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 […]

The worst-kept secret in college sports was officially revealed in Atlanta on Thursday. The SEC Network, a joint venture between the SEC and ESPN, will hit the airwaves in August 2014 and will have a plan to carry approximately 45 SEC games in year one, with three games every Saturday. The SEC Network is the […]

We're roughly four months away from the start of the 2013 college football season, but that hasn't stopped the bookmakers from pandering to degenerates. Offshore book 5dimes has already started rolling out point spreads for the first week of the season. A few observations based on the early numbers: *Alabama is a huge favorite over […]

Sometimes the NCAA does things that seem to rub some people the wrong way without any real reason behind it. Prohibiting a school from printing a Twitter hash tag on their football field may be one of those instances. Today the NCAA released updated rules regarding field markings, uniforms and playing equipment. In it, the […]

One of the more controversial issues to arise in college football in the last decade or so has been some programs' use of aggressive roster management. A less polite name for the practice would be oversigning, a strategy that involves signing players in the spring in excess of the 85-scholarship limit and then pushing others […]

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, […]