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NFF Chalktalk - May 9, 2016
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Longtime Executive Director of the American Football Coaches Association and College Football Hall of Fame coach will be recognized Dec. 6 at the 59th NFF Annual Awards Dinner in New York City.
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Longtime Voice of the Huskies will be honored for his distinguished broadcasting career at
the
59th NFF Annual Awards Dinner.
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The NFF formally presented University of Alabama head coach
Nick Saban with the MacArthur Bowl, the organization's national championship trophy for the Football Bowl Subdivision, during a ceremony at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta on May 6.
ESPN broadcaster
Brad Nessler (left) emceed the event, which included remarks from NFF President & CEO
Steve Hatchell, Coach Saban and College Football Hall of Fame CEO
Dennis Adamovich. Coach Saban accepted the award on behalf of his Alabama football team in front of an audience full of excited Crimson Tide fans.
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Upcoming Events at the Hall
May 14, Football Blues-
Still haven't gotten rid of those football blues? The Hall of Fame has just the cure! Chase away the "Football Blues" on May 14 at the Hall's football, music, food and fun-filled tailgate with tex-mex style cuisine and the
Francisco Vidal Band from 1-5 p.m. Click here for tickets.
May 21, Walk the Hall- The Hall will celebrate recent high school and college graduates with FREE admission to the Hall! Grads must present a copy of their diploma or certificate of completion at the box office for entry.
May 28-30, Memorial Day- The Hall will honor all active duty and retired military with FREE admission on Saturday, Sunday and Monday of the Memorial Day weekend! Valid Military ID required at box office upon entry.
June 10, Chick-fil-A presents The Ultimate Father Son Campout- The Ultimate Father Son Campout will take place on June 10-11 from 6 p.m.-8 a.m. ET. Enter for chance to win a unique experience for fathers and sons with exclusive access and overnight stay on the field of the College Football Hall of Fame. Click here to register or visit the Hall of Fame box office.
June 11, Football Blues- Beat the Georgia heat and cool off during the Hall's "Football Blues" from 1-5 p.m. Sing and dance with 80's Pop Tribute group Electric Avenue and eat "cookout" style food at our fun, family-friendly tailgate with a summertime theme. Arrive in your official tailgate gear and get your grub on! Click here for tickets.
The Hall on the Road
May 12 - Taste of Alpharetta
June 1 - Lakepoint Indoor Facility Grand Opening
June 4-6 - Virginia Highland Summer Festival
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The College Football Hall of Fame opened its doors Aug. 23, 2014, in the heart of Atlanta's sports, entertainment and tourism district. Adjacent to Centennial Olympic Park, the new Hall provides visitors with a highly immersive, interactive and engaging experience using a blend of historic college football artifacts and state-of-the-art, interactive multimedia exhibits. To plan your visit and purchase tickets, visit
www.cfbhall.com.
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NFF Board Member and Under Armour CEO & Chairman Kevin Plank, a former football player at Maryland,
will give
the commencement address at his alma mater on May 18.
NFF Board Member, former Southland Conference commissioner and current SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and College Football Hall of Famer Leonard Smith (McNeese State) have been named to the Southland's Hall of Honor's Class of 2016.
NFF Board Member and College Football Hall of Famer Roger Staubach (Navy) received the HeRO Award at the Genesis Women's Shelter's annual luncheon on May 6.
The National Football Foundation has donated an eight-foot bronze sculpture of early NFF leader and College Football Hall of Fame coach Earl "Red" Blaik to the U.S. Military Academy. Blaik led the Army Black Knights to three national championships and amassed a lifetime record of 166-48-14, including a seven-year stint at Dartmouth. In recognition of the donation, the West Point Association of Graduates inducted the NFF into its Omar N. Bradley Lifetime Giving Society. The sculpture was created by renowned artist Glenna Goodacre, and a formal installation of the statue will take place in the near future.
College Football Hall of Famer Floyd Little will be given an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Syracuse during the university's commencement ceremony on May 15 in the Carrier Dome.
College Football Hall of Famer Curt Warner (Penn State)
will be inducted
into the State of West Virginia Sports Hall of Fame during the 70th annual Victory Awards Dinner on May 15 at the Charleston Civic Center.
