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College Football Recruiting: 2012 Elite 11 QB Competition Coming Soon
In the new age of college football recruiting, organizations like Nike and the omni-present “mothership”, ESPN, have created special events to showcase the country’s top high school football talent under the glare of the camera and the prying eyes of recruiting nerds across the country. This time around, it’s the Elite 11 quarterback competition sponsored [...]
TweetAir Force Academy Football Suspends Five
Integrity. Service. Excellence. The three values of the United States Air Force. They come out easy for me because I spent over five years active duty and another in the reserves. Although I never spent one day as a cadet at the Air Force Academy, I didn’t have to to know that discipline is the [...]
TweetIMG College: Quiet College Football Devil
Welcome to Tin Foil Cap Corner, where today we’ll discuss incredibly coincidental events that may or may not be nominees for “World’s Greatest Conspiracy Theories Lifetime Achievement Award.” Today, we dig into this thesis. “ESPN, in conjunction with IMG, wanted superconferences, and has done everything possible to make them a reality.” Ready? Consider these cobbled-together [...]
TweetVirginia Tech Football: How Will Logan Thomas Fare in 2012?
Virginia Tech is coming off a very good season in which they had 11 wins. This came despite the fact that the defense dealt with a rash of injuries throughout the season. This often left the offense on its own. It was up to quarterback Logan Thomas and running back David Wilson to take care [...]
TweetColonie Central High School Football Looks to Rebound
“It’s getting better all the time” is what Beatles’ Paul McCartney called out in 1967. Only to have John Lennon respond with, “It couldn’t get much worse.” For the 2012 Colonie Central High School football team, no lyric in American pop music could be closer to the truth. The Raiders are coming off an abysmal [...]
TweetSEC 50 Players In 50 Days: Sean Porter
We roll on with our Rant Sports SEC 50 Players in 50 Days preview, as we are well into the first week of fall camp and teams will be in full pads starting this week. Today, we’ll jump back to the defensive side of the football and take a look at Texas A&M linebacker Sean [...]
TweetCalifornia Bears Football: Fall Camp Preview
Jeff Tedford faces an important season in 2012 with the California Bears. After years of success near the top of the Pac-12, the Bears have fallen on some tough times, finishing no better than fourth in the conference since 2007. With a new stadium in place on campus, the heat is on for the Bears [...]
Tweet2012 Big 12 Football Previews: Past, Present And Future Of The Baylor Bears
Past: Baylor won 10 games in 2011. There’s no need for elaborate commentary or waxing poetic on Art Briles‘ talent because six words do the trick. Robert Griffin III claimed the Heisman Trophy and jetted off to Washington as the second pick in last April’s NFL Draft. Wide receiver Kendall Wright found a home in [...]
TweetGary Patterson, TCU Horned Frogs Dropped Ball on Casey Pachall Punishment
In the past few months, the world of college football has changed, but TCU Horned Frogs Football coach Gary Patterson must not have gotten that memo. Penn State University was handed down unprecedented sanctions for the sins of its administrators and UCF was just slammed for its use of third-parties in recruiting. Mark Richt, Jimbo [...]
TweetColorado Buffaloes Football: Fall Camp Preview
In year one of the Jon Embree era the Colorado Buffaloes football program went through a culture change. A new fundamental base had to be established in order to wash off the remnants of the failed Dan Hawkins experiment. Embree set new expectations for how the Buffs should practice, how they should conduct themselves off [...]
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