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Class of 2014 quarterback Jalan McClendon, who had offers from notable ACC programs such as Florida State, Miami (FL) and North Carolina, committed to North Carolina State on Wednesday night. The 6-4, 195-pound pocket passer from West Mecklenburg High School (Charlotte, N.C.), who was in Raleigh over the weekend, began to ascend up the recruiting [...]
Arkansas fans are quickly learning what Big Ten followers have known for years: People love to hate Bret Bielema. Opposing fans in the B1G thought Bielema was classless for running up the score on lesser opponents, arrogant for constantly tooting his own horn and a whiner when things didn’t go his way. I’m not saying [...]
As a signee for a major Division I football program, Jay Harris was no slouch on the field. A standout wide receiver for Exton (Pa.) Downington East High, Harris was expected to contribute for the Michigan State Spartans in some capacity as a freshman. Now he won’t even be on the team, because he decided [...]
The Big Ten released the 2014 conference schedule on Thursday, giving fans a first look at the expanded 14-team membership with Maryland and Rutgers. 2014 will also be the first season of the new East and West divisions, ending the brief-but-memorable Legends and Leaders Era.
An actual network asking folks to pay extra on their cable bills to watch ACC sports events has been all the rage as the conference remakes itself. “It’s going to happen,” gushed one source within the conference this week at the ACC spring meetings. The statement was made more out of anticipation than any finding [...]
Notre Dame defensive tackle Louis Nix does not appreciate Brady Hoke’s comments about Notre Dame “chickening out” of its series with Michigan. Hoke made the comment while speaking to a group of people in Grand Rapids, Mich., over the weekend when he began talking about Michigan’s rivals. His comments were in response to Notre Dame [...]
In 1969, President Nixon was the decider of the national championship.
The man who started and finished the most chaotic reorganization in the history of major college sports lounged for just a moment in a squishy chair on Tuesday. But for his sport coat, John Swofford looked every bit like most of the vacationers who frequent this secluded beachside resort. Even though he’s working this week, [...]
If you’re a regular at recruiting websites, a few trends have become apparent in recent years. There’s been a sudden surplus of 6’5”, 250-pound 17-year-olds capable of running a 4.5 in the 40-yard dash. The athleticism—especially near the pinnacle of these rankings—is consistently astounding but almost assumed at this point. Physical freaks are no longer [...]
In just a space of a few years, Tim Tebow has gone from college football god to NFL unemployment. But now there is another college football god on the scene and his name is Johnny Manziel. He plays quarterback for Texas A&M, and he won the Heisman Trophy for being college football’s best player. Could [...]
With no draft and the closest thing to a salary cap an 85-scholarship limit, there can only be so much parity in college football. Hence the class system that has ruled the sport for much of its history. For decades, nobody gave Oregon football much thought. The Ducks coasted along, in and out of obscurity, [...]
Brady Hoke wants you to know there’s a coward in the room. A belly-aching, rivalry-breaking chicken. While that plays well on the Michigan booster circuit, it doesn’t address what college football has become: he with the best (see: easiest) schedule, wins. So, yeah, Notre Dame has decided to walk away from the Michigan rivalry after [...]
What, exactly, is the head coaching forecast in Austin? Fair for the next four months, with a cold front forming if Texas has another ho-hum season. Head coach Mack Brown’s contract with the University of Texas runs through 2020. Brown’s salary is currently $5.3 million, with $100,000 incremental raises every year. That means in 2020, [...]
The argument can be made: The ACC has never been healthier. Don’t snicker, smile or dismiss. The ACC’s power brokers certainly aren’t at the conference’s spring meetings. “[The ACC's] success going to be realized in the coming years,” Miami AD Blake James said. Not exactly propaganda, as Bob Stoops would put it, but there is [...]
As a high school senior from Woodbury, Long Island, some 30 miles east of New York City, Daniel Machover’s top choice for a college might strike some as curious: the University of Alabama.
Having competed in the Pac-12 South for two seasons, Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham knows what he’s up against. His Utes have lost once or twice to every team in the division, creating an impression of depth and balance. Yet when asked recently if a genuine flagship program exists in the South, Whittingham hardly hesitated [...]
Forgive a segment of LSU’s fan base for its reaction Monday afternoon upon hearing running back Jeremy Hill was handcuffed with a curfew as an extra condition of probation by a state district judge after his involvement in an off-campus bar fight in Tigerland. You would have assumed it vaguely resembled a teenager learning he [...]
Michigan received its ninth commitment in the Class of 2014 when in-state defensive end Lawrence Marshall gave a verbal pledge to head coach Brady Hoke and his staff. The 6-4, 230-pound product from Southfield High School (Southfield, MI) is a very good athlete with a nice blend of power and speed off of the edge. [...]
Penn State picked up its eighth verbal commitment to the freshman Class of 2014 on Friday when Marcus Allen, a safety from Wise High School in Upper Marlboro, Md., accepted the Nittany Lions’ scholarship offer, several recruiting websites reported. With Allen’s commitment, the Nittany Lions are now more than halfway to their 2014 scholarship limit [...]
Two Auburn commitments walked into Walls of Salvation church in Prichard to support Justin Thornton, as the Vigor defensive end was set to announce his own decision on Sunday morning. About a half-hour later, three Auburn commitments walked out. With his Vigor teammate, Deshaun Davis, and St. Paul’s linebacker Tre Williams looking on, Thornton placed [...]
Could the future of college football consist of major programs playing nobody but major programs? It’s an idea that Alabama coach Nick Saban seems to be behind given his answer to a question about the Big Ten, saying it’s no longer going to schedule FCS opponents. Saban not only likes the idea, but he’d take [...]
The announcements from Oklahoma State came 378 days apart. On April 26, 2012: Wes Lunt Named Starting Quarterback. On Thursday: QB Wes Lunt to Transfer from Oklahoma State. After an up-and-down experience at OSU, Lunt is leaving Stillwater and hasn’t announced his next destination.
Despite some extremely poor showings on the field for Big Ten football in recent memory, the league has plenty of reasons to believe that it’s positioned to get things turned back around soon. Watch out SEC.
These should be heady times for the Boise State football program. Its most recent conference shopping is over and it fits comfortably in the new-look Mountain West. Its games are back on ESPN. A beautiful football complex is rising near Bronco Stadium. A four-team playoff system is in place starting in 2014, offering the Broncos [...]
When Alabama head coach Nick Saban speaks, college football listens. The seventh-year head coach of the Crimson Tide has been outspoken on issues of player stipends (via NOLA.com) and the nine-game conference schedule (via ESPN.com) in the past. While speaking at a Crimson Caravan stop in Fort Payne, Ala. on Thursday, Saban touched on the [...]