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BCS Programs Making Coaching Moves While Boston College Stands Still
Brian: It has been a big, big year for the college football coaching carousel. To date, a total of 24 Division I-A programs will be breaking in new coaches in 2012, including 11 from BCS AQ conferences. Within the conference, North Carolina just hired Southern Miss's Larry Fedora to replace the...
Talking Points: Slaughtered by Association, Loopholing by Necessity
PIGS, HOGS, AND OVERSIGNING. Yeah, SEC coaches unanimously voted yesterday against changing the current cap on signing 28 players, but the SEC's presidents and chancellors wear suits more often and therefore have the final say on Friday and will get it wrong. Dooley is okay with closing some of...
The South Carolina Gamecocks and Oversigning, Continued: The Latest from the Wall Street Journal
We obviously broached the oversigning topic at the right time here at Garnet and Black Attack, because the issue came home to us as hotly as ever today in this WSJ piece, which features provocative responses to the issues from Steve Spurrier, Bobby Petrino, and the crown prince of oversigning...
On the South Carolina Gamecocks, Lorenzo Mauldin, and Oversigning
The topic of oversigning has lately become a major talking point is discussions of college football. Oversigning, in short, occurs when a program signs more recruits than it has room for under the hard cap on 85 total scholarship players with the understanding that it will have to eliminate some...
Report: Les Miles No Longer Interested, Jim McElwain Interviews
NOLA.com is reporting that LSU head coach Les Miles is not interested in the University of Colorado job. Whether or not he was ever seriously considering coming to Boulder could be up for debate but the fact that it has taken this long for him to come out and say he wasn't leaving probably means he...
Kentucky Football: Will the 'Cats Take Advantage of a Favorable 2010 Schedule?
I'm not sure one should use the adjective favorable to describe any SEC football schedule, in any year, but the 2010 Kentucky pigskin slate is as close as it gets. With the always brutal SEC East experiencing a marginal downturn in experienced talent, resulting in no one team other than Florida...
Why It Is More Important for the Florida Gators to Get Worse Than for the Georgia Bulldogs to Get Better
Last Wednesday, Braves & Birds made some interesting observations about the Mark Richt era, one of which was this: Richt benefited from a weak SEC. . . . Richt's heyday corresponds with the conference's weakest period. Steve Spurrier had been replaced by Ron Zook, Phil Fulmer and Lou Holtz were...
SEC Football Coaches as Figures from Romantic Literature and Philosophy
With hoops and spring practice now over, I'm not going to have a whole lot to report on until it's time for summer previews. Until then, I thought I would bring a little culture to the philistine wilderness of SB Nation. Or maybe just embarrassment to myself. At any rate, without further...
Tuesday Morning Gamecocks News Link Dump
Gamecocks Football Not the Steve Spurrier of Your Childhood. Year 2 over at Team Speed Kills talks about how he truly realized when Steve Spurrier, formerly a trend setter that always did things his way, chose to implement the Wildcat and thus follow Houston Nutt. Year 2 brings up some good...
CRN To Visit U.S. Troops
From the official site: UCLA head football coach Rick Neuheisel is one of six current or former college head coaches who will travel to the Middle East to visit U.S. troops this spring on the second annual Under Armour Coaches Tour. The tour, which will meet and greet American military...
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