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A. J. Ricker
A. J. Ricker (born March 29, 1980) is an American college football coach. He is the co- offensive coordinator and offensive line coach for Texas Christian University, a position he has held since 2021. He was the head football coach at Saint Joseph's College in Collegeville, Indiana, in 2010. College career In his college career he played in 47 career games, and was a two-time team captain. Ricker made the All Big-12 team three times. In 2001 he was a Third Team All-Big-12 selection, in 2002 he was a Second Team All-Big-12 selection, and in 2003 he was a First Team All-Big-12 selection. Professional career After not being selected in the 2004 NFL draft, Ricker signed with the Chicago Bears as an undrafted free agent. However he would be cut before the regular season started. Ricker would go on to NFL Europe where he signed with the Rhein Fire; he also had a stint in the Arena Football League for two years. Coaching career Ricker started his coaching career with Western Michiga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Offensive Coordinator
An offensive coordinator is a member of the coaching staff of an American football or Canadian football team who is in charge of the team's offense. Generally, along with the defensive coordinator and the special teams coordinator, this coach represents the second level of coaching structure after the head coach. The offensive coordinator is in charge of the team's offensive game plan, and typically calls offensive plays during the game, although some offensive-minded head coaches also handle play-calling. Several position coaches work under the offensive coordinator (position groupings can include quarterbacks, wide receivers, offensive line, running back A running back (RB) is a member of the offensive backfield in gridiron football. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback to rush the ball, to line up as a receiver to catch the ball, and block. The ...s, and tight ends). Unlike most position coaches in football, who a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heisman Trophy
The Heisman Memorial Trophy (usually known colloquially as the Heisman Trophy or The Heisman) is awarded annually to the most outstanding player in college football. Winners epitomize great ability combined with diligence, perseverance, and hard work. It is presented by the Heisman Trophy Trust in early December before the postseason bowl games. The award was created by the Downtown Athletic Club in 1935 to recognize "the most valuable college football player east of the Mississippi", and was first awarded to University of Chicago halfback Jay Berwanger. After the death in October 1936 of the club's athletic director, John Heisman, the award was named in his honor and broadened to include players west of the Mississippi. Heisman had been active in college athletics as a football player; a head football, basketball, and baseball coach; and an athletic director. It is the oldest of several overall awards in college football, including the Maxwell Award, Walter Camp Award, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Duggan
Maxwell David Hesketh Duggan (born March 12, 2001) is an American football quarterback for the TCU Horned Frogs. He won the Davey O'Brien and Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Awards in 2022 after leading TCU to the 2023 College Football Playoff National Championship. Early years Duggan grew up in Council Bluffs, Iowa as the youngest child of Debra Dodds and Jim Duggan, who had met while both were athletes at the University of South Dakota in the early 1980s. His two older siblings, Sam and Megan, were both adopted from South Korea. At Lewis Central High School, Duggan played football, baseball, basketball and ran track. On the football field, he was coached by his father and was four-year starter at quarterback. As a senior, he passed for 2,130 yards and 24 touchdowns while adding another 1,223 yards and 25 touchdowns on the ground on his way to being named the 2018 Iowa Gatorade High School Player of the Year. Rated as a 4-star prospect, Duggan was ranked as the top recruit in Iowa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 College Football Playoff National Championship
The 2023 College Football Playoff National Championship is a college football bowl game that is scheduled to be played on January 9, 2023, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. The ninth College Football Playoff National Championship, the game will determine the national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) for the 2022 season. Aside from the all star games following after, this will be the culminating game of the 2022-23 bowl season. The game will feature the winners of the College Football Playoff semifinals, hosted by the Peach Bowl and the Fiesta Bowl. The game is scheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m. PST and will be broadcast by ESPN. Background The winners of the College Football Playoff (CFP) semifinals—the Peach Bowl and the Fiesta Bowl—will contest the 2023 College Football Playoff National Championship. The four teams competing in the Playoff were selected by the CFP selection committee, whose final rankings were released on Decembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broyles Award
The Broyles Award is an annual award given to honor the best assistant coach in college football. First awarded in 1996, it was named after former University of Arkansas men's athletic director Frank Broyles. The award is presented in Little Rock, Arkansas at the Downtown Rotary Club. To date 18 of the 23 winners have gone on to become head football coaches. Award Every year, roughly 1,300 assistant coaches representing all 130 FBS programs are eligible for nomination by their peers as well as Selection Committeecomposed of former head coaches. The nominees are narrowed down to just five finalists, all of whom are invited to Little Rock, Arkansas for the annual Broyles Award ceremony. The success of the five finalists is celebrated over a two-day period, which culminates in the award ceremony. Finalists receive gifts from event sponsors and a Broyles Award finalist plaque, while the winner receives thbronze-cast trophy valued at $5,000. Trophy The Broyles Award Trophy, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Esposito
