Spring Practice is just around the corner to start getting prepared for the 2012 Season:
2012 Cumberland Bulldogs Football:
Date Opponent Location Time
9/1 Kansas-Wesleyan (Big River Bowl) Dyersburg, TN Noon 9/8 Univ. of Cumberlands Home TBA 9/15 Belhaven University* Home TBA 9/22 @Univ. of Virginia-Wise Wise, VA TBA 9/29 @Pikeville University Pikeville, KY TBA 10/6 Union College Home TBA 10/13 @Faulkner* Montgomery, AL TBA 10/20 Campbellsville Univ.* Home TBA 10/29 @Bethel Univ.* McKenzie, TN TBA 11/3 Bluefield College* Home TBA 11/10 @Lindsey Wilson College* Columbia, KY TBA
*Mid-South Conference West
How will they do? Will they finally get over the hump to win the conference? They have back to back long bus rides to Wise and Pikeville.
_________________ If you don't have the best of everything; make the best of everything you do have.
-Erk Russell
Cumberlands has been the their downfall the last couple years (though last year's Belhaven loss was more damaging,) so maybe having UC back in the East will help them break through. The west should still be wide open even with the changes. Bethel would seem the favorite to repeat, but they've had so much coaching turnover who knows what they'll look like. Campbellsville and Lindsey are legit threats as well, and who knows what could happen if Faulkner ever plays defense.......
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It blows my mind that a team like Kansas Wesleyan will travel halfway across the country to play at Cumberlands, but they won't travel 3 hours East on I-70 to play at MidAmerica Nazarene.
It blows my mind that a team like Kansas Wesleyan will travel halfway across the country to play at Cumberlands, but they won't travel 3 hours East on I-70 to play at MidAmerica Nazarene.
Just a rumor, but, I heard they (Cumberlands) were willing to pay for The 'yote's travel expenses.... 'n' 'sides, if you've seen Central Kansas, you've seen it all....
Dyersburg is a whopping 20 miles from the Missouri border... I'd hold off on calling Ripley's. It's not that far man. Why is mnu so hyped on playing KW?
Dyersburg is a whopping 20 miles from the Missouri border... I'd hold off on calling Ripley's. It's not that far man. Why is mnu so hyped on playing KW?
Not sure what Dyersburg's relationship to Missouri has to do with it?
K-W will have a 9 hr. 45 min. bus ride to Dyersburg, TN from Salina, KS. That's a pretty far distance in my opinion.
_________________ If you don't have the best of everything; make the best of everything you do have.
-Erk Russell
Cumberland's Football Operations will moving into the old Lebanon High School facility beginning in June. It will greatly upgrade the football facilties to include and indoor practice area.
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2012 Football ranked 23rd in Spring Coaches' Poll
– Cumberland is ranked 23rd nationally in the 2012 NAIA Football Coaches’ Spring Top 25 Poll, the national office announced Wednesday. The Bulldogs posted a 7-3 record in 2011 and finished the year ranked 24th in the country.
Cumberland returns 19 starters for head coach Dewayne Alexander, in his seventh season at CU. The Bulldogs rose as high as No. 14 in the polls in 2011 after a 7-1 start to the season, but lost their final two games.
James McClain posted 1,604 all-purpose yards and 12 touchdowns as a sophomore, including 398 rushing yards, 645 receiving yards and 561 return yards. The offense returns quarterback Reed Gurchiek, who ranked 31st in the NAIA with a 124.8 pass efficiency rating. The Mt. Juliet, Tenn., native directed an offense that averaged 31.1 points per game last season, 24th in the NAIA.
Four starters on the offensive line also return for the Bulldogs, but CU must replace All-Conference defenders Chris Simpson, Stephon Ransom and Ben Miller from the unit that recorded 17 sacks and created 32 turnovers in 2011. Allanté McLemore and Cody McCallister return in the defensive backfield and Connor McChurch will start at linebacker for the second straight season as well.
Cumberland opens the 2012 season against Kansas Wesleyan on September 1 in the Big River Bowl in Dyersburg, Tenn. The Bulldogs take on the University of the Cumberlands on September 8 in the home opener.
_________________ If you don't have the best of everything; make the best of everything you do have.
-Erk Russell
The offense returns quarterback Reed Gurchiek, who ranked 31st in the NAIA with a 124.8 pass efficiency rating. The Mt. Juliet, Tenn., native directed an offense that averaged 31.1 points per game last season, 24th in the NAIA.
31st in passing effeciency. WOW. That's about middle of the pack in the naia. Ranked 9th overall in the MSC and next to last in the MSC-West. Total offense per game: 9th overall and last in the MSC-West.
Cumberland overall was last in total offense in the MSC-West. They didn't average 31 per game offensively. The defense or special teams were usually good for at least 1 TD per game.
For CU to have success this year, they will have to pick it up on the offensive side of the ball and play sound defense like they usually do.
The offense returns quarterback Reed Gurchiek, who ranked 31st in the NAIA with a 124.8 pass efficiency rating. The Mt. Juliet, Tenn., native directed an offense that averaged 31.1 points per game last season, 24th in the NAIA.
31st in passing effeciency. WOW. That's about middle of the pack in the naia. Ranked 9th overall in the MSC and next to last in the MSC-West. Total offense per game: 9th overall and last in the MSC-West.
Cumberland overall was last in total offense in the MSC-West. They didn't average 31 per game offensively. The defense or special teams were usually good for at least 1 TD per game.
For CU to have success this year, they will have to pick it up on the offensive side of the ball and play sound defense like they usually do.
There probably should be some competition for the QB position. The backup looked pretty good in the 2 games he started and the other 2 he played in. Led the team in total offense/per game. Was 2nd on the team in total offense and only played in 4 games. Ended the year with QB Rating of 151.
_________________ If you don't have the best of everything; make the best of everything you do have.
-Erk Russell
Cumberland started work on renovations to their new football home at Nokes-Lasiter Field the first of June.
I hope the administration will spend the $$ necessary to make it a first rate facility and don't "penny pinch" like they've been known to do in the past.
Based on your post, I had one of my friends in Lebanon go take a look. He said it looks like they have just painted it red at this point. Have you heard what they are planning to do with it to make it better? Cumberland has an opportunity to have a nice facility it sounds like. My question is, will this be the one facility that the school needs in order to move to Division II? The soccer team just inherited a nice facility in my opinion.
Based on your post, I had one of my friends in Lebanon go take a look. He said it looks like they have just painted it red at this point. Have you heard what they are planning to do with it to make it better? Cumberland has an opportunity to have a nice facility it sounds like. My question is, will this be the one facility that the school needs in order to move to Division II? The soccer team just inherited a nice facility in my opinion.
Where you been LawDawg? Good to hear from ya! Probably alot of "cardinal" paint to cover up all that blue. If it didn't move the "Blue Devils" painted it. They're redoing the home locker rooms to include a lounge for the players, new athletic training facility where track used to be housed, turning the indoor baseball facility into visitor and officials locker rooms, new goal post, updating concessions, redoing the field by fixing crown and doing some work to the grass. And...........they won't have to have porta pottys They probably can't do everything they'd like to do this year, but it should give the players and fans a better game day experience.
Soccer program was probably the biggest winner in all this. They will have a facility that rivals some D1 programs.
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-Erk Russell
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That's about middle of the pack in the naia. 