Ten of College Football’s “Top 25” Won’t Make Final Poll: Is Your Team One?
Published on: 9th August, 2009
The ESPN Coaches' Poll came out this week, and fans of 25 of the 120 FBS football teams are happy at the placement their team received, upset that they weren't ranked higher, or just delighted to see their name as one of the "chosen." A message to about half of these ...Notre Dame May Need Clausen to Run the Football in ’09’
Published on: 7th August, 2009
College football fans know about Golden Tate and Michael Floyd, Notre Dame's highly regarded wide out tandem and they know about Jimmy Clausen, the gunslinger who can deliver the pigskin to them. If the Fighting Irish are going to win those 10 games and make it to a BCS bowl in ...UConn Likely to Opt Out of Football Series with Notre Dame
Published on: 5th August, 2009
It looks like the state of Connecticut, UConn Athletic Director Jeff Hathaway, and Coach Randy Edsall finally got the message—ultimately it just didn't make sense! The Star Ledger's long-time college football writer Tom Luicci, while covering Big East Media Days in Rhode Island, reported that, "Randy Edsall said his school was ...Michigan and UConn to Play Home and Home Football Starting 2010
Published on: 31st July, 2009
ESPN and the Hartford Courant have announced that the Michigan Wolverines and Connecticut Huskies have agreed to a home and home football series beginning in 2010. UConn will make the trip to Michigan Stadium on Sept. 4 of next year and Michigan will travel to Rentschler Field in Hartford in ...Big Ten Seems to Still Be Waiting for Notre Dame
Published on: 29th July, 2009
As the Big Ten Football Media Days conclude, it's interesting to read between the lines, to sift through the rhetoric and misdirection to find some meaning in what can be described as "meaningless jibber-jabber" and a meaningless vote to decide who will win the 2009 conference championship—as if it wasn't ...Big Ten Football Can’t Compete with “Win at All Cost” SEC
Published on: 29th July, 2009
One thing we've learned from this year's Big Ten Football Media Days is that the coaches are concerned with the image of their conference. ESPN's Adam Rittenberg, whose covering the meetings, wrote "The Big Ten has become a national pinata in recent years." He continues, "Everyone is taking a swing at ...The Correlation Between Notre Dame’s Fall and the Rise of Conferences
Published on: 24th July, 2009
College football trends are not scientific—they can't be measured in Fahrenheit or Celsius but it seems that a direct correlation quite possibly exists between Notre Dame's fall from the mountain and the rise and strengthening of NCAA football Conferences. I became aware of this as I was reading ...Notre Dame Must Become a Four Quarter Football Team in 2009
Published on: 4th July, 2009
If Notre Dame wants to be as good as Phil Steele expects and as good as their fans are hoping, they must become a four quarter football team in 2009. There are a lot of returning players from last year's 7-6 squad that finished on a high note with a 49-21 ...Q & A With Notre Dame Football Super Fan Dr. Ira Rish
Published on: 3rd July, 2009
Friday morning before July 4th, I got together with Dr. Ira Rish, one of Notre Dame's great football fans, for a one-on-one interview. I had been trying to meet with him for about a year, and finally got the chance. We met at a coffee shop along the beach ...Notre Dame Football Scheduling: Are They Making Any Sense?
Published on: 30th June, 2009
In April of 2008, ESPN released an article announcing the proposed six game home and home series between Notre Dame and Rutgers was called off. In the article dated Apr. 25, '08, ESPN wrote, "Rutgers entered into discussions about a long-term series with Notre Dame, but at the end of the ...Featured Sponsors
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