Since he passed away on Sunday morning, writers everywhere have taken it upon themselves to define Joe Paterno’s “legacy.” Was he a bedrock of integrity? A coward? A fraud? I’m not going to pretend that I’m equipped to tell you whether the good outweighed the bad in Paterno’s life. In the last few days, I’ve […]

Over the weekend, Chip Kelly was supposedly a last-minute change of heart away from leaving Oregon for the Tampa bay Buccaneers. Jim Tressel received consideration for the Indianapolis Colts’ opening that ultimately went to Chuck Pagano. Les Miles’ name has been bandied about as a potential pro coach. Jim Harbaugh made his bones turning Stanford […]

As you’ve probably heard by now, on Thursday morning, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers shocked the football world and tabbed former Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano as their next head coach. After whiffing on Chip Kelly and turning sour on Mike Sherman (like every Texas A&M fan over the last six months, actually), Schiano is apparently […]

If you follow recruiting, you know that elite college football coaches will do just about anything to land a coveted recruit. They’ll camp outside the player’s home, try to get friendly with their girlfriends, you name it, a coach has tried it. But trying to woo a recruit under the watchful eye of the big […]

Since beginning his head coaching career, Rich Rodriguez has always been known to prefer speed over size. Guys like Pat White, Steve Slaton and Denard Robinson have played and thrived in Rich Rod’s spread option scheme. Now the head coach at Arizona, Rodriguez is looking for the next guy to bring speed to the offense […]

No matter how you feel about the current scandal at Penn State and the role that Joe Paterno may have played in it, there’s no doubt that in and around Happy Valley, the coach is still considered a legend. The man who won more games than any coach in college football history will always be […]

As we pay our respects to Joe Paterno we take this moment to look back on the storied football career of a man who loved, and perhaps needed, the game more than anything else in life. 10. It Begins With a Win Joe Paterno officially started his head coaching career in 1966 when Penn State […]

With National Signing Day quickly approaching, CBR will be giving you a daily roundup of the key developments on the national recruiting scene up until the ink is dry on all those letters of intent. *Daily DGB Update Why not kick things off with the country’s consensus No. 1 recruit, wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham? H/T […]

Like the rest of the college football world, the staff at Crystal Ball Run was shocked and saddened by the stunning passing of legendary Penn State coach Joe Paterno this weekend. The winningest coach in college football history succumbed to lung cancer at the age of 85, and is survived his wife Sue and five […]