(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) With a name change from the “Big East” to the “American” it is this writer’s hope that along with a dead football conference, the bad, “Big Least” jokes are dead as well. As Louisville proved in last year’s Sugar Bowl, there is still plenty of good football being played in […]

When Kliff Kingsbury was hired as the head coach at Texas Tech this past winter, it was lauded as both a steal for the school and a win for young bros looking for a big break everywhere. After all, it’s not often that a school takes a chance in giving a plush head coaching job […]

Poor Mark Emmert. Even when the guy tries to do something right, it always turns out horribly, unmistakably wrong. When Emmert first took the job back in the summer of 2010, one of his big platforms was to streamline the NCAA’s famously bulky rule book, and eliminate a lot of petty, unimportant guidelines. At the […]

Normally, having your dad named to an assistant coach’s position on your high school football team qualifies as #ThatAwkwardMoment that no teenager wants any part of. Then again, there is nothing normal about Blaise Taylor’s father. No, no, Blaise Taylor’s father is none other than college football’s pre-eminent towel-waver and chest-bumper Trooper Taylor, the former […]

(Photo Courtesy: UNLV Athletics) It’s no secret that small school FBS football programs are sometimes forced to go to extreme lengths, and to extremely strange places to find recruits. Alabama, Oklahoma and Ohio State may be able to select a few, hand-picked players to offer scholarships to every winter, but coaches in the Mountain West, […]

(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) With the success of Notre Dame’s game in Dublin last season and previous discussions by the Pac-12 to hold games in Asia, college football is a sport that seems set to global. That is of course, if it hasn’t already. And apparently it’s an idea that has been at the […]

  (Photo Courtesy: KTLA.com)   Apparently, being an NFL Draft hopeful from LSU and also getting in trouble with the law aren’t mutually exclusive things.   That’s because in the midst of an NFL Draft where one of the biggest questions remains where Tyrann Mathieu will be selected after a slew of failed drug tests […]

(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) “College athletics is being ruined by money”… Says the man who recently signed a contract extension that will play him nearly $15 million over the next five years. That man was Bill Snyder, who in a recent interview with a Kansas City radio station had some choice words for the […]

(Photo Courtesy: Azusa Pacific Athletics) When Roger Goodell steps to the podium on April 25 to announce the first pick of the 2013 NFL Draft, there’s a good chance he’ll state the name “Luke Joeckel” to millions worldwide tuning in to check out the draft. The Kansas City Chiefs are on the clock, and it […]