Published on: 10th March, 2010
I know the common rejoinder to opinions like this: "If you know so much about football why aren't you a coach or a GM? These guys are professionals who have been doing this all their lives and you are just the average backseat driver fan, etc." The truth is that big ...Published on: 5th March, 2010
Well, it's that most wonderful and favorite time of the year, when media types gather around to trash high profile SEC players headed to the combine. Every year it's the same thing: guys who supposedly lack the work ethic, character or intelligence to make the NFL. The reason why this ...Published on: 3rd March, 2010
Vince Young? You've heard it all: high school player of the year, 30-2 as a starter, back-to-back Rose Bowl MVPs, breaker of the loss streak against Oklahoma (and likely saving Mack Brown's job in the process), responsible for the first conference title and major bowl berths of Mack Brown's long ...Published on: 25th February, 2010
With the attempts by the Big 10 and Pac-10 to lure Texas into their conferences, the relative silence by two groups of people, Big 12 fans and Texas supporters, is deafening. That makes me think two things. The first is that Longhorn nation is perfectly happy right where they are, and won't ...Published on: 22nd February, 2010
Should USC football be punished at all? Of course. Some USC fans contend that the NCAA does not have 100 percent rock solid certain evidence that Reggie Bush received a significant amount of money and benefits over a lengthy period of time. The truth is that the NCAA does not need ...Published on: 16th February, 2010
BCS haters make various wild claims, i.e. that it is some media conspiracy to help the SEC by blocking a playoff. A bit of reality here: the BCS only exists because the other major conferences (the Pac-10, the Big 10, the Big 12, the ACC, and the SEC) go along ...Published on: 16th February, 2010
The Big Ten is seeking to expand, and, of course, its fans have its sights set on Texas. The benefits to the Big Ten are obvious: better TV contracts including more money for the Big Ten Network, adding a top athletics program, plus all those Texas viewers and recruits. It ...Published on: 29th December, 2009
Full disclosure: I am not a Florida Gators fan. I am a University of Georgia fan in exile, waiting for the day that the University of Georgia fires Mark Richt and sends him back to the ACC where he belongs so UGA can move forward by hiring the man who ...Published on: 16th December, 2009
First, I want to clear up a popular misconception that seems to exist among those who believe that Toby Gerhart lost the Heisman to Mark Ingram, which appears particularly galling since Gerhart won the Doak Walker award for best RB (as well he should have since he led all RBs ...Published on: 12th December, 2009
You see it on blogs, message boards, articles everywhere. The offense is horrible! It is losing us games! Costing us recruits! Crisis situation! It must be fixed now! Our offensive coordinator must go, and Bo Pelini must be put on notice that he HAS to fix things! Oh, how short memories ...