Yesterday, my colleague Aaron Torres took a stab at ranking the coaching jobs in the SEC, a conference where glistening football facilities and NFL-caliber recruits flow like wine. Or maybe bourbon. Try putting together a similar list for the Big 12. Whereas differentiating between SEC gigs is an exercise in “wow,” the Big 12 is […]
Spring Practice Primer: Ohio State Buckeyes
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Camp Opens: March 28Spring Game: April 21 Despite going just 6-7 last year, it’s still all rainbows and butterflies in Columbus, as the great Urban Meyer gets set to open his first spring camp as head coach at Ohio State. After a year away from the sport, the 47-year-old Meyer is back, and brings with […]
Turns out Rick Neuheisel has his own “Tractor Story”
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 3/28/2012
The great part of being a blogger/writer/reporter is that you simply never know what kind of fun information you’re going to come across on a daily basis. How one innocuous sentence, in one meaningless article, will take you to a place that you never imagined going. It’s a sick and twisted world we live in, […]
Report: Danny O’Brien to follow in Russell Wilson’s footsteps
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Danny O’Brien spent Monday afternoon in State College, Pennsylvania to take in Penn State‘s first spring football practice. Photos of him in a Penn State sweatshirt and windbreaker caused a frenzy among the Nittany faithful. Now, it appears, all of that commotion was for nothing. Danny O’Brien is “poised” to join the Wisconsin Badgers, according […]
Ranking the SEC Coaching Jobs
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Since football season ended, here at Crystal Ball Run we’ve done our darndest to keep you entertained with fun, interesting and engaging debates on college football’s biggest issues. We’ve looked at the biggest off-season questions in each conference, as well as what games to watch out for this coming fall, coaching hirings and firings, and […]
Spring Practice Primer: Virginia Tech Hokies
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Camp Opens: March 28Spring Game: April 21 At this point, just about the only thing to expect from the Virginia Tech Hokies football program is, well, the expected. It doesn’t matter who they’ve lost on offense or defense, what the schedule looks like, or what other programs are rising or falling in the ACC, the […]
The Notre Dame Conundrum: To Join Or Not To Join?
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Let’s begin with a bit of a summation of where we stand today, March 28, 2012: Round and round the carousel spins during conference realignment. Where it stops, nobody truly knows until there is a press conference in fill in the blank city featuring the conference coordinator, the university president and athletic director. […]
Looking ahead to the top ten Big East Games for 2012
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Pittsburgh and Syracuse will play their final Big East conference game son the road in 2012. The Big East football schedule has been released for the 2012 season. Thirteen games have already been picked up by the ESPN family for national telecasts, starting with the September 6 meeting between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati on ESPN inprime […]
Nick Saban is all smiles. He will now be the highest paid coach in college football
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College football’s best coach, is now also its highest paid coach. That’s right, your boy Nick Saban broke the bank ya’ll! On Monday, the three-time National Championship coach signed a two-year extension that will keep him at the school through the end of the 2019 season. For a coach who’ll be 61 in October, it […]
Spring practice primer: Michigan Wolverines
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Camp Open(ed): March 17 (yeah, we’re late on this one)Spring Game: April 14 Is Michigan football back? Following an 11-win season capped with a BCS bowl victory it would be easy to say so. But until Michigan makes an appearance in a Big Ten championship game it might be wise to hold off on […]
CBR Uni Madness – Final Four!
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 3/26/2012
Just like the men’s basketball championship tournament, we’ve reached the Final Four of CBR’s Uni Madness! This past week saw voting in our Elite 8 round. Say what you will about the Big Ten’s bowl record (ok, it’s downright awful), but they’ve donimated our uni bracket. Three of our four Final 4 teams hail from […]
Naming a high school after Nick Saban? Oh, it almost happened
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It’s no secret that the good folks living in SEC country care more about their football team than you do yours. At best, we’d call people in the SEC “fanatical” and at worst “maniacal” but there’s no doubt that in places like Tuscaloosa, Knoxville, Athens and Auburn, football isn’t a Saturday diversion, but instead a […]
