Big East In Trouble To Keep It A Conference

They are once again talking about expansions in the college football world. Lets just say its not looking good for the Big East conference considering that the Big Ten conference is trying to get Rutgers and Pitt to join their elite group of teams. While it still stays the same for Notre Dame that they wont join a conference mainly because of there deal with NBC to have their games televised every week. Twitter has been keeping up with the whole expansion talk and has been catching other conferences eyes as well such as the South Eastern Conference (aka SEC). Everybody wants to expand their conference one way or the other, but at this rate the Big East wont even have a conference which leaves the other six teams still there scratching their heads. They would either have to leave the conference and branch off to another one, or bring in less qualified schools to join, but would still make it a legitimate conference with hopefully around 8-9 teams. Its a very touchy subject with coaches and remains a distraction to the players going into the 2010 season. They need to resolve it as soon as they can so that there wont be anymore complications with the expansion or talk of an expansion, make it happen or put it to rest.

Pete Carroll Hinting Picks On Twitter

Former USC football coach Pete Carroll, is now the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks and has been making a buzz around the twitter world. Since the draft finally went underway yesterday, Pete Carroll decided to make it interesting by posting up favorite songs of his on Twitter possibly hinting who he would pick in the draft. For instance, he Tweeted the song California love by Tupac, possibly hinting that he would pick someone that is from that area or went to a California school. Another example was him putting a Taylor Swift song up, hinting he would pick Taylor Mays. The final song he put up was jump around by house of pain, which could of meant picking up Jimmy Clausen since house of pain is an irish band and Jimmy Clausen played for Notre Dame.

It also could mean that he is actually going to "jump a round" in the draft. None of these were true

and he was only having fun with it. The Twitter world was going insane because of what he was trying to hint. Everybody was trying to figure out what he was going to do with his picks, I liked how he joked around with it though because everyone is so into Twitter and lives and dies by it.

People want to always have an inside scoop on what a coach will pick in the draft, but Pete Carroll is too smart of a coach to do something dumb like that, he simply likes to have fun, always has, even when he was at USC.

I see more and more coaches getting involved with Twitter tho and I think thats pretty cool since most of the are against it.

Good for you Pete! Keep the fans entertained and guessing with your Tweets!

NFL Draft Is Upon Us

All the work outs and interviews with teams are coming to an end. It's finally draft week, by this time next week the first pick of the 2010 NFL draft will be picked and the 2010 NFL season can finally go underway. A lot of the players are very excited to see where they will land and what teams they will go to. The energy and hard work these players put into is unexplainable. This is the hardest job interview ever, not only is it physical but mental as well. A team has to make sure that the millions of dollars they will give these 23-22 year olds will be worth every penny and really has to evaluate these guys and make sure they're ready.

No Eye Black Messages, Taunting, or Wedge blocking

For the people who don't know what wedge blocking is, I'll enlighten you all. On a kickoff return, you have to try to block for the man receiving the ball, so coaches in the past would put offensive linemen and come together and "wedge" block for the returner. This rule is no longer in affect due to injury and severe concussions. I 100% agree with this rule because I know what its like to have a concussion and its no walk in the park. Those are full grown men running full speed at each other, probably the most dangerous part of football as far as getting hurt. Its a good rule and should have been enforced a long time ago, okay now thats out of the way, heres my real beef. No eye black messages and no taunting? Why?!? What is the big deal? The reason these players are freaks of nature is because the have huge chips on their shoulders and wants everyone to know that they are the best and nobody will stop them. I mean I know thats what I would want if I were a football coach. Classy guy, respectful, hard worker, and just a nasty, cocky football player who knows he's the best, because he'll play like the best. There were never curses or profanities on the eye black, if anything it was area codes, bible scriptures or some saying someone told them many years ago that is significant to them. Its an ego booster, so why not have your stud football player not play to his potential because he cant have his favorite message on his eye paint? I played football and we're all head cases, we need to have any kind of edge that we can overcome the other opponent. This makes a player whole, and makes them feel invincible. Its like saying they cant get tattoos anymore, it supports individuality and makes it less stressful on Saturday. When you see yourself in the mirror and see what you have on your eye paint, you don't say, time to play football, you say, time to have some fun. This doesn't hurt anybody or effect any team. More and more rules are popping up for college football and more is being taken away from these players, let them have what they want and just let these head cases play awesome football.

