Let’s begin with a bit of a summation of where we stand today, March 28, 2012:  Round and round the carousel spins during conference realignment. Where it stops, nobody truly knows until there is a press conference in fill in the blank city featuring the conference coordinator, the university president and athletic director.  […]

Pittsburgh and Syracuse will play their final Big East conference game son the road in 2012. The Big East football schedule has been released for the 2012 season. Thirteen games have already been picked up by the ESPN family for national telecasts, starting with the September 6 meeting between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati on ESPN inprime […]

College football’s best coach, is now also its highest paid coach. That’s right, your boy Nick Saban broke the bank ya’ll! On Monday, the three-time National Championship coach signed a two-year extension that will keep him at the school through the end of the 2019 season. For a coach who’ll be 61 in October, it […]

It’s no secret that the good folks living in SEC country care more about their football team than you do yours. At best, we’d call people in the SEC “fanatical” and at worst “maniacal” but there’s no doubt that in places like Tuscaloosa, Knoxville, Athens and Auburn, football isn’t a Saturday diversion, but instead a […]

Camp Opens: March 21Spring Game: April 21 This Auburn team is, again, living in the shadow of the Tide as we enter the 2012 season and as Alabama has so much talent coming back it will, again, be an uphill battle for Auburn to grab the headlines. That said there is plenty to be excited […]

Ten items of interest to get your week started off right. 1. The question of multi-year scholarships reared its head again last week. As our man Michael Felder noted, Texas coach Mack Brown hit on the real issue with scholarships in major college football, which really nothing to do with how long they’re guaranteed. Contrary […]

First Practice: March26Spring Game: April 21 Entering spring 2012, there are few hot seats in college football hotter than Derek Dooley’s at Tennessee. A once proud program has hit on hard times, winning just 11 games over the last two years, and sadly for Vols fans, things hardly improved this off-season. From player discontent, to […]

  The site of Pittsburgh’s 2012 BlueGold Spring Game. Source: Flickr Dave Wannstedt once set out to build a wall around western Pennsylvania in an attempt to keep recruiting rivals out of the fertile recruiting grounds in western Pennsylvania. It was a bold philosophy that didn’t quite work out for The ‘Stache, but that doesn’t […]