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Cambria Hoping to Find gold in the Big East

Posted on July 1, 2010 at 10:25 AM.

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Cambria Morning Sentinel
7/1/2010

Cambria College was founded in 1950 and is located in Cambria PA. The school has been a member of Division II since 1965 when the school established an athletic department. They play their home games in Bobby Alldred Memorial Stadium, which can hold a capacity crowd of 50,000. Even though, the school�s student population hovers are 5,000, the football team attracts the interest of the Cambria County and other surrounding counties, thus sold-out crowds are the norm during football season. The Miners have dominated Division II in football for the past thirty years as they have won five national championships, 15 Western Pennsylvania Athletic Conference Titles. Under the direction of Jeremy Wilson, the Miners have won two DII National Championships, 7 WPAC titles, and Wilson himself has won two National Coach of the Year Awards.

Recently, the success of Cambria�s football program was recognized as the Big East Conference decided to invite Cambria College to join their conference beginning in 2010. Cambria will replace Syracuse who moved to the MAC conference to assume the opening left by Kent State who disbanded their football program. Syracuse will remain a Big East member for all other sports. Cambria�s invitation to the Big East comes as a surprise to many given Cambria�s relative obscurity and the fact they have never been a member of the FBS division, normally a prerequisite for promotion to the Division I FCS. However, Cambria is able to recruit great athletes and football players as Wilson has established recruiting pipelines in Pennsylania, Ohio, and West Virginia. Also, Wilson has been able to attract talented football players as many Miners are transfers from big-time Division 1 schools. Wilson has emplaced minimum grade point average for all his players of 3.3 in accordance with the strict academic standards of Cambria College, one of the nation�s premier Liberal Arts colleges.

The Miners favor a spread attack and incorporate a no-huddle offense to wear out opposing defenses. In regards to defense, the Miners play a standard 4-3 defense , yet play aggressive and often blitz their linebackers in hopes of creating pressure on the opposing quarterback. Currently, Wilson is looking to fill two vacancies on his coaching staff, which are the offensive coordinator position and defensive coordinator position. They are vacant because both prior coaches left to take head coach positions at local Division 3 colleges