0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 5/13/2013
Crystal Ball Run will be previewing each conference for the 2013 season with week-by-week coverage. Today we continue our 2013 conference previews with a look at the MAC. The MAC has become sort of a cult favorite in the college football world. Some would call it a lifestyle choice, while others might call it an […]
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(Photo Courtesy: USA Today) Admittedly, Crystal Ball Run isn’t normally a source of late-breaking high school baseball news, but then again there’s nothing normal about Louisiana high school pitcher Manny Miles. For one, the sophomore from University High School in Baton Rouge is an emerging star, and on Friday night threw his second no-hitter of […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 5/10/2013
(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) After spending the last five days reviewing the new “American,” it’s time for the Crystal Ball Run staff to make their conference championship picks. Allen Kenney’s Take: The lack of stability within the membership of the Conference Formerly Known as the Big East fits with the outlook for the league […]
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(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) This past week, Crystal Ball Run has given you an all-encompassing look at college football’s newest conference, “The American.” We’ve discussed key players, the league’s bizarre scheduling quirks and even the biggest and most exciting games to mark on your calendar. And today it’s time to complete our look-ahead to […]
Texas A&M has big plans for the redevelopment of its legendary home, Kyle Field. A&M is pouring $450 million into eye-popping improvements that will make its home field the biggest in the SEC But Sam Torn, one of the chairs of the redevelopment committee for the stadium, revealed in an interview with TexAgs.com published on […]
0 comments by Dave Singleton on 5/9/2013
It’s a fact of life in any conference: You’re going to have to travel at some point. Now, some leagues have teams that don’t travel much at all save for the conference away games. Those teams are big enough that they don’t have to hit the road, or are very selective about the non-conference tilts […]
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The American Athletic Conference exists in a sort of a netherworld. A mashup of the remaining football members of the old Big East Conference plus newcomers from the last iteration of Conference USA, the American is a conference born out of this age of intercollegiate athletics: the age where dollars trumped old alliances. In fact, […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 5/8/2013
Over the course of a calendar year, the month of May is essentially the only downtime a college football player gets. Falls are reserved for game days and prep, which immediately roll into bowl season and winter workouts, which becomes spring ball, and eventually summer camp. Therefore, it’s these pristine few days in May […]
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(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 […]
What we once knew as the Big East was kicked around and plundered during the conference realignment craziness. Now that the power leagues appear to have hit the pause button on all the shifting, the members of the newly minted American Athletic Conference are ready to put the focus back on the field, according to […]
It wasn't supposed to end this way. (Photo: USA Today Sports) Ask college football recruiting nuts for some of the most baffling disappointments they can recall, and the name Garrett Gilbert is almost bound to come up. Gilbert arrived at Texas in 2009 with every accolade imaginable from his stint as quarterback of Lake Travis […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 5/7/2013
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 […]
