0 comments by Tom Perry on 3/11/2013
First Practice: March 11 Spring Game: April 13 Boise State finished 11-2 and defeated Washington 28-26 in the Maaco Bowl in Las Vegas and it was considered a down season. That’s the type of expectation set forth by stalwart coach Chris Petersen, and no matter how annoying the typical Boise fan can be … the […]
Legendary coach Barry Switzer returned to his old stomping grounds Sunday to see how Oklahoma is progressing this spring. Never one for subtlety, "The King" was dressed to the nines: With highs barely escaping the 30s in Norman, Okla., today, a man fur does make for a sensible choice. Looks like the coach has been […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens on 3/9/2013
The days of the Mountain West not being a player in college football media are about to be done and dusted as reports are saying the league is about to sign a TV rights deal for seven years and $116 million dollars. If you're doing the math along with us that means each of the […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens on 3/8/2013
First Practice: March 9th Spring Game: April 20th Wisconsin football has been on a role as of late. Three straight Big Ten championships, three straight Rose Bowls. However, it's also been three straight Rose Bowl losses. Now Wisconsin enters a new era as former head coach Bret Bielema parlayed his success into the Arkansas coaching […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
Photo: USA Today Sports Spring Practice Opens: March 10 Spring Game: April 20 Few teams dropped as quickly as Arkansas did before the start of the 2012 season. regarded as a potential BCS Championship contender after a fine 2011 season and Cotton Bowl victory, Arkansas dropped like an anvil the moment head coach Bobby Petrino […]
Maybe Gunner Kiel was born in the backseat of a Greyhound bus? Could Nashville, Tenn., and be the next destination for the highly recruited quarterback? James Franklin will understand. If he's heading down to the Bayou, he's not going to play for LSU and its chesty coach. (Perhaps Tulane, the only team in New Or-leens.) […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens on 3/7/2013
It seems as if over the past few seasons the coaching carousel has just never stopped going around and this offseason it's been crazier than usual. However, one team has seemed to master the art of "stealing" a coach away and that's the University of Oklahoma. Their latest victim was Wisconsin, who saw their tight […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens
Bye Bye Big East – gone with the "Catholic 7" basketball schools. Hello America 12 Conference? Yep, that's right. Well, that is if you believe the sourcing of one Brett McMurphy of ESPN (and why would we doubt him with this news anyway). He's reporting that the name "America 12" is considered the front runner […]
As part of SI's "Power Week," college football pundit Andy Staples rolled out his rankings of the 10 most powerful people in college athletics (which is really just a college football list). Celebrity Hot Tub of EDSBS and Deadspin joins CBR managing editor Allen Kenney for a podcast to assess the rankings and discuss some […]
After admitting to troubling improprieties on the part of its investigators, it didn't seem like things could get much worse for the NCAA in its investigation of the Miami athletic department. But, oh, it did. Tim Reynolds of the Associated Press is reporting that former NCAA investigator Ameen Najjar wrote a letter on behalf of […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens
First Practice: March 9th Spring Game: April 13th Life around Norman is sure to be different this spring for Bob Stoops and Co. It's safe to say you could even call it a bit of a getting to know you kind of spring. Gone is Landry Jones – just another in a long line of […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens on 3/6/2013
For those of us here and those of you reading this now, there's no doubting our college football fandom and how popular the sport is to us and our lives. However, to the general public things are just beginning to shift into overdrive. The latest example of this? How about the growing phenomenon of teams […]
