NCAA president lauds FCS title game host city for a job well done

By Jeff Kolpack

January 06, 2012 01:06 PM

FRISCO, Texas - The ceremonial portion of the Division I Football Championship Subdivision title week is almost over for North Dakota State. The Bison attended the "championship banquet" at noon today that featured NCAA President Mark Emmert and guest speaker Gary Reasons, a former FCS All-American at Northwestern State (La.) and Super Bowl winning linebacker with the New York Giants.

Emmert told the audience that the host city, Frisco, should be commended for a job well done. Frisco is in the second year of a three-year contract to host the event and indications are the city located north of Dallas is going to bid for it again.

"Frisco did a wonderful job last year," Emmert said, "but everything that has happened this year is even better."

Sam Houston State backup quarterback Greg Sprowls was named the "Elite 89 Award Winner," which goes to the highest grade point average of a championship participant team.

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By Jeff Kolpack

Jeff would like to dispel the notion he was around when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, but he is on his third decade of reporting with Forum Communications. The son of a reporter and an English teacher, and the brother of a reporter, Jeff has worked at the Jamestown Sun, Bismarck Tribune and since 1990 The Forum, where he's covered North Dakota State athletics since 1995.
Jeff has covered all nine of NDSU's Division I FCS national football titles and has written three books: "Horns Up," "North Dakota Tough" and "Covid Kids." He is the radio host of "The Golf Show with Jeff Kolpack" April through August.

NCAA president lauds FCS title game host city for a job well done

FRISCO, Texas - The ceremonial portion of the Division I Football Championship Subdivision title week is almost over for North Dakota State. The Bison attended the "championship banquet" at noon today that featured NCAA President Mark Emmert and ...