HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Two former Lenoir-Rhyne University football players will return as the broadcast team for Bears football in 2018 on WSIC (1400 AM and 100.7 FM) and the campus radio station (99.3 WRLZ). JuJu Phillips, a former wide receiver at LRU, and Jack Huss, a former Bears quarterback who was also LRU’s head coach (1974-79) during his career, will …
COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Dugger again among captains for Lenoir-Rhyne
HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY — Returning star Kyle Dugger is back as a captain for Lenoir-Rhyne University’s football team, which opens the season Aug. 31 at West Alabama. In an announcement via press release on Tuesday, new Bears head coach Drew Cronic said Dugger, senior T.J. Smith and juniors Jonathan Nolan and Landon Scott are the captains for his first LRU team. …
COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Caldwell County native Kirkpatrick still loves coaching the game
HobbsDailyReport.com HARRISONBURG, Va. – Good read (see link below) on a local product from Caldwell County and a Lenoir-Rhyne University graduate who continues a stellar career as a college football coach at James Madison University. Donnie Lynn Kirkpatrick played multiple sports at old Granite Falls High as a junior and then did the same in 1977 when consolidation formed South …
COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Ex-Mustangs star C. Surratt suspended for first 4 games at UNC
HobbsDailyReport.com CHAPEL HILL – Former East Lincoln High quarterback Chazz Surratt is among 13 football players at North Carolina who will miss games this season following a secondary NCAA violation of selling school-issued Nike Jordan shoes. Surratt, a sophomore, is one of nine UNC players whose suspension will be for four games. Since Surratt will miss the first four games …
COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Bears’ Cronic says they must rebuild championship culture
HobbsDailyReport.com ROCK HILL, S.C. – Lenoir-Rhyne University head coach Drew Cronic, who is headed into his first season with the Bears, answered questions and gave his thoughts on the Bears on Friday during the South Atlantic Conference’s Football Digital Media Day. LRU, coming off a 3-7 record, was picked by conference coaches to finish sixth this season in the SAC. …