The moment that college football fans have been waiting nearly 240 days for is finally here. The 2010-11 college football season officially begins this evening when Wake Forest plays host to Presbyterian at 6:30 PM EDT. Fans from Eugene, OR, to State College, PA, will be proudly wearing their colors, and school flags will be waving from cars like Sabal Palm trees on I-95 as thousand of fans make their annual pilgrimage to college towns throughout the nation. As of...
As preseason football kicks off, every team is subject to injuries. This past weekend, Florida State lost defensive lineman Moses McCray on Saturday and RB Tavares Pressley on Friday. Both players tore their ACL during non-contact drills. Pressley’s injury, though grave, is not much of a loss to the Seminoles as he was buried in the depth chart and was used sparingly as a 4th string reserve back. The 6’0, 200 lbs back only amassed 40 yards on the...
As the Bobby Bowden era fades in the hands of Jimbo Fisher, Florida State strives to reclaim its dominance of yesteryear. To stir up the hype and to get the fans excited about FSU football, the university launched its official Christian Ponder for Heisman campaign. The gunslinger is entering his final season as a Seminole with the hopes of breaking out of the mediocre mold of FSU football that hasn’t won a conference championship since 2005. Ponder’s career stats...
Bobby Bowden may not be coaching the Seminoles anymore, but he is certainly going to step up to the plate when his alums are in need. This was seen when former Florida State RB Sammie Smith wanted to restore his civil rights after serving his prison sentence. In Florida, convicted felons cannot vote or own a weapon unless the individual gets a full or conditional pardon from the Clemency Board. So after 7 years behind bars for a federal...
Coach Chuck Amato refuses to let his bout with cancer stop him from continuing his passion of coaching college football. The former Florida State assistant coach is doing extremely well and is showing signs of normalcy after tackling months of therapy for a cancerous tumor in his tonsils. Amato is slowly bouncing back from the treatment and is starting to eat solid foods again. Though Coach Chest (Amato’s nickname) lost over 20 pounds during this fight, he has not...
This time last year, Clemson’s Kyle Parker was a redshirt freshman who was entrenched in a heated quarterback competition with Willy Korn. Fast forward to 2010, Parker is set to enter the 2010 season as Clemson’s #1 QB on the depth chart while Korn has left Clemson for the greener pastures of Marshall. Parker led the Clemson Tigers to an ACC Atlantic division football title last season and hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down. While Parker demonstrated that he...
It’s official. The Florida State Seminoles will be forced to vacate 12 of its wins, five from the 2006-07 season and seven from the 2007-08 season. As part of the NCAA’s punishment, the school will be required to forfeit any trophies won during those seasons. Not that it’s an eye stopper at the Rick Losco Trophy Room, but this means the school must return its Emerald Bowl trophy back to the appropriate sponsor. Other teams facing sanctions were men’s and women’s...
Former Florida State safety Myron Rolle is about as impressive as you get. Not only was Rolle an exceptional safety at Florida State, but he was also awarded the Rhodes Scholarship and studied at Oxford University for a degree in medical anthropology. He is a dedicated individual, gifted athlete, and a philanthropist. He and his family started the Myron L. Rolle foundation which is designed to benefit children and families in need. Coming from a Bahamian heritage, the foundation plans...
