0 comments by Scott on 1/19/2015
Welcome to the winners and losers of the weekend. This is a very scientific post in which the author judiciously decides what teams and players were winners or losers of the weekend. It should be taken very seriously, with the winners being filled with pride, and the losers being filled with shame, but still harboring […]
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The Student Section’s review of the 2014 college football season rolls along, item by item. In this piece, we tackle the 10 best offensive coordinators from the past season. * 10 – LANE KIFFIN, ALABAMA Kiffin’s arrival at Alabama was greeted with predictable scoffing and laughter after his failed tenure as USC’s head coach. However, […]
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What’s part of any attempt to set the table for the next college football season, while also taking into account what’s happened in the just-concluded season? There are many answers. One of them is a rankings list of all the head coaching hires from the latest winter spin on the carousel. Here we go: * […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/18/2015
The Arizona Wildcats lost at Oregon State last Sunday night. They played a very ordinary game against the going-nowhere Colorado Buffaloes on Thursday. It’s true that a lot of season remains — two whole months before the NCAA tournament starts — but if you thought Arizona was a Final Four contender, you wouldn’t have known […]
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When the NFL playoffs occupy a January Saturday, the number of evening games with ranked teams can typically be counted on one hand. With no more Saturday football, the college basketball season unfurled its first industrial-strength Saturday. Most of the bigger games were blowouts, but that won’t prevent The Student Section from selecting the top […]
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Did Saturday’s battle in Ames, Iowa, show a changing of the guard at the top of the Big 12? The answer is not necessarily, but after the Kansas dynasty has claimed 10 straight conference crowns, Iowa State made a statement with its victory over the Jayhawks on Saturday. The past three years, Iowa State is […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer on 1/17/2015
While West Virginia typically wins ugly, the Mountaineers proved on Saturday that they can also lose ugly as well. The Texas Longhorns did a great job attacking the back end of the Mountaineer press most of the night and picked up a huge win it absolutely had to have in a game that somehow transcended […]
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That is the exclamation mark on an impressive Bedlam performance by the Oklahoma Sooners.
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Duke’s 63-52 victory at Louisville on Saturday taught us a whole lot about both squads. It also helped Virginia get a little more breathing room now that Louisville and Duke each have a pair of ACC losses. The best way to cover games like this is break down what what well and poorly for each […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer on 1/16/2015
While he has the arm strength and the leadership makeup that are needed in an elite signal caller, Marcus Mariota severely lacked something during his time at Oregon: the proof that he can make NFL throws. While Mariota is far beyond just a system-made quarterback, the Oregon offense did Mariota no favors in his preparation […]
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Follow TSS @TheStudentSect Author @TheCoachBart The 137th episode of Seinfeld is called The Bizarro Jerry, where Kramer gets a real job (or at least goes to work at one), Elaine breaks up with a guy who is totally cool and just being friends, and George dates a woman who’s beautiful enough to get him into […]
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Over the past several weeks, we’ve seen some brand-name programs and their established head coaches fill vacancies at the coordinator positions, either offense or defense. This discussion does not concern new coordinators under new head coaches or new coaching staffs. This is a focus on programs with firmly-placed head coaches needing to adjust their staffs […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/15/2015
In looking back at the 2014 season, several coaches looked down the barrel of Old Demon Pressure and produced some of their best work. Paul Johnson, Kyle Flood, Bret Bielema, Mark Helfrich, Gary Patterson are primary examples of coaches who had a lot to prove to their critics last season, and promptly answered the bell. […]
Paul Johnson has done so much this season at Georgia Tech, and yet, things being what they are, a loss to an SEC West team would allow the Yellow Jackets to unfairly be seen as “not ready for prime time” or something to that effect. The rewards of victory are real for the Jackets; so are the costs of defeat. This is why the Orange Bowl is so compelling.
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The season’s over. There’s not much of a need for a prelude here. Just what were the 10 best coaching performances in the sport over the past four and a half months? The envelope, please: 10 – P.J. FLECK, WESTERN MICHIGAN The Broncos definitely “rowed the boat” for their young and excitable coach. Much as […]
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With the recently completed College Football Playoff crowning the clear best team in the nation, the excitement around college football is erupting, surging to all-time highs… at least as a measurement of cable television viewers. With this in mind, what better time to think about the four teams that will compete for a title next […]
