After five years at Minnesota, Jerry Kill this morning announced that he was immediately stepping down as head football coach for health reasons. Kill, who had also served as head coach at Southern Illinois and Northern Illinois, took the Golden Gophers to three bowl games, including the 2015 […]
SEC football in the 1990’s and early 2000s was more UHF than HDTV. In those days, Jefferson Pilot and Texas Pete ruled the Saturday kickoffs and there was no SEC Nation hyping us up with Paul Finebaum and Kaylee Hartung. More importantly, the gap between the elite coaches […]
Dear Pat Haden, When you replaced Mike Garrett as athletic director at Southern Cal in 2010, it was lauded as a departure from the sometime abrasive Mike Garrett by national pundits. But as the saying goes, that was then, this is now. When you hired Steve Sarkasian, you […]
For as long as I could remember, the running joke in regards to HBCU football was “the teams suck but the bands don’t.” Much like what you saw in the movie “Drumline”, HBCUs take pride in their bands, especially at schools such as Tennessee State and Jackson State. […]
Around this time of year, college baseball teams are gearing up for fall practice to shake off the cobwebs from the offseason. However, in the case of Auburn baseball, the autumn is not only for the changing of the leaves, but a change in direction for their program […]
During the summer, Saints radio analyst, Jim Henderson stated that the Who Dat Nation was in for a reality check for the 2015 season. And while most Saint fans didn’t want to believe him, after the Saints’ loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sunday, Henderson is looking more […]
After 22 months, the Steve Patterson experiment came to a screeching halt as on Tuesday as the University of Texas fired the former Arizona State athletic director. Despite hiring the first two African American coaches in the history of the school, Patterson’s people skills (or lack thereof) doomed […]
Around this time four years ago, the University of Memphis was coming off a 47-3 loss to the Arkansas State Red Wolves, a team that was coached by a guy named Hugh Freeze. That September night, I was receiving calls from friends of mine, people that the week […]
Recap of Duke’s stomping of Tulane on Saturday.
Can you feel it Can you hear it It’s the spirit you’ve always known It’s the spirit of Louisiana That makes Louisiana home For many years, WWL-TV ran a memorable campaign titled the “Spirit of Louisiana”, which showed glimpses of Louisiana life through memorable TV ads. Whether it […]
The Armchair All-Americans 