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R.I.P. College Football Media Guides

Allison Boyer — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:34:39 +0000

As colleges look for more and more ways to save money, it is becoming increasing apparent that printed media guides are dying a slow death. More and more colleges are deciding to discontinue them. Printing all of those guides gets really expensive.

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I’m totally on board with this decision. Not only will it save colleges money, but it will also cut down on paper usage, making it a green decision as well. Some of the colleges that will not be printing media guides anymore include:

Iowa State
Ohio State
Michigan
Wisconsin

Iowa and all of the Pac-10 schools are also considering the move.

Members of the media will still be able to print information from the schools’ website if they want a hard copy, so they aren’t eliminating guides altogether – just paper versions.

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R.I.P. College Football Media Guides

Four Coaches to Watch in 2008

Allison Boyer — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 06:48:15 +0000

Without a good coach, your football team is nothing.

In 2007, we saw some amazing coaching (and some amazingly bad coaching). While the entire coaching staff is important, it is ultimately the head coach that makes the calls on everything. Here’s who I think will be interesting to watching in 2008:

Charlie Weis, Notre Dame
After announcing earlier this year that he’d be giving up some of his power on the field to regroup a bit, it will be interesting to see the new head coach dynamic between Coach Weis, his staff, and his players. I think this move is, overall, a good one for the Fighting Irish.

Les Miles, LSU
Who won’t be watching Coach Miles in 2008? The SEC is always rough, and many have voiced opinions the LSU and Miles were overrated in 2007. Having another National Championship Season in 2008 would help to solidify Miles as a top coach in the BCS, not just someone lucky with a talented team.

Rich Rodriguez, Michigan
I’m interested to see the changes afoot at Michigan. I know a lot of people aren’t happy with Coach Rodriguez’s move to the Big Ten for West Virginia, but I’m trying to keep an open mind. He’s completely changing the way the offense works at Michigan (or so, I’m assuming he’ll be doing that), and a big change at one of their major schools could be exactly what the Big Ten needs to kick start their less-than-impressive records in recent years. Someone needs to put tOSU in its place!

Joe Paterno, Penn State
Will he retire? Or, perhaps the more appropriate question is this: Will he be forced to retire? All I know is that as much as I love JoePa, it is time to get Jay Paterno OUT of the system so PSU can actually have a good quarterback again. I’m assuming Coach Paterno wants to go out with a bang, so I think they’ll be playing their hearts out this year – it will be fun to watch him coach.

What coach are you excited to see in 2008?

Picture from WikiCommons.

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Four Coaches to Watch in 2008

Top Five Recruits for 2009

Allison Boyer — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:54:23 +0000

Everyone’s been talking about the class of 2008 lately (and with good reason), but on their shirt tails is the class of 2009 – and many recruiters have already started thinking about these talented junior players. I don’t want to get too deeply into it just yet, but Rivals.com recently updated their 2009 recruiting Top 100 list, so I wanted to post here the current top 5, and the schools they are considering:

1. Matt Barkley, Quarterback, committed to USC (we’ll see if that changes though!)

2. Jamarkus McFarland, Defensive Tackle

Florida
Nebraska
Notre Dame
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Texas
Texas A&M

3. Cierre Wood, Running Back

California
Florida
Ole Miss
Nebraska
North Carolina
Notre Dame
San Diego State
USC
Wake Forest

4. Russell Shepard, Athlete

Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
LSU
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Texas
Texas A & M
USC

5. Jacobbi McDaniel, Defensive Tackle

Alabama
Auburn
Clemson
Florida
Florida State
Georgia
Ole Miss
Tennessee

Yeah, I know that 2009 recruiting is a bit away…let’s get 2008 out of the way first, right? But it is fun to see where these kids are already considering. No surprise that Florida and Notre Dame make almost every list!

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Who Do You Think Will Fall?

Allison Boyer — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:30:16 +0000

OK, the games are starting. Here’s your BCS Top 10. Who do you think will fall with a loss today? I’ve marked my predictions below! Guess quickly!

1. Ohio State playing #25 Penn State at Penn State(I think they’ll win, but I hope they lose)
2. Boston College (already won)
3. LSU playing #24 Alabama at Alabama (I think this will be an easy LSU win)
4. Arizona State playing #21 California at home (I prediction an Arizona win, but a close game)
5. Oregon playing #12 USC at hom(I think Oregon will fall, but agiain, a close game)
6. Oklahoma off this week
7. West Virginia playing Rutgers at Rutgers (I think they’ll pull through, but I do think that Rutgers is a team that can’t be underestimated)
8. Virginia Tech (already lost)
9. Kansas playing Texas A&M at Texas A&M (I predict a good game and a Kansas win)
10. South Florida playing Connecticut at Connecticut (I think this game will give us a South Florida loss. UCon is pretty good. We’ll see.)

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USC takes it up the…well, you know

Allison Boyer — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:41:28 +0000

Stanford 24, USC 23.

You must be joking, right? Nope. USC just took it up the butt.

It what must have seemed like a bad dream to USC Coach Pete Carroll , the Stanford Cardinal rallied and to score 17 points in the fourth quarter, including the game-winning touchdown. USC QB John David Booty can actually be credited for that touchdown, having turned the ball over four times. I don’t totally blame Booty for the ass-raping, though. He was just the lube. The whole team bent over for this one, playing more like Notre Dame than a Bowl contender. The game was laughable with mistakes, and Stanford simply capitalized on those errors.

The Trojans have no hope of holding onto one of the top two spots this week. Ranked #2 going into this game, many questioned LSU’s positioning over them, voicing opinions that this week would show them back in the top dog spot. Oh, say it isn’t so…looks like Ohio State is going to move on up.

I guess this is a good “don’t count your chickens before they hatch” lesson. No one could have ever expected this upset! Last night, I compared South Florida’s near loss to Michigan’s loss in week one, but Stanford’s win blows that out of the water. Could we have a year where the top two teams both go into the bowl game with losses? It’s possible. College football this year is uber-screwy.

AP Photo/Matt Sayles

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USC takes it up the…well, you know