EAGLES FOOTBALL 2018 – GAME #1 PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIV. “PANTHERS” VS. NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY “EAGLES” Sunday, Sept. 2, 2018 – Kickoff at 12:00 p.m. Georgia State Stadium - Atlanta, Ga. “MEAC/SWAC CHALLENGE” - Live on ESPN2 THE GAME 2018 NCCU Football Schedule Prairie View A&M University “Panthers” vs. North Carolina Central University “Eagles” Date Opponent Time/Result THE KICKOFF Sept. 2 vs. Prairie View A&M .(ESPN2) 12 p.m. Sunday, September 2, 2018 – Kickoff at 12:00 p.m. (Sun.) “MEAC/SWAC Challenge” ..........Atlanta Sept. 8 Saint Augustine’s ..................6 p.m. THE SITE Sept. 15 at S.C. State ..... (ESPN3/ESPNU TD) 6 p.m. Georgia State Stadium (25,000 capacity/FieldTurf) - Atlanta, Ga. Sept. 22 at Duke ....................................TBA THE RECORDS Sept. 29 Florida A&M ..........................4 p.m. N.C. Central (0-0 overall, 0-0 MEAC); Prairie View A&M (0-1 overall, 0-0 SWAC) Oct. 6 Howard .................................2 p.m. Oct. 20 at Norfolk State .....................2 p.m. MEDIA COVERAGE Oct. 27 at Delaware State .................2 p.m. Audio: NCCU Sports Network “GameCentral” at NCCUEaglePride.com (internet stream). Broadcast starts at 11:40 a.m. (Jonathan Duren, play-by-play). Nov. 3 Edward Waters (HC) ..............2 p.m. Video: ESPN2 (Tiffany Greene, Jay Walker and Olivia Harlan) Nov. 8 (T) at Bethune-Cookman...(ESPNU) 7 p.m. Nov. 17 N.C. A&T ...............................2 p.m. QUICK HITS MEAC Champion at “Celebration Bowl” • North Carolina Central University is under the direction of first-year head coach Dec. 15 vs. SWAC Champion. .. (ABC) 12 p.m. Granville Eastman, who accepted the interim role after Jerry Mack left to be the offensive coordinator at Rice. .................Mercedes-Benz Stadium - Atlanta • This is NCCU’s first appearance in the MEAC/SWAC Challenge and the Eagles first NCCU Ticket Office: (919) 530-6530 gridiron meeting against Prairie View A&M University. NCCU Athletics Web Site: NCCUEaglePride.com • NCCU received votes in the STATS FCS Top 25 preseason poll, after finishing last Twitter: @NCCUAthletics / @NCCU_Football season with a 7-4 overall record. • NCCU senior safety Davanta Reynolds is the Preseason MEAC Defensive Player HEAD COACHES of the Year and a member of the STATS FCS Preseason All-America Team (Second North Carolina Central: Team) after recording six interceptions to tie for second among NCAA Division I-FCS Head Coach (Interim) .......... Granville Eastman leaders last year. Alma Mater ........Saint Mary’s University (1992) • In 2017, NCCU’s defense ranked second in NCAA Division I-FCS and topped the Record at NCCU .....................0-0 (1st season) MEAC in third-down conversion percentage defense (24.5 percent). Career Record .........................0-0 (1st season) • Since the start of the 2012 season, NCCU has scored 36 touchdowns on defense and special teams, including three defensive scores last year. Prairie View A&M: • NCCU returns just nine starters (6 offense, 3 defense), but boasts nine members of Head Coach ................................... Eric Dooley the Preseason All-MEAC Team: First Team - DB Davanta Reynolds, RB Isaiah Totten, Alma Mater .............Southern University (1999) Record at PVAMU ...................0-1 (1st season) OL Nick Leverett, DL Kawuan Cox; Second Team - TE Josh McCoy, OL Andrew Dale, Career Record .........................0-1 (1st season) DL Randy Anyanwu; Third Team - WR Xavier McKoy, and DB De’Mario Evans. MEDIA RELATIONS CONTACTS ABOUT NCCU FOOTBALL NCCU won three consecutive MEAC championships from 2014-16, and represented North Carolina Central: the MEAC in the 2016 Celebration Bowl versus Grambling in the Georgia Dome. SID .................................................. Kyle Serba NCCU Recent Records: Office Phone ............................. (919) 530-7054 2017: 7-4 overall, 5-3 MEAC E-Mail [email protected] Web Site ........................NCCUEaglePride.com 2016: 9-3 overall, 8-0 MEAC – MEAC champions 2015: 8-3 overall, 7-1 MEAC – MEAC co-champions Prairie View A&M: 2014: 7-5 overall, 6-2 MEAC – MEAC co-champions SID ...............................................Duane Lewis Office Phone ............................. (936) 261-3950 MEAC IN THE MEAC/SWAC CHALLENGE E-Mail .............................. [email protected] • The MEAC leads the MEAC/SWAC Challenge 9-3 since the event started in 2005. Web Site .................................PVPanthers.com • The MEAC won five straight games in the MEAC/SWAC Challenge from 2011-15, Twitter Talk: #NCCUfootball before Southern University beat S.C. State University in 2017. THE SERIES QUICK FACTS This will be the first gridiron meeting between the NCCU Eagles and the Prairie View North Carolina Central University School: