When the topic of overrated college football coaches comes up, names such as Jim Tressel, Mark Richt, Rich Rodriguez and Les Miles are often tossed around. Out of these four coaches, two, (Tressel and Miles) have a BCS National Championship trophy to show. However, Iowa’s Kirk Ferentz is rarely mentioned in such conversations. Why is this? I get that he and Iowa have always been media darlings, and I understand his Hawkeyes have been the proverbial fly in the ointment for Penn State...
In the aftermath of the fall of Troy, the NCAA cleared the way for USC juniors and seniors to-be to transfer from the team without being forced to sit out a season. Schools are now free to initiate contact with such players who fall into this category. The NCAA rule allows for a waiver to be granted if the school has a postseason ban in place during the transfer. Unfortunately, this rule does not apply to USC freshman who have recently...
Lost in all of the recent Big Ten/SEC/Pac-10/Big XII conference expansion noise, is Boise State and the Mountain West Conference’s (MWC) courting of the Broncos. Boise State could be the first school to bolt for greener pastures if they accept the rumored MWC invite next month during conference president meetings. While everyone is focusing on the four power college football conferences and their potential expansions, a situation is brewing out west that could be the first shot fired in...
The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) meetings are taking place in Phoenix, Arizona, this week. While all the media talk has been about the potential expansion of the Big Ten and Southeastern conferences, the Mountain West Conference could end up as the biggest winner if the the BCS powers that be have their way. BCS executive director Bill Hancock mentioned during meetings on Wednesday the possibility of Mountain West becoming the seventh conference to receive the coveted BCS automatic berth for the 2012 and...
The buzz is in the air and time seems to be moving at a snails pace as we wait for tonight’s championship basketball game featuring heavily favored Duke v. Butler. In the meantime, Duke’s longtime coach (and rumored to be courted by the Nets) Mike Krzyzewski had a few things to say about the Bowl Championship Series in comparison to March Madness. Coach K believes that a team like Butler would never make it to the championship game in...
For the past few seasons, Cinderella has been living in Boise, Idaho. Boise State has been the Madonna of the college football world for the last 4 seasons, you either love them or hate them. But beware Bronco haters, a heavy dose of Boise State love is in store for the 2010 college football season as they’ll more than likely enter the season in the top 5 of the AP poll. Boise State finished their 2009 campaign with a...
We all know everything is bigger and better in Texas and it’s easy to forget that big mouths also come from the South. Texas’ star recruit, Taylor Bible who is still in high school and is actually known to be more of the quiet type, vowed that the Longhorns will win the next four Red River Shootouts and four BCS Titles. That is quite a big prediction for the 6’3 278 pound defensive lineman who plans on enrolling this...
Well it looks like signing day has come and gone. Aside from a few holdouts such as Seantrel Henderson (who is holding out on USC until the NCAA concludes its investigation), most teams have their recruiting class all lined up. Depending on which rating scale you prefer, the top ten schools should come to no surprise–Florida, Texas, Alabama, Oklahoma and USC all had strong showings and late moves. Penn State, Auburn and Washington also picked up some highly talented...
