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  09/11/21 - Tommy Dolan, rSr/2022, Saint Thomas, 6-3, 191 (DS#999 QB) + More +

  Louis Hyde kicked a 39-yard field goal with 59 seconds to play and St. Thomas rallied for a historic 12-9 win over Michigan Tech in its FCS debut on Saturday. Tight end Aiden Carlson pulled the Tommies into a 9-9 tie when he recovered quarterback Tommy Dolan's fumble on 1st and goal in the end zone with 5:43 to play but the extra point was blocked. St. Thomas forced a three-and-out before putting together the winning drive, getting 24 yards.

The Division II Huskies quickly picked up 40 yards before Johnson Fallah picked of Will Ark's pass with 14 seconds to play to seal the win. St. Thomas, which had received NCAA approval to jump from Division III to D-I in the summer of 2020, was the only FCS or FBS team not to play a game last fall or spring. Then the 2021 season opener was one of three games canceled because of COVID-19, meaning the Tommies went 95 weeks between games. It is the first time in 28 years a school has jumped two divisions, the last being Buffalo and Dayton in 1993. Those schools only moved up in football that year but St. Thomas joined the Pioneer League for football and the Summit League for 18 other sports. - AP College Football


(DS#999 QB) rSr/2022 QB Tommy Dolan, Saint Thomas
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  07/22/20 - Tommy Dolan, rSr/2022, Saint Thomas, 6-3, 191 (DS#999 QB) + More +

  When Pioneer Football League Commissioner Patty Viverito first heard about St. Thomas, which was essentially kicked out of its conference for being too good, she thought, "Oh, come on. This is crazy." Fast forward several months, after the St. Paul university decided to make the big jump from Division III to Division I. Viverito discovered that some within her league had the same trepidations about adding St. Thomas as the MIAC did when giving it the boot. "I thought people would be 100 percent enthusiastic," Viverito said. "And I got my first phone call from a skeptical person in our league who said, 'Now, wait a minute, I have a hard enough time competing in the current Pioneer Football League lineup. How am I going to compete against St. Thomas? They're too good.'?"

Viverito's response was pretty simple. "Whenever you can find a member who will make your league better, you act," she said. St. Thomas, with its 126-21 record under longtime coach Glenn Caruso - including two NCAA championship appearances the past eight seasons - just seemed to fit. St. Thomas, which received clearance from the NCAA last week to start the five-year process, will begin playing at the D-I level in 2021-22. When the football team joins the Pioneer Football League, it will be one of 11 teams in the non-scholarship, football-only conference, spread from California to New York and Minnesota to Florida. The conference champion automatically qualifies for the FCS playoffs. - Minneapolis Star Tribune


(DS#999 QB) rSr/2022 QB Tommy Dolan, Saint Thomas
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  06/18/20 - Josh Parks, rSr/2020, Saint Thomas, 5-09, 202 (DS#104 RB) + More +

  Though St. Thomas did not get final approval Wednesday for its proposed move to Division I, the NCAA pushed it one step closer to that goal. The NCAA's Strategic Vision and Planning Committee has recommended a proposal to the Division I Council that would allow qualified schools to reclassify directly from Division III to Division I. The Council put the plan into the NCAA's legislative pipeline Wednesday, with a vote scheduled for April 2021. In the meantime, the Council said it would "be receptive to a formal waiver request" from St. Thomas to begin the process sooner.

St. Thomas has been waiting for months to get NCAA approval to move directly from D-III to D-I, which is not allowed under current rules. A statement from the school called Wednesday's action "encouraging news," adding that athletic director Phil Esten immediately will begin working on the waiver application. The Tommies were voted out of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference last May and will leave the league in July 2021. The Summit League, which has invited the Tommies to join, will help the school submit the waiver request. - Minneapolis Star Tribune


(DS#104 RB) rSr/2020 RB Josh Parks, Saint Thomas
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  01/15/20 - Josh Parks, rSr/2020, Saint Thomas, 5-09, 202 (DS#104 RB) + More +

  2019 AFCA DIVISION III COACHES' SECOND TEAM ALL-AMERICAN: RB Josh Parks, Sr., St. Thomas (Minn.),...Practiced but didn't play one season as walk-on with Division I Minnesota Gophers...Played four seasons (41 games) at St. Thomas, helped team build 39-7 record; win three solo or shared conference championships; make two NCAA playoff appearances; ranked in D-III top 25 all four seasons...2019 MIAC Player of the Year...Set school records for touchdowns (60) and rushing yards (4,180)… averaged 112 ypg all-purpose yards on career...Broke conference record for most rushing TDs in MIAC games (45)...Had 22 career 100-plus yard rushing days despite being co-starter his first two seasons...Recorded two of the five 100-plus yard rushing games allowed by top-10 ranked St. John's over the Johnnies' last 45 games...Recorded one of the two 100-plus yard rushing games allowed by top-10 ranked Bethel over the Royals' last 30 games. - St. Thomas Football

(DS#104 RB) rSr/2020 RB Josh Parks, Saint Thomas
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