Lou Esposito () is an American football coach and former player. He is the defensive coordinator at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. From 2005 to 2009, Esposito was the head football coach at Saint Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana, where he compiled a record of 29–25. In 2016, he served as the first head coach in the history of Davenport University, finishing with a record of 6–5 in his one season at the helm before accepting a position at Western Michigan. Playing career Esposito graduated in 1995 from Manalapan High School in Manalapan Township, New Jersey, where he played football and wrestled. He played college football at the University of Memphis, where he was a four-year letterman from 1997 to 2000. Following his time at Memphis, Esposito played two seasons with the Memphis Xplorers, a professional arena football team in the AF2 league. His roommate during those years was Tim Lester, who had played quarterback at Western Michigan. Coach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arena Football League
The Arena Football League (AFL) was a professional arena football league in the United States. It was founded in 1986, but played its first official games in the 1987 season, making it the third longest-running professional football league in North America after the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the National Football League (NFL) until the AFL closed in 2019. The AFL played a formerly proprietary code known as arena football, a form of indoor American football played on a 66-by-28 yard field (about a quarter of the surface area of an NFL field), with rules encouraging offensive performance, resulting in a typically faster-paced and higher-scoring game compared to NFL games. The sport was invented in the early 1980s and patented by Jim Foster, a former executive of the United States Football League (USFL) and the NFL. Each of the league's 32 seasons culminated in the ArenaBowl, with the winner being crowned the league's champion for that season. From 2000 to 2009, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NFL Europe
NFL Europe League (simply called NFL Europe and known in its final season as NFL Europa League) was a professional American football league that functioned as the developmental minor league of the National Football League (NFL). Originally founded in 1989 as the World League of American Football (or WLAF), the league was envisioned as a transatlantic league encompassing teams from both North America and Europe. Initially, the WLAF consisted of seven teams in North America and three in Europe. It began play in 1991 and lasted for two seasons before suspending operations; while the league had been "wildly popular" in Europe, it failed to achieve success in North America. After a two-year hiatus, it returned as a six-team European league, with teams based in England, Germany, the Netherlands, Scotland, and Spain. NFL Europa was dissolved in 2007 due to its continued unprofitability and the NFL's decision to shift its focus towards hosting regular-season games in Europe; at the ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 NFL Draft
The 2004 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held April 24–25, 2004 at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. No teams chose to claim any players in the supplemental draft that year. The draft was shown on ESPN both days and eventually moved to ESPN2 both days. The draft began with the San Diego Chargers selecting Mississippi quarterback Eli Manning with the first overall selection. Due to his refusal to play for the Chargers, Manning was later traded to the New York Giants for their first selection, fourth overall pick Philip Rivers of NC State. There were 32 compensatory selections distributed among 16 teams, with the Eagles, Rams, and Jets each receiving 4 compensatory picks. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collegeville, Indiana
Collegeville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jasper County, Indiana, United States. The population was 330 at the 2010 census. Collegeville is home to the now-closed Saint Joseph's College, the source of the town's name. Geography Collegeville is southwest of the center of Jasper County and is bordered to the northeast by Rensselaer, the county seat. U.S. Route 231 (South College Avenue) forms the eastern edge of the community. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all land. On July 14, 1936, the temperature in Collegeville rose to , the hottest temperature ever recorded in the state of Indiana. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 865 people, 84 households, and 68 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 90 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 93.29% White, 4.16% African American, 0.35% Asian, 0.92% from other races, and 1.27% from two or more races. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Joseph's College (Indiana)
Saint Joseph's College (SJC; colloquially, Saint Joe) is an unaccredited private Catholic college in Rensselaer, Indiana. It was founded in 1889 and suspended academic operations in 2017 with approximately 1,100 students enrolled. In 2021, the college began offering some courses and certifications at the Rensselaer campus in the fields of business management, cybersecurity, and health science. History The college was founded in 1889 by Father Joseph A. Stephan, a missionary from Germany as a secondary school to educate Native Americans. In 1962, President Eisenhower dedicated the Halleck Center (named after Republican representative Charles Halleck). From 1944 to 1974, the Chicago Bears held their training camp at Saint Joseph's College. The 1971 film '' Brian's Song''—about Brian Piccolo, a Chicago Bears running back who died from carcinoma in the 1970s—was filmed on campus. A charity game for Joy Piccolo, with the Bears versus college all-stars, was played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
