 DONOVAN ROSE HEAD FOOTBALL COACH HAMPTON UNIVERSITY |
The Pirates (3-7, 3-5 MEAC in 2012), coming into their fifth season under head coach Donovan Rose, were picked to finish ninth in the MEAC, while the Leathernecks (3-8, 1-7 MVFC), under first-year head coach Bob Nielson, were picked to finish ninth in the Missouri Valley Football Conference.
Redshirt-senior offensive lineman Jamal Wilson (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and senior linebacker Matthew Davis (Chesapeake, Va.) were each named Preseason Second Team All-MEAC, while senior defensive back Carvin Johnson (New Orleans, La.) was on the Honorable Mention All-MEAC squad.
Wilson started all 10 games for the Pirates last season, and he was part of an offensive line that helped Hampton rank fifth in the MEAC with 148.1 rushing yards per game. He was part of a Pirates offensive line that helped Jeremiah Schwartz become the first Pirate to rush for over 1,000 yards since 2009. Behind Wilson's offensive line, Schwartz had seven 100-yard rushing games last season.
Davis tallied 37 tackles last season, including 13 solo efforts. His career-high of 12 tackles (five solo) came against Bethune-Cookman back on Sept. 29, and he led the team with 4.0 sacks last season. His 7.0 tackles for loss were third-most on the team.
Johnson was fourth on the team with 57 tackles in 2012, including 31 solo stops. He had a career-high 18 tackles at Tennessee Tech, and he recovered a team-high three fumbles last season.
The Pirates will have their fifth offensive coordinator in five seasons in Glen Ferebee. Ferebee comes to Hampton after spending five seasons as the head football coach at nearby Lakeland High School in Suffolk, where he recorded three winning seasons and led Lakeland to back-to-back state playoff appearances in 2011 and 2012. Ferebee played quarterback at Liberty University from 1995-99.
Bernard Clark Jr. returns to the Pirates this season to serve as defensive coordinator, taking the same position he held with the program back in 2009. That season, Hampton was third in the MEAC in both scoring defense (19.4 ppg) and total defense (278.1 ypg) – and Clark's Pirates were second in the conference in rushing defense, holding opponents to just 117.0 yards per game on the ground.
His team also had 157 sacks in 2009, second-most in the MEAC.
The Pirates are 1-0 all-time against Western Illinois, after beating the Leathernecks 40-20 at Armstrong Stadium on Sept. 18, 2004 – a year in which Hampton won 10 games and advanced to the NCAA Div. I-AA playoffs.
This will be the first-ever meeting between these two teams in Macomb, Ill.
The Pirates are 1-3 all-time against schools currently in the Missouri Valley Football Conference. Hampton's last game against a MVFC school came in 2008, when the Pirates fell 37-31 at Southern Illinois. The Pirates are 1-0 all-time against Western Illinois, 0-2 against Southern Illinois, and 0-1 against Youngstown State.
Hampton has never faced Illinois State, Indiana State, Missouri State, North Dakota State, Northern Iowa, South Dakota, or South Dakota State.
The Pirates went 1-5 on the road last season, with their lone win coming at Morgan State in the season finale. During Donovan Rose's tenure as head coach, Hampton is 8-13 on the road, and last season, the Pirates dropped road contests against Tennessee Tech, Florida A&M, North Carolina Central, Howard, and Delaware State.
The Pirates have seven road contests this season.
For more information on Hampton University football, please call the Office of Sports Information at (757) 727-5811, or visit the official Pirates website at www.hamptonpirates.com.
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