The 2000 Hofstra Pride football team represented Hofstra University during the 2000 NCAA Division I-AA football season. "Coach wanted to toughen you up. The Flying Dutchmen played their home games at Hofstra Stadium on the university's Hempstead campus on Long Island, New York. Mr. Neil D. Levin, Law School Class of 1981 and a member of Hofstra's Board of Trustees. Colleges Index; Hofstra NFL/AFL Players; . In 1983, Kwiatkowski's second year at the Hempstead campus, the team went undefeated in its regular season, and was ranked as high as third nationally. College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com Blog and Articles. Hofstra University is an EO/AA/ADA educator and employer. Sperling, who is from Amityville, and a number of other running backs - the brothers Michael and Richard Codella of Parsippany, N.J.; Emil Pellino of Yonkers; Andrew Metz of Valparaiso, Ind., and an incoming freshman, Steve McNeese of Mississippi (the latter two are the 1983 and 1984 deaf prep school players of the year, respectively) - will try to pick up the slack left by the loss of Gerry Magallanes, last year's top rusher. He was born and raised in Jericho, Long Island and completed his undergraduate work at SUNY Stony Brook. Nelson chose UMass over Fordham; wideout Aaron Weaver jumped to the Division I level, signing on with Syracuse. He belonged to NYFD Squad 288 in Maspeth, Queens. Please identify the webpage address or URL and the specific problems you have encountered and we will address the issue. He enrolled at law school at the University of Illinois last fall, but still finds it difficult to return to the football side of things at Hofstra. Do you have a blog? ''Our offensive line will be huge and fast,'' Kwiatkowski said. Defensively, nine of 11 starters returned this year, including all three linebackers and three of four defensive backs. HOFSTRA FOOTBALL: NATIONAL GOAL - The New York Times Members of the Northeastern team had been scheduled to visit Hofstra the week Hofstra canceled. He walked out with memorabilia and gear under both arms. Mr. Frederick T. Varacchi, Class of 1988 lived in Greenwich, Connecticut. Subscribe to Stathead Football: Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Pro Football Reference Database. Do you have a sports website? With a 41 conference record, Hofstra narrowly missed the MAC University Division championship, finishing half a game behind Bucknell (51). Hofstra finished second in the Middle Atlantic Conference, University Division . Others thought it might have been a coaching change or special announcement. So it's tough, but it's out of our hands.". He was an accomplished student athlete who was named an All-American at West Hempstead High School in football and track, and he continued to excel at these sports while a student at Villanova University. Despite the long hours his job required, he found the energy for 4 a.m. morning workouts and coaching duties for his son's Little League team. Gardi, who directed the Hofstra University football program from 1990 through the 2005 season, tallied a 119-62-2 record in his 16 seasons at Hofstra. Hofstra's decision to eliminate its 72-year-old football program because of costs and waning interest among fans shocked players, coaches and alumni. Until the last few years, that pretty much summed up fan reaction to Hofstra football through most of its 44-year football history. The secondary has speed, experience and hitting ability.''. [2], The nickname changed to Pride in 2000; following the 2009 season on December3, the university announced the termination of the football program. ''The biggest question mark we have,'' Kwiatkowski said, ''is at quarterback, where we have to replace Tom McLaughlin, in order for us to be a contender.''. at Rutgers University - First Round. Hofstra University Remembers: Library | Hofstra | New York Many football fans, however, believe that Division III is where players who are just a little too slow or too small to play major college football go when no other school wants them. "The administrators wanted to tell you that Hofstra's going to be this great academic institution. If you could walk and chew gum at the same time, you could play ball at Hofstra. When he drives to campus, he tends to stay on the university side of Hempstead Turnpike, unwilling to look at the stadium he once starred at for the Pride as if there is an invisible fence now erected. We present them here for purely educational purposes. Hofstra 9-1: 1985: Hofstra 4-6: 1986: Hofstra 9-2: L NCAA Division III First Round: 1987: Hofstra 9-2: L NCAA Division III First Round . So fast forward to yesterday, and I'm at a press conference at the Public House on Manhattan's east side. In 1984, the team won its first nine games, and was ranked fifth nationally, before losing its final game of the year to St. John's University. [1][2] The Pride earned a berth into the 16-team Division I-AA playoffs, but lost in the quarterfinals to eventual national champion Georgia Southern, 4820. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. 2000 NCAA Division I-AA football playoff participants, 2000 NCAA Division I-AA independents football standings, "2007 Hofstra Pride Football Media Guide: All-Time Results", "Hofstra Sheds Colorful Name for Meaningful One", "Hofstra's Showing Its Pride / No longer Dutchmen, school adopts new nickname", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2000_Hofstra_Pride_football_team&oldid=1128135610, 2000 NCAA Division I-AA independents football season, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using CFB schedule with an unlinked gamename, Pages using CFB schedule with named parameters, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, ^ NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant, This page was last edited on 18 December 2022, at 15:44.
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