A season ago, Utah State football was one of the worst teams in the country when it came to turnover battles. This is not an exaggeration.At the end of the 2022 season, the Aggies ranked 120th out of 130 FBS teams in turnover differential at minus-9.USU was the worst team in the Mountain West Conference – speaking of turnovers – and forced just 11 interceptions, while giving up 21 picks and also losing six fumbles.This was a problem in almost every game of the 6-7 campaign.Throughout the ensuing offseason, head coach Blake Anderson emphasized the need for ball security, particularly…
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Cincinnati transfers Aziz Bandaogo and Jamille Reynolds had their waivers rejected by the NCAA last week, prompting the Bearcats to appeal in hopes of both being cleared to play when the college basketball season will begin in a few weeks.Bandaogo played two seasons at Akron before spending last season at Utah Valley, where the 7-footer from Senegal averaged 11.5 points and 10.4 rebounds. Reynolds spent his first two seasons with UCF, which, like the Bearcats, joined the Big 12 this season, before averaging 10.1 points in his lone season at Temple.The NCAA has strict guidelines when…
Another day, another development in James Madison University football try to play a game of boules: Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has hired a law firm to represent the school in a potential lawsuit.The law firm Andrew Kurth sent three pages later to the NCAA ahead of its decision Wednesday to deny James Madison’s postseason waiver request and is asking for a response by noon Friday.“We fully hope and expect that the various committees and the NCAA as a whole will do the right thing and allow JMU to participate in any bowl game that its performance warrants,” the letter…
NCAA Tournament NCAA Vice President of Men’s Basketball Championships Dan Gavitt Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY SportsLate last week, NCAA Senior Vice President of Basketball Dan Gavitt announced that the tournament expansion negotiations resumed. The committee is currently considering possible expansion, but Gavitt wanted everyone to know that nothing is imminent regarding expansion yet. The next time the NCAA Tournament committee meets will be in late October and new committee chairman Charles McClelland, who is the SWAC commissioner, will be tasked with reigniting that discussion.Why was there suddenly talk of a possible expansion of the NCAA tournament? I say don’t fix what…
There was a time in college football when it was not uncommon to see a coach attend a game involving a future opponent, take notes and gather information.”When I worked for Jimmy Johnson at Oklahoma State, when they played a game on Saturday, I was at the next (opponent). I was scouting the next game,” recalled Houston Nutt, the former coach of the Arkansas and Mississippi native who worked under Johnson with the Cowboys in the early 1980s. The NCAA banned in-person advanced screening in 1994, in part because not all schools could afford it. NOW Michigan is under investigation…
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With a punishment for Michigan football and Jim Harbaugh Seemingly looming amid sign-stealing allegations against the Wolverines, a hot topic in the college football world has now become a bipartisan political issue.Two days after Michigan football reportedly received notice of penalty of the Big Ten, two members of the Michigan House of Representatives – Phil Skaggs, D-East Grand Rapids, and Graham Filler, R-Clinton County – wrote a letter to conference commissioner Tony Petitti, pleading for an investigation before sanction the university. .MANDATORY READING:Jim Harbaugh has long irritated his coaching peers. Now they are coming after him.“It is absolutely vital that…
Charlie Baker, president of the NCAA unveiled a proposal Tuesday it could change the landscape of college sports.In a letter to Division I schools, Baker laid out the main principles – and reasoning for – a proposed governance change that would effectively allow big-budget athletic departments to pay athletes directly, allowing everyone to create an “enhanced education trust fund.” it could funnel money to athletes.The proposal would also allow those same schools, likely the upper echelon of the Football Bowl Subdivision, to split off and set their own rules regarding roster size, transfers and name, image and likeness ( NIL),…
Florida State was kicked out of the College Football Playoff and it triggered a wave of negative responses on the decision to include Alabama. But was the committee right to side with the Crimson Tide?Now that the semi-finals are set, the matchups appear to portend two potentially exciting clashes. Michigan will face Alabama at the Rose Bowl with the Wolverines trying to win their first playoff game Texas and Washington face off in the Sugar Bowl. Maybe it’s the the most unpredictable playoff semifinals during the 10 years of the four-team system. Who will advance to the national title game…
Florida offensive lineman Jalen Farmer entered the NCAA transfer portal. The former three-star spent two seasons on campus. The head coach Billy Napier once explained how Alabama kept Farmer from turning over. But now the offensive lineman will explore his options. As a member of the 2022 class, Farmer was a three-star recruit from Covington (Ga.) Eastside, according to the On3 industry ranking, a weighted average that uses the top four recruiting media companies. He was the state’s No. 64 overall prospect, the class’s No. 47 interior offensive lineman and the class’ No. 638 overall prospect. To keep up with…