancer... Craig “Ironhead” Heyward, a standout at the University of
Pittsburgh and later in the NFL, died last week at age 39 following a long
battle with an inoperable brain tumor... Cathy Mazurkiewicz died last
Wednesday after a bout with melanoma. Her son Montana received a dying wish
of calling a play, “pass right”, for Notre Dame last season in their game
against Washington... Doug DiCenzo, honored as a High School Scholar-Athlete
by the New Hampshire chapter of the National Football Foundation in 1995,
died last Thursday while serving in Iraq as part of the Army’s Multinational
Division...
SMU received the 2006 American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Academic
Achievement Award for graduating 100% of its members of the 2000-2001
freshman class. 28 other schools received distinction for graduating 70% or
more of their football student-athletes, including five (Boston College,
Duke, Northwestern, Notre Dame and Southern Mississippi) who graduated 90%
or more... A statue of 1956 Heisman Trophy winner and 1985 College Football
Hall of Fame inductee Paul Hornung, a Louisville native, will be unveiled
this week outside of Louisville Slugger Field in Kentucky... The Big 12
Conference announced it will stay with an eight-game conference football
schedule this year rather than increase it to nine games...
CBSSportsline.com reported that Division I football coaches are organizing
an effort to overturn a new transfer rule that allows fifth-year seniors who
have graduated to transfer without sitting out a year...
2004 College Football Hall of Fame inductee Bob Anderson, 1954 All-America
end Donald Holleder and 1951 College Football Hall of Fame inductee
quarterback Charles Daly will be among 11 inductees in the 2006 Class of
Army Sports Hall of Fame this September... Marino Casem, longtime Alcorn
State head coach and later an administrator and coach at Southern and a
member of the College Football Hall of Fame, will receive induction this
summer into the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics
(NACDA) Hall of Fame... Former Texas Tech and South Carolina head coach Jim
Carlen earned induction last Tuesday into the South Carolina Athletic Hall
of Fame...
The Milwaukee Athletic Club honored former Wisconsin head coach Barry
Alvarez last Wednesday for his service to the school as coach and athletics
director... The San Antonio Express-News reported that San Antonio has
emerged as the frontrunner to host the 2007 Big 12 football championship
game... Florida Citrus Sports announced it plans to bid to host a Bowl
Championship Series game in several years... 84 football players from the
University of Washington visited 12 area schools last week as part of the
team’s “Blitz the Sound” program to teach area youth about the importance of
education... Bowling Green State University announced its annual Women For
Falcon Football Kickoff Clinic will take place on July 27 on campus... The
2006 Kirk Herbstreit Ohio v. USA Challenge will feature seven high school
football teams that finished 2005 in the national rankings... Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute senior Grant Cochran, the last of six brothers from
the state of Washington who played football at the Troy, N.Y. schools,
graduated last Saturday. One of his brothers, Flynn, was a National
Football Foundation National Scholar-Athlete in 2003... Purdue will replace
the bluegrass turf surface at Ross-Ade Stadium with Bermuda sod...
Author John Feinstein will join Navy radio broadcasts for pregame commentary
and analysis for a select number of games this year... Former Utah DL Maake
Kemoeatu donated $20,000 to Weber State, where his former coach at Utah, Ron
McBride, now coaches... The NCAA Expert Coaches Academy, an NCAA initiative
to address the shortage of minority head coahces in college football, is
taking place this week in Miami...
The Meineke Car Care Bowl extended an agreement with the Big East Conference
to host one of its teams in the Charlotte, N.C. bowl through the 2009
season... The Dallas Morning News reported that the officials from the State
Fair of Texas, where the Cotton Bowl sits, have contacted two dozen schools
to inquire about potentially playing a neutral site football game there in
the coming years... Members of the 1976 UCLA Rose Bowl team will gather on
campus for a 30th reunion and celebration this Saturday to commemorate their
upset of undefeated Ohio State... The Big Ten Conference extended its
agreement to send a team to the Motor City Bowl to face a Mid-American
Conference team... Bruce Gadd was named chairman of the Cotton Bowl Athletic
Association... The MasterCard Alamo Bowl named Bob Cohen its new chairman of
the board...
Virginia athletics director Craig Littlepage received the Black Coaches
Association administrator of the year honors for the second time in three
years... Herman Frazier, athletics director at the University of Hawaii,
received the Lifetime Achievement Award this month from Arizona State
University, his alma mater... Bob De Carolis, the athletics director at
Oregon State, signed a five-year contract extension to remain at the
school... Former Sugar Bowl executive Troy Mathieu was named the new
athletics director at Grambling State... Rick Hart, an athletics official at
Oklahoma, will be the new athletics director at Chattanooga...
Texas head coach Mack Brown underwent successful knee replacement surgery
last week... Central Florida head coach George O’Leary received a ten-year
contract extension just one year after guiding UCF to its first bowl
appearance last season... Eastern Michigan added Jim O’Neil and Josh Buis as
assistant coaches... Florida Atlantic added Johnny Frost as their new
defensive end coach... Ohio State assistant coach Jim Bollman is recovering
following successful heart bypass surgery on Saturday...
David Lawrence will move to the broadcast booth to replace recently retired
Max Falkenstein, the 1998 winner of the NFF’s Chris Schenkel Award, for
Kansas football radio broadcasts this season... Alabama named Doug Walker
associate athletic director for media relations... Tennessee associate AD
for media relations Bud Ford will receive the College Sports Information
Directors of America (CoSIDA) 2006 Arch Ward Award... University of Virginia
’s director of football operations Luke Goldstein was elected president of
the Collegiate Sports Video Association... Central Florida added David
Chambers and David Hansen to their athletics management staff.
Schedule Spotlight: Conference USA
Team – Date – First Opponent (Home/Away)
Alabama- Birmingham – September 2 – Oklahoma (A)
Central Florida – September 2 – Villanova (H)
East Carolina – September 2 – Navy (A)
Houston – September 2 – Rice (A)
Marshall – September 2 – West Virginia (A)
Memphis – September 2 – Mississippi (A)
Rice – September 2 – Houston (H)
SMU – September 2 – Texas Tech (A)
Southern Miss – September 2 – Florida (A)
Texas – El Paso – August 31 – San Diego State (A)
Tulane – September 9 – Houston (A)
Tulsa – August 31 – Stephen F. Austin (H)
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