Greg Vacek's Daily Web Roundup
Saturday, December 8, 2018

Packers’ Greene to ECU fans: Houston will revive the football program…Houston’s Staff Allows ECU To ‘Hit The Ground Running’…ECU’s Houston hires ten staff, including eight coaches from JMU…Army-Navy Game Takes Center Stage In Philadelphia Saturday…Sterlin Gilbert is Gone as South Florida Gets Bowl Ready…Temple’s Geoff Collins leaving for Georgia Tech; he won’t coach Owls’ bowl game…UF AD Scott Stricklin open to playing UCF; Knights AD Danny White suggests neutral-site game…SEC’s Sankey: UCF should look ‘inward’ to address CFP issues…NCAA denies appeal of Wichita St’s Allen to play this season …Wichita State baseball coach recounts 1989 White House trip to meet George H.W. Bush…Ric Flair, Wahoo among President George H.W. Bush’s ties to pro wrestling…Ex-Clemson kicker Catanzaro gets Carolina Panthers call at Zaxby’s in Charleston…Redskins, D.C. working with Congress to slip stadium provision into spending bill…The Knee’s Better. Deshaun Watson’s Better. And the Texans Are Better.

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Houston Announces Additions To First ECU Staff ecupirates.com

Greenville Daily Reflector

• Lewis, Johnson still commited following coaching change
• Houston names staff members

New East Carolina coach brings 8 James Madison assistants USA Today

Raleigh News and Observer

• Packers’ Greene to ECU fans: Houston will revive the football program
• Houston announces 10 additions to ECU staff

Houston’s Staff Allows ECU To ‘Hit The Ground Running’ Daily News-Record

Nine former staff members from JMU join Mike Houston at ECU The Breeze

ECU’s Houston hires ten staff, including eight coaches from JMU WITN 7

Mike Houston announces 10 new hirings to football staff 247 Sports

Mike Houston Announces His New Coaching Staff at ECU Rivals.com

 

Around the American Athletic Conference

theamerican.org

• Army-Navy Game Takes Center Stage In Philadelphia Saturday
• Campus Connect – Navy, Bill the Goat
• American Digital Network to Carry 15 Women’s Basketball Contests

BCSNN

• AAC Daily: Houston Gets Ready for the Armed Forces Bowl and More
• Oklahoma State Men’s Basketball Hosts an Undefeated Houston Team
• AAC Daily: Sterlin Gilbert is Gone as South Florida Gets Bowl Ready

Annapolis Capital

• Navy kicker Bennett Moehring wants to be remembered as ‘the guy that never gave up’
• Hype, build-up for Army-Navy culminates at 3:10 Saturday
• Army-Navy Game: A look inside the matchup
• Jarid Ryan, Jake Hawk made mark with Mids

Philly.com

• Temple’s Geoff Collins leaving for Georgia Tech; he won’t coach Owls’ bowl game
• Geoff Collins is leaving Temple for Georgia Tech: What’s next for the Owls’ football team? | Mike Jensen
• Temple players say they must move on after Geoff Collins departs as football coach
• For Army and Navy football players, size is a weighty issue during and after their college football careers
• Trump will handle coin toss for Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia

At Ease: An Old Army-Navy Score Has Been Settled New York Times

Charlie Strong hoping for another early signing flurry Tampa Bay Times

Marshall football: USF stumbling into Gasparilla Bowl Charleston Daily Mail

Skyline Chili Crosstown Shootout: Here’s how the University of Cincinnati Bearcats can win Cincinnati Enquirer

Orlando Sentinel

• UF AD Scott Stricklin open to playing UCF; Knights AD Danny White suggests neutral-site game
• UCF coach Josh Heupel gets contract extension after Knights’ perfect season

UF AD addresses possibility of Gators scheduling UCF Saturday Down South

UConn men’s basketball team bracing for physical battle with Florida State Hartford Courant

New Tulane offensive coordinator Will Hall promises fast decision, faster pace New Orleans Advocate

New Orleans Times Picayune

• Juggling act: Tulane coaches miss bowl practices because of early signing period
• New Tulane coordinator Will Hall attends bowl practice: ‘We’ll build it with tempo,’ he says

Memphis football coach Mike Norvell addresses reports linking him to Kansas State job Memphis Commercial Appeal

TU basketball: Jeriah Horne taking on a bigger role for Hurricane Tulsa World

The Associated Press

• SEC’s Sankey: UCF should look ‘inward’ to address CFP issues
• NCAA denies appeal of Wichita St’s Allen to play this season 

Wichita Eagle

• Wichita State baseball coach recounts 1989 White House trip to meet George H.W. Bush
• Trae Young is gone, but WSU preparing for ‘a better team’ in OU on Saturday

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News and Observer

• Eric Leak, former NC State football player, receives 18 month prison sentence for Medicaid fraud scheme
• From unheralded tight end to top center, NC State’s Garrett Bradbury takes home national award
• UNC tight end Brandon Fritts, who missed the 2018 season, announces he will transfer
• Zacch Pickens’ first Williams-Brice memory a hard one, but he’s ready to make more
• Irish ‘match up very well’ against Clemson, Notre Dame star says

Teel: QBs Bryce Perkins and Ryan Willis carried their teams to bowl berths Norfolk Virginian Pilot

Charleston Post and Courier

• Ric Flair, Wahoo among President George H.W. Bush’s ties to pro wrestling
• Ex-Clemson kicker Catanzaro gets Carolina Panthers call at Zaxby’s in Charleston
• Kelly Bryant could be start of major shakeup under college football’s new redshirt rule
• Citadel football rides tide of momentum into offseason
• Charleston Southern coach Mark Tucker resigns; 2 Citadel grads could be candidates