Not that anyone cares, but here is the link to a little article about ESPN exiting recruiting by letting go of editorial staff etc.
ESPN abandons recruiting website strategy again | September | 2013
Every Monday Bill King spends his 3rd hour on his radio show taking calls for nominations for "Balls of Steel" in which people want to "rep" someone for doing something great. You can also nominate someone for "Suckiest Balls of Steel" usually awarded to someone who's done something pretty...
We got a Manti for Heisman thread, but what about BK for Coach of the Year.
Do you think BK gets COY? Who's the biggest threat?
Bill King has been pimping BK hard for Coach of the Year the last couple of days. He considers it a "no-brainer". For him all the other candidates would be...
Beano Cook, a longtime staple of the Pittsburgh sports scene and an ESPN college football studio commentator since 1986, has died. He was 81.
Beano Cook, ESPN commentator and the 'cardinal of college football', dies - ESPN
Copy of an email I received today from Steiner Sports with some excellent prices. Cheapest that I've ever seen them. Granted the regular prices are inflated. But these sales prices are excellent. It does say limit one per item and it's only good today or until they run out.
Edit: I forgot...
Bill King will be doing his broadcast on the ND campus from 12 pm to 3 pm EDT today broadcasting on Sirius/XM channel 91. It should be 3 hours filled with interviews and talk entirely about ND.
This will then be rebroadcast on Wednesday morning during Bill's normal time slot of 6 am to 9 am...
Interesting survey results of 80 recruits at the Rivals100 Challenge. See link below for full article.
Rivals.com Football Recruiting - Rivals100 Five-Star Challenge player survey
Some of the questions asked:
1. Of all the head coaches you've talked to, who was the most intimidating?
2. Of...
I think I've underestimated her impact in recruiting. We've got less then 12 months to maximize her recruiting skills.
Notre Dame football recruiting: Diggins has impact on the gridiron, too - southbendtribune.com
Stumbled across a web site that had film breakdowns of our current 2013 commits. The website is XOFan. The analysis is done by Matt Alkire who worked for Scout for a number of years. Here is his bio for anyone who cares
Links to the film breakdowns are below. I created a separate thread...
Stumbled upon what appears to be a series of Where are they now articles on a site called No Coast Bias. Some pretty interesting stuff in the articles.
Rick Mirer
Oscar McBride
Marc Edwards
Funny clip of old man Uncle Drew (Kyrie Erving) schooling the young guns on the Bball court
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I'm a little teary eyed as I write this, but it looks like this is the year we finally win it all and I have video proof.
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How does this not surprise me. Evidently this video is starting to go viral since Bill King commented about it on his show this morning.
After pondering wether I should've posted the link to the actual video, I went ahead and decided to remove it.
If you want to watch the video, you can...
Below are some of the recruits listing the ranking in Aug and now in Nov.
Yahoo Sports: Rivals.com Ranking - Rivals.com Rivals250 2012
Recruit Aug Rank Nov Rank
Agholor 11 12
Thompson 12 7
Kiel...
So who do you think is most likely to end up as the head coach at PSU?
Will they even consider anyone on the current staff such as Larry Johnson?
Would Al Golden consider coming back? He says he's happy at Miami, but I'm sure he wasn't very happy at being blindsided about the NCAA...