0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 2/6/2015
We all have a morning routine. Mine involves eating a bowl of cereal while watching the local news as my wife gets ready to start her day. As I am eating my breakfast, I am checking my email and scanning the headlines coming across in my Feedly so I can see what some of the […]
KNOXVILLE, TN – OCTOBER 25: Blake Sims #6 of the Alabama Crimson Tide rushes past A.J. Johnson #45 of the Tennessee Volunteers on the way to a touchdown at Neyland Stadium on October 25, 2014 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
0 comments by Mike Ferguson
National Signing Day has come and gone, and the cold reality has sent in: college football is done. With the exception of largely unheralded spring games, we’re approximately seven months away from meaningful Saturday football action. Thanks to the pageantry, history and tradition, college football is a sport unlike any other. Yet, what truly makes […]
0 comments by Bart D on 2/5/2015
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect To be frank, making definitive arguments on who won or lost National Signing Day is idiotic. It’s impossible … even armed with a militia of psychologists … to determine the futures of teenagers entering college and projecting their success on a football field. It’s far more asinine than even grading […]
0 comments by Bart D
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect National Signing Day is like going to vote. You have a bunch of people who think it matters and we should be paying full attention because it’s a harbinger of things to come … and a bunch of other people who think it’s meaningless. So annually, I do this just […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 2/3/2015
National Signing Day is upon us. Tomorrow, many will be hanging on the decisions of players who have yet to play a down of college football. Many things, both negative and positive, can be said about recruiting and National Signing Day, but the fact is that winning on this day is integral for college coaches […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
There are two types of college football fans when it comes to recruiting. Those that are absolutely enthralled by it and those that can’t be bothered by it. Whether you follow recruiting or not, the fact is that college football recruiting is not only becoming big business, it’s becoming part of the fabric of social […]
0 comments by Bart D
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Back in 2004 on Feb. 4, something happened which changed the course of modern humankind. Mark Zuckerberg founded something called Facebook. At the time, Facebook was genius. It started out I think as needing a .edu e-mail address to be on it, so it seemed less creepy than MySpace. It […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 2/2/2015
The Super Bowl is done. No more high-profile football games until late August. You’ve read about how the NFL can become more like college football. You’ve read about how college football should become more like the NFL. What about the ways in which both versions of this sport can improve at the same time? Here […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The end of the Super Bowl — and all of football season until late summer — invites football fans and commentators to explore the relationship between college football and the NFL. We’re exploring how these different versions of America’s most popular sport can embrace each other and change together. We’ve already published an installment on […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The Super Bowl and — with it — the full run of the live-game football season at all levels of competition (high school, college, and the pros) are over. There are two times of the year when it makes sense to explore the question of how the NFL and college football compare to each other […]
CLEMSON, SC – SEPTEMBER 27: Deshaun Watson #4 of the Clemson Tigers drops back to pass during the game against the North Carolina Tar Heels at Memorial Stadium on September 27, 2014 in Clemson, South Carolina. (Photo by Tyler Smith/Getty Images)
0 comments by Mike Ferguson on 1/30/2015
The 2015 football schedule was unveiled on Thursday for the Atlantic Coast Conference and the ACC will play more teams from Power 5 conferences than any other league in America. Though maligned for much of the season in 2014, the ACC went 8-5 against other power conferences during the regular season and ACC champion Florida […]
“Hey, Big 12! We’re really good!” — The message BYU wants to send in its bowl game, even though the Big 12 won’t expand next year or the year after that. BYU is trying to plant seeds that will sprout several years down the line.
0 comments by Matt Zemek
If you were to cite one pervasive flaw in college football — not a specific policy such as pass interference not being reviewable, or an isolated failing such as the unwillingness to schedule New Year’s Six games on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2016 — you could come up with several legitimate and compelling answers. You could […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/28/2015
For the University of North Carolina (and, for that matter, Wake Forest University), this is supposed to be basketball season, a time of year when sports news focuses on the true religion of the Carolinas. Yet, the Tar Heels and the Demon Deacons have raised a few eyebrows in the province of pigskin with an […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer on 1/27/2015
With fewer underclassmen declaring for the 2015 NFL Draft, what better way to see what this class has to offer than at the Senior Bowl on Saturday? The game produced several strong performers, but as most know, it is the performance through the week at practice for the scouts that makes or breaks an NFL […]
0 comments by Bart D on 1/21/2015
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Author @TheCoachBart There’s an old country song by Alan Jackson that goes, “too much of a good thing … is a good thing.” It defies the logic that “there is such a thing as too much of a good thing.” Alan Jackson obviously was ahead of his time and talking […]
