Scandalous Behavior: Does Everybody Cheat in College Football?
Published on: 20th April, 2010
Goldman Sachs, Tim Floyd, Ben Johnson, Mark McGwire, Enron. Jayson Blair, Marion Jones, Bernie Madoff, Bill Belichick. And now Rich Rodriguez? Cheating is as much a part of our lives as scotch tape and ATM’s. In a world of soundbites and gotcha-journalism, where philosophies are written in Tweet, and self-interest is a dominant social ...Magnolias in Bloom: Five Reasons To Know College Football in Mississippi in 2010
Published on: 18th April, 2010
Expectations are fickle things. By nature, they provide limits to our discussions, but do not add to them. Expectations do not fill the box; they just determine its size. Heading into the 2010 college football season, the box labeled “Mississippi” may be as big as it has ever been. Each of the three FBS ...Give and Let Give: Curbing the Rise Of ACL Injuries in College Football
Published on: 5th April, 2010
When the NFL’s Injury and Safety Panel released a report last month citing an 88 percent higher frequency of ACL injuries for players on modern synthetic surfaces—like FieldTurf—even casual football fans took the news with little surprise. In the short time that teams have been playing and practicing on surfaces like ...2010 SEC Cornerback Preview: Top 5 Returning, Top 5 New-To-Watch
Published on: 29th March, 2010
SEC Defenses have held the bragging post the last few seasons, producing a number of high draft picks—14 first rounders on that side of the ball since 2006—and leading the charge to four straight national titles. While most of those picks lineup in the front seven, cornerbacks are well represented. As spread-variant ...Ole Miss Football 4×4: Four Easy, Four Hard Questions of Spring Practce
Published on: 29th March, 2010
What a difference a year makes, huh? An article of this type last season would have been hard-pressed to find eight questions in total when looking at the Ole Miss Football team as it headed into Spring Practice. Those—we now know—were the Salad Days, when optimism and anticipation failed to foretell that ...Three Things Other Conferences Can Do To Counter SEC Football’s Supremacy
Published on: 23rd March, 2010
We know. You know, I know, we all know that the debate for the best college football conference in the country begins with second place. There are fans from conferences other than the SEC that construct faux arguments, misapply statistics, or simply deny, deny, deny—but honestly, they know it, too. Three teams from ...SEC Defenses: Best in the Country?
Published on: 15th March, 2010
Those who toll on such things point to the muddying meaning of superlatives as an example foretelling the death of the English language. Good, Better, Best has evolved into Cool, Primo, and Shiznit just to name a few, and all can mean the same thing. Influenced by the modern age of marketing, ...SEC Expansion Talk: Why No Love For TCU?
Published on: 12th March, 2010
Just when we thought this year’s time between the end of recruiting and the start of spring practice would be spent with the usual—articles on every class not in Rivals Top 25 being underrated; on every team’s returning starters being underrated; and on every team’s NFL Draft prospects being underrated—the ...2010 SEC Football Preview: Is Arkansas Being Set Up?
Published on: 9th March, 2010
Having witnessed the preseason hyperbole of last season’s Ole Miss Football Team—and its backwash—I admit sensitivity to the subject. Only in a world set off-kilter by promiscuous access and bully pulpit analysis could consecutive nine-win seasons—for a program that had not done so in my lifetime—be skewered as FAIL. Granted, the 2009 ...Dexter McCluster at the 2010 NFL Combine: Did His 40 Time Hurt His Draft Stock?
Published on: 3rd March, 2010
Measurements have never favored Dexter McCluster. He has always been a little short and a little lean. What no one expected heading into the NFL Scouting Combine, though, was that the numbers would tell us he is also slower than we thought. McCluster’s 4.58 official time in the 40-yard dash was a ...Featured Sponsors
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