0 comments by Bart D on 4/6/2016
Get ready for West Virginia Will. Florida’s former starting quarterback-turned suspended for usage of performance enhancing drugs turned transfer Will Grier is now a Mountaineer. Dana Holgorsen has to be tickled. Grier has to be thinking he’s gotten his wish. For Holgorsen, the timing was perfect. Eventually, the WVU natives will get loudly restless if […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/15/2016
After the revelation of the NCAA tournament brackets on Selection Sunday, the annual “who’s in or out” exercise offered a natural way to assess various college sports programs in basketball and football. This won’t be an exhaustive deep-dive; it’s merely a collection of 10 observations about various programs in the two big-ticket sports, hoops and […]
SEATTLE, WA – NOVEMBER 27: Quarterback Jake Browning #3 of the Washington Huskies passes the ball as defensive lineman Darryl Paulo #99 of the Washington State Cougars and linebacker Peyton Pelluer #47 of the Washington State Cougars pursue during the second half of a football game at Husky Stadium on November 27, 2015 in Seattle, Washington. The Huskies won the game 45-10. (Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)
0 comments by Bart D on 3/10/2016
If you’re woebegone, searching the Internet for college football pieces that are written far too early, congrats, you’ve come to the right place. The horses are extra dark this time of year, because we have no idea who is going to win position battles, let alone succeed in live games when the lights are on. […]
0 comments by Bart D on 3/9/2016
Pull up a chair and let your old man tell you about the days when no one cared what spring practice was, and if you were a die hard or just simply needed something to do, maybe the spring game was worth five minutes of your time. Also, get me a glass of bourbon while […]
CHARLOTTE, NC – JANUARY 03: Head coach Lovie Smith of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers watches his team during their game against the Carolina Panthers at Bank of America Stadium on January 3, 2016 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images)
0 comments by Bart D on 3/7/2016
Open jobs are only so open as long as no one else actually wants them. Good open jobs rarely, if ever, are. When Josh Whitman somewhat sloppily fired Bill Cubit and then hired Lovie Smith to be Illinois’ football coach, this had “genius” or eternal pariah written all over it. Wins will end up deciding […]
CHAMPAIGN, IL – OCTOBER 24: Head coach Bill Cubit of the Illinois Fighting Illini is seen during the game against the Wisconsin Badgers at Memorial Stadium on October 24, 2015 in Champaign, Illinois. (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images)
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson on 3/6/2016
Wait and see. That’s my advice to everyone watching the Illinois coaching situation. Let’s be honest: that won’t be an easy thing to do. When I first learned that new athletic director Josh Whitman fired Bill Cubit, a number of different things crossed my mind. Was it right for Whitman to dismiss Cubit without even […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 2/24/2016
The Mountain West Conference had a lot to shout about in March of 2015. The league put three teams into the NCAA tournament after getting only two Dance invites in 2014. Wyoming made its first NCAA tournament appearance since 2002, showing other member schools that periods of struggle and postseason exile do not have the […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 2/9/2016
Let’s get two things out of the way, just to frame this article the way it’s meant to be received: First, what follows will not be an argument for an eight-team playoff. It will reaffirm what was said here at our partner (and hub) site, The Comeback, just after the New Year’s Day bowls ended. […]
BATON ROUGE, LA – NOVEMBER 28: Head coach Les Miles of the LSU Tigers celebrates after defeating the Texas A&M Aggies 19-7 at Tiger Stadium on November 28, 2015 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
0 comments by Chris Abshire on 2/4/2016
By any standard, LSU’s National Signing Day was a mixed bag. Sure, the Tigers landed five-star corner Kristian Fulton, but that was just the cherry on top of a loaded defensive-back class at a position which already was a relative strength on the depth chart. Elsewhere, LSU lost out on key four-star linebacker Erick Fowler […]
Texas head coach Charlie Strong celebrates with the Golden Hat after defeating Oklahoma, 24-17, at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015. (Brandon Wade/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/TNS via Getty Images)
0 comments by Chris Abshire
You don’t change the paradigm of a program on National Signing Day alone. Winning games between the lines, claiming titles, changing a team’s culture — that’s the stuff which remakes the program, or in Texas’s case, restores it. However, bringing in big-time talent is almost always the first step toward achieving the above goals. Texas […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 2/3/2016
National Signing Day is a weird phenomenon in our culture. College football recruiting has become big business, which invites a fine line between the positive and the negative. The impact of social media on recruiting is huge — it can be a positive influence by getting recruits the visibility they crave. It can also be […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer on 2/2/2016
With the Senior Bowl wrapping up in Mobile last weekend, several players took advantage of their last opportunity to impress before the NFL Combine. Some of these players improved their draft stocks tremendously. However, on the other end of the spectrum, some had such a poor week that their draft standings plummeted. Here are the […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/18/2016
When I’m (hopefully) 98 years old and still able to draw breath, I hope I won’t have to write about all the awful, horrible, no-good, very bad rules in the football rulebook. Surely, they’ll be changed before too long. However, some of them are still on the books, and when a certain kind of play […]
Jan 11, 2016; Glendale, AZ, USA; Alabama Crimson Tide defensive back Marlon Humphrey (26) celebrates after recovering an onside kick during the fourth quarter against the Clemson Tigers in the 2016 CFP National Championship at University of Phoenix Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports
0 comments by Yesh Ginsburg on 1/15/2016
This picture has been flying around college football social media since Monday’s national championship game between Alabama and Clemson: If the picture is right, that’s a very big deal. A lot of people think the referees got the rule wrong and that Alabama should not have been awarded the ball because the ball did not […]
0 comments by Yesh Ginsburg on 1/14/2016
The NCAA announced on Wednesday that a proposal to deregulate conference championship games in FBS had passed. It was not complete deregulation, but it was close enough. Long story short, any FBS conference–even one with less than 12 members–can now hold a conference championship game as long as the conference meets one of two conditions. […]
