Navy football coach Ken Niumatalolo called this year’s recruiting class the “best class we’ve ever brought in.” Coaches seem to say this about every class, but it could be true considering the national pub the Midshipmen have gotten by playing in a bowl game the last seven years. The bevy of recruiting websites that college football fans flock too don’t think much of Navy’s class. Rivals.com has Niumatalolo’s class ranked 111th out of 120 teams. Of course, those same recruiting classes that websites have ripped in the past have proven the critics wrong. This year’s 52-man class includes plebes from…
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Players graduate, coaches leave and presidents change. But each spring you can count on Navy’s football team to visit the White House to accept the Commander in Chief’s Trophy from the president. At least it seems that way. Navy swept Air Force and Army for the seventh straight year to earn the Commander in Chief trophy again, and on Monday the team and coach Ken Niumatalolo were recognized by President Obama at the White House. Obama praised captains Ross Pospisil and Osei Asante in his remarks, as well as quarterback Ricky Dobbs, who set an NCAA record for rushing touchdowns…
I’ve seen a some positive comments around the Web about Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo’s emotional postgame interview with a CBS sideline reporter, so I figured I’d post it here for anyone who might have missed it. Niumatalolo uses his air time to praise the players on both teams, and says how much he respects them — not for how they played the game, but for going to the academies during a time of two wars. Niumatalolo chokes up when talking about how the many of the players will be heading to battle in the future, and it’s obvious that the…
