Floyd Leads Conference Over Recruits

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Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - While he was Princeton's head football coach, Roger Hughes embraced the way his players' parents entrusted he and his coaching staff with what he called "their most precious commodity." The parents of Hughes' future recruits at Stetson University will embrace his concepts.

 

The 51-year-old will build Stetson's program from scratch as its new head coach, in preparation for the Hatters' return to football in 2013 as a member of the Pioneer Football League. The DeLand, Fla., school disbanded its football program after the 1956 season.

 

Mercer University also will join the PFL in 2013, bringing the league to 12 teams spread from coast to coast.

 

Until Stetson kicks off in 2013, there's no doubt what Hughes considers to be his priority.

 

"It's important that we do things the right way at Stetson," he added. "We are going to make sure that we fall within and recruit within Stetson's recipe. Our athletes have to be successful on the field, off the field and within the community."

 

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - Suspended Notre Dame wide receiver Michael Floyd has been sentenced to a year of probation and can't drive for 90 days after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor drunken driving charge.

A St. Joseph County magistrate on Wednesday gave Floyd a one-year prison sentence that was suspended. He also ordered that after Floyd gets his license back, he will have a device installed in his car for 180 days that will prevent it from starting if his blood-alcohol level is too high.

Prosecutors say when Floyd was arrested March 20 in South Bend he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.19 percent - more than double Indiana's legal limit for driving.

Coach Brian Kelly suspended Floyd after his arrest. He is being allowed to take part in voluntary workouts.Copyright © 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.

 

South Bend, IN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Suspended Notre Dame wide receiver Michael Floyd has reportedly been put on probation for one year. According to the South Bend Tribune, Floyd pleaded guilty Wednesday in St. Joseph County Traffic and Misdemeanor Court to one count of operating a vehicle while intoxicated. He was arrested March 20 on Notre Dame's campus.

 

He had faced a maximum sentence of one year in jail.

 

A release from the St. Joseph County Prosecutor's office said that Floyd, 21, was then arrested around 3:18 a.m.

 

Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - If Southeast Missouri State's struggling football program had accepted its spot in the Ohio Valley Conference preseason poll (tied for seventh) last season, the Redhawks would not have gone on to win their first title. If Villanova had not gotten tripped up at Rhode Island, then the 2009 FCS champion Wildcats could have earned a share of the CAA Football title. And URI followers might not be singing the Rams' praises heading into the 2011 season.

 

There won't be many overwhelming favorites in the 14 FCS conferences this season, although Lehigh in the Patriot League, Jacksonville in the Pioneer Football League and Jacksonville State of the Ohio Valley Conference are the closest to them.

 

Here's one for each FCS conference:

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Betting the NFL preseason

Rule No. 1 in the gamblers' handbook states, "Avoid sports betting on meaningless games."

When you're drowning in a sea of baseball monotony, however, things change. Even a hint of pro football betting can persuade the most disciplined bettor to break a few rules. 

The NFL preseason is around the corner, with a tempting Hall of Fame match kicking off on Sunday. But bettors must stay vigilant. Wagering on NFL exhibition games is an entirely different beast than the regular season. Most fans don't recognize the players on the field because starters get as much action in August as Warcraft fans get on Prom night.

The only certainty about the NFL this time of year is uncertainty – and yet there are some who say betting in August can be a gold mine.

“I actually feel the NFL preseason presents solid profit opportunities for sharp bettors and handicappers,” Sports Expert Steve Merril explains. “My experience has been that the sportsbooks fear the preseason, which is evident by lower limits and massive moves.”

The line moves are attributed to the limited knowledge available regarding playing-time distribution. One team’s top unit out on the field for one more series has an impact on the pointspread. Setting lines in the preseason often is a shot in the dark.

“We base the betting lines mostly on public perception,” Pete Korner, founder of the Sports Club in Las Vegas, says. “It’s very tough to predict, almost a guessing game.”

The preseason is all about figuring out who’s in and for how long.

“It becomes a race between bettors and oddsmakers to find out how long the quarterbacks are going to stay in,” Korner admits. “If a sharp gets the information first, he could exploit an early line. I’m a full believer in moving the line in the preseason if the books find out something late in the week.”

Determining what each team’s motive is can help bettors handicap. To do this you must pay close attention to the philosophies head coaches employ in exhibition play.

“You need to know what a coach is trying to accomplish,” says Covers Expert Bryan Leonard. “Sometimes a new coach will want to instill a winning attitude. Others just want to make sure their starters don’t get hurt."

So how do you distinguish who’s playing scared and who’s playing for keeps?

“Head coaches on the hot seat or new coaches trying to implement a winning attitude usually try harder to win in the preseason,” Merril says.

Cleveland Browns head coach Romeo Crennel fits this criteria. He’s entering his third season as the sideline boss and has yet to lead the Browns to more than six wins.

Cleveland is an enticing bet as well because of the unresolved quarterback situation. General manager Phil Savage sacrificed the Browns’ first-round pick in next year’s draft for Brady Quinn, but the former Notre Dame quarterback hasn’t signed or reported to training camp yet.

Charlie Frye and Derek Anderson split time at QB last season and it looks like either player (or even Quinn) could be the opening-day starter.

“If a team has quarterback depth and the pecking order hasn’t been decided, it’s a big advantage,” Leonard says.

Even in the third week of the preseason when starters generally play the most, the final outcome of the game is in the hands of fringe players. A team's talent, all the way down to the last man on the roster, is something to consider.

The New England Patriots have long been considered one of the deeper teams in the NFL and coach Bill Belichick has said in the past he’s unafraid of stars getting hurt in games with nothing on the line. He shocked his colleagues in 2003 by playing some of his starters on special teams in the preseason.

“We want to have the team ready to play a tough, physical game and preparation has to go into that and I imagine a certain amount of injuries go with it,” Belichick told the Providence Journal in August 2003.

Bettors can only hope to find more teams that share the Pats' business-like approach to the preseason (New England is 17-9-3 against the spread since 2000) and take advantage of teams who detest the exhibition schedule.

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