A Turning Point for CVU Football

Saturday, August 21, 2010

by Alex Abrami, Burlington Free Press Varsity Insider Blog

Last year’s CVU homecoming was an event football coach Jim Provost called a festive atmosphere.

“It was a sea of people. It was like a fair or carnival. The atmosphere was really cool,” Provost said. “The kids noticed that. When you are playing a sport and you notice your classmates are there, it’s huge.”

While CVU teams each collected impressive wins that late September day, the football’s 7-0 triumph was a turning point for its 2009 season — and one of the signature wins in the program’s brief history.

“It’s kind of a realization that we took down a team that used to be D-I and we were D-III,” CVU running back J.P Benoit said. “It was like, ‘wait a minute, we actually have something here. Let’s use it.’”

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