0 comments by Kevin Causey on 2/3/2016
National Signing Day is a weird phenomenon in our culture. College football recruiting has become big business, which invites a fine line between the positive and the negative. The impact of social media on recruiting is huge — it can be a positive influence by getting recruits the visibility they crave. It can also be […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer
Following Tuesday night’s epic victory at Iowa State, West Virginia seems to be an enigma. It’s par for the course — not entirely in a bad way, to be sure, but volatility is never comfortable. That’s how diehard fans get ulcers. At least the aches and pains produced by the Mountaineers usually emerge in moments […]
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Kudos to Bleacher Report for putting this video package together…. 4-star safety Deontay Anderson skydives his way to a commitment
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Nick Saban and Alabama landed a big commitment on National Signing Day when they landed ILB Ben Davis. 247 Sports has Davis as a composite 5-star recruit, the top ranked player at his position and the No. 10 ranked player in the nation. It was a nice touch by Davis to tip his houndstooth hat […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
Tom Herman had a fantastic debut season going 13-1 for the Houston Cougars. How does Herman follow up that season? By getting it done on the recruiting trail….. The
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5-star athlete Mecole Hardman decided to go the “entertaining” route with his college announcement. He had cakes made for all of the schools that were on his “list”….. 5 of the cakes are up. Can’t get Hardman to confirm what he plans to do. Cut one? Eat it with his hands? Intrigue. pic.twitter.com/Mq0zg87tlA — Jake […]
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One interesting thing about recruiting is as we get older we are now starting to see the offspring of the players we grew up watching start to play college football. Today, Michael Irvin Jr (who was previously a verbal commit to Miami) re-affirmed his commitment to the U and new head coach Mark Richt. Irvin […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The Texas Longhorns are going to be in the NCAA tournament, so they’re not a particularly weak team within the larger world of college basketball. Yet, the Horns started a 24-hour sequence in which the nuttiness of both the Big 12 and all of college basketball this season was perfectly encapsulated. Monday and Tuesday were […]
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The date was January 13, 2016. The South Carolina Gamecocks had not lost a basketball game this season. At 15-0, they joined the SMU Mustangs as one of only two unbeaten teams in the country. SMU, being ineligible for the NCAA tournament, will unavoidably become a team which will miss the Dance after entering January […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 2/2/2016
JJ Frazier was kind of silent for Georgia until the end of the game. This three helped Georgia build an 11 point lead against No. 25 South Carolina…. JJ Frazier drills a three as he falls away into the bench
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With the Senior Bowl wrapping up in Mobile last weekend, several players took advantage of their last opportunity to impress before the NFL Combine. Some of these players improved their draft stocks tremendously. However, on the other end of the spectrum, some had such a poor week that their draft standings plummeted. Here are the […]
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To the casual American sports fan, Ben Simmons might indeed represent a ratings magnet for ESPN, thereby convincing the WorldWide Leader to broadcast a disproportionate amount of LSU basketball games this season. It’s been rather conspicuous over the past month: Not only do commentators reserve a ton of airtime for Simmons, but ESPN does as […]
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Two coaches lost home games in this past weekend’s Big 12-SEC Challenge: One was the coach of a bad Auburn team, Bruce Pearl. He gets a pass, because he’s rebuilding a mess of a program. The other coach? Johnny Jones of LSU, who has a transformative talent on his roster but can’t seem to use […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 2/1/2016
The arrival of Monday marks the arrival of February. This brings us in touch with an annual in-season lamentation from college basketball diehards: The regular season doesn’t get nearly the attention it deserves. It’s an argument that is hard to measure in terms of media focus, even more so when one realizes: A) how many […]
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In the course of time, the Big 12-SEC Challenge could very easily become an event which reshapes several college basketball seasons. We could sit here in April and realize how much this midseason event — staged in the middle of the conference season — altered the trajectory of a crazy college basketball campaign. Right now, […]