College Football Hall of Fame coach Jerry Moore will be
inducted
into the Western North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame on May 15 at the Omni Grove Park Inn in Asheville, N.C.
College Football Hall of Famer Troy Brown (Marshall) will be
inducted
into the State of South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame on May 16 at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center.
College Football Hall of Fame coach, 1984 NFF Distinguished American and 1999 NFF John L. Toner Award recipient David M. Nelson was named to the 2016 Middle Atlantic Conference Hall of Fame Class. Former football players Marv Antinnes (Wilkes [Pa.]), Bill Berrier (Juniata [Pa.]), Ed Dougherty (Lycoming [Pa.]), Tom Mitchell (Bucknell) and Andy Watkins (Susquehanna [Pa.]) and former Albright (Pa.) head football coach John Potsklan are also in the class.
Former Kentucky defensive lineman Vic Adams paid tribute to the lessons he learned from College Football Hall of Fame coach Jerry Claiborne during the late 1980s, which laid the foundation for his success today as a business leader. An article in KY Forward captured Adams' experiences at Kentucky and his appointment as the interim president of Gateway Community and Technical College in Florence, Ky.
The Tim Tebow Foundation, run by the 2009 Campbell Trophy winner from Florida, is accepting applications for host churches for Night to Shine 2017. Scheduled for Feb. 10, Night to Shine provides a prom night experience for people with special needs.
2015 NFF Gold Medal recipient Dr. Condoleezza Rice
will speak
at Stillman College's 140th-anniversary celebration in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on May 19.
NFF Board Member, 2013 NFF John L. Toner Award recipient and Oklahoma athletics director Joe Castiglione
is among
the nominees for Athletics Director of the Year at the 2016 Sports Business Awards, which will take place May 18 in New York City. 2008 Toner Award recipient Gene Smith (Ohio State), Chet Gladchuk (Navy) and Bernard Muir (Stanford) are also nominated for the award.
2011 NFF Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football Award recipient Verne Lundquist, CBS Sports' lead play-by-play announcer for college football,
will be honored
with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Sports at the 37th annual Sports Emmy Awards ceremony at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City on May 10.
The Times Herald-Record profiled Army West Point linebacker Kenneth Brinson Jr., who claimed an NFF National High School Scholar-Athlete Award in 2015 and ranks first in his class with a 4.1 GPA in chemical engineering.
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2016 College Football Hall of Fame electee coach Bill Bowes (New Hampshire) was among those honored at the 29th Annual NFF Joe Yukica (N.H.) Chapter Scholar-Athlete Awards Dinner on May 3.
The
NFF Greater Austin Chapter
will host its scholar-athlete banquet May 9 at the Frank Erwin Center on the University of Texas campus. Former Longhorns head coach
Mack Brown
will receive the chapter's Distinguished American Award.
The NFF Sunflower (Kan.) Chapter's scholar-athlete banquet will be May 11 at the Adams Alumni Center on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence. Jayhawks head coach David Beaty will be the featured speaker.
The 41st annual NFF Jack Grinold/Eastern Massachusetts Chapter Scholar-Athlete Banquet will be held May 15 at the Boston/Newton Marriott. The banquet will honor 33 high school scholar-athletes and the 2016 recipients of the Daly, Schluntz and Burton Awards. Boston College play-by-play announcer Jon Meter-Parel will return as the emcee.
The NFF Northern Connecticut Chapter will hold its scholar-athlete banquet May 15 at Aqua Turf in Southington, Conn. Central Connecticut State head coach Pete Rossomando will be the guest speaker.
Bob Keropian, president of the NFF Northern California Chapter and former NFF West Region Coordinator, will be inducted into the Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame on June 8 at the Green Hills Country Club in Millbrae, Calif.
The NFF Mountain Empire (Tenn.) Chapter will hold its annual golf tournament June 17 at Crockett Ridge Golf Course in Kingsport, Tenn. Proceeds from the tournament help fund the chapter's scholarships.
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New Football Schools
Cincinnati Christian (Ohio), which will begin play this fall,
has named Kellen Zawadzki athletics director...
Scheduling
Nevada will play at Northwestern in 2017... Missouri added North Texas to its 2021 football schedule... Alabama added the Citadel to its 2018 schedule...
