Grambling athletics director Lin Dawson calls the revenue split for the Port City Classic “the best possible deal” for GSU — and for LA Tech.
“What you have is a meeting of the minds to take care of our institutions,” he said.
Here is a repost of TheDerisoReport’s tweets from this morning’s announcement of Grambling’s new Port City Classic at Shreveport’s Independence Stadium. The inaugural opponent on Labor Day weekend 2010 will be LA Tech. Read from bottom up. Follow TDR on Twitter here — http://twitter.com/thederisoreport.
Nick’s note: A year after going winless at Robinson Stadium, Grambling finished an undefeated 2005 home slate with a memorable 82-7 squishing of NAIA Concordia — the most lopsided win by the Tigers since 1959. TheDerisoReport takes a look back at that game, one of the more controversial moments during a Southwestern Athletic Conference championship [...]
Mayor Cedric B. Glover and school officials have set an 11 a.m. Tuesday news conference in Shreveport to announce a September meeting between LA Tech and Grambling at Independence Stadium.
This game, a first between the two cross-parish football programs, would make 11 unconfirmed dates for Grambling football in 2010.
Grambling’s baseball team, though young on the mound, returns a bevy of veteran players elsewhere from a team that missed out on a chance for the SWAC Tournament title by the slimmest of margins.
“We’ll get leadership from the outfield, and from behind the plate,” said first-year coach James Cooper, a former assistant under departed coach [...]
Grambling isn’t getting much attention in this baseball preseason.
First-year coach James Cooper understands it, even embraces it.
Greg Fassitt knows what the Saints’ magical Super Bowl ride means to New Orleans. He was born there.
A reserve cornerback on the team, the Grambling product insists the Saints aren’t a happy distraction from the ongoing reconstruction efforts in the wake of Katrina. They are a metaphor for that recovery, a group of overlooked and [...]
FBS Western Athletic Conference foe Nevada must have seen something it liked when Grambling opened two seasons ago in Reno. Coach Chris Ault has hired GSU offensive coordinator James Spady to oversee tight ends.
“James brings a wealth of experience to Nevada,” Ault said in a release. “We had the opportunity to observe him first hand [...]
Rod Broadway might just be the natural outgrowth of everything Eddie Robinson once worked for at Grambling State.
The third-year coach, just the third to follow Robinson, is among those being considered for the open position at East Carolina — an upper-classification nod still shockingly rare for African-American coaches.
The way was cleared, ex-GSU players and coaches [...]
Bob Leahy, a longtime college assistant with ties to the NFL, is expected to join the staff at Grambling — where head coach Rod Broadway has let go receivers coach Sammy White and seen two others become finalists for head jobs elsewhere.
Leahy has served under Johnny Majors, Jackie Sherrill and Jimmy Johnson, while coaching teams [...]