TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- FAMU Athletics is searching for the next announcer at Bragg Stadium. longtime announcer Kenneth Jones retires after 30 years on the job. It's down tot he final 11. See who makes the cut to the final 3. Watch as the contenders are dwindled down until there is a winner.
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Saturday, August 27, 2016
Norfolk State Football Preview
NORFOLK, Virginia -- Trouble with the ground game
With a two-headed monster of Greg Hankerson and Gerard Johnson carrying the football, NSU's rushing attack was surprisingly bad last year. They didn't have a single rusher average more than 50 yards per game, and averaged under 100 yards per game and a paltry 3.1 yards per carry as a team. If the Spartans want to put up points, they'll have to fix their ground game.
Deep Defensive Line
During the offseason, the Spartans switched their base defense from a 3-4 to a 4-3 to emphasize the depth they have on the defensive line. Chris Lee and Phoebus high product Walter Brantley give the Spartans a strong interior presence.
Stability at QB
The Spartans have experienced a lot of turnover at the quarterback position in recent years, so they are looking forward to the return of senior quarterback Greg Hankerson, who started all 11 games last season after transferring in from Florida Atlantic.
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Hampton U football preview: Breaking down players, storylines and games to watch
HAMPTON, Virginia -- THE COACHCONNELL MAYNOR
Seventh year (54-20, 9-14 in two seasons at HU).
After being hired from Winston-Salem State, Maynor went 3-9 in his first season. That should put last year's 6-5 record, the program's first winning season since 2011, in better perspective. After losing 24 seniors, Maynor had to bring in more than a dozen transfers, including nine from FBS programs. Many of them could turn out to be starters.
THE STANDOUTS
T.J. Mixson
Sr. | 5-10 | 166 | WR
He goes into his final season with 140 catches for 2,171 yards and 19 TDs. That's fourth, fifth and sixth on the school's all-time list. All he needs to break all three marks are 50 receptions, 920 yards, and four TDs. A great season, to be sure, but each category would be a drop-off from his junior year (59 catches, 1,027 yards, 9 TDs).
Chaka Diarrassouba
Jr. | 6-0 | 188 | DB
With seven of the top eight tacklers from last season gone, he's the top returner with 42 stops and a blocked a field-goal attempt. He had eight tackles twice and seven in two other games. His most productive day came against Morgan State (seven tackles and an interception).
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Kellenberger: Predicting the football season
JACKSON, Mississippi -- Brandon Bryant has eight career starts. Breeland Speaks has two. Tony Hughes has never been a head coach before. Jay Hopson has never been a head coach at a FBS-level school.
Yet these are the men that are on the front of this year’s The Clarion-Ledger college football preview because they represent the future. We’ll always remember 2014, and 2015 was pretty great with Ole Miss winning a Sugar Bowl, Southern Miss and Alcorn State both taking home conference titles and Mississippi State sending out Dak Prescott with nine wins.
But it’s 2016 now, and it’s time for something new. It’s time for who is next.
That does not mean we’re predicting a slide. Quite the opposite, actually. It’s our opinion that there’s no outside forces preventing Ole Miss and Mississippi State from continuing to win in the vaunted SEC West, and why should Southern Miss not continue to score at will against most of Conference USA? Hughes was the best hire Jackson State could have possibly made, and those games against Alcorn State should be contentious, meaningful and fun as hell to watch.
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Experienced ASU Hornets try to take step toward SWAC title
MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- FOUR-DOWN TERRITORY
1. Welcome back: Alabama State begins the second season of the Brian Jenkins era with reasonably higher expectations. The Hornets were picked to finish second in the SWAC East behind defending SWAC champion Alcorn State. ASU return 17 starters from a season that was defined by resiliency. “Experience helps to build the team,” said lineman Kerry Williams, a three-year starter. “We’ve played together for a number of years so we all know each other. There will be nothing new to us.”
2. Ready to run: The Hornets have rushed for more than 2,000 yards as a team each of the last three seasons. Last season, ASU was fifth in the SWAC with an average of 182.3 rushing yards per game. Senior Khalid Thomas (720 rush yards and five touchdowns last season) returns to lead the backfield, but may have to shoulder even more of the load early as sophomore Alex Anderson, the second-leading rusher for the Hornets last season, is currently nursing a leg injury.
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Previewing SWAC Football
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Coach with the toughest job
Rick Comegy, Mississippi Valley State: Comegy is working with a lot less resources than most of the conference’s other coaches. The Delta Devils are starting to build some talent, but went 1-10 last season and were picked to finish last in the East Division this year.
Newcomers to watch
Darius Floyd, Prairie View A&M, WR: The 5-foot-10, 175-pound redshirt junior should be a nice receiving target for Panthers quarterback Trey Green, who is one of the better quarterbacks in the conference.
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Gimme Some Mo Blue and Gold Marching Machine ... North Carolina A&T State University Blows Open the 2016 Band Season
Here it is, the first field show of the 2016 marching season! The band salutes various female artists at "The Battle for the Crown" in Greenville, SC., Aug. 20, 2016.
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