The Michigan Tech football team had the second-best run defense (118.3 yards against average) in the 16-team Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference last season, but the second-worst pass defense (245.2 yards).

Those stats bear out the Huskies priorities in stopping the run first, but addressing concerns in the secondary is one of the primary objectives this spring.

Grady Liles - The Man and The Legend
David Reasons Sr. - Quad Cities Daily

Bigger than life is how most folks that ever met Grady would describe him. He was a man who could truly say without a hint of bragging "Been there, done that, got a tee shirt to prove it."

Originally from Florence, he attended Mars Hill and Coffee High School where he played football. However, his true game was not football but boxing. Before going into the Marines, he was a Golden Gloves Champion having won that title in 1947. 

Fresh off the programs second NCAA playoff appearance in the last three years, the Bloomsburg University Huskies will have plenty of familiar faces on the field when spring practice begins.

One face integral to the success of the Huskies for the past 20 years that will not be on the sidelines is former head coach Danny Hale, who retired in February.

Long-time assistant coach and defensive coordinator Paul Darragh has been elevated to interim head coach for the upcoming season.

Harlon Hill Dies at 80
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Harlon Hill, the former star receiver for the Chicago Bears whose name adorns the NCAA Division II player of the year trophy, has died. He was 80.

Jeff Hodges, chairman of the National Harlon Hill Award Committee, said Hill died Thursday at Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital in Florence after a lengthy illness.