Ohio State coach Urban Meyer responded during yesterday’s Big Ten media conference call to Sporting News columnist Matt Hayes’ look behind the curtain at his tenure with the Florida Gators. He could have saved everyone some time by simply circulating a four-sentence statement: “No NCAA violations. Players graduated. We won games. I love my players.” […]
Pat Fitzgerald’s Northwestern Wildcats are heading into their final scrimmage of the spring on Saturday. CBR caught up with Philip Rossman-Reich of Lake The Posts for an update on the latest happenings in Evanston. 1. If you had to identify the one biggest challenge facing NU this spring, what would it be? Communication. Northwestern had […]
Now that Bobby Petrino has received his walking papers, where does Arkansas turn? Assuming the Razorbacks don’t go the interim route, here are a few names that I suspect will come up. (Or, at the very least, should come up.) *Gus Malzahn, Head Coach, Arkansas St. Malzahn is clearly a well-known commodity around the Ozarks, […]
Woo, pig… Ten days after a joyride on his Harley with a non-wife female companion almost turned deadly, Bobby Petrino is out as head coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks,
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It’s not often that we talk about recruiting here at Crystal Ball Run, and even less often (if ever) that we talk about recruiting when it pertains to kids who won’t be on a college campus for another three years. But in the case of a couple of elite high school sophomores in Georgia, we’re […]
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Although Crystal Ball Run is primarily a college football-themed website, we couldn’t help but take notice a few weeks back when the good folks at SI released an in-depth report on the UCLA basketball program. Teased as a “shocking, tell-all report” the story turned out to be a lot sizzle and not all that much […]
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For years, USC has been known as “Tailback U,” a moniker that tends to stick, when guys like O.J. Simpson, Charles White, Marcus Allen and Reggie Bush all roll through your campus, and all roll out as Heisman Trophy winners. (And yes, I still consider Reggie Bush a “winner” even if he doesn’t “technically” have […]
College football has morphed into a year-round sport thanks to weeks like the one we just finished. Much like the Easter smorgasbord I devoured yesterday, let’s dive right into these 10 items of interest to kick off what we should hope to be an equally eventful week. (Note: I’m not suggesting more coaches should step […]
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Earlier this week, Crystal Ball Run wrote a quick piece on USC football and the 15 players that the Trojans are sending to Haiti in May to do relief work. For those who missed the story, the group, which was organized by Trojans All-American quarterback Matt Barkley and his family, will help build homes and […]
Will Muschamp didn’t face a quarterback controversy in his first season as Florida Gators coach so much as a quarterback clusterfuck. With his second year of spring practices now complete, he still doesn’t have a definitive choice under center. But after Saturday’s final scrimmage, he has to at least feel a little better about his […]
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By now, the facts as we know them are out on Bobby Petrino: One of the most successful coaches in Arkansas football history is caught in a self-inflicted shit-storm that he’s going to have a hard time getting out of. What we know is this: Bobby Petrino got in a motorcycle accident. Bobby Petrino told […]
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Cover the sport of college football long enough, and there really isn’t all that much that’ll surprise you, especially when it comes to recruiting. The tactics of the nation’s best coaches are legendary, whether it’s Auburn’s “Tiger Prowl” limo, Lane Kiffin’s helicopter trips at Tennessee, or the time that Mark Richt went to church to […]
