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Mack Brown Risks Feeding The Monster
Memo to Mack Brown: Don’t Feed The Animals. The recruiting monster that has been created by the likes of Tom Lemming, rivals.com, scout.com, and various other college football recruiting sites has grown so enormous that I don’t see any way to tame it. Choosing not to feed it might be Mack Brown’s only chance at [...]
TweetCollege Football Recruiting: Ricky Seals-Jones Still Leaning Toward Texas Longhorns?
One of biggest stories in the college football recruiting world this week deals with the constantly evolving recruiting process deals with mega-recruit, Ricky Seals-Jones. Earlier in June, the dynamic first-tier wideout re-opened his recruitment after decommitting from the Texas Longhorns. At that time, Seals-Jones made it clear there was nothing negative which caused him to reconsider [...]
TweetTexas Tech Would Reportedly Rather Cancel Football Game Than Appear On Longhorn Network
Texas Tech played complacent with the Longhorn Network as Texas A&M and Missouri cursed it on their exit from the Big 12. But as ESPN begins flexing its broadcast muscles, perhaps in an effort to land the station greater distribution, the Red Raiders are living a Tier 3 television rights nightmare. Texas Tech‘s road game [...]
TweetBig 12 Football Preseason First, Second And Third Teams: Advising Athlon
Each summer, college football preview magazines appear on grocery store shelves and each year, I find myself less enthused. That’s not disappointment at the arrival of amateur pigskin, it’s because so much of the information therein those publications appears daily on the Internet. As the New Orleans Times-Picayune lessens printing to three days per week, [...]
TweetAround College Football: May 30th
In a move that publicizes the expected, the SEC and Big 12 plan to vote together on entrance requirements for the college football playoff. Battle lines indeed. What the SEC and Big 12 dream in an ideal world full of ESPN revenues and smoked brisket is that each might send two teams to the Final [...]
TweetThe Big XII Conference: To expand or not to expand?
For the last several weeks, there have been so many rumors surrounding the possibility of the Big XII potentially adding teams that it is difficult to determine what is fact and what is fiction. Though the conference appeared on the verge of an early death this time last year with the departures and imminent departures [...]
TweetAround College Football: May 22nd
In an effort to generate interest, the Big East had thrown around an intriguing idea for their looming conference championship. The notion of holding the game in New York City figured to either draw out a legion of fans in America’s entertainment capital or fail miserably in a place where they hold debates about banning [...]
TweetAdding post-season bowl game with SEC a brilliant move by Big XII
This time last season, college football fans and media were writing off the Big XII conference as all but dead and gone. In just two years, the conference lost four schools to other conferences; the Nebraska Cornhuskers ran off to the Big 10 and the Colorado Buffaloes, perhaps afraid of being left out, left for [...]
TweetTexas Longhorn Football Stars Arrested in Austin
Most college football fans just want to get through an off-season without hearing about players from their teams getting into trouble with the law. Unfortunately for The University of Texas, three of their star football players were arrested early Monday morning in an incident that should not have been a big deal, but for whatever [...]
TweetBig 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby Meets His Makers
New Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby answered the tough questions during his introductory press conference, like whether he was in the bag for Texas. As long as DeLoss Dodds is the athletic director in Austin and the Longhorns continue printing money, there’s always going to be whispers about who runs the show. All the former [...]
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