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0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 7/26/2014
Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany is preparing his speech to the media assembled in Chicago on Monday. It will be long. It will assertive. It will be full of all of the great numbers that show us just how successful the Big Ten conference is, and he will be absolutely right. The Big Ten remains the […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 7/25/2014
Officiating college football is a much tougher job than it used to be. The speed and power of the athletes have increased, but the speed of the game has increased as well. Faster athletes running hurry-up-no-huddle offenses with spread formations and more downfield passes make life a lot harder for the on-field arbiters of college […]
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson
Now that the College Football Playoff is here, coaches will be under more pressure to win than ever before. In today’s age of instant gratification, coaches won’t have the luxury of having a down year or a rebuilding campaign. They must win, and they must win NOW. Rightly or wrongly, this type of thinking will […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
With Pac-12 Media Days this week and the focus on the “haves” in college football, it got me thinking: What has happened to Colorado? In the old Big Eight Conference, the Buffaloes peaked under Bill McCartney in the early 1990s and were a major factor in the world of college football. From 1989 to 1990, […]
For ESPN’s Justin Connolly, the SEC Network will be shying away from hard news and investigative pieces. Why they’re doing so is up to your opinion.
0 comments by Bart D on 7/24/2014
By Bart Doan On Twitter @TheCoachBart Years from now, we’ll probably look back on this and think we all should have known better. The college football year 2004 changed everything, from our first real anger at the BCS having a fatal flaw when three major powers in the sport went undefeated and the title game […]
Woo pig, pay me!
0 comments by Allen Kenney
Eighteen months ago, Arkansas needed a coach to stabilize a program that was flailing following Bobby Petrino’s ignominious exit and a year of John L. Smith’s, um, “caretaking.” Athletics director Jeff Long emerged from his search with Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema as his pick. Under the terms of the six-year contract Bielema signed, Arkansas guaranteed […]
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0 comments by Terry P. Johnson
Pac-12 Media Days conclude today. Day one contained a few too many glitches and poor decisions, but if the league can throw its best fastball when the regular season begins, a lot of people will forget about television distribution for a little bit. It’s the latest editors’ roundtable at The Student Section, as we focus […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 7/23/2014
On so many levels, Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott has brought fresh thinking and forward-looking leadership to the West’s power conference. This was never more apparent on Wednesday morning in Los Angeles than when Scott talked about his league’s efforts to study — and fund — ways to better address the problem of head trauma among […]
Steve Spurrier had a lot of explaining to do after his performance against Tennessee last season, by far the Head Ball Coach’s worst outing in an otherwise superb season in the Palmetto State.
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
Steve Spurrier has not coached a team in a big time, traditional New Years Day bowl game since romping Maryland 56-23 in the 2002 Orange Bowl. It is hard to believe so much time has passed by since one of the most quotable coaches in the sport of college football has had a chance to […]
For Larry Fedora and eternally talented North Carolina, the rubber eventually needs to meet the road when it comes to wins and losses.
0 comments by Bart D on 7/22/2014
The ACC’s players and coaches have met assembled media in Greensboro, N.C. The two-day event, initiated on a Sunday for some strange reason, ended as quickly as it began. This doesn’t mean the ACC will be ignored or pushed aside here at The Student Section, however. Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher stressed the need […]
The man who sabotaged an athletic department and misused state resources is now the happy owner of a second chance at Louisville. That’s a fine educational message to send to student athletes.
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 7/21/2014
Someone sure has a sense of humor. Whether you believe in God, or fate, or the stars’ alignments, or some other guiding force in the cosmos, you have to be struck (if you’re a sports fan) by the way in which the course of human events has brought us to this day, Monday the 21st […]
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson on 7/19/2014
Just in case SEC Media Days didn’t get you ready for college football, here are seven of the greatest walk-off touchdowns in the sport’s storied history. Please note that I did not include any of the plays from last week’s column – 7 Plays that Will Get You Ready for College Football – in this […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
For the past few years the challenge issued by ACC commissioner John Swofford to the members of the ACC has been to represent the conference on a national level with better results. This summer, with the defending national champions (Florida State), and a second BCS bowl winner (Clemson), what will Swofford’s message be now? With […]
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson on 7/18/2014
SEC Media Days are over. It’s time to take stock of the league with a couple of Friday roundtables. Check out a coach-centric Arkansas and Auburn roundtable here. Also see contributor Kevin Causey’s “Flashback Friday” post on the first SEC Championship Game from 1992. 1. Which team is more likely to bounce back with a […]
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson
SEC Media Days have finally ended after four full days of press conferences and radio row marathons. One comment that drew notice at the event in Hoover, Ala., was a little jab by Arkansas head coach Bret Bielema at the situation facing Auburn coach Gus Malzahn and quarterback Nick Marshall. During his podium session on Wednesday, […]
