With BYU turning to independent status next season, which makes no sense, the university just confirmed its lack of commitment to football, or at least fielding a competitive football team. The school announced its post-season tie in bowl will be the Fight Hunger Bowl come 2013. That’s right, I had to look it up myself. Apparently the Fight Hunger Bowl committee dropped the WAC and secured BYU. If by some small miracle BYU ever gets a BCS bid, the...
Christmas came early for the Miami Hurricanes with the hire of Temple’s Al Golden to replace ousted Randy Shannon. Miami is aggressively working to finalize the deal as Golden was highly sought after in this already turbulent coaching carousel. Rumors were abound that Golden was considered for Pitt or an eventual replacement to Penn State’s Joe Paterno so Miami acted quickly to nab Golden. As a head coach, Golden single handedly turned around an underachieving and embarrassing Temple program. The...
This looks like it was straight out of a Michael Bay movie. Check out the Metrodome collapse after a horrific blizzard dumped over 17 inches of snow on Minneapolis. The damage was so extensive, that today’s Giants-Vikings game was cancelled and moved to Detroit’s Ford Field.
Another “snatch and grab” plays victim to the Syracuse Orange. Freshman linebacker Malcolm Cater was kicked-off the team this weekend for burglary, grand larceny, and petit larceny. According to the police report, Cater was arrested Saturday morning for burglarizing two apartments on Friday night and one apartment over Thanksgiving break. Over the weekend, Cater was seen by several witnesses carrying a flat-screen television at 3 a.m. to his 120 Lamreth Lane apartment. A witness was suspicious and contacted the...
Where there is good news, bad news is sure to follow. Kentucky’s first year head coach Joker Phillips limped into post-season play despite a horrific 2-6 conference record. With Kentucky facing Pittsburgh in the BBVA Compass Bowl next month, Phillips may have to game plan without his starting quarterback. Apparently, QB Mike Hartline took the typical “let’s get drunk and fight attitude” to a local Lexington bar. In the wee hours of Friday morning, Hartline got into a verbal...
Army and Navy are squaring off for the 111th time this Saturday afternoon which also marks the end of the college football regular season. The oddsmakers set the line at Navy -7.5 with an over/under at 53.5. Despite the admiration between these two fine institutions, come game time, Navy will come out strong, score often, and easily cover. Navy is led by QB Ricky Dobbs who is part of a senior class that absolutely decimated Army in the past...
Despite being forced to resign this past Tuesday, I mean fired, former Pittsburgh coach Dave Wannstedt will not go away without a fight. According to defensive coordinator coach Phil Bennett, Wannstedt agreed to be the acting coach when Pitt faces Kentucky in the BBVA Compass Bowl next month in Birmingham, Alabama. So if you want to see the fiery Wannstedt one last time under the helm, head out to Legion Field on January 8th because on January 9th, Wannstedt...
