The Empire 8 and Liberty League will meet up in a non-conference scheduling arrangement in 2025 and 2026, and in order to balance their numbers, the E8 sent Hilbert over to the LL for the 2025 season.
Senior linebackers Joe Miller-LaBar and Ernesto Mitchell wear uniform No. 1 and No. 2, and they've helped Morrisville State start off 3-0 for the first time since the program moved to Division III. Brian Lester has more.
Curt Fitzpatrick, a St. John Fisher graduate and head coach at Morrisville State since 2013, will be moving to Cortland, where he replaces longtime head coach Dan McNeill.
The Empire 8 and Liberty League won't be sending their top at-large teams to the ECAC postseason bowl games, rather, they'll square off in a New York State bowl game this November.
The leaves are starting to change and our journeys are going to get a little more picturesque. Here's a trip through New England and upstate and western New York.
When Lemar Johnson steps on the field Saturday in the biggest football game of his life, he will be guiding a team in the midst of its most important moment. It's fitting that Johnson and Morrisville State will experience new heights together, because the two are forever linked.
The first full week of NJAC action saw some big-time individual performances, while the Green Knights were victim to the comeback this week and someone kicked a 50-yard field goal on an untimed down to win the game. That and more in the Week 5 roundup.
The New Jersey Athletic Conference is getting a lot bigger and a lot stronger in football in 2015, as Wesley, Salisbury, Christopher Newport and Frostburg State join the league, while Morrisville State moves to the Empire 8.
At halftime of the Mustangs' win vs. Rowan, coach Curt Fitzpatrick saw the usual blood, sweat and ripped jerseys, but also saw something that, up until then, had been lacking.
The Mustangs turn the NJAC on its head by upsetting Rowan, while Mass. Maritime gets into another wild one, Hope ends Olivet's streak and more outside the Top 25.