I’m heading up to Philadelphia shortly to address the Division III Sports Information Directors at the CoSIDA convention. I have to make one final checkoff on this on Monday morning but I expect to have a rather important announcement to make at that time. (To the general reader, we’ll post it on the site Monday afternoon or evening, time permitting.)

To the SIDs reading this — see you there!

Western Connecticut’s first season in the New Jersey Athletic Conference wasn’t exactly stellar, with a fourth-place finish similar to what longtime NJAC fans predicted. But as Jim Stout writes today in the News-Times of Danbury, Conn., spring practice came in handy. The Colonials will be sporting a new defensive scheme when they take the field two months from today.

It’s a good offseason update that we wish more newspapers did.

The pieces are still falling into place from the breakup of the Freedom Football Conference, a process which started more than four years ago.

The New Jersey Athletic Conference’s announcement that Buffalo State would be joining for football in the fall of 2006 was the latest change in affiliation in the region, but it’s not the last. Continue reading →