GARDNER-WEBB F OOTBALL GARDNER-WEBB RUNNIN’ BULLDOGS (0-1) at RICHMOND SPIDERS (0-1) Saturday, September 8 • 6:00 pm • Robins Stadium (cap. 8,700) 2012 SCHEDULE/RESULTS GAME INFORMATION Date . Saturday, September 8 GWU RUNNIN’ BULLDOGS RICHMOND SPIDERS Date Opponent Time Result Start . 6:000 pm 2012 Record . 0-1 2012 Record . 0-1 9/1 #10 WOFFORD 6:00 pm L, 34-7 Radio. .WGWG-FM (88.3) 2011 Record: . 4-7, 2-4 2011 Record . 3-8, 0-8 9/8 at Richmond 6:00 pm (Fabian Fuentes, Matt Clark) Head Coach . Ron Dickerson, Jr. Head Coach . Danny Rocco Alma Mater . Arkansas ‘96 Alma Mater . Wake Forest ‘84 9/15 SAMFORD 3:00 pm TV . .None (–) Career Record . 4-8 Career Record . 47-21 9/22 at Pittsburgh (ESPN3) 3:30 pm Internet Video . .richmondspiders.com at GWU . 4-8 at UofR . 0-1 Series . First Meeting SID . Marc Rabb SID . Scott Burns 10/6 at Liberty * (Flames Sports Network) 3:30 pm Last Meeting . .First Meeting Email . [email protected] Email . [email protected] 10/13 MIDAMERICA NAZARENE 6:00 pm ( –) Web Site . gwusports.com Web Site . .richmondspiders.com 10/20 at #17 Stony Brook * 4:00 pm 10/27 VMI * (Homecoming) 1:30 pm RUNNIN’ BULLDOGS TO WATCH SATURDAY 11/3 COASTAL CAROLINA * (ESPN3) 1:30 pm 11/10 at Charleston Southern * (ESPN3) 1:30 pm NOTES: Has 31.0 career tackles for loss ... 11/17 PRESBYTERIAN * 1:30 pm PRESTON PEMASA Has led the Big South in tackles for loss in 6-2 • 257 • Jr. • DE each of his two seasons with Gardner-Webb * Big South Confererence game Garden Grove, Calif. / Orange Lutheran HS to date ... Two-time All-Big South Conference 52 selection at defensive end ... Preseason CFPA All Times Eastern And Subject To Change Home Games BOLD/CAPS TT SOLO TFL SACK Watch List for defensive linemen ... Three- year starter. 9 4 2.5 0 NOTES: Started fi rst game since November LUCAS BEATTY 3 in the season opener ... Missed spring MEDIA INFORMATION 6-2 • 220 • RSo. • QB practice and summer workouts with an injury Charlotte, N.C. / Olympic HS ... Set new career-highs in completions (19) 8 and yardage (223) vs. #10 Wofford ... Started Time To Dine: All Media are invited to attend Coach Dickerson’s weekly COMP ATT YDS TD/INT four games as a redshirt freshman in 2011 media luncheon, "Dining with Dickerson" on Wednesdays at The Bulldog ... Posted a 2-2 record in Big South starts Quik Snak in Boiling Springs. Free lunch is provided, as well as game 19 31 223 1/1 last season. notes, media guides and first-hand commentary by Dickerson on the upcoming game and previous week’s action. For more information, call Marc Rabb at (704) 406-4355. SCOUTING THE SPIDERS On The Web: For additional information on Gardner-Webb University football, media can access GWUSports.com or BigSouthSports.com via Gardner-Webb will tangle with a familiar face on Saturday at Richmond, with former Liberty skipper Danny Rocco at the the World Wide Web. Both sites will offer notes, statistics and releases Spiders’ helm ... Rocco posted a 5-1 mark against Gardner-Webb during his time at Liberty, with the lone loss coming in 2006 in Lynchburg ... The Spiders dropped their 2012 season opener 43-19 at ACC contender Virginia last Saturday, trailing related to Bulldog football and the Big South Conference. just 29-12 after three quarters ... Richmond passed for 238 yards and a pair of scores, with starter John Laub and Virginia transfer Michael Strauss each connecting on touchdown passes ... All-America fullback Kendall Gaskins carried four times for 38 yards in the opener, and is coming off a 650-yard, 10-touchdown season in 2011 ... All-America linebacker Darius McMillan had 10 tackles and a pass break up at Virginia. GARDNER-WEBB ATHLETIC MEDIA RELATIONS Assistant Athletics Director, Media Relations: Marc Rabb Offi ce: (704) 406-4355 Cell: (704) 974-3662 Email: [email protected] RICHMOND PLAYERS TO WATCH SATURDAY Assistant Director: Kevin Davis Offi ce: (704) 406-3523 Offense Cell: (704) 974-9095 • FB Kendall Gaskins 6-1 235 Sr. Preseason All-America had 10 TDs in 2011. Email: [email protected] • TE Kevin Finney 6-6 250 RSr. Had four catches for 50 yards in opener. • OL Jacob Ruby 6-7 295 RSo. Preseason All-CAA selection (3rd Team). Graduate Assistant: Saxon Simpson Defense Offi ce: (704) 406-3981 • LB Darius McMillan 5-11 210 RSr. 2010 All-America selection. Cell: TBA • DT Kerry Wynn 6-5 260 RJr. Preseason All-CAA (2nd Team). Email: [email protected] • DB Cooper Taylor 6-5 230 RSr. Senior Bowl Watch List. Website: GWUSports.com 2012 GARDNER-WEBB FOOTBALL GAME NOTES HEAD COACH