Tim Tebow named to be on the cover of NCAA 2011

Tim Tebow has been very busy this year with losing his first game in over 2 years, debating wether or not he should play quarterback or running back, getting ready for the draft and to completely alter his throwing motion. This is a lot for a 22 year old athlete to be dealing with, but an upside is that he was just named to be the cover boy of the popular NCAA football video game for 2011. In 2007 he was the first sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy which launched his career to record breaking seasons along with a total of 2 National Championships in a storybook career at Flordia. He deserves to be on the cover of NCAA 2011 because of his athletic ability and hard work. EA Sports has to pick which football player is the most worthy of being on the next years cover going by how well they did the year prior. Tim Tebow could have been in the argument to be on the cover for the past 3 years due to his success on the field. Unfortunately, for Tim, they cant pay him when he was in school to be on a cover of a video game. He is one of the best college football players the game has ever seen and we're finally rewarding him by putting him on the cover of a video game. We hope that this wont jinx his NFL career, but right now I'm sure he is honored to be on the cover and receive a nice check from EA Sports.

Mike Leach's Return to football

Mike Leach, former head football coach at Texas Tech, was fired back in December for allegedly mistreated a player that was receiving treatment for a concussion. He has once again gained our attention in the college football world stating that he expects to come back to coaching in the near future. This is what's going to happen in my opinion if he goes back to coaching, they will embrace him and forget about the previous ordeal and maybe a year or two years down the road will find himself in similar trouble at his new school. Things like this cant be avoided when you turn into the bad guy. Things are bound to come out of the woodwork and nobody's going to be able to respect someone like him. Things that are supposed to be left in the locker room will leak out into the media which will end up getting him in trouble again. This will also most likely happen to a player that might not get the best treatment on the team or get the most playing time due to "politics" in football. They will do anything they can to be able to get their coach in trouble just because their talent doesn't exceeds anybody else's. This is unfortunate for Leach because he probably is a great coach, but with this incident he might not be able to say what he wants to say or be who he wants to be because it might come back and bite him where it hurts. I wish the best of luck for him, but things can get ugly out there for him.

Tim Tebow to the Draft

Florida quarterback Tim Tebow was told to change his release when throwing the football in order to make it to the next level and play quarterback. Listen, he did great at Florida, I don't see why he wont do good in the pros. Not to mention he has changed his release in only 5 weeks of working on it. If you give him 5 weeks to totally change his throwing release, think about what you can do with him over a 2 year span on a professional team. Everyone can just relax about how he's not fit for the league because he clearly has the drive and mental toughness to make changes in something he's been doing his whole life. He is fit for the league, he will get drafted, and he will play Qb one day and be successful.

Michigan Hosts Night Game in 2011

The University of Michigan will host its first night game against Notre Dame in 2011. This will be Michigan's first time having a night game at Ann Arbor which will bring a different kind of atmosphere to the stadium, which is under renovation at the moment. Michigan has a lot to be excited about for the next two years in this recent announcement. Die hard fans will most likely have tickets for that game before this 2010 season is even over!

To be honest, I never knew that this would be the first night game at Michigan. But then again, come to think of it, I've never watched a home michigan game at night. This may come to a surprise for a lot of fans such as myself, like why they never had a night game before? They're one of the most storied college football teams ever. It's pretty amazing that a storied program like Michigan is still able to make history for its program which will bring more fans and money to the school.

Combine

This weekend was the 1st days of the combine for the NFL teams to see the college players do their best to attract these coaches with their athleticism and smarts of the game. The first day was the offensive linemen and tight ends which had them doing the 40 yard dash, long jump, vertical jump and different position drills to evaluate the players and see if it will help them to get recognized. This is only the beginning to their road to fame and fortune to becoming an NFL star. They have all the times and scores posted on ESPN and Twitter in this article. This is a fun time for people to watch and see these athletes run around and strut their stuff in front of these coaches and general managers. It takes us all back when we played sports at one time or another.

UCF football player on American Idol

This isn't exactly relevant to current college football news, but just enough to talk about it. Michael Lynche a former University of Central Florida football player from 2001-2002 was a very positive attribution to the team. However he had to stop playing and take care of his mother who was ill at the time after the 2002 season. The reason I wanted to talk about this is because Michael Lynche has made it to the top 24 singers in American Idol, the fact that an ex football player is good enough for American Idol is something special in itself. When you think of big bulky football players, you don't think that they would have much of a voice. Michael Lynche has clearly broken that barrier by making it this far in American Idol which is something worth talking about. American Idol is one of the most talked about subjects on Twitter so i would find it ironic that both college football and American Idol has found themselves talked about in the same sentence.