Bowl Games
A number of bowl games
set dates and times this past week...
People
Montana State hired Kyle Brennan as its next athletics director...
Michael Gorsline
has been
selected
as the new director of athletics at Trinity International (Ill.)...
Rachel Bergeson will serve as interim athletics director at Concordia (Minn.)... Russ Richardson has been named Montana Western's athletics director...
Awards and Honors
Former
offensive tackle Michael Roos has been elected to the Eastern Washington University Athletics Hall of Fame...
Media
BTN announced its 2016 primetime football schedule...
Facilities
Arizona State will open the 2016 season in a renovated Sun Devil Stadium... Alcorn State will boast the nation's largest HBCU owned video scoreboard when it kicks off the 2016 football season...
Donations
Legend Solar is contributing $10 million toward renovating Dixie State (Utah)'s football stadium, which has been renamed Legend Solar Stadium... Virginia Tech has introduced a new Hokie Scholarship Fund program for 2017-18...
Marketing and Uniforms
Robert Morris announced a multi-year partnership with Under Armour as its exclusive outfitter... Howard announced a partnership with Under Armour... Tusculum (Tenn.) has agreed to a multi-year partnership with Under Armour... Central Florida unveiled new uniforms for the 2016 season... Rutgers unveiled an updated brand and identity system...
More News of Interest
The NFL is partnering with the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) and Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) to increase opportunities for ethnic minorities interested in pursuing careers in football administration... Former Florida and Marshall quarterback Eric Kresser saved a man's life in a Starbucks in West Virginia last week...
Obituaries
Former Cincinnati quarterback Jacky Lee passed away May 2. He was 77... Former West Chester (Pa.) athletics director, assistant coach and football player
Dick Yoder passed away May 3. He was 79... Howard King, the former longtime voice of Michigan Stadium, passed away May 4. He was 83... Longtime ACC official Doug Rhoads passed away May 5. He was 71... Former Wesleyan (Conn.) head coach and Trinity (Conn.) football player Bill Macdermott passed away May 5. He was 79... UAB running back Greg Bryant died May 8. He was 21... Former Indianapolis head football coach Bill Bless passed away at the age of 76...
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Each year, the NFF invites universities, colleges, conferences and bowl games from across the country to provide support for NFF programs through its Institutional Academic Membership Program. The program allows the NFF to greatly enhance the power of football's collective voice while actively building a stronger national platform for the game with community leaders, educators and the media.
Those who joined this week include Presidential Members Austin Peay State, Columbia, Kansas State, Maryland, Robert Morris and UCLA, and Executive Members Colgate, Louisiana-Lafayette, Miami (Fla.), Missouri Valley Football Conference, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Click here to see all of the 2016 NFF Institutional Academic Members.
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June 1, 2016 - 2017 College Football Hall of Fame Ballots distributed to members of the National Football Foundation - Irving, Texas
Sept. 28, 2016 - Announcement of the semifinalists for the 2016 William V. Campbell Trophy, presented by Fidelity Investments and prominently displayed at the NYAC - Irving, Texas
Dec. 5, 2016
- Announcement and Presentation of the Asa S. Bushnell Cup to the Ivy League Football Players of the Year at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel at an event presented by the Pasadena Tournament of Roses - New York City
Dec. 6, 2016
- NFF Annual Awards Press Conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel - New York City
Dec. 6, 2016
- NFF Chapter Awards Luncheon, presented by Under Armour, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel - New York City
Dec. 6, 2016
- 59th NFF Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria - New York City, including the induction of the 2016 College Football Hall of Fame Class and the 27th presentation of the William V. Campbell Trophy, presented by Fidelity Investments and prominently displayed at the New York Athletic Club.
Dec. 31, 2016
- The 12th Annual NFF National Hall of Fame Salute during the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl - Atlanta
Jan. 5, 2017
- NFF Leadership Hall of Fame Dinner - Tampa, Fla.
Jan. 6, 2017
- Announcement of the 2017 College Football Hall of Fame Class - Tampa, Fla.
Jan. 9, 2017
- College Football Playoff National Championship at Raymond James Stadium - Tampa, Fla.
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at 917.579.4256 or [email protected].
The NFF would like to thank NFF correspondent Bo Carter for his contributions to this report.
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