RON DICKERSON, JR. THE GAME Ron Dickerson, Jr., is in his second year as head coach of the Gardner-Webb Uni- versity football program, and will lead the Gardner-Webb will battle 2008 FCS National Champion Richmond at 6:00 pm on Saturday, September 8 on the road. Runnin’ Bulldogs onto the fi eld with hopes The game will air live on WGWG-FM (88.3 / wgwg.org), with the Voice of the Runnin’ Bulldogs, Fabian Fuentes, and of competing for a Big South Conference Matt Clark providing the call from Robins Stadium. title in 2012 – 10 seasons after GWU won the league’s inaugural title in 2002. Dickerson’s fi rst season saw the ‘Dogs SERIES NOTES improve in several areas, particularly the team’s dedication to a more physical style of First meeting ... Gardner-Webb is 1-1 in its Division I history against teams from the powerful CAA ... GWU shocked No. play. Gardner-Webb had a 1,000-yard rusher 23 New Hampshire, 38-35, on November 11, 2000 and lost, 14-7, at Old Dominion on October 2, 2010 for the fi rst time since 2000 and had both a 1,000 and 500-yard rusher in the same backfi eld for the fi rst time since the 1980s. THE COACHES Dickerson, 41, joined the GWU family after spending the previous three seasons Gardner-Webb head coach Ron Dickerson, Jr., is in his second season in charge of the Runnin’ Bulldogs and holds a as receivers coach at Ole Miss – playing a 4-8 career record with the Runnin’ Bulldogs. Richmond head coach Danny Rocco is in his seventh season as a Division key role in the development of current NFL players Mike Wallace (Pittsburgh Steel- I FCS head coach and first in charge of the Spiders’ program. Rocco has forged a solid 47-21 mark as a head coach, ers), Dexter McCluster (Kansas City Chiefs) and Shay Hodge (Cincinnati Bengals). All three earned All-SEC honors with Dickerson’s guidance, and Wallace has es- which includes Big South Conference titles in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 at Liberty. tablished himself as one of the top receivers in the National Football League – and played for the Steelers in Super Bowl XLV on February 6, 2011. During his three seasons with the Rebels, Dickerson helped one of his mentors, AN EARLY GAUNTLET Houston Nutt, direct the squad to a pair of top-20 fi nishes, two nine-win seasons and consecutive wins in the AT&T Cotton Bowl – knocking off No. 8 Texas Tech following Gardner-Webb is in in the midst of one of its toughest early-season schedules in history. The ‘Dogs dropped a 34-7 the 2008 season and No. 21 Oklahoma State the following year. In 2008, Ole Miss opener to No. 10 Wofford (9/1) and will battle traditional powerhouse Richmond (9/8) before returning home to face posted key wins over the previous two seasons’ national champions – beating No. 4 another Southern Conference contender in Samford (9/15). After a road game at Big East member Pittsburgh (9/22), Florida and No. 18 LSU on the road. GWU will open league play at Big South powers Liberty (10/6) and No. 17 Stony Brook (10/20). Sandwiched in Dickerson is the fi rst African-American head coach in the Big South Confer- ence’s football history. He is the eighth head coach in 42 seasons of senior college between Liberty and Stony Brook is NAIA national contender MidAmerica Nazarene, a top-5 team last season. football at Gardner-Webb. Prior to Ole Miss, Dickerson spent three seasons at Louisiana-Monroe (2005- 2007) and three seasons at FCS member Missouri State (2002-2004). With ULM, he ESPN3 IN 2K12 coached Calvin Dawson to fi rst-team All-Sun Belt honors and a 1,000-yard season. At Missouri State, he saw pupil Cody Pratt post back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons. Gardner-Webb will make at least three appearances on ESPN in 2012, beginning at Pittsburgh on September 22 (3:30 Dickerson also spent time as an assistant coach at Alabama State (1997-1999) and pm). Gardner-Webb’s November 3 game vs. Coastal Carolina will also be aired by ESPN3 as part of the Big South Temple (1996-1997) and served as head coach at Fairfi eld High in Birmingham, Ala., Conference’s “Game of the Week” programming, as will its November 10 road game at Charleston Southern. Both during the 2000 season. games are set for 1:30 pm kickoffs. The October 6 game at Liberty could also be picked up by the network. In the professional ranks, Dickerson picked up valuable experience as an intern in 2001 under Coach Tony Dungy in Tampa Bay and as the running backs and special teams coach for the XFL’s Las Vegas Outlaws in 2000.