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Date Posted: 07/17/03 10:10am
Author: Pelican
Author Host/IP: 66.215.115.157
Subject: Div. I-AA football: Lose 5, Gain 4

This story ran in Tuesday's USA Today above the Div. I-AA football schedules...I'd like to read an interview with the A.D.s of those nine Div. I-AA schools.

Posted 7/15/2003 9:47 PM Updated 7/15/2003 9:46 PM

I-AA football rife with change
From staff reports

Even for the 2002 NCAA Division I-AA football champion, change was all around in the offseason.

Western Kentucky begins defense of its title at home Aug. 28 against Division II Union (Ky.). That also will be David Elson's first game as the Hilltoppers head coach.

Elson, formerly the defensive coordinator, was promoted after Jack Harbaugh resigned in February. Harbaugh has since taken a job in the athletics administration at Marquette, where his son-in-law, Tom Crean, is men's basketball coach.

Fourteen starters and 34 letterwinners are back for a Hilltoppers team that beat McNeese State 34-14 for the title in December and enters the season on a 10-game winning streak.

Changes of note elsewhere in Division I-AA:

• Canisius, Fairfield and St. John's dropped football during the offseason, and Morris Brown has suspended all of its sports programs.

East Tennessee State, which has sponsored football since 1921 and been a member of the Southern Conference since 1979, will drop football after this season.

• Elon gets inaugurated into the Southern Conference right away by opening Aug. 30 at Furman.

Missing from the league for the first time since 1924 is Virginia Military Institute, which begins its time as a member of the Big South with a visit to Navy on Aug. 30.

Also new to the Big South is Coastal Carolina. The school in Conway, S.C., will play the first football game in its nearly 50-year history Sept. 6 against Newberry (S.C.) at its 8,200-seat on-campus stadium.

• Also new to the I-AA ranks are Southeastern Louisiana, Northern Colorado and California-Davis.

Southeastern is resuming the sport after an 18-year hiatus. Hal Mumme, who last was a head coach from 1997-2000 at Kentucky, will lead the team into competition Aug. 30 against Arkansas-Monticello. The Lions will be independents in football but already are in the Southland Conference in most other sports.

Northern Colorado and California-Davis are beginning a four-year transition from Division II, in which they've been perennial football powers. Neither school will be eligible for postseason play in Division I-AA or II during the transition.

Since 1990, Northern Colorado is 115-44 (.723) with eight Division II playoff appearances, including national titles in 1996 and '97. The Bears wrap up the season at UC-Davis.

The Aggies have made 18 Division II playoff appearances dating to 1977, including the last seven years. UC-Davis hasn't had a losing record since 1969.

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