A&M Panthers. Location: Durham, NC 27707 Founded: 1910 by Dr. James E. Shepard LAST WEEK Enrollment: 8,097 Rice 31, Prairie View A&M 28 (Houston, Texas): Prairie View A&M lost on the final Nickname: Eagles play of the game at Rice, falling 31-28 at Rice Stadium on Saturday (Aug. 25). School Colors: Maroon & Gray PVAMU quarterback Jalen Morton completed 16 of 28 passes for 244 yards and Stadium: O'Kelly-Riddick Stadium three touchdowns, and rushed 12 times for 53 yards. Wide receiver Tristen Wallace Capacity (Surface): 10,000 (Mondoturf) caught five passes for 157 yards and a touchdown to lead all receivers, while Panthers National Affiliation: NCAA Division I-FCS running back Dawonya Tucker rushed 10 times or 73 yards. Rice scored the final 12 Conference: Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference points of the game in the fourth quarter, including a 23-yard field goal on the final play Chancellor: Dr. Johnson O. Akinleye of the game, for the final margin. Alma Mater: Alabama A&M Athletics Director: Ingrid Wicker-McCree, Ed.D. THE COACHES Alma Mater: George Washington NCCU: Granville Eastman (Saint Mary’s, 1992) is in his first season as a college Athletics Dept. Phone: (919) 530-7057 head coach. With 20 years of collegiate coaching experience to his credit, Eastman Athletics Dept. Web Site: NCCUEaglePride.com joined the NCCU staff in January 2014, serving as assistant head coach, defensive Twitter: @NCCUAthletics / @NCCU_Football coordinator and safeties coach until his promotion to interim head coach on Dec. 8, Facebook: Facebook.com/NCCUAthletics 2017. Prior to joining NCCU, Eastman spent nine seasons (2005-13) as the defensive Athletics Ticket Office Phone: (919) 530-6530 coordinator at Austin Peay State University in Clarkesville, Tennessee. During his 11 total seasons at APSU, he coached defensive backs and linebackers, and also FOOTBALL HISTORY served as special teams coordinator (2003-04) and interim head coach (winter 2013). Eastman coached four seasons (1999-2002) at Tiffin University in Ohio, including the First Year of Football: 1923 last three seasons as defensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator, while working Overall All-Time Record: 470-384-30 with defensive backs and defensive line during his tenure. A native of Toronto, Canada, NCAA Playoff Record (Yrs): 1-3 (3 years - 1988, Eastman secured his first coaching position at York University in his hometown, where 2005, 2006 - NCAA Div. II) he spent two seasons (1994-95) working with defensive backs. He then served Last Playoff Opponent: Delta State (Div. II) as a defensive graduate assistant for three seasons (1996-98) at Arkansas State Result (Date): Lost, 17-24 (Nov. 25, 2006) University, earning a master’s degree in sociology in 1999. Eastman was a two-time Conference Championships: MEAC (1972, all-city defensive back at Stephen Leacock High School in Toronto before attending 1973, 2014, 2015, 2016); CIAA (1953, 1954, Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, where he was a three-year 1956, 1961, 1963, 1980, 2005, 2006) letterman as a defensive back. Twice Saint Mary’s played in national title games while he was there. Eastman earned his bachelor’s degree from Saint Mary’s University in SPORTS INFORMATION 1992. Sports Information Director: Kyle Serba Prairie View A&M: Eric Dooley was named Prairie View A&M University’s head SID Office Phone: (919) 530-7054 football coach on December 22, 2017. Dooley spent the previous four seasons at SID E-Mail: [email protected] Grambling State University as offensive coordinator (2014-17), helping the Tigers to Radio Play-by-Play: Jonathan Duren three consecutive Southwestern Athletic Conference Western Division titles (2015-17), Phone/Email: (919) 530-6892/[email protected] two SWAC Championships (2016-17), and an HBCU National Championship (2016). Dooley also worked three seasons as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach COACHING STAFF at Arkansas-Pine Bluff (2011-13). Those seven seasons as offensive coordinator were Head Coach (Interim): Granville Eastman preceded by 14 years as an assistant coach in various roles at Southern University Alma Mater (Year): Saint Mary’s Univ. (1992) (1997-2010). Dooley played wide receiver at Grambling under legendary coach Eddie Record at NCCU (Years): 0-0 (1st year) Robinson (1985-88), winning two SWAC Championships. He earned his bachelor’s Career Record (Years): 0-0 (1st year) degree from Southern University New Orleans (1999), and his master’s degree Coaching Responsibilities: from Southern University Baton Rouge (2005). His professional playing experience Granville Eastman ...... Def. Coordinator/Safeties includes earning a free agent contract with the Canadian Football League’s Calgary T.C. Taylor .........................Offensive Coordinator