Word: wofford
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Sure, teams will still complain and will still feel cheated (just look at the effigies of NCAA committee members hung at Wofford in 2002 or the disappointment of Lehigh last season or Cal Poly this year). And they’ll make vociferous complaints. The point of those complaints, however, will be that those teams belonged in the field, not that the legitimacy of the eventual national title winner should be questioned...
Davon Fowlkes, WR, Appalachian State—With his 202-yard, 15-reception performance against Wofford last weekend, Fowlkes catapulted himself into third in receiving yards per game and first in receptions per game. Wide receivers always have a more difficult time swaying voters, especially those whose teams don’t win the conference title, which the Mountaineers (5-3, 3-1 Southern) would need some help to gain a share...
...forecasted seven of the eight at-large bids correctly—only missing Wofford, which itself was so stunned that it hung effigies of NCAA I-AA playoff selection committee members. Last year, it went seven-for-eight again, as it incorrectly predicted Lehigh would get the final at-large spot over eventual recipient Bethune-Cookman...
...Crimson staff writer John G. Wofford observed, “Over fifty years after Charles M. Flaundrau wrote his ‘Diary of a Freshman,’ criticism of the advising system in the freshman year is still just as strong.” Today, it is probably even stronger. One-fifth of undergraduates surveyed by The Crimson in December identified advising as the most important issue for the curricular review to address—behind only the Core and general education. Though the recommendations are now in place, and many of them are good, turning words into...
...mother sure did. And she let me know that college could be in my future, that the means would be available. It was something she had wanted for herself, I realize now. My mother, born Ella Ramah Willis, or Mamma, as I called her, had married my father George Wofford in her early 20s. By the time I was born in 1931, she was 25 and had been a mother for two years; two more babies would follow...