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D1 College Football News
7-17-06
Source: www.footballfoundation.com
Coaches Connect with the Community as Offseason Draws to a Close
Despite preseason camp opening in just three short weeks, coaching staffs
from across college football are taking time away from their last minute
preparations to connect with members of their local communities. Coach John
L. Smith and his staff from Michigan State will host a youth football clinic
on campus on August 12, while Miami (OH) head coach Shane Montgomery and
numerous other RedHawks coaches are set to do the same this coming Sunday.
Vanderbilt's annual "Commodores in the Community", where fans have the
opportunity to meet Coach Bobby Johnson and several players from the
Commodore football team, will kickoff with a meet-and-greet in Nashville
this Friday. Ladies Football Clinics are scheduled at California, Clemson
and Baylor, while Tulsa opened their annual Football 101 Clinic to both men
and women this year. Annual Fan Day festivities at Auburn, taking place on
August 5 this year, provide fans the opportunity to meet head coach Tommy
Tuberville and receive autographs from members of the Tigers football team.
Baylor head coach Guy Morriss will speak to a group of Bears supporters in
Austin, Texas, on July 31 as part of a three-city tour during which the
coach will preview the upcoming season. Mark Richt's summer-long,
eight-city "Dawg Days" speaking circuit positioned him in front of hundreds
of University of Georgia supporters across Georgia and north Florida. And
at the Triangle Pigskin Preview in Durham this Thursday, coaches Chuck Amato
(North Carolina State), Rod Broadway (North Carolina Central), John Bunting
(UNC) and Ted Roof (Duke) will talk football along Tobacco Road to hundreds
of guests at an event annually hosted by the National Football Foundation's
Triangle Chapter.
Arizona State QB Pays Tribute to Teammate with Jersey Switch
This past March, a bullet pierced Arizona State recruit Angelo Richardson's
lungs and ribs, paralyzing him and ending his major college football career
before it could ever begin. Richardson had planned to join Sun Devil
quarterback and former high school teammate Sam Keller in Tempe for the 2006
season. But the bullet left Richardson with no feeling below his waist, and
as Keller prepared for his senior year atop the Sun Devils preseason depth
chart in competition with redshirt sophomore Rudy Carpenter for the starting
job, he decided to honor the request of his fallen tammate and switch from
his familiar #9 jersey number to #2 this year. Keller jumped at the
opportunity to wear #2 when Richardson asked him to sport his old jersey
number. "I thought about what I could do for him, because he wasn't going
to have much done for him," said Keller, who threw for 2,165 yards and 20
touchdowns in just seven games last season. "I thought about what I could
do for him, for my friend, that would mean something." The Sun Devils open
preseason camp on August 4 and begin their season on August 31 with a home
game against Northern Arizona.
Two-Minute Drill
DeAngelo Williams, the star senior tailback from Memphis last season, picked
up co-Male Athlete of the Year honors from Conference USA last week... Texas
quarterback Vince Young captured the Big 12 Conference Male Athlete of the
Year Award last week... Brown's Nick Hartigan, a finalist for the 2005
Draddy Trophy presented by HealthSouth, received the Fritz Pollard Award as
the Ivy League male varsity athlete of the year...
Eighty-eight players from the Penn State football team raised more than
$53,000 in contributions to benefit the Kidney Cancer Association through
their fourth annual "Penn State Lift for Life" event last week... Forty-two
freshmen varsity football players, including seven each from Florida, LSU,
Tennessee and Vanderbilt, earned a spot on the Southeast Conference's
2005-06 Freshman Honor Roll for achieving at least a 3.0 GPA while
completing a minimum of 24 credit hours... Georgia Tech wide receiver James
Johnson joined a group of other Yellow Jacket student-athletes to volunteer
with children afflicted by cancer at Camp Sunshine...
Temple and UConn agreed to a four-game series to start in 2007... Miami (OH)
and Northern Illinois moved their midseason matchup this year back one day
from October 7 to October 8... The GMAC Bowl rescheduled their annual
postseason game from December 21 to January 7...
1977 College Football Hall of Fame inductee Gale Sayers talked football and
life experiences with a group of National Football Foundation Chicago Metro
Chapter scholar-athletes during a question-and-answer session on July 10...
Houston established a Heisman Trophy promotional website for quarterback
Kevin Kolb, the I-A active leader in completions, passing yards and total
offense... The July 18 episode of NBC's "Fear Factor" reality show will
feature former Naval Academy football team captain Lt. Gervy Alota, who
played for the Midshipman from 1995-1998... Clemson will honor their fans on
August 13 in Memorial Stadium with their annual Fan Appreciation Day...
Kansas State's ongoing construction projects on the Vanier Football Complex,
which includes the installation of a new 23-foot by 61-foot video board, are
scheduled to be completed in time for their season opener against Illinois
State on September 2... Hughes Stadium, on the campus of Colorado State
University, received a new FieldTurf artificial playing surface last week as
part of minor renovations being made to the 39-year-old stadium this
offseason... Now through August 1, fans can vote for the greatest game ever
played at NC State's Carter-Finley Stadium, which is celebrating its 40th
anniversary this season, by logging on to gopack.com...
Former Stanford fullback Ernie Nevers, a 1951 inductee into the College
Football Hall of Fame, will posthumously receive induction into the U.S.
Marine Corps Sports Hall of Fame on July 28 in Quantico... Bruce Smith, the
former Virginia Tech star who is one of 15 members set for induction into
the College Football Hall of Fame this December 5, will be honored as part
of the 2006 class of inductees into the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame
on October 26... Former Nebraska standout Rich Glover, a 1995 inductee into
the College Football Hall of Fame, will be part of the inaugural class
inducted into the Jersey City (N.J.) Hall of Fame on September 28...
Rice University reached an agreement with new radio partner KKDL 1160 AM to
expand the broadcast of Owl football games into the Dallas market this
season... Army athletics partnered with XOS Technologies to launch a new
website to cover and promote Black Knights athletics last week... The
University of Tennessee athletics department awarded a ten-year multimedia
contract to Host Communications that includes enhancements to the
operational video board at Neyland Stadium...
Louisville signed head coach Bobby Petrino to a ten-year contract that locks
the Cardinals coach up through the 2015 season... Rice added longtime Kansas
State assistant coach Michael Smith as their new running backs coach...
Purdue named Joe Muller their new senior associate athletics director for
external relations... Brian Hardin accepted a position with Notre Dame as
their new director of football media relations... Former Cincinnati
associate AD Brian Teter was named the new athletics director at Texas
A&M-Corpus Christi... Delaware added Sandy Iverson and Charles "Chip"
Armbruster to their athletics administration staff.
Schedule Spotlight: Independents
Team - Date - First Opponent (Home/Away)
Army - September 2 - Arkansas State (A)
Navy - September 2 - East Carolina (H)
Notre Dame - September 2 - Georgia Tech (A)
With 120 chapters and 12,000 members nationwide, The National Football
Foundation & College Hall of Fame, a non-profit educational organization,
runs programs designed to use the power of amateur football in developing
scholarship, citizenship and athletic achievement in young people. The NFF
presents the MacArthur Trophy, the Draddy Trophy presented by HealthSouth
and releases the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) Standings. NFF programs
include the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind., Play It
Smart, the NFF Center for Youth Development Through Sport at Springfield
College (Mass.), the NFL-NFF Coaching Academy, and scholarships of over $1
million for college and high school scholar-athletes.
For more information, please visit www.footballfoundation.org
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