The Big East continues to sink further into the depths of irrelevance and the calls for the conference to lose its automatic qualifying bid grow louder and louder. As we are well into the college football season, there is no Big East team in the Top 25. The conference has failed miserably in its non-conference play boasting a combined record of 19-14, average at best. However, when you consider 9 out of the 19 wins came against DI-AA teams,...
Carrying an impressive 3-1 record, the Maryland Terrapins will host ACC foe Duke this Saturday at Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium in College Park, MD. Saturday’s game against Duke will be Maryland’s first conference game of the season. Although the season is very young, the lack of a presence of a truly dominate team in the conference makes the race for the ACC seem wide open this year. Expectations in College Park, and among Maryland alumni are high for the Terps...
Former West Virginia QB sensation Pat White was released by the Miami Dolphins this week. Though the NCAA rushing QB record holder (4,480 yards) has yet to find an NFL suitor, he is not giving up on playing professional ball. White will be temporarily trading the pigskin for the hardball. The triggerman is no stranger to baseball; he was a star pitcher and outfielder from Alabama’s Daphne High School. In 2004, he was sought out by several MLB teams...
It looks like the Backyard Brawl is feeling some heat, but not from your typical fans. Mining activists in a furious manner reached out to West Virginia to pull the new Nike Pro Combat uniform ads that showcase a mountaintop mine in the background. The uniform was designed to honor and remember the 29 miners killed earlier this year at the Upper Big Branch mine. Activists are claiming the image in the background, not the actual uniform, sends the...
Three years removed from winning his first and only BCS National Championship, LSU skipper Les Miles could be entering his last season as head coach of the Tigers. Miles assumed head coaching duties on January 3, 2005, when current Alabama head coach Nick Saban bolted Baton Rouge to try his hand in the NFL. Miles got off to a red-hot start by going 11-2 in his first season as head coach and earned a trip to Atlanta to represent...
The NCAA is investigating West Virginia for allegedly dressing players in more than just helmets during their first two days of practice violating the protective equipment policy. It was reported that several players wore vests (lightweight shoulder pads and protective vests) during the first two days of practice which is a direct violation of the NCAA helmet only rule. Rule 17.9.2.3 subsection ‘d’ which states, in full: “During the first two days of the acclimatization period, helmets shall be...
Concerns are on the rise at West Virginia as QB Geno Smith will miss spring practice due to a broken foot injury. The heir apparent to Jarrett Brown broke his foot while participating earlier this year in team conditioning drills. Smith’s injury was originally going to sideline him for six weeks, but his continued pain and slower than anticipated recover is keeping him on the bench this spring. This should cause concern for the Mountaineers since their depth chart at QB is...
The last college football game of the season was played in Mobile, Alabama on Saturday. College football’s stars took to the field one final time in the Senior Bowl as the South’s Tim Tebow (Florida) aimed to silence his critics who claim that he does not have what it takes to succeed in the NFL. Unfortunately for Tebow and the South, the North squad came out of the gates swinging early and never looked back, winning 31-13. Tebow started the game for...
