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Chad Kelly has fightin’ words for Clemson backup QB Cole Stoudt
Quarterback recruit Chad Kelly, nephew of former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly, wants to make sure everyone knows - especially backup quarterback Cole Stoudt - that he's not coming to Clemson this fall to sit on the bench.
Kelly, a four-star dual-threat from St. Joseph's in Buffalo, N.Y., has been committed to Clemson since last June and is visiting campus this weekend...
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18 days ago
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Headlinin’: Draftniks take on the Ryan Tannehill Rorschach test
Making the morning rounds.
• Hey, you're the experts. The most divisive player in this year's NFL Draft? It may be Texas A&M quarterback Ryan Tannehill, a converted wide receiver who could conceivably be one of the first ten players off the board in April, according to draft guru Gil Brandt, or could fall out of the first round altogether. Either way, it's safe...
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18 days ago
12 for ’12: Mizzou, A&M are the same fish in a new pond
Early narratives for the coming year.
• Thesis. After 16 years as respectable, middle-class members of the Big 12, Missouri and Texas A&M;s defection to the SEC will prove to be a lateral move.
• Point. Given some of the projections of doom for the Tigers and Aggies in their new league, you'd think they'd given up a chance to burn path of destruction through the old...
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19 days ago
You, too, can ‘spend eternity near Bear Bryant’
On Tuesday, Penn State faithful were up in arms after some "fans" decided to make a profit on Joe Paterno's memorial service by selling the free tickets they received from the athletic department on eBay.
As despicable as that was, one Alabama "fan" has taken profiting on late great coaches to a new level.
This said fan took a classified ad out in the Birmingham...
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19 days ago
Mark Richt looks to a higher power to help land top recruit
Mark Richt is praying for his next commitment — literally.
On Wednesday, Richt is attending Baptist church in Clyattville, Ga., with recruit Josh Harvey-Clemons and his family. Harvey-Clemons, a five-star, 6-foot-5, 200-pound linebacker from Lowndes High School, has Georgia in a three-way tie with Florida and Florida State and will make his final decision on National Signing Day...
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19 days ago
Georgia recruiting falls victim to Georgia immigration policy
Almost from the moment it was enacted in October 2010, the University System of Georgia's policy for admitting illegal immigrants have been a magnet for criticism, from students, faculty and outside groups alike who have opposed the restrictions in a kind of proxy war in the broader fight over immigration policy across the country. Now, though, opponents may have stumbled into...
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19 days ago
Headlinin’: LSU ditched BCS plan for ‘stuff that we never did all year’
Making the morning rounds.
• Well, sure, it's easy to say "Get the ball to our best players" now. Dominant as Alabama's defense was on the other side, it was painfully obvious to everyone watching the BCS Championship Game that something was a little… off with LSU's offense, which gained 91 total yards, didn't cross midfield until the midway point of...
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19 days ago
Petition started to add ‘Paterno Field’ to Beaver Stadium
Is the field at Penn State's Beaver Stadium headed for a name change?
That's what several people are hoping by signing a petition to have the field named for late famous coach Joe Paterno, who passed away from lung cancer Sunday.
The petition, which was started by Blake Tobias at Change.org, has nearly 9,000 signatures in less than a day of existence. The petition is calling...
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20 days ago
Thousands show for first official Joe Paterno goodbye
Thousands waited up to three hours Tuesday to offer one final goodbye to former Penn State coach Joe Paterno. His closed casket was put on display in the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center on the Penn State campus and mourners were allowed to walk by it and offer their condolences and say prayers for the Penn State legend, who died of lung cancer Sunday at the age of 85.
Several former...
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20 days ago
Trey Griffey, son of baseball great, picks Arizona
Rich Rodriguez picked up what could be his most impressive commitment Monday evening when wide receiver Trey Griffey, son of baseball great Ken Griffey Jr., made a verbal pledge to Arizona.
"My parents said, 'It's up to you, you got to do what you want to do ... what you feel is right,' " Griffey told the Orlando Sentinel. "I'm going to the University...
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20 days ago
Headlinin’: Navy ships out for the Big East
Making the morning rounds.
• Anchors away. After a few months of hemming and hawing, Navy is set to announce its plans to join the Big East in 2015, ending 132 years of independence since the academy fielded its first football team in 1891. With its targeted westward expansion last December, the Big East now boasts 11 prospective members beyond the next two years, and will likely...
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20 days ago
Video: Joe Paterno remembered as the people’s coach
After Joe Paterno's passing, several coaches and athletes — both former and current — released statements regarding their thoughts about Paterno's passing.
While Paterno had a profound effect on those in college football, he also touched the lives of several students and fans who met him at everything from campus-run events to stopping him on the street. And Joe Pa was...
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21 days ago
Auburn’s offensive rehab begins with a blank slate
Alert readers may have noticed over the weekend that Auburn has a new offensive coordinator, Scot Loeffler, about whom there is little to say except this: He has a tough act to follow, in more ways than one.