32 team conference

There are 119 teams in division 1 football and are all split up into different conferences regarding their geographic location. The Bleacher Report discussed a hypothetical situation for the NCAA to think about, which was to have 32 of the best teams in D1 to only play. This would cause an uproar across the nation and possibly the world because of the popularity in college football. It also makes it hard to want to follow a team you never liked before. Of course this is all hypothetical, but it definitely leaves room for conversation and discussion among twitter users. The slide show that explained and showed what teams would be in that 32 team conference made sense but to leave out 87 teams on the table like that would make it impossible for students to want to go to those schools that don't have a football team.

BCS tryin for the playoffs.

The Bowl Championship Series is trying to get the playoffs again, which would mean that instead of the bowls at the end of the season there would be brackets like there is in basketball or division 1AA football. If this is true and actually stands, it takes away that college football stands for. College football stands for something more than just an ethical way of playing sports, its different and makes it more entertaining for the true football fan. If this stands it will be a terrible way to end a season. Ultimately, not very many things would change, except for four teams having to play an extra game or two, a whole lot of coaches making less money, and a lot of fans having to face the facts that their programs aren't as good as they thought they were. We need to keep things the way they are. This has been an on going debate for years and with facebook and twitter being a huge social media connection to the world, espn has done what they need to do to post this on their twitter page so fans like me can see what it is they are thinking about doing.

Myron Rolle's path to the draft

Myron Rolle went to Florida State University and was a star football player and played all four years. Florida State isn't a school that is known for its academic prestige, but for Myron's academic genius he single handedly brought up Florida States credibility by becoming the first athlete from Florida State to be a Rhodes Scholar and have the opportunity to study at Oxford University for a year. he is now able to enter the NFL draft after his year of leave, and will be a high draft pick because of his ability to play football. ESPN has been covering him ever since he was in high school and college. The senior bowl was an important try out for him to showcase his skills on the field. he is so dynamic that you can see any clip of him on youtube and will always be a legend at Florida State.

National Signing Day

Yesterday was the last day for colleges all over the country to get their recruits to sign to go to their school, aka national signing day. this is an exciting day for college and university coaches because this is the day that they finally find out if their hard work of recruiting all year long will finally pay off or not. recruiting is a long process for college coaches that try to get the best of the bets high school athletes to come to their university. this process has to be done very carefully in order to grab this certain recruit and have them interested in your school. the coaches have to watch a lot of video tape on the kids that are good enough and interested in that school. critiquing these athletes isn't as easy as one would think. there is a lot that you have to look for in a certain athlete. such as speed, agility, strength and overall football skills. once coaches become interested in these athletes they prepare visits for this recruit would go to the school to see what it has to offer. once they get beyond that stage they then schedule a date to go to that recruits house and try to wow them one more time before the recruit start making serious decisions about what school they want to go to. national signing day is a big day for college sports because we as fans get to see at first hand what kind of athlete this school is going to get and see what kind of investment the school is making on this recruit. for me i find it interesting because they have a show on it so i can see which kids they really drool over and see what they have to say about why they have made the selection that they have made. it was always a position i wanted to be in when i was younger, to be able to go on big time recruiting visits and be a big time recruit in the country. so much goes into national signing day and they always do a great job on covering the day and the most important stories. Some of the recruiters sometimes Tweet about their school status and where they might end up. it would be hard to find those tweets because there are so many recruits out there that put up posts about where they might end up. ESPN has covered athletes and their tweeting on the show. it would be called twitter tuesday but that mostly was covered during football season. ESPN likes to keep up with the technology and see what other athletes say. because it is so popular, it can get some of these athletes in trouble with what they say on their pages, thats why some coaches don't let the athletes even have a twitter account because anybody can see what yours saying.

Senior Bowl

This is the most important time of the year for NFL teams. It is when they have to figure out what players they want to draft for the new year. This all starts with the senior bowl that was held over the weekend in Mobile Alabama. The senior bowl is when the best of the best seniors from all over the country are on either the north or the south team, depending on where they geographical region of the school they went to is. They spend about a week practicing and preparing for the game and meeting up with different professional teams to see if they are good for that team. The senior bowl has come along way because now the players have to see this as a job interview and not just an all star game where they can relax and have fun. It has to be taken seriously at all times because you never know who is watching you play or watching how hard you work during practice which is where the coaches make most of their assessments about that athlete. However, it is making college football players become more competitive at the college level so that they could play in the senior bowl and will give them the best opportunity to move on to the next level which is the NFL. College teams like to market their players as much as they can so that they can go back to their high school recruits and say this player made it to the NFL, you can too. Its a trickle effect that goes from the NFL to college football to high school football. They all connect to each other in some way shape or form. This is why college football is so great for this country and the NFL.

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