0 comments by Kevin Causey on 1/20/2015
There is never a boring day in the world of college sports. Today, it was a mascot who was looking for trouble in the wrong place. Here’s a snippet of the story from NewsOK.com: The University of Oklahoma fired a mascot who was taunting Oklahoma State fans during the Sooner men’s basketball team’s Bedlam victory […]
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At the beginning of the bowl season, I wrote about why bowl games are so great: They encourage more coaches to be uninhibited in their decision making, compared to the regular season. There’s nothing about that piece I’d want to walk back or retract, but there was and is something incomplete about it: I should have […]
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No, I did not expect to use an NFL game as the source of column material this week, but much as another Green Bay-Seattle game from a few years ago — the “Fail Mary” game — magnified what I had written about a college football controversy, this latest Packer-Seahawk tussle also says something important about […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 1/19/2015
Before he was the head coach of the Texas Longhorns, Charlie Strong worked a number of jobs. One of his first coaching jobs was at Florida. In fact, he spent four different stints at Florida as he bounced around gaining experience. You would think time has taken a toll on him, but this 1988 media […]
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Get ready for an onslaught of images of new football helmets and uniforms in 2015. With signing day coming up, now is a great time to show off the new swag for 2015 as recruits make their final decisions. Check out these two helmets that will supposedly be worn by UT-San Antonio in 2015.
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Here is the list of underclassmen that have played their final college football game and will now move on to the next step of their career. From NFL.com: Nelson Agholor, WR, USC Jay Ajayi, RB, Boise State Kwon Alexander, LB, LSU Javorius Allen, RB, USC Arik Armstead, DE, Oregon Malcom Brown, DT, Texas Alex Carter, […]
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This dunk attempt by Devin Robinson sums up the Florida Gators 2014-2015 basketball season so far as they have struggled to a 10-7 record which includes Georgia handing them their first conference loss since 2013….
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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 Kevin McGuire on 1/18/2015
With Jim Harbaugh no the head coach of the Michigan Wolverines the expectations are high for the program in the coming years. How soon Harbaugh can manage to turn Michigan into a true national title contender remains to be seen, which is why one Michigan fan may have decided now was as good a time […]
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There was a time when UNLV football wore a scarlet helmet, and it looks like it could potentially be coming back after decades of waiting. This photo of the helmet was seen in a recent update from Uni Watch, leaving us to wonder if it will be a new primary helmet for the Rebels or […]
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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 […]
