Out of Bounds Show PodcastTwelve years after the Green Bay Packers drafted left tackle Chad Clifton with the 44th overall pick, the Packers landed his heir apparent Thursday night with the 32nd and final selection of the first round. “I hope he’s as good as Chad Clifton in terms of pass setting and doing what we want him to…
SEC The SEC shows a really solid profile for recruiting rank versus draft picks produced rank. You can see in the right column that there are just a handful that are more than +/- 10 spots in ranking difference. With the national midpoint at a ranking of #33, most of the top SEC teams are…
It is never too early to take a peak at college football futures, and after taking a look at Big 12 Conference earlier, we now set out sights on the SEC for 2011. Now it is no big secret that the SEC has dominated on the college football odds, winning the national championship each of…
NEW YORK — There are times when you simply have to state the obvious. Today is one of those days. Example: There is an obvious reason why the Southeastern Conference has won five straight BCS national championships. The reason: The SEC produces a lot of really, really good players. The numbers do not lie. In…
That would be the easy way out. Make him stay. The most humbling punishment Ohio State’s president, E. Gordon Gee, and athletic director, Gene Smith, could impose on Tressel is making the tarnished coach preside over the mound of hypocrisy he has created in Columbus. In 10 seasons at Ohio State, Tressel, with the help…
The SEC shows a really solid profile for recruiting rank versus draft picks produced rank. You can see in the right column that there are just a handful that are more than +/- 10 spots in ranking difference. With the national midpoint at a ranking of #33, most of the top SEC teams are recruiting…
No team manipulates the NFL draft better than the Patriots. They usually wield so much power that coach Bill Belichick should sit on a throne, wearing a crown and holding a scepter. He controls not only New England’s destiny but that of so many other teams. Whether it’s due to a plethora of picks, a cunning ability…
This week, Rivals put together a list showing the total number of draft picks — as well as first-round picks — selected from each school and conference in the FBS between 2000 and 2010. You can find the total figures for that 11-season span right here. But we wanted to take things a step further…
Nine of the 11 members of the NCAA bowl licensing subcommittee, including Womack, attended the “Fiesta Frolic” in 2008, according to The Associated Press. That NCAA subcommittee, plus a Bowl Championship Series task force, are reviewing the Fiesta Bowl’s status. An internal Fiesta Bowl report showed the non-profit bowl provided about $45,000 in reimbursements to…
Eli Manning, the Giants’ quarterback, starred at Ole Miss, but he wasn’t drafted by New York. The Giants traded for Manning, who made it clear he didn’t want to play for the Chargers, who took him with the first pick in 2004. And there’s nothing unusual about the Rebels being represented on the G-Men: The…
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