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Former Cal QB in Fightin' Shape
Some Cal Bear fans are still pissed about being left out of the 2005 Rose Bowl in favor of Texas, and the last Bear QB to lead Cal to the Rose Bowl apparently is ready to try and settle the score -- man-to-man. Joe Kapp was an All-American in 1958 for the Bears, and he is the only player to...
Penn State Won't Give Up on Pursuit of Chris Petersen
As the Penn State search for a replacement for Joe Paterno stretches into perhaps January, Idaho continues to be a stop on the quest. Reports continue to point to Boise State coach Chris Petersen as #1 on the Nittany Lion wish list. Supposedly a Penn State search committee member has made two trips...
Cable Providers Battle With Sports Channels: What It Means For The LHN
Earlier this week, an FCC judge ruled in favor of the Tennis Channel against Comcast, and yes dear Longhorn fans, you actually should care about the Tennis Channel and how this ruling could eventually relate to the Longhorn Network. Richard L. Sippel, the FCC's chief administrative law judge, ruled...
NCAA Hits Buckeyes With Bowl Ban
The Urban Meyer Era at Ohio State will have to wait for year 2 to participate in a bowl game. The NCAA slapped Ohio State with a one-year bowl ban and other penalties on Tuesday for a scandal that involved eight players taking a total of $14,000 in cash and tattoos in exchange for jerseys, rings...
DeLoss Dodds on Big 12 Stability and Missouri Leaving
DeLoss Dodds told CBSsports.com that the Big 12 "will make as much money as anyone," while also taking Missouri to task for jumping to the SEC. Dodds went on the record for CBS columnist Dennis Dodd, and he said he is confident that despite the league losing four teams in the last two years, the...
College Football News Roundup: 12/19/11
Here is a look at what's going on today in the world of College Football. Kevin Sumlin has his first recruit. He is Oklahoma freshman running back Brandon Williams. Williams, a five-star recruit coming out of Brookshire, was on Texas A&M's campus Saturday and said that he was transferring to A&M...
College Football News Roundup
Since Taylor TRoom has already locked down the term Potpourri for BC use, I'll just stick with roundup for a series of links on college football today. College football fans rejoice, your prayers have been answered. ESPN announced today that Craig James has asked for a leave of absence so he can...
Potpourri
Item 1 How bad was Texas recruiting on the offensive side of the ball from 2006 to 2009? This bad. In that period Texas recruited 40 offensive players, a number 50% larger than the defense had (27). Here is what an offense made up of the best 11 recruits from that era looks like: WR John...
jones Top Ten 2011 Season in Review
Welcome to the first annual Jones Top Ten season in review. What follows replaces the annual bowl preview, largely because the bowl season sucks. Outside of a handful of games, any given Saturday during the conference season is more compelling than the almost endless exhibition of 7-5 versus 6-6...
Coaching Carousel: Fedora, Sumlin, Tressel More
According to several sources, Southern Miss. coach Larry Fedora, who has said in the past that Texas A&M was his "Dream Job" could accept the North Carolina job by the end of the day. Fedora attended A&M Consolidated HS and has been an assistant at both Baylor and Oklahoma State. He has been the...
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