VIRGINIA: Strong recruiting plays off
By Michael Mueller | September 6, 2004It’s finally starting to come together for head coach Al Groh and the Virginia Cavaliers.
It’s finally starting to come together for head coach Al Groh and the Virginia Cavaliers.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Momentum plays a key role in every football game. Whichever team best utilizes momentum swings almost always wins.
September 18, the Virginia Tech football team will become a true member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. That is the date when Duke will roll the welcome wagon all the way to Blacksburg, Va.
The battle started last spring and will not end any time soon.
Still high off last year’s surprising mid-season turnaround and Peach Bowl victory, Clemson, with 14 returning starters, expects to build off last year’s momentum in Death Valley.
With the nation’s sixth-hardest schedule, N.C. State will undoubtedly have the opportunity to prove itself against some of the strongest teams in the nation.
The Duke football team will face many challenges this season, both from its own lack of experience and from the talent its opponents will bring to the field.
At first glance, one might have wondered if anyone could have lifted Duke’s football program out of its perpetual doldrums.
Can a football team ever have too much depth?.
The last time Duke’s receiving corps was this excited about the upcoming season, the Blue Devils were playing under the not-so-humble tutelage of Steve Spurrier.
The wait is over.
Duke is readying for its season opener against Navy when the Blue Devils will have to contend with a pounding option-oriented offense and a ferocious defense.
The Duke football team, which has been galvanized by the leadership of first-year head coach Ted Roof, announced Thursday the selection of five captains who hope to maintain that positive energy...
As graduation rates for men’s basketball and football players remain alarmingly low, coaches are pushing to extend athletes’ NCAA eligibility for an additional year.
Fred Goldsmith took Duke to the Hall-of-Fame Bowl in his initial season with the Blue Devils, but after four years of losing and a major scandal, he was let go.
Fred Goldsmith, 60, coached Duke from 1994 through 1998 and took Duke to the Hall of Fame bowl in his initial season. He is currently the head coach at Franklin High School in Hyattsville, N.C.
Just weeks into the fledgling football season, head coach Ted Roof is making his intensity felt in the Blue Devil football program.
Just one year ago, former head coach Carl Franks was having serious trouble attracting recruits to Duke's football program.