Out of Bounds Show PodcastMcCarron vs. Sims may not leave that type of impact. But the decision will go a long way toward determining if Alabama, sooner rather than later returns, to places like Orlando — hey, it beats Shreveport — or BCS bowl destinations. In hindsight, it’s amazing to consider how smooth the most important position on the…
Schefter, a Michigan alum, added this: “Again, this is the buzz around the league. This is what smart people think is going to happen. That’s the sense of people that I know, trust and respect — that Harbaugh will not go to the Niners, that he will go to Michigan. And it will be up…
Ken Gordon of the COLUMBUS DISPATCH reported yesterday that the same Delany who had been highly critical of the the NCAA for not “standing up” in the Cam Newton case “lobbied the NCAA to reinstate Ohio State players for the Sugar Bowl” after it was determined in early December that five Buckeye players had broken…
Broken down on a per-student basis, the Irish spend the most, the database says. Their trip to the Sun Bowl is coming at a price of $3,531 for each of Notre Dame’s 8,351 undergraduates — an overall budget of $29.4 million — while TCU spends $2,822 per student to run its Rose Bowl-bound football program. For all…
“He was a Michigan kind of guy, really,” Izzo told the Lansing State Journal. “I mean, we laugh, I was a Yooper, well he was a hillbilly. I mean he’s from West Virginia, I’m from Iron Mountain, what’s the difference? Read more of “Nick Saban: ‘A hillbilly’?” on Freep.com 12.31.10
Forcier told the Free Press Monday that he has struggled academically — part of the reason he missed summer workouts — and needed to pass 14 credits this semester to remain eligible. (Academic advisers gave him 16 credits as a buffer.) Semester grades were expected to be released around now. Michigan will not discuss the reasons…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee dropped North Carolina from its schedule for the next two years. Good call. The Volunteers don’t want to see the Tar Heels again after Thursday’s wild Music City Bowl. North Carolina won 30-27 in overtime after a controversial and confusing finish to regulation which saw the Tar Heels’ Casey Barth kick…
There will be dissenters, too, as there are every time such a coach’s contract is announced. Indeed, not two minutes after Thursday’s news appeared on our website, a reader commented: “2.65 million to coach football! Priorities out the window in this state! With the state of our school system, this is a complete joke.” Read…
If you need one more reason to despise the college football bowl system — as if depriving fans of a real playoff to determine a true national champion isn’t enough — check out the salaries of bowl CEOs. While universities and athletic departments across the country have had to slash budgets — even entire sports…
There’s Big Pharma, Big Agra, Big Oil — and then there’s Big College Football. Forget aluminum bleachers, homemade jerseys and dinky marching bands. According to 2010Department of Education data (PDF), the old pigskin toss-n-kick brings in the serious bucks at some universities. At the University of Texas, total football revenue in 2009-2010 was upwards of…
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