0 comments by Aaron Torres on 4/15/2012
Earlier this week, former Auburn running back, and 2011 BCS National Championship Game MVP Michael Dyer made headlines when he took the witness stand in the trial of former Auburn teammate Antonio Goodwin. Goodwin was on trial for an armed robbery committed with three of his teammates last March, and Dyer described the night as […]
Saturday was one of the biggest days of the spring football season. A whole slew of major programs held their final scrimmages of the year. It’s an opportunity for overreaction galore. CBR surveys the hyperbole. *At Alabama, the Crimson Tide offered a preview of what to expect under new offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier. Nick Saban […]
With Nebraska playing host their spring game this weekend, Darren Carlson from Big Red Network stopped by to answer a few questions for Crystal Ball Run. How will the Cornhuskers match up in Year 2 in the Big Ten? Let’s take a look. 1. From the outside looking in, the offense in year one under […]
Bobby Petrino’s implosion aside, the biggest offseason story in the world of college football this offseason has been the momentum behind some type of reform to the college football postseason. The result could potentially set the wheels of conference realignment in motion again. Brett McMurphy of CBSSports.com joins CBR’s Allen Kenney for a podcast to […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 4/12/2012
While spring football has been going on at campuses all across the country for weeks now, this Saturday is the one we’ve all been waiting for. On that day, a number of big name programs will be playing their spring games, and in the process giving us college football fans our first insight into what […]
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We like to talk about the USC Trojans here on Crystal Ball Run. And why wouldn’t we? The Trojans have one of the most entertaining characters coaching on the sidelines in Lane Kiffin. They have one of the top Heisman contenders and charming quarterbacks in the country in Matt Barkley. They have the USC Song […]
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 […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 4/9/2012
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 […]
