If there’s a college football head coach that gets less respect than Mark Dantonio please point him out for me, because to me there isn’t one. He’s quickly becoming the Rodney Dangerfield of college football. You know… Getting no respect while winning all the way to the bank.  http://youtube.com/watch?v=9FPv2toi5og Seriously, you know it’s true. Think […]

Yesterday was the end of Big 12 Media Days and it was also the introduction of the West Virginia Mountaineers. In part one we talked about the highlights of day one on Monday, so don’t forget to take a look at that before going forward. There were literally dozens of players and coaches to speak […]

Hard to believe, but we’ve already completed the Big 12 Media Days in Dallas, TX. I mean it seems like just yesterday we were previewing what was to come… Oh wait, it’s only a two day event? Wow, how time flies when you are having fun in the new look Big 12. A lot of […]

With everything happening this offseason in college football, it’s easy to forget about arguably one of the biggest coaching moves in NCAA history. A two-time national championship winning coach is coming out of a brief retirement to coach one of the top five programs in the country.  And, it just so happens that program is […]

Although the NCAA could never give Penn State true justice for the crimes committed by Jerry Sandusky and the cover-up by the school, they certainly did their best to move the process forward by releasing sanctions against the school on Monday morning. By now, you know the sanctions as well as we do here at […]

While all the focus in the college football world is at Penn State Monday morning, there is other business to address for the rest of the sport. And no place is that more evident than in the Big XII, where the conference will host their Media Days on Monday and Tuesday. And while the SEC […]

When it was first reported yesterday that the NCAA would hammer the Penn State University football program with “unprecedented sanctions” one of the first reactions was what the future held for the program. It was almost certain that players would be allowed to transfer at their own free will and that the program would get […]

Update: The Big Ten has announced that they are imposing their own four year ban on Penn State from being eligible for the Big Ten championship game, along with a formal censure of the university, and a forfeiture of their portion of the bowl monies over the next four seasons, totaling about $13 million that must […]

Earlier today, we at Crystal Ball Run wrote on Penn State’s official decision to take down Joe Paterno’s statue on campus. Now, we may know what was behind the timing of the decision, as well as the haste with which the statue was brought down. The reason? Well, according to a report by CBS News, […]