For years, at least up until the past decade, the University of Notre Dame was a pillar of college football. It stood for winning, moral and ethical character. The school was what most football programs desired to be.
The era of Lou Holtz and Ara Parseghian were the epitome of how a program is to be run. When winning a game against Notre Dame when coached by that pair, your team had something to be proud of. It was an accomplishment that would carry throughout the year. Most of the time Notre Dame was in the midst of a championship run, and would only be beaten once or twice, if at all.
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Highest Paid Coach? No Joke!
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Could it be the marriage between the New Orleans Saints and quarterback Drew Brees is over? Probably not. But the battle scars might be something that will never be fixed.
Brees is upset at his naming by the team as Franchise player. This means he will be paid a one year salary of the average of the top three quarterbacks in the NFL. Brees wants a long term deal and has not made it a secret to anyone asking. Over the last two days, Brees has shown his displeasure.
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Brees Showing Frustrations over No Deal
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The Cleveland Browns may have jumped the gun on draft day, but you cannot argue with the fact they got the two players they most wanted in the draft.
That Thursday night before the first round of the NFL Draft the Browns traded several low round picks to move up one spot. That move was made to ensure Cleveland could select the player they wanted the most, Trent Richardson of Alabama. Later, the Browns selected with the 22nd pick in the first round, Brandon Weeden from Oklahoma State. Both players participated in last week’s rookie mini camp in Berea.
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Browns Draft Picks Show Promise
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Throughout the NCAA, players are hurting. Not only are they in agony, but also their extended families. Yet that information is ignored, even denied by the governing body of college athletics.
Every so often we catch a glimpse of a player whose family is so down, so destitute that they are begging for help. Families who are looking to get in from the cold, their electric turned back on, and their gas lit so they can be warm. Yet colleges, boosters or even some person looking to help cannot because it would be a violation of the rules the NCAA has instituted.
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Pryor Had Reasons for His Infractions
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Vince Young is back. No not with the Philadelphia Eagles. That experiment lasted but one season. No Young is in Buffalo where the former Heisman trophy winner out of Texas is now the new backup quarterback for the Bills.
This should be an interesting ride for Young. He is stepping into a situation where the Bills starter, Ryan Fitzpatrick, is an average quarterback at best. He had the Bills out to their best start in years last season, yet the team digressed and finished third in the AFC East.
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Bills Sign Young for Insurance
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In the American political climate today, we are expected to pick our fights with painstaking thought. Evidently that memo was lost on Nebraska assistant football coach Ron Brown.
Brown rejoined the Nebraska coaching staff in 2008 and enters his fifth season on Bo Pelini’s staff in 2012. Brown is responsible for the running backs on the Cornhusker staff. However avoiding hits must be something Brown isn’t teaching, because lately he has taken many.
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Nebraska Assistant Suspending Beliefs to Coach
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Amazingly enough, Notre Dame is getting another pass. Easily the most problem-laden College football school in the NCAA is engaged in another dilemma surrounding their quarterback Tommy Rees. However outside of South Bend, the story isn’t carrying.
Rees was arrested on four misdemeanor charges early Thursday after he tried to outrun police breaking up an off-campus party. Somehow Rees avoided a felony charge after Prosecutors reduced a felony battery charge. Rees and linebacker Carlo Calabrese were arrested after a confrontation with police who arrived at a “loud party” less than a mile from campus. Calabrese, 21, was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct, while Rees, 19, faces two misdemeanor counts of resisting law enforcement and one count each of battery and illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor.
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Rees True “Fighting” Irish
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Just like in the movies, the Western Athletic Conference appears as if it will ride into the sunset.
On May 2, Utah State and San Jose State announced they would be leaving the WAC for greener grass in the Mountain West Conference. Both universities will be replacing Boise State and San Diego State, who left the MWC for the Big East. USU and SJSU will be formally joining the MWC Friday and begin playing in the 2013-14 season.
For Utah State, this move brings the rekindling of previous rivalries with Colorado State and Wyoming, who were both previously in the WAC.
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WAC Gone Wack
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A BCS playoff system has haunted college football for quite some time. It’s been around like the ghosts you would see on reenactments on “Unsolved Mysteries” where an old barracks is just teeming with random spirits that are going about what they did before they passed into the afterlife. They never bother anybody, but they’re there and you know it.
Personally, I don’t believe in ghosts. (Now, I feel like Mr. Crabs telling an invisible SpongeBob and Patrick that “I don’t believe in no ghosts!”)
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BCS Playoffs? Now Way! I Don’t Believe In Ghosts!
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Today, May 2nd, Junior Seau was found dead in his home in Oceanside, CA. TMZ broke the story at 10 a.m. that Seau was found with a gunshot wound to his chest. Reports say that it was a suicide but police continue to investigate the cause of death. This is not the first time that Seau has possibly considered suicide. In 2010, he drove his car off a cliff but said he had just fallen asleep at the wheel. Whatever the cause of death, he will always be remembered as one of the greatest linebackers to play in the NFL.
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R.I.P. Junior Seau
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