0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/12/2015
It is so easy to develop tunnel vision in the business of college football coaching… and in college football writing as well. First, about coaching: It is so easy — and very understandable — for coaches to process situations through the lens of, “Let’s do what we can to keep playing, to continue to give […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone
Another crazy college football weekend is behind us. Games were played, players were hitting each other, and a coach got fired. Then, because magic or whatever, Maryland got tabbed as one of the best destinations in the country for college football coaches. Everything is complete normal. Link dump. * College Football Steve Sarkisian has been […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer
It is time to pump the brakes on all the Ohio State doubt that’s flowing from all corners of the country. While the Buckeyes have not shown the precision many people expected from their offense, it must be noted that Ohio State is in a better spot through six games than it was last year. […]
How Mark Richt fills the vacancy on his staff at the offensive coordinator position carries a lot of weight for the remainder of his tenure in Athens (however long that tenure will be).
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson
Some things in life are predictable. Whether it’s a Nick Saban-coached squad having a solid defense, a Bill Snyder-coached team exceeding expectations, or a rivalry week upset that completely changes the national championship picture, there are some things that you can simply count on every year. Add Mark Richt’s status at Georgia to that list. […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Whenever it comes to light in our modern mass-media age that the head football coach at a major program: A) is drunk; B) is not reporting to practice; and C) needs substantial therapeutic and rehabilitative care… … it’s big news. It should be. Moreover, one can’t avoid the tsunami of reports on the subject, even […]
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The year was 2008. The Georgia Bulldogs began it by annihilating the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors so thoroughly in the Sugar Bowl that Colt Brennan’s well-being really did seem to be imperiled. Watching that massacre in New Orleans, it was hard to shake the feeling that Brennan and other skill-position players on the Hawaii roster were […]
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Randy Edsall was relieved of his duties as Maryland’s head football coach on Sunday. Regardless of what you might have felt about the firing — and whether it was merited or not — the move at least brought an end to a strange and uncomfortable form of coaching limbo in which Edsall was “going to […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/11/2015
In the course of time — the next few days and weeks, not months — leaders and power brokers at the University of Southern California should tend to the health and well-being of their stocked but sliding football program. The various issues connected to the performance of USC football, and who coaches the Trojans in […]
Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher, left, and Miami heach coach Al Golden, right, chat at midfield before their teams meet at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida, on Saturday, November 2, 2013. (Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel/MCT via Getty Images)
0 comments by Matt Zemek
If you’re reading this article, chances are you’re interested in sampling opinion, editorial commentary, and news analysis in the wake of noteworthy sports occurrences. If that’s the case, you probably have at least some interest in the wider theater of what counts as news, the range of human events from the trivial (sports) to the […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
In this deliciously wild and disordered college football season, the SEC and the Pac-12 have taken on the quality of a barroom brawl. In one moment, teams are doing the punching; the next instant, they’re on the receiving end of a big blow. Florida and Utah have, to this point, risen above the chaos in those […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
It is said that hitting a baseball is the toughest thing to do in sports. In terms of a very specific action on a playing field (or surface) within the context of competition, that’s probably true. In a larger context, however, what kind of achievement is more difficult to pull off than anything else? For solo […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Did any of us honestly think that on the night of October 10 in this or any recent college football season, we’d be saying that the Oregon Ducks were essentially done? This is not a long-term statement, only a season-specific one. The Ducks might still have a future in the next few years, but for […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
This isn’t a hard-hitting analytical piece or a pointed commentary on some kind of crisis for a college football program. This isn’t a dissection of questionable endgame strategy or an examination of a coach whose career is spiraling downward. There is a time, amid the tumult and the shouting — immersed in the ever-present need […]
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – OCTOBER 10: Running back Devontae Booker #23 of the Utah Utes scores a first quarter touchdown against the California Golden Bears at Rice-Eccles Stadium on October 10, 2015 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo by Gene Sweeney Jr/Getty Images)
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson
Behind an opportunistic defense and a powerful running game, Utah defeated California, 30-24, to run its record to 5-0. Make no mistake about it: this was not a perfect game by any stretch of the imagination. The Utes failed to capitalize on turnovers early in the contest, coming away with only three points off the […]
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – OCTOBER 10: Running back Devontae Booker #23 of the Utah Utes scores a first quarter touchdown against the California Golden Bears at Rice-Eccles Stadium on October 10, 2015 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo by Gene Sweeney Jr/Getty Images)
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson
Devontae Booker is the type of running back that will make defensive coordinators pull their hair out. Even when they have the perfect defense called — as Cal did here — Booker can create a big gain for Utah.
