Villanova athletics has fallen in love with the highlight reel, especially as a means of promoting teams and selling tickets. They released this slickly-produced highlight/hype reel with clips from the 2011 football season, and managed to find almost a minute worth of clips from the season that will not make you cry. Football is...
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Villanova’s Board of Trustees was just days away from officially voting to approve a plan to withdraw football from the CAA, upgrade the program to FBS and join the Big East. Administrators did not hide the fact that the Big East pulled the rug out from underneath that plan at the last minute. The...
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Villanova football has had its share of Big 33 Game alumni in recent years. Kevin Gulyas will be a rare one to attend the school as a walk-on, however. He was one of the best wide receivers in Pennsylvania High School history if you trust the statistics. The career leader for receiving yards (4,201)...
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George Mason is staying in the CAA. Every other school that was reportedly considering an offer to exit seems to be taking the exit option. Old Dominion is the latest among them — accepting an invitation to join Conference USA and to upgrade their three-year-old football program to the Bowl Subdivision. They will join...
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In 2010, the FCS playoffs expanded from 16 teams to 20, and it was just in time to help Villanova’s team make the field, despite losing star player Matt Szczur for most of the regular season. Szczur eventually returned to help the ‘Cats steal an overtime victory at Delaware to seal their invite to...
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Old Dominion’s move to Conference USA now seems to be close to completion. The school is in position to move to FBS after just one season playing in the CAA, largely because the conference that was raided by the Big East recently is in dire need of some larger television markets for its media...
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Jaryd “Hamburger” Jones-Smith clocks in at 6-7 and 290 pounds after his junior year of high school and he has emerged as one of best offensive line prospects in the Philadelphia area at West Catholic. It is no surprise that the 2013 lineman picked up a scholarship offer from Big East-bound Central Florida on...
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Butler University announced its move to the Atlantic-10 conference officially on Wednesday, and many reports have George Mason and VCU from the CAA following closely behind. If that happens — or even if it doesn’t — Old Dominion could also exit the CAA to move to Conference USA or another home. Those moves would...
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Reports surfaced over the weekend that Old Dominion had inquired about membership in a rebuilt Conference USA, leaving the CAA conference that they had just joined in football behind. Their football program entered the league last fall and now appears poised to join Georgia State (who join this fall) in moving their program to...
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It started with basketball. Prior to the 2010-11 season, Villanova’s basketball team was told to get off of the popular social networking site, Twitter, as well as Facebook and other platforms until their season was over. Players disabled, abandoned and deleted their accounts. When head coach Jay Wright finally joined the social media...
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