Coatal Carolina football coach David Bennett talks before his team’s opener against Kent State about playing an FCS team, traveling up to Ohio and back in one day, and how quarterbacks get all the credit.

If Tommy Fraser was a firearm, he wouldn’t be a Tommy Gun, he’d be more like a bazooka.

Coastal has been inconsistent as a whole the past two seasons, but one position that they have found a strength is at punter.

Coastal Carolina fifth-year senior Joseph Harris has enrolled in classes and will play his fifth season for the Chanticleers, the school announced Thursday. Harris announced he was going to go enroll at UAB to pursue a Master’s degree in nursing, which Coastal doesn’t offer.

There was a scary moment at Coastal Carolina practice Tuesday. Tight end Ben Collins laid motionless on the turf for 15 minutes after contact during a running play in an 11-on-11 rushing drill.

Coastal Carolina University Men’s Cross Country and Track and Field Head Coach Jeff Jacobs has been temporarily suspended for one week following a charge of driving under the influence during the weekend. 

Coastal Carolina University’s football program and the Chanticleer Athletic Foundation is hosting “Ladies Night Out,” a football clinic for women on Wednesday, Aug. 19 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. to explain the basics of the game.

The Coastal Carolina University men’s basketball team will face Duke Monday, Nov. 16 in the opening round of the 2009 Dick’s Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off.

As students return for fall classes, officials will roll out a new campus initiative that encourages students to make responsible decisions when it comes to alcohol use.

Steve Delmar, a junior from Gaithersburg, Maryland, will compete with 312 players in the national tournament in late August.

Through the first few days of Coastal Carolina practice, there’s one player you just can’t take your eyes off of.  CCU TE David Duran stands 6’4”, 240 lbs, and he may be the Chanticleers’ most dependable receiver.

By their own standards, Coastal Carolina is in a championship drought.  After winning three Big South titles in their first four years in the conference, CCU is oh for its last two.  The Chants are not expected to end that drought in 2009.

Despite putting up good offensive numbers in his 10 starts at quarterback last year, Chief Tyler Thigpen is not getting a chance to battle Matt Cassel for the starting job this year.

Tyler Thigpen’s great story - becoming the first quarterback in Coastal Carolina history, being the first draft pick out of the Big South, and starting in the NFL as a second-year player - becomes even more compelling when you know he didn’t play QB his second year of high school.

One of the best running back tandems in the state over the past few years finally signed their letters of intent on Thursday, a full five months after signing day.  Cheraw’s Travis Small and Montrell Evans both felt relieved as they were able to solidify their college plans, about a month before it is time to start.