Football: Three Nominated to All-Name Team

Courtesy: RaginCajuns.com http://www.ragincajuns.com

Source: All-NameTeam.com

IRVINE, Calif.–UL Lafayette has landed 3 player nominations for the 2008 College Football All-Name Team™ as selected by the panel at www.all-nameteam.com. Select NCAA Division I-A football players have been picked for further voting, after an extensive review of the more than 5,700 projected starters and backups for the nation’s 119 Bowl Championship Subdivision teams.

Ragin’ Cajun fans can go to www.all-nameteam.com to vote for their favorites. Ragin’ Cajuns nominated for the 2008 College Football All-Name Team™ are:

All-Name Team:
Chancellor Roberson, FB
Scooter Rogers, CB

All-Presidents Team:
Grant Fleming, LB

Finalists representing the top five vote-getters at each position on each of the four 2008 College Football All-Name Teams™ will be named during the last week of November 2008.  A further seven days of voting will result in the First Team 2008 College Football All-Name Teams™ being named the Wednesday prior to the Heisman Trophy Award ceremony the first week in December 2008.

ELIGIBILITY FOR THE 2008 College Football All-Name Teams™:
Nominated candidates must be players on an NCAA Division I-A football program, and listed by their schools or other national publications on the 2008 roster and or depth charts as a first- or second-team player. Incoming freshmen are eligible. Write-in candidates will be verified against the qualification criteria before posting on the ballot as vote-eligible. The Panel deserves the right to accept or decline any such write-in candidate.

In addition to the above:
1. The All-Presidents Team™ consists of players whose first or last names are those of any U.S. President’s surname.

2. The All-Initials Team™ consists of players with first names bearing either a single or double initial.

3. The All-Apostrophe Team™ consists of players with one or more apostrophe in their first or last names. 

METHODOLOGY FOR THE 2008 College Football All-Name Teams™:
Source material utilized in compiling the 2008 All-Name College Football Team™ included the projected starters and backups for all positions as listed in the annual preseason guides for the country’s 119 NCAA Division I-A football programs. In all, over 5,700 names were reviewed by the Panel, with their nominations now appearing as candidates eligible for votes at www.all-nameteam.com.

ABOUT THE 2008 College Football All-Name Teams™:
The 2008 All-Name College Football Team™ was compiled by a Panel led by California-based investment banker Dan McClory, a graduate of 112th ranked Eastern Michigan University (up from 116th in 2007!), and a two-way starter on his undefeated Royal Oak Dondero High School football team in metropolitan Detroit.

A four-year letterwinner and three-time captain of EMU’s NCAA Division I cross country team, McClory was a sportswriter for the Eastern Echo and The Ypsilanti Press (now defunct) who earned a BS degree in English with Journalism and Marketing minors.

It was during a Week One 2006 Saturday classic between Nebraska and Louisiana Tech where three members of what would become the 2007 All-Name Team battled it out that McClory decided to go national with his All-Name Team and the likes of Maurice Purify (WR), Zac Champion (QB) and Marlon Lucky (RB) for the inaugural edition.

-www.all-nameteam.com-