Tyrone Willingham, head coach for the University of Washington Huskies, has hired a new assistant coach, Brian White. White is a former national assistant coach of the year and served as an offensive coordinator in the Big Ten and the Big East. He will begin in his new position now and be coaching the tight ends or other special teams that may be needed depending on Willingham’s needs.White graduated from Harvard University and received his Master’s degree from Notre Dame. He spent the last two years as offensive coordinator for Syracuse University.

For eleven years, he was the running backs coach at the University of Wisconsin. He also served as an offensive coordinator as well. He also served as offensive coordinator at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas in the early nineties for three years. He has been named Assistant Coach of the Year by the Division I American Football Coaches Association. H went on to mentor Ron Dayne, a 1999 Heisman Trophy winner. He also coached Anthony Davis, the 2001 Big Ten Freshman of the Year. With his great track record, he should lead the Huskies to a new season of winning and getting ahead of everyone else.

Seminoles will play most of their matches in front of their home crowd in 2008.According to the schedule released recently they will play 7games out of 12 in the home ground. Their neutral site game against Colorado will be played in Jacksonville and the Atlantic Coast conference Game venue is at Miami. They will have to leave Florida only for three ACC matches at North Carolina State, Maryland and Georgia tech. Seminoles will face Georgia Tech in the ACC schedule as they replace Duke. This year Labor Day will be an off day for the Seminoles.

For the last four years they have opened their season with the ACC opponents but this year it will be with non- conference game against Western Carolina and Chattanooga. But, the team is facing a problem as some players are suspended from the first three games due to cheating scandal. The top two dozen players were suspended from four matches from the Music City Bowl in Nashville last season, in which Seminoles got defeated by the Kentucky. Other visitors for this year to Tallahassee include teams like Florida, Virginia Tech and Boston College. As Seminoles is having most of their matches in their home, players and team management is expecting that the team will put up good performance this year.

Chuck Sekyra has been named the Division II National Coach of the Year.Sekyra’s team reached the NCAA Division II semifinals for the second time in three years. His 2005 squad lost the national-championship match in OT to Nebraska Omaha. It really speaks to the type of season their women had. And Sekyra admits that it was enjoable for all of them.So now The National Soccer Coaches Association of America picks coach of the year.

The push for an eight-team college football playoff by Michael Adams failed to gain steam at the NCAA Convention.The NCAA Division I Board of Directors sent the proposal for further discussion.
Adams said that it was time for the NCAA to replace college football’s bowl games.
Adams is a chairman of the NCAA’s Executive Committee and a member of the Board of Directors. He wanted his standing to make a difference when he proposed a playoff system. NCAA president Myles Brand  said he would remain neutral on a football playoff.
Clemson president James Barker and chairman of the NCAA Division I Board of Directors said that there was no timetable for action on Adams‘ proposal.
The NCAA Division I Board of Directors passed 45 of the 47 proposals sent to it from the Management Council.
The most-publicized legislation was prohibiting institutions from canceling or reducing scholarships of female athletes who become pregnant.
Some schools had required student-athletes to sign documents stating they would lose their scholarship.
The Board of Directors passed an alteration to the telephone text-messaging ban between coaches and prospects.

Coach Mark Dantonio wanted to win back some respect for the Michigan State football program in his first year as head coach. The Spartans finished with a winning record and made a bowl game for the first time since 2003. And it looks like Dantonio has built a foundation for future success.

The Detroit Lions met with Head Coach Rod Marinelli in Allen Park on Monday to wrap up the season and begin the offseason process. Marinelli recapped the season and re-emphasized his expectations. Obviously players are disappointed in the end-result of this 7-9 season and the opportunity that wasn’t realized the way they hoped it would be.

Terry Wanless is the Sacramento State Director of Athletics. He will be receiving the General Robert R. Neyland Outstanding Athletic Director Award at the All-American Football Foundation’s annual awards banquet – for her special contribution to the development of the NCAA football in Sacramento. This year’s event will take place on Thursday, Dec. 20, at the Planet Hollywood Resort in Las Vegas and is sponsored by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

Eastern Illinois University now is searching for an impact running back. Chevon Walker is a redshirt freshman announced that he planed to transfer to Eastern for the spring semester in order to help the Panthers in the first round of the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision playoffs to overcome three years’ roadblock. Walker admitted that the team needs a guy athletically push them out at the next level,

Gordon Moulton, President of University of South Alabama, is expected to recommend the implementation of an NCAA-sanctioned program at the university during the board of trustees meeting on December 6. Gordon Moulton feels very comfortable making a recommendation. In case the board of trustees accepts his recommendation and votes in its favor, an implementation committee is expected to immediately start making NCAA Football at the University a reality

On Saturday in Dover, Del., Thrasher ran for 138 yards and Daniels added seventy-nine, including a thirty-yard touchdown, as Hardin-Baylor defeated Wesley College 27-10 in an NCAA Division III quarterfinal. Jarvis Thrasher’s 83-yard run during the 3rd quarter set up afour-yard touchdown pass from Welch to Aquilera. Quincy Daniels then scored from thirty yards out with 3:28 left as the Crusaders increased their lead to 24-3.