CHARLOTTE, North Carolina -- There were no all-conference selections and no mention in the preseason poll. All that will have to wait another year.
But Hampton University, one of the Big South Conference’s new members, had a real presence Tuesday at the league’s football media day event in Charlotte.
Hampton was the first of the conference’s eight football-playing schools to be grabbed by the ESPN crew for interviews. And several Big South coaches talked about the significance of having a school with Hampton’s history joining the league.
The Pirates’ new head football coach, Robert Prunty, took it all in with a smile.
“I’ll tell you what,” he said. “I can’t wait.”
Hampton will have to wait, however, as it doesn’t play a full Big South schedule in football until 2019. But Hampton faces three conference opponents this year, and the Pirates say they’ll use that as a cornerstone for the 2018 campaign.
“Even though we don’t have a full Big South schedule, we get to test ourselves against three conference teams,” said senior defensive back Chaka Diarrassouba.
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