Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) – Unless you’re the Kentucky men or the UConn women, you don’t have to win your final game in the NCAA basketball tournament for the season to be considered successful. So much emphasis is put on the postseason that we’ve come to forget what a good season can look like. There are […]

Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) – The Missouri Valley Football Conference beat its chest entering last season and then backed it up. After gaining only two FCS playoff qualifiers in 2013, people around the Valley were incensed about it and entered last season saying it wasn’t right for a conference they considered to be the best in […]

Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) – Arkansas-Pine Bluff’s Monte Coleman isn’t just the dean of Southwestern Athletic Conference head football coaches, he’s the dinosaur. Change apparently is good in the SWAC. Among its 10 member schools, UAPB, with Coleman headed toward his seventh season, is the only school not to have a new head coach since the […]

Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) – Five CAA Football teams had Top 25 rankings last season and then didn’t even finish with a winning record in conference play. The grinding nature of the CAA schedule never changes. The 12-team conference’s depth makes spring practices an important time for teams to develop a depth chart and get players […]

Portland, OR (SportsNetwork.com) – Portland State and new coach Bruce Barnum will face two FBS opponents and five teams at home as part of an 11-game 2015 schedule announced on Thursday. Barnum, the team’s offensive coordinator over the past five seasons, was given a one-year contract in December to guide the Vikings, who finished 3-9 […]

Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) – This time last year, not only did it seem strange to see former Delaware football coach K.C. Keeler in Sam Houston blue, white and orange, but there was little telling what his lineup would look like in the 2014 season. With graduation and injuries as well as 13 transfers joining the […]