Talkin' College Football

 The maturation process for any young adult headed off to college at age 18 can be challenging. When you are a highly recruited football player entering a big-time program the elements that effect ones maturation are much different than your average student. When you are expected to play the most critical position on the field, [...]

QUOTE OF THE WEEK–Florida’s Urban Meyer when asked about his reaction to Gator wide receiver Chris Rainey’s media quote: “Inappropriate, wrong, not thought out, which he does quite often. I love Chris Rainey, but when I ask him a question I give him a whole day to think about it, and then write it down [...]

Former Oregon Duck quarterback Jeremiah Masoli, who was shown the door out of the program by Coach Chip Kelly after two arrests in earlier this year, has surfaced at Ole Miss. Masoli found a very uncommon rule that allows him to transfer AND be immediately eligible this season.  In almost all transfer situations where a [...]

Sporting News Today just ran a nice little Q & A with Florida State’s Heisman Trophy candidate Christian Ponder. One question that provided some insight as to how things are going within the Seminole program under new head Coach Jimbo Fisher was: “What’s the biggest difference in how Coach Fisher runs things and how Coach Bowden [...]

NCAA sanctions fallout continues to adversely affect USC. Now, the Trojan football program will not be eligible for the 2010 USA Today Coaches Poll, according to Grant Teaff, executive director of the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA). AFCA rules prohibit coaches from voting for programs serving major NCAA penalties and sanctions. Among other things, USC was [...]

Although the epicenter for this past Thursday’s earth-shattering event was among the athletic department offices on the USC campus in Los Angeles, the shock waves were felt around the country. After four years of investigation into alleged wrong-doing in the football program, as well as recently in the men’s basketball program, the NCAA delivered a [...]

The term “Boys of Summer” is most commonly associated with baseball. For many people it’s time for vacation, travel, fun in the sun, or maybe just relaxing at the beach or at the pool. But, when it comes to a period of time in their lives when they work harder than most human beings ever will, [...]

Michigan football coach Rich Rodriguez is known for being a good X & O man when it comes to offensive football. Evidently, his reputation and skills for being the CEO of a big-time football operation is not as strong. It appears Rodriguez is more concerned with just football, not the total well-being of his program. [...]

When Jimbo Fisher left LSU after the 2006 season he had to think that within in one year, maybe two, he’d be chief of Florida State’s football program succeeding the second-most all-time winning coach, Bobby Bowden.  But, we all know that the venerable Coach Bowden was not in a real hurry to ride of into [...]

Players at the University of South Florida have now had their first game, albeit just a spring game, under the watchful eye and guidance of someone besides its program’s founder—the recently departed Jim Leavitt. The Bulls now march to the beat of Coach Skip Holtz, recently the successful head coach of the East Carolina Pirate [...]