by Travis Normand
While looking at different schedules for the 2013 season, I couldn’t help but notice that Oregon’s is (at least on paper) really “manageable.” Yes, I am using the word manageable instead of joke.
by Travis Normand
by Travis Normand
Selena Roberts has broken a story on her site at Roopstigo.com, and if true (and I am assuming it is or she wouldn’t have reported it), it would be the next big college football scandal to break in what appears to be an ongoing epidemic.
Over the past couple of seasons we have seen major scandals dominate the news at schools like Ohio State, Penn State, USC, Miami, and Oregon. Now, the next story has been brought to our attention — at Auburn.
You can read the original report, written by Roberts, HERE at her site. You can also read the ESPN.com report (with video) HERE.
by Travis Normand
It may only be March, but some programs are already starting up their marketing efforts! I received the following from UCLA the other day via email. I have always found it odd that programs don’t email more stuff like this out during the off-season. You would think that they would.
While I do my best to keep up with every program, receiving stuff like this via email makes it a lot easier.
For more info on UCLA Football, please visit: UCLABruins.com or follow @UCLAFootball on Twitter.com.
by Travis Normand
Texas Monthly tries it’s hand at April Fools’.
EXCLUSIVE: Texas, Texas A&M to Resume Football Rivalry in 2015
by Jason Cohen
April 1, 2013
by Travis Normand
I have never claimed to be more than I actually am. I am a blogger. I am a blogger that focuses primarily on college football, but that is it. I am not a reporter, and calling myself a “writer” is really a stretch.
However, maybe I should have gone into covering college sports as a career? I mean, I am not very good at it, but apparently you don’t have to be. In fact, if you work at the Orlando Sentinel, they will call you a College Insider. One would think they would have to know a lot of information about a certain topic before they were given the title of “insider.” However, the following article by Matt Murschel shows that that is simply not the case.
[Emphasis added]
Johnny Football shows maybe Heisman shouldn’t go to freshmen after all
Matt Murschel
College Insider
6:58 p.m. EDT, March 31, 2013
OrlandoSentinel.comThe Heisman Trophy honors some of the best young men that college football has to offer.
Men whose actions on and off the field exemplified integrity, diligence, hard work and perseverance.
Men whose painted portraits have hung in the hallowed halls for close to a century and represent what is supposed to be right about college football. Johnny Manziel‘s portrait hangs there as well, but lately it appears more like it was taken with Instagram.
by Travis Normand
Jack Pardee, one of Bear Bryant’s “Junction Boys” at Texas A&M, died Monday, April 1, 2013.
For more on Jack Pardee, see this article at the WashingtonPost.com and/or this article at the Houston Chronicle (Chron.com).
Here is a link to a Q&A with Pardee from around the time The Junction Boys movie was released (2002).
The following is Pardee’s bio from AggieLettermen.org:
Jack Pardee joined the exclusive “1,000 Yard Club” after accumulating a total of 1,017 career rushing yards. A tri-captain of the 1956 SWC championship team, Pardee was one of the legendary Junction Boys of 1954. Among his other athletic accolades can be counted:
— All American, 1956
— All-SWC Fullback, 1955, 1956
— Houston Post MVP Award, 1956
— Academic All-American, 1956
— NCAA Post Graduate Scholarship, 1956
— 2nd Round Draft Choice, LA Rams, 1957
— Played in the 1963 Pro Bowl.
— National Football Foundation Hall of Fame, 1986From AggieLettermen.org
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