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Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh answers questions following the first day of spring practice at a press conference at Schembechler Hall Tuesday. (ALLISON FARRAND / Daily)

Prediction: Satellite Camp Ban will be short lived in its current state

0 comments by on 4/12/2016

Jim Harbaugh is angry (rightly so). The social media mob is too (though as per usual, you question if they really know why). Potential recruits are angry (and they should be the angriest). The SEC and ACC are checking the front door peep hole to make sure no one’s gathering in a mob on their […]

Cincinnati is the most uncomfortable big-ticket program in the country

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The city of Cincinnati is uncomfortable enough in the realm of professional sports. The Reds are in rebuilding mode, and the Bengals… well, they’re the Bengals. This discomfort extends to the collegiate ranks. Let’s be clear at the outset: An uncomfortable situation is not equivalent to a rock-bottom situation. Discomfort is not purely a reflection […]

College Basketball: 5 programs which wouldn’t mind a Josh Pastner-style move

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It’s the dream of athletic directors and many fans at certain college basketball programs: A coach doesn’t feel entirely comfortable at his job… so he leaves for another job. It’s a fresh start for everyone involved, and the program obtains a better-than-even chance of making an upgrade. This is what has happened at Vanderbilt, with […]

COLLEGE PARK MD, SEPTEMBER 12: Bowling Green wide receiver Robbie Rhodes (7), left, shakes off Maryland defensive back William Likely (4) for a 4th quarter touchdown reception as the Bowling Green Falcons defeat the Maryland Terrapins 48 -27 at Byrd Stadium in College Park MD, September 12, 2015. (Photo by John McDonnell/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

NCAA quietly makes a pro-school ruling with new bowl game ban

0 comments by on 4/11/2016

If the NCAA cared at all what folks thought of it, it’d go on the porch with a few cold ones, stare up at the night sky, and re-evaluate its decision making from the past week. It might smile at the end of the bottle that it managed to do one thing right, even if […]

Memphis basketball is a job great coaches should covet

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The story of Memphis basketball isn’t fully contained in the picture above, but a lot of the Tigers’ best moments flowed from the two men in that photo. More instructively, the prestige and cachet of the Memphis job were built by those two individuals, so that future players and coaches could attempt to take the […]

David Shaw lives in reality regarding satellite camps. Be mad if you choose.

0 comments by on 4/10/2016

(In ESPN 30 for 30 voice) What if I were to tell you that Stanford has a lower admittance percentage of applicants than Harvard, than Yale? What if I were to tell you that of Stanford’s student body population, 76 percent graduated high school with a 4.0 grade point average or better? What if I […]

College presidents: Adopt the “Yann Hufnagel Rule”

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It’s time for a Yann Hufnagel rule in college sports. So much is happening in the world of collegiate athletics in April of 2016, and while championships in basketball and hockey have been decided, the real action has occurred off the court and away from the rink. Tyler Summitt at Louisiana Tech. Baylor football. Satellite […]

WACO, TX – OCTOBER 11: Taylor Young #11 of the Baylor Bears walks on the field before taking on the TCU Horned Frogs at McLane Stadium on October 11, 2014 in Waco, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

Text messages, college football recruiting, and the reality of NCAA power

0 comments by on 4/9/2016

  Sometimes you can’t always get what you want in college football. That doesn’t stop you, though, if you’re a coach or program official in the SEC — when the plan all along was to get what you need. That was evident at Friday’s NCAA Division I council meeting, which produced the immediate shutdown of […]

Satellite camps, the SEC, and real talk about competition

0 comments by on 4/8/2016

As soon as college basketball ended — putting an end to the football-basketball portion of the college sports cycle — the headlines have exploded with big developments, the latest being the shutdown of satellite camps by the NCAA. More precisely, this is not “the NCAA” or Mark Emmert; this is the collection of NCAA member […]

UConn women’s basketball: the in-the-gym perspective

0 comments by on 4/7/2016

On Wednesday, we viewed UConn women’s basketball through the lens of history. Here, we’ll attempt to appreciate the Huskies and Geno Auriemma through the lens of what happens on the court — in practice and gameday situations alike. Why include practice (especially for you, Hall-of-Famer-elect Allen Iverson)? It’s where Geno Auriemma has built the foundation […]

UCLA coach John Wooden, second from left, holds the 32nd NCAA Men’s Basketbal championship trophy he received as the Bruins won their sixth NCAA basketball title after defeating Jacksonville, 80-69, at College Park, Md., March 21, 1970. UCLA’s only senior player, John Valleley, wears the net he cut down at left. At right is John Ecker (52). The official in the middle is unidentified. (AP Photo)

UConn women’s basketball: the historical perspective

0 comments by on 4/6/2016

No, we’re not going to spend time arguing about whether UConn women’s basketball is just as good as UCLA men’s basketball. We’re not going to spend time debating whether Geno Auriemma is just as good a basketball coach as John Wooden was. No — we’re not going down any of those routes. This isn’t a […]

HOUSTON, TEXAS – APRIL 02: Phil Booth #5 and Jalen Brunson #1 of the Villanova Wildcats react in the second half against the Oklahoma Sooners during the NCAA Men’s Final Four Semifinal at NRG Stadium on April 2, 2016 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

The NCAA tournament and Final Four were great — not in totality, but in their best moments

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This was not a great Final Four. The semifinal doubleheader was one of the worst of all time. This was not a great NCAA tournament from start to finish — the Sweet 16, Elite Eight, and National Semifinal rounds all left a lot to be desired. Yet, the Final Four and the NCAA tournament still […]

2016-2017 Way Too Early Preseason Top 25

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Two seasons ago I had Wisconsin and Duke 1-2 in my way too early preseason top 25. Last year I pegged North Carolina as the No. 2 team, but Villanova as the No. 11 team, so clearly I have some work to do this year to redeem myself. It is very college basketball that the […]

The top 10 moments of the 2016 NCAA Tournament

0 comments by on 4/5/2016

The 2016 NCAA Tournament — literally — merited the following adjective: half-bad. The first two rounds were spectacular. The Sweet 16 and the Final Four national semifinals were total busts. The Elite Eight was okay, but the most memorable game was an all-time gack attack by a Virginia team which had been the portrait of […]

HOUSTON, TEXAS – APRIL 04: Phil Booth #5 of the Villanova Wildcats handles the ball against Nate Britt #0 of the North Carolina Tar Heels in the first half of the 2016 NCAA Men’s Final Four National Championship game at NRG Stadium on April 4, 2016 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)

Villanova’s Phil Booth shoots down North Carolina, becoming Grayson Allen one year later

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A person named Booth hasn’t received this much publicity for his shooting since April of 1865. If you had taken a poll of Villanova fans, coaches, students, support staff, sports information employees, priests, or members of the 1985 championship team — anyone — before Monday night’s championship game, and you had asked them which player […]

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