Doug Dougherty’s College Notebook in The Roanoke (Va.) Times lists one of many position battles we’re monitoring as Kickoff 2005 approaches.

Bridgewater (Va) Eagles Head Coach Mike Clark will have to choose a new quarterback to replace graduated Brandon Wakefield. Will he choose senior Jacob Lewis or sophomore Jeff Highhill? Both are pictured in the tremendous picture (Lewis at left, Highill at right) courtesy of Eagles’ fansite Bridgewaterfootball.com.

Either way Clark is confident the Eagles have enough returning pieces on offense. “We’re in a position where the quarterback doesn’t have to be a magic man,” he told the Times.

Bridgewater isn’t the only team with a key position battle taking place in training camp. Each of the other 226 teams will have similar subplots unfold on their quiet, hot campuses.

And D3football.com will bring you the story from each and every one in our upcoming Season Preview. Stay tuned for more information on this exciting product shortly.

I just found out that Johns Hopkins has started publishing an athletics blog, and from there discovered links to McDaniel and Centennial Conference blogs as well. As relative veterans of blogging ourselves (I refuse to use the media-created term blogosphere), D3football.com and D3hoops.com would like to welcome them aboard. We’ll add them to the links on both Daily Dose blogs when we get the chance.

The lower levels of college football aren’t necessarily blessed with great officiating. But sometimes top-notch men in stripes pass through on their way to bigger stadiums and bigger paychecks.

One such person is a Division III grad and former Division III official, Bernie Kukar. The full story, from the Cook County (Minn.) News-Herald.