This is probably my last post on Penn State and Joe Paterno for a while as he was fired last night by the Penn State Board of Trustees. Joe Paterno, a man who until last week could make a claim to being the greatest coaching institution in the history of college athletics, was terminated Wednesday [...]
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Joe Paterno about to ousted at Penn State
The writing is on the wall for Penn State’s Joe Paterno. Joe Paterno’s tenure as coach of the Penn State football team will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks, in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal that has implicated university officials, according to two people briefed on conversations among the university’s top officials. [...]
The legacy of Joe Paterno
I am a big Joe Paterno fan. I always have been but as Dan Wetzel writes, the allegations against the coaching legend are serious enough to forever taint his legacy. Pennsylvania law asks employees to pass the information up their chain of command, where it fell on Curley to tell authorities. However, Paterno is no [...]
Houston Nutt gone at Ole Miss
Paranoia and pressure in the SEC was too much for him At the end of the 2008 season, when Ole Miss reeled off consecutive wins over Arkansas, Auburn, Louisiana-Monroe, LSU, Mississippi State and Texas Tech, there weren’t many teams nationally better than the Rebels. That was inarguable. The pollsters agreed, ranking Ole Miss in the [...]
What a mess
The Mountain West and Conference USA are merging to form a really big mediocre conference. The Mountain West and Conference USA are planning to join forces to secure their future in the rapidly changing college football landscape. The two leagues expect to merge their football operations into one mega-conference that will probably have between 20 [...]
The shame that is the NCAA
Excellent article on the NCAA in The Atlantic “I’M NOT HIDING,” Sonny Vaccaro told a closed hearing at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., in 2001. “We want to put our materials on the bodies of your athletes, and the best way to do that is buy your school. Or buy your coach.” Vaccaro’s audience, [...]
The hypocrisy of the Terrelle Pryor decision
Some of you know I am a big fan of Yahoo! Sports’ Mike Silver. He has a great column on Terrelle Pryor’s entrance into the NFL Supplemental Draft and the hypocrisy that is shown by the NFL by punishing Pryor and letting coaches like Pete Carroll to move on from programs under suspension to the [...]
Dodge Charger anyone?
A former basketball player at THE Ohio State University has some questions over what he sees going on in the football program. I frequently crossed paths with a bunch of the football guys for a variety of reasons (stayed in the same dorm as some of them during my freshman year, went to same place [...]
Navy now has a winning streak against Notre Dame
This is getting out of hand. Navy knocked off Notre Dame again and this time the Midshipmen made it look easy. Ricky Dobbs scored three touchdowns and Alexander Teich ran for 210 yards to lead Navy to its third victory against the Fighting Irish in the last four seasons, a 35-17 rout on Saturday at [...]
USC
Dan Wetzel on the NCAA’s punishment of USC The Trojans will be docked 30 scholarships in football, 10 each year over a three-year period, the highest total in 15 years. The NCAA issued a two-year bowl ban, which is extra significant because it allows current juniors and seniors to transfer to another school without [...]
The hypocrisy of the 96 team NCAA basketball tournament
As Yahoo! Sports says Rather than lengthening the tournament a week and risk hurting TV ratings by having the Final Four go head-to-head against the Masters, the NCAA instead intends to cram an extra round of basketball into the usual three-week time span. Under that plan, 64 teams would play the round of 96 on [...]
