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The Coach Who Knew Too Little

I am a Notre Dame fan but I have always respected the incredible job that Pete Carroll and his staff did at USC.  As Notre Dame fans know, turning a bad team into a championship contender is a big task.  Now according to the NCAA, one of the reasons that Pete Carroll had some much [...]

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 [...]

Pete Carroll to the Seattle Seahawks

I really hate this.  I am not a USC fan but one has to respect the work that Pete Carroll did at the University of Southern California, unless of course all of those stories about nagging NCAA rule violations are true.  Then it bugs me that Pete Carroll who was in charge of the program [...]

I wear my sunglasses at night…

From what I was reading, former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach was upset that injured player Adam James came to practice wearing sunglasses as he was recovering from a concussion and headaches. A source close to the family said James sustained a concussion on Dec. 16, was examined on Dec. 17 and told not to [...]

Don’t shed a tear for hard working coaches

Mike Florio has a great article in the Sporting News on the “sacrifice” coaches make to succeed. In the wake of Urban Meyer’s decision to step down as coach of the Florida Gators — and before he decided less than 24 hours later not to step down after all — the media erupted with lamentations [...]

Mike Leach Fired at Texas Tech

Mike Leach has long been a favorite coach of mine but this year was a tough one for him.  First of all he banned Twitter after one of his players called him out for being late to a team meeting on it and then it is alleged that he confined a player to a small, [...]

A good choice

It was good to see Urban Meyer leave Florida yesterday.   I like Meyer and while it is sad that he has to leave Florida under these circumstances, I am glad for him and his family that he made this decision before the stress of the job caused him to die of a heart attack.  As [...]

The end of the Charlie Weis era

Well Charlie Weis is out at Notre Dame.  Notre Dame had an incredible aerial attack but couldn’t run the ball out on close games and had a horrific defense for most of Weis’ tenure.  In the end Weis didn’t beat better teams than Notre Dame and often were beat by inferior teams. Despite that, I [...]

Stay Classy Notre Dame

Not all of the details are out but punching Jimmy Clausen in the face after a family dinner isn’t really the way to convince their star quarterback to come back another season. The group decided to leave after words were exchanged with others at the bar, the official said. As they were leaving, Clausen’s girlfriend [...]

Meccas of Football

I was watching the Red River Shootout game today (congrats to Texas for winning a great game) and I am always blown away by the sight of the Cotton Bowl. For me the Cotton Bowl just looks like how a football stadium should look.  I know L.A.’s Memorial Stadium is much maligned but I love [...]

Contextless Football Thoughts

Well the Denver Broncos are 5-0 after beating the New England Patriots in OT on Sunday.  You have no idea how much this messes with me.  Emotionally I was prepared for a 5-11 record and now they are 5-0.  I am not sure how to handle this.  Do I start to believe that Denver could [...]

I can’t find a good seat

While I love the idea of a bowl game at Yankee Stadium, can someone tell me where the good seats are.  I am serious.  This does not look like a good stadium to watch a football game in.

Contextless Football Thoughts

I was up at the lake this weekend and the little bit of football news I got was through Twitter.  It’s always nerve wracking to come home and wonder if your team or teams won. Okay, let’s just admit that Notre Dame will probably be 10-2 heading into a BCS bowl game and we still [...]

How bad does Ohio State feel right now?

So if I am an Ohio State fan, I got to be feeling like I have been punched in the gut right now.  Not only does USC beat us at home last week but then today they go and lose to a really mediocre University of Washington team.  Before today you could keep telling yourselves [...]