On one hand, his predecessor, Gus Malzahn, was generally regarded as the most respected offensive guru in the SEC, and was by far the highest paid at $1.3 million per year after...
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21 days ago
Unwanted visitors expected at Joe Paterno’s funeral
Penn State will hold a public viewing for former coach Joe Paterno on Tuesday and Wednesday, and while thousands are expected to attend and pay their respects to State College's most respected citizen, a few in attendance will not be there to celebrate Joe Pa's life, but rather protest it.
The Westboro Baptist Church, a group of hatemongers that protest the funerals of military...
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21 days ago
Chip Kelly’s NFL exodus was ‘done,’ until it wasn’t
Just how close was Oregon's Chip Kelly from becoming the new head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sunday night? After confirming from a source in the athletic department that Kelly had accepted the job, the Eugene Register-Guard was forced to literally stop the presses when he changed his mind:
Another indication: By midnight Pacific time, Oregon was already lining up its...
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21 days ago
Joe Paterno remembered for what he did, not what he didn’t
As colleagues and friends looked back on the life of former Penn State coach Joe Paterno, they did so with fondness.
The events of the past two months that could have tarnished — and did in some eyes — Paterno's legacy, which included Paterno not going to authorities when he was told former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was sexually abusing a young boy in the Penn...
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21 days ago
Update: Chip Kelly ends his first NFL fling (for now)
Chip Kelly does everything else fast, so it probably shouldn't come as any surprise that it took him just a few hours to make up his mind on serious overtures from the NFL. But on the heels of late-breaking headlines Sunday night confirming his pending exit from Oregon, it turns out even college football's most notorious leadfoot is susceptible to a bout of cold feet:
University...
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21 days ago
Those Chip Kelly-to-Tampa Bay rumors are more than just rumors
Winter on the college football beat means a lot of dumb coaching rumors from dubious sources. So when a local television station in Portland, Ore., cited anonymous "sources" Sunday night who claimed that Oregon coach Chip Kelly was "in the process of finalizing a deal" to become the head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the collective brain of the college football...
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22 days ago
Yes, Jerry Sandusky had the guts to issue a statement on Joe Paterno’s death
All over the country, reporters are calling young coaches and old rivals alike today for polite reactions to the death of an icon in their profession, Joe Paterno. Most of their statements have been short, courteous and free of inappropriate exclamation points.
Then there's the one old coach who probably would have been better off keeping his mouth shut:
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP...
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22 days ago
RIP Joe Paterno
A little more than two months after being fired from the job he made his life, Joe Paterno is dead.
The family of the iconic coach, owner of more wins than any other coach in the history of college football, issued a statement confirming Paterno's death this morning, a little more than a week after he was admitted to a local hospital with complications from lung cancer. His family...
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22 days ago
‘Further health complications’ leave Joe Paterno hospitalized in serious condition
Joe Paterno is in "serious" condition, according to a statement released by a family spokesman to the Associated Press, just two months after being fired as Penn State's head coach and subsequently diagnosed with lung cancer. Multiple outlets in Pennsylvania have reported that Paterno is gravely ill and that his wife, Sue, has summoned family to the hospital for final...
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23 days ago
Recurring Offseason Themes: Turning back the SEC’s march to world domination
What you'll be reading for the next seven months. Previously: Portrait of the BCS in winter; Year of the Tiger, take two.
Longtime readers know I bristle at the (frequently self-proclaimed) assumption of SEC dominance in college football, though after six consecutive BCS championships, holding on to that skepticism usually leaves me feeling like Henry Fonda at the beginning...
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24 days ago
Mark Dantonio owns the stage, at a Michigan assistant’s expense
College coaches live by a simple code: Always Be Recruiting. Every day, everywhere you go. Dinner with the wife? Choose a restaurant where the busboy runs a 4.5 forty. Mission trip with the church? Audition a kicker or two from local soccer games while you're in-country. Stuck on a lengthy layover? Ask the flight attendant to buzz any fellow passengers who earned at least three...
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24 days ago
Recruits say the dumbest things: Blue-chip cornerback’s prospects derailed by vulgar tweets
Yes, it's that time of year again: Welcome to our annual reminder to young athletes that social media is… well, social. Which means what you write there is public. Which means anyone can read it. Which means, now that you're a notable figure in the marginal but obsessive subculture of college football recruiting, that a lot of people who are not your friends are going to...
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24 days ago
Headlinin’: Illinois trustees stage civil rights stand over Tim Beckman’s contract
Making the morning rounds.
• Nothing personal, coach. Two University of Illinois trustees voted against the appointment of new head coach Tim Beckman Thursday, not out of opposition to Beckman, but to protest the fact that the school has never hired a black head coach in football or men's basketball. "African-Americans predominate these two sports," said trustee Lawrence...
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24 days ago
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