The last decade should be remembered as the era of the ‘Changing Landscape of College Football.’ Boston College goes south. West Virginia goes southwest. Colorado goes west. San Diego State goes east. Yet sooner rather than later the dust will settle and fans will continue to see their teams play on any given Saturday, or [...]
Ex-Cincinnati player Isaiah Pead helped the North beat the South 23-13 in the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala. Washington running back Chris Polk of the North gained 15 yards on six carries. Isaiah Pead took a stutter step forward, then raced to the left sideline and traveled 60 yards up the field before finally getting [...]
Some in the college football bowl business want to raise the standards. They believe 6-6 teams should not be in bowl games. They have many compelling arguments, and Brett McMurphy of cbssports.com wrote an interesting piece on it, which you can read here. Short version: requiring teams to have a winning record and/or seven wins would [...]
Ten local college football players now facing charges for an attack. An attack on another college athlete. Charges against football players for Notre Dame College in South Euclid. An attack – ten on one. The attack reportedly happened at an off-campus house on Ellison, just steps away from the Notre Dame College football field. The [...]
The Commitment Project: studying recruits, college football edition During a visit to Clemson in August 2008, I asked then-coach Tommy Bowden why basketball coaches got so much more offended when recruits broke commitments than football coaches did. Bowden laughed, and he explained that most college football coaches understand that a verbal commitment is essentially meaningless [...]
Joe Paterno, who racked up more wins than anyone else in major college football but was fired from Penn State amid a child sex abuse scandal has died. He was 85. His family released a statement Sunday morning to announce his death. “He died as he lived,” the statement said. “He fought hard until the end, stayed [...]
UCLA #39 Dye all set to confirm he’s healthy Tony Dye is back on a football field, but it’s different this time. For one thing, he’s healthy. “I feel like I’ve never been injured in my life,” said Dye, the defensive back from Corona Santiago on Friday before a final walk-through for today’s NFL Players [...]
University all-stars will play at Residence Depot Center (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Instances) By Gary Klein Two players from USC and three from UCLA are among those who will try to catch the eye of pro football scouts Saturday when they participate in the inaugural AstroTurf NFLPA Collegiate All-Star game. The question: Will any NFL teams be [...]
2012 University Football Do's And Don't's, The Premature Edition By Spencer Hall – Featured Contributor What do we know about the 2012 college football season? We know a few things you should and shouldn’t expect to happen. Jan 18, 2012 - Do: Covet others’ experienced quarterbacks. As far as high-profile, battle-tested products go, only the Matt Barkley model at [...]
KORCEK’S CORNER: Is the 2011 football staff the greatest ever at NIU? Ultimately, that storied ten-2 NIU MAC championship squad in 1983 created 5 personal Hall of Famers, 7 NFL draft picks, 8 various All-Americas and 19 specialist gamers general (NFL, USFL, CFL and Arena League draftees and cost-free agents) … Read far more on [...]
Former Alabama cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick, who is leaving school early to enter the NFL draft, was arrested early Tuesday on a marijuana possession charge. An arrest report on the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office web site said Kirkpatrick was arrested at 12:48 a.m. and charged with possessing less than 20 grams of marijuana. He was released on $120 bond. [...]
Baseball may have been America’s national pastime once, but today football is king. No doubt attention spans are shorter, and the relaxed pace of a 9-inning ballgame isn’t for everyone. But the exodus of fans from the gentlemen’s game was certainly hastened by the Steroid Era. People who had loved baseball because of its purity and [...]
College football wrapped up another season on Monday night with Alabama’s shutout of LSU in the BCS National Championship Game. The sport’s spin doctors will tell you the college game has never been stronger. Don’t believe them. Forget if you can the scandals — whether it is Penn State or Willie Lyles. There are other [...]
A Bay Area native with an inspirational story is coming home to coach football at Menlo College in Atherton. He has goals and the determination to achieve them. Mark Speckman posed for the photo ops and talked on point about being Menlo College’s new head football coach. “Wherever I’ve been, you know, we’ve won and [...]
Monday night Alabama defeated LSU 21-0 in the BCS championship game. For LSU it was clearly an unsatisfying result, but for many other college football fans the result was going to be unsatisfying regardless of what took place on the field. Some fans didn’t want to see a rematch; others didn’t think a non-champion should [...]
Jeremy Shelley kicked five field goals to lift the University of Alabama over Louisiana State University 21-0 to win the US collegiate American football national championship game. The Bowl Championship Series title game triumph at the Superdome in New Orleans was the sixth in a row by a team from the Southeastern Conference and the [...]
Martel Moore caught eight passes for 224 yards and a touchdown, and Northern Illinois rallied for a 38-20 victory over Arkansas State in the GoDaddy.com Bowl on Sunday night. The Huskies trailed 13-0 late in the first quarter, but the Mid-American Conference champions scored 31 unanswered points on the way to their ninth straight victory. [...]
On paper, it sure doesn’t look pretty. The 2011-12 bowl season saw the Big Ten’s qualifying teams finish a combined 5-5, with losses to teams from four different conferences. You can make any number of excuses for the statistically average showing by what is touted as a power conference — the .500 winning percentage is [...]
The Indiana Hoosiers spent $16 million on college football last year. Only two other Big Ten teams spent less, and the Hoosiers were a full $4 million under the conference’s average football spending of $20 million. But Indiana only won a single game this year, when they defeated South Carolina State 38-21 in the third [...]
His quarterback went down. Texas coach Mack Brown laments it to this day. The Longhorns might have beaten Alabama a couple of years ago, denied the Crimson Tide a national championship and put a dent in the Southeastern Conference’s modern-day domination of college football. But they fell on a cool night in Pasadena, Calif., Colt [...]
Ever since he was little, Trenton Robinson has been all about football. Like thousands of kids across the country, Robinson toiled endlessly to improve at the game that he loves. And like those kids, he dreamed of starring in high school, moving on to college and someday playing in the NFL. And through his desire, [...]
ick Holt arrived at Washington with the fanfare — and salary — usually reserved for head coaches. It set a level of expectations Holt never matched, and on Saturday he was fired after three years as the Huskies’ defensive coordinator. The dismissal came two days after Washington gave up 777 total yards and 67 points [...]
tlanta • Onterio McCalebb was motivated by speculation that the suspension of star running back Mike Dyer could take the punch out of Auburn’s running game. McCalebb had an answer. McCalebb scored two touchdowns and Auburn overcame the loss of quarterback Clint Moseley to set a season scoring high and beat Virginia 43-24 in the [...]
Virginia Tech quarterback Logan Thomas and running back David Wilson used to live adjacent to each other in dorm rooms when they first moved onto campus. Both players were stuck behind talented starters, but they also knew it was only a matter of time before they’d get to showcase their abilities together. “It’s something we talked about when we [...]
This will forever be remembered as the Year of the Scandal in college football. From the seedy off-season revelations involving several University of Miami football players and convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro that resulted in multiple player suspensions and a self-imposed bowl ban … To the memorabilia fiasco at Ohio State that led to the [...]
