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Date: Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 2:43 PM
Subject: Article: HORNETS LOOK TO PROVE DOUBTERS WRONG IN 2018 MEAC RCAE
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HORNETS LOOK TO PROVE DOUBTERS WRONG IN 2018 MEAC RCAE
Courtesy DSU Athletic Media Relations
Fri, July 27, 2018
Norfolk, Va. (July 27, 2018) --- The Delaware State football team should have plenty of motivation for the upcoming season. Voters in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference poll give the Hornets little or no chance to win the 2018 league championship. DSU has been picked to finish 10th in the 10-team MEAC race, according to the poll of league head coaches and sports information directors announced during the conference kickoff luncheon at the Hilton Hotel today.
Defending MEAC champ North Carolina A&T is the voters’ choice to repeat this season. The Aggies were 12-0 in 2017 (8-0 MEAC), and capped off the season with a 21-14 victory over Grambling State in the Celebration Bowl to capture their second HBCU National Championship in the last three years.
NCA&T garnered 19 of 20 first place votes in the 2018 MEAC poll.
Howard (7-4; 6-2) has been picked to finish second in the upcoming MEAC race, while North Carolina Central (7-4; 5-3), Bethune-Cookman (7-4; 6-2) and Florida A&M (3-8; 2-6) round out the top five in the poll.
Delaware State first-year head coach Rod Milstead, a former Hornet All-America and National Football League standout, is not surprised by his team’s standing the poll.
“Based on the program’s struggles in recent years, we have to earn the respect of our conference foes once again,” said Milstead. “The only way to do that is through hard work, preparation and producing on the field. If nothing else, the poll should motivate us to commit the effort to return our once proud program to respectability.”
After dropping its first six games, DSU won two of the last five to finish 2-9 overall and 2-6 in the MEAC in 2017.
The Hornets will begin preseason camp this Wednesday (Aug. 1). The season opener is Sep. 1 at FBS Buffalo.
The 2018 home opener is Oct. 6 vs. North Carolina A&T. Game time is set for 7 p.m. at Alumni Stadium. For DSU ticket information, call 302-857-7497 or log onto DSUHornets.com
2018 MEAC Football Preseason Poll (first place votes in parenthesis):
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From: Delaware State University Football <dsuhornets@neulionnetwork.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 2:43 PM
Subject: Article: HORNETS LOOK TO PROVE DOUBTERS WRONG IN 2018 MEAC RCAE
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HORNETS LOOK TO PROVE DOUBTERS WRONG IN 2018 MEAC RCAE
Courtesy DSU Athletic Media Relations
Fri, July 27, 2018
Norfolk, Va. (July 27, 2018) --- The Delaware State football team should have plenty of motivation for the upcoming season. Voters in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference poll give the Hornets little or no chance to win the 2018 league championship. DSU has been picked to finish 10th in the 10-team MEAC race, according to the poll of league head coaches and sports information directors announced during the conference kickoff luncheon at the Hilton Hotel today.
Defending MEAC champ North Carolina A&T is the voters’ choice to repeat this season. The Aggies were 12-0 in 2017 (8-0 MEAC), and capped off the season with a 21-14 victory over Grambling State in the Celebration Bowl to capture their second HBCU National Championship in the last three years.
NCA&T garnered 19 of 20 first place votes in the 2018 MEAC poll.
Howard (7-4; 6-2) has been picked to finish second in the upcoming MEAC race, while North Carolina Central (7-4; 5-3), Bethune-Cookman (7-4; 6-2) and Florida A&M (3-8; 2-6) round out the top five in the poll.
Delaware State first-year head coach Rod Milstead, a former Hornet All-America and National Football League standout, is not surprised by his team’s standing the poll.
“Based on the program’s struggles in recent years, we have to earn the respect of our conference foes once again,” said Milstead. “The only way to do that is through hard work, preparation and producing on the field. If nothing else, the poll should motivate us to commit the effort to return our once proud program to respectability.”
After dropping its first six games, DSU won two of the last five to finish 2-9 overall and 2-6 in the MEAC in 2017.
The Hornets will begin preseason camp this Wednesday (Aug. 1). The season opener is Sep. 1 at FBS Buffalo.
The 2018 home opener is Oct. 6 vs. North Carolina A&T. Game time is set for 7 p.m. at Alumni Stadium. For DSU ticket information, call 302-857-7497 or log onto DSUHornets.com
2018 MEAC Football Preseason Poll (first place votes in parenthesis):
- North Carolina A&T State (19)
- Howard
- N.C. Central
- Bethune-Cookman
- Florida A&M (1)
- Norfolk State
- S.C. State
- Savannah State
- Morgan State
- Delaware State
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