0 comments by Matt Zemek on 7/23/2014
On so many levels, Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott has brought fresh thinking and forward-looking leadership to the West’s power conference. This was never more apparent on Wednesday morning in Los Angeles than when Scott talked about his league’s efforts to study — and fund — ways to better address the problem of head trauma among […]
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College football diehards know that Mike Leach loves talking about pirates, and that this passion is the reason Swing Your Sword was such a natural title for the much-discussed book that had the added effect of prying co-author Bruce Feldman away from ESPN a few years ago. On the occasion of 2014 Pac-12 Media Days, […]
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This photo from day one of the two-day Pac-12 Media Days event in Los Angeles needs no comment… because what can one say about it, anyway? There was more where that came from, too: Hashtag #INNOVATION.
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The Houston Cougars will don new uniforms for the 2014. Nike made the announcement on it’s official blog a short time ago. Here’s a brief preview of what they’ll look like: New
Steve Spurrier had a lot of explaining to do after his performance against Tennessee last season, by far the Head Ball Coach’s worst outing in an otherwise superb season in the Palmetto State.
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Steve Spurrier has not coached a team in a big time, traditional New Years Day bowl game since romping Maryland 56-23 in the 2002 Orange Bowl. It is hard to believe so much time has passed by since one of the most quotable coaches in the sport of college football has had a chance to […]
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Big 12 Media Days have come and gone. As each power conference enters the media spotlight this week, you’re going to read a discussion about it. Here’s our installment on the Big 12, which exited the scene in 2013 by affirming the staying power of a familiar brand name in college football while elevating a […]
Oklahoma was just better than Alabama in the 2014 Sugar Bowl. And motivation is part of being great.
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By Bart Doan Follow on Twitter There are things that will be endlessly debated: Bud, Miller, or Coors; is Bigfoot real or not; Coke or Pepsi; Scott Stapp or nails on a chalk board; and of course, playoffs in college football. Questions will always exist about whether or not a playoff in college football devalues […]
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So when you see a West Virginia QB apologizing to Deadspin on Twitter, you naturally think “man, something bad must have gone down.” Nope. All it really was turned out to be more Internet outrage from the Sensitive Police, who never take a day or preferably a lifetime off. Clint Trickett yesterday posted a joke […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 7/22/2014
Earlier today, former South Carolina Gamecocks quarterback and lightning rod Stephen Garcia took part in a Reddit AMA (ask me anything) with his bookie cousin Ty (yeah, I’m not making that up). Garcia started off the festivities by saying, “We just pulled up to the bar in Orlando, getting our minds right with some bourbon. […]
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Bill Snyder gave a vintage performance at his Big 12 Media Days session on Tuesday morning. One of the wise old men in the college football coaching fraternity, Snyder dropped a few pearls of insight that anyone would do well to live by. Kansas State’s head coach showed precisely why he’s been able to not […]
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It is easy to say that TCU’s football program has not succeeded in the Big 12 because the league offers a level of competition not found in the Horned Frogs’ previous home, the Mountain West Conference. (The school joined the Big East, of course, but never played a game in that league.) To an extent, […]
For Larry Fedora and eternally talented North Carolina, the rubber eventually needs to meet the road when it comes to wins and losses.
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The ACC’s players and coaches have met assembled media in Greensboro, N.C. The two-day event, initiated on a Sunday for some strange reason, ended as quickly as it began. This doesn’t mean the ACC will be ignored or pushed aside here at The Student Section, however. Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher stressed the need […]
The man who sabotaged an athletic department and misused state resources is now the happy owner of a second chance at Louisville. That’s a fine educational message to send to student athletes.
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 7/21/2014
Someone sure has a sense of humor. Whether you believe in God, or fate, or the stars’ alignments, or some other guiding force in the cosmos, you have to be struck (if you’re a sports fan) by the way in which the course of human events has brought us to this day, Monday the 21st […]
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson on 7/19/2014
Just in case SEC Media Days didn’t get you ready for college football, here are seven of the greatest walk-off touchdowns in the sport’s storied history. Please note that I did not include any of the plays from last week’s column – 7 Plays that Will Get You Ready for College Football – in this […]
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For the past few years the challenge issued by ACC commissioner John Swofford to the members of the ACC has been to represent the conference on a national level with better results. This summer, with the defending national champions (Florida State), and a second BCS bowl winner (Clemson), what will Swofford’s message be now? With […]
