Virginia Tech is having difficulties in selling its allotment of 17,500 tickets for the 2012 Allstate Sugar Bowl. As of Monday evening, Tech only sold about 9,500 tickets. This is considerably low considering Tech’s reputation of traveling well and garnering strong fan support. In a desperate attempt to boost ticket sales, Tech’s top brass asked, if not guilted, fans to purchase proxy tickets. “The Athletics Department is asking Hokie fans that cannot make this year’s Allstate Sugar Bowl to...
It looks like Brian Kelly took a page out of Lane Kiffin’s book on how to treat your former school. It wasn’t enough for Kelly to abandon his undefeated team and leave his players coachless weeks before the Allstate Sugar Bowl, but now he is working on swiping his Cincy recruits. Since the weakest and most questionable spot on Notre Dame’s depth chart is the QB position, Kelly decided to turn to his old stomping grounds to rectify the...
In a college football world where we expect loyalty and commitment to teams from our student athletes, college football coaches are able to pick up and leave on a whim without any penalty. The double standard is glaring. This young off-season has seen more coaching twists from L.A. to Knoxville, than a One Tree Hill episode. Former Cincy coach Brian Kelly started the snowball effect which is now infull speed. Kelly had taken the Bearcats to a school best 12-0 season record and...
