0 comments by Aaron Torres on 5/23/2012
Mark your calendars, fire up the grill, and send your wife to the mall for the day: The biggest game of the college football opening weekend is now officially set! That’s right, the announcement we’ve all been waiting for officially came yesterday, when the powers that be let us know that the September 1 showdown […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 5/22/2012
Blame the end of final exams. Or the slow last weeks of May before summer workouts begin. Or the simple fact that the police blotter doesn’t seem quite as active as usual. But without much real “news” to cover here at Crystal Ball Run, we’ve been left with little choice but to dip our toes […]
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There’s an old saying that goes “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” and in the case of new Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze, he takes that saying quite literally. The man who proudly boasts of his role in the movie “The Blind Side” also isn’t afraid to drum up some excitement on the recruiting […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 5/21/2012
One of the saddest and most shocking news pieces to hit college football in many years came across the wire today, as West Virginia University announced today that former head coach Bill Stewart died of an apparent heart attack this afternoon during a golf outing. Stewart coached the Mountaineers coach from 2008-2010, accruing a record […]
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Welcome to this week’s “Case of the Mondays” where we at Crystal Ball Run take a look at the good, bad and the ugly in the college football world and beyond. This week, we start with… 1. The dumbest storyline that isn’t really a storyline to hit college football in years: When it was announced […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 5/18/2012
So, tell us where you’ve heard this before: USC just landed the commitment of a top-flight, stud running back in the class of 2013. If you answered, “Hey stupid, you already told us that Tuesday,” well, you’d be partially correct. That’s because after getting a verbal commitment from Ty Isaac, the top running back in […]
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0 comments by Aaron Torres on 5/17/2012
I don’t think we’re breaking any news here at Crystal Ball Run by saying that the sport of college football appears to be on a collision course with a four-team playoff in 2014. Sure, there are plenty of details to figure out between now and then; how we pick the four teams; where the games […]
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Incredibly, we are down to just 107 days until the kickoff of the college football season, when Tennessee will play NC State on Friday, August 31 in the 2012 Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Classic. But if you think it’s too early to look ahead through this August, straight past 2013 into 2014, well my friends, you’re sadly […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 5/16/2012
With finals done nationwide, and a few weeks between the end of the spring and the start of summer school, it’s a relatively quiet time for college football news. But on the recruiting trail, things continue to remain white hot, as the top rising seniors are making their college decisions in a fast and furious […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 5/15/2012
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hini7BmqztE Memo to college football fans across the country: You might not like Lane Kiffin, but you better get used to him. Yes, the coach everyone loves to hate has the prohibitive BCS National Championship favorite heading into 2012, but we already knew that. The scary thing though? The Trojans aren’t slowing down anytime soon. […]
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Move over Jeremy Foley. Take a seat Mal Moore. DeLoss Dodds, get the hell out of the way. There’s a new king of college football athletic administrators. His name is Pat Haden, he works at USC and- on his way to taking over the world- he once again hit pay dirt yesterday for the Trojans […]
