The Texas Longhorns got off to an early start this spring and wrapped up practices over the weekend with the annual Orange-White Game. We checked in with ‘Horn über-guru Westcott Ebbers of Burnt Orange Nation for his take on spring drills and where things stand for UT a year after the program’s extreme makeover. 1. […]
Ranking the ACC coaching jobs
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Crystal Ball Run’s jaunt through the conference coaching ranks continues again today and yes, I get to get into the mix with the ACC. The league does not have an Ohio State or an Alabama, and most certainly no Texas type job, but there are some right fine jobs in the conference. As is the […]
Matt Barkley and his USC teammates prove there is still some good left in college football
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Highlights from Nigeria Trip 2010 from Matt Barkley on Vimeo. At times as college football fans, we all (myself included) spend way too much time dwelling on the negative, and not nearly enough on the positive. Between the NCAA investigations, conference realignment, smarmy agents, smarmy athletic directors and smarmy TV executives, it’s enough to literally […]
Details, pictures provide scary insight into Bobby Petrino’s motorcycle accident
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 4/3/2012
As we often mention here at Crystal Ball Run, generally we like to take a look at the lighter side of college football. We as a staff which loves everything there is to love about the sport; the tailgates on Saturday’s, the coaches on the sidelines, and yes, USC’s song girls. The key thing is […]
Ranking the Big Ten coaching jobs
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We continue to take a look at the head coaching positions in each of the major conferences. This year the Big Ten will welcome a few new names to the party, with Urban Meyer joining Ohio State, Penn State going with Bill O’Brien, and Illinois hiring Tim Beckman. Each will walk in to a different […]
CBR Uni Madness – LSU wins!
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 4/2/2012
With almost 9,000 votes cast, LSU defeated Nebraska in the CBR Uni Madness Final: 6,319 votes – 2,629 votes After a month long LSU defeated Nebraska in the final of our tournament to crown the best uniforms in college football. LSU entered the tourney as a #4 seed, so perhaps their victory is somewhat of […]
Ranking the Big East coaching jobs
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All of us at Crystal Ball Run are doing our best to make the offseason as bearable as possible, which is never easy, for college football fans. So .we’ve taken on the task of ranking coaching jobs within the major conferences. Here is what we think about the: SEC Big 12 And now it’s time […]
Bobby Petrino in hospital after an early morning motorcyle accident
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Here’s something scary you don’t hear every day: Apparently Arkansas head football coach Bobby Petrino was hospitalized early Monday morning, after getting into a motorcycle accident. No, this isn’t a bad April Fools Joke, but instead, a very scary reality. Details are limited, but Arkansas360.com has confirmed that it was in fact Petrino who was […]
Case of the Mondays: On Da’Rick, pot brownies, and ‘The U’ looking for a few good men
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Welcome to week’s “Case of the Mondays” where we look at the good, bad and surreal from the world of college football world, sporting world and beyond. And we enter this weekend’s edition with some good news: We actually have college football to talk about! That’s right, after weeks of drugging through college hoops, Tebow-mania, […]
LSU gets a commitment from Karl Malone Jr. Yes, the son of that guy
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 4/1/2012
It’s become a spring rite of passage: Take the best high school players, let them travel around to various college campuses, hit up a few junior days, spring games, and maybe a camp or two, and the college commitments start flowing like curse words out Will Muschamp’s mouth. As much as we enjoy the drama […]
The SEC’s spread offense experiment
As the Southeastern Conference has turned the college football world into its personal playground in the course of the last six years, fans, analysts and the like have come to accept that while SEC-style football may lack the pyrotechnics of offensive-minded conferences such as the Big 12, it is brutally effective. The league lives – […]
CBR Uni Madness – The Final: Nebraska vs LSU
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 3/29/2012
We’ve reached the final stage of our month long Uni Madness tournament! In the Final Four, there were still two more upsets remaining in a tourney that has been filled with them since the beginning. Ohio State, USC, Alabama, and Texas all went out at early stages and our last two #1 seeds both fell […]
