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On Steve Spurrier’s staff, fat, sloppy, bachelor smokers need not apply
So, you want to be an assistant football coach? Well, Steve Spurrier has laid out specific criteria to be a member of his staff and if you're sporting a nicotine patch or recently applied to be on the...
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Today’s reason Todd Graham left Pitt: He was trying to be a good father
Former Pittsburgh coach Todd Graham didn't exactly endear himself to the university or city when he abruptly left for the Arizona State job and decided to tell his players of his departure via text...
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Recurring Offseason Themes: Year of the Tiger, take two
What you'll be reading for the next seven months. Previously: Portrait of the BCS in winter. BCS flop notwithstanding, LSU just finished arguably the greatest season in school history, and certainly...
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Dorial Green-Beckham, meet Missouri’s best airborne recruiting gimmick
Recruiting season is in the home stretch, which means it's time for desperate coaches to break out the big guns in pursuit of the handful of sought-after prospects still sporting an "undecided" next...
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Headlinin’: Neither torn ACL nor meniscus kept Josh Chapman from Alabama’s...
Making the morning rounds. • Well, "debilitating knee injury" is all in the mind. Alabama defensive lineman Josh Chapman started seven of the Crimson Tide's last eight games in 2011 on a torn ACL and...
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Michigan’s AD still hates the idea of a playoff
Count Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon among those who are against a playoff in major college football. In an interview with Wolverine Nation, Brandon said that no version of a playoff would be...
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Blindsided? Penn State trustees ‘barely remembered’ spring briefing on Sandusky.
For the rest of America, the Jerry Sandusky child sex scandal erupted suddenly last November, when the Pennsylvania Attorney General dropped the indictment that would would quickly engulf Penn State,...
View ArticleVideo: Wisconsin fans have a new rap, and it’s actually pretty good
You know it's the offseason when the rap videos start to surface, and we here at the Doc usually like to point out the ridiculous ones. This is not one of those posts. Thanks to Young Zigg and Young...
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Early Exits: This year’s most baffling draft jumpers
Wednesday was the drop-dead date for underclassmen declaring for the NFL Draft, and they're coming out this year in record numbers: Altogether, the league has approved 66 names on the board with at...
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Kansas has dismissed Brock Berglund, but refuses to let him go
When Brock Berglund found out via Twitter that Kansas had dismissed him, he wasn't bitter. Instead, he says, he was thrilled that his long battle with the Kansas athletic department was over and he...
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Headlinin’: Illinois trustees stage civil rights stand over Tim Beckman’s...
Making the morning rounds. • Nothing personal, coach. Two University of Illinois trustees voted against the appointment of new head coach Tim Beckman Thursday, not out of opposition to Beckman, but to...
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Recruits say the dumbest things: Yuri Wright’s prospects derailed by vulgar...
Yes, it's that time of year again: Welcome to our annual reminder to young athletes that social media is… well, social. Which means what you write there is public. Which means anyone can read it....
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Mark Dantonio owns the stage, at a Michigan assistant’s expense
College coaches live by a simple code: Always Be Recruiting. Every day, everywhere you go. Dinner with the wife? Choose a restaurant where the busboy runs a 4.5 forty. Mission trip with the church?...
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Recurring Offseason Themes: Turning back the SEC’s march to world domination
What you'll be reading for the next seven months. Previously: Portrait of the BCS in winter; Year of the Tiger, take two. Longtime readers know I bristle at the (frequently self-proclaimed) assumption...
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‘Further health complications’ leave Joe Paterno hospitalized in serious...
Joe Paterno is in "serious" condition, according to a statement released by a family spokesman to the Associated Press, just two months after being fired as Penn State's head coach and subsequently...
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RIP Joe Paterno
A little more than two months after being fired from the job he made his life, Joe Paterno is dead. The family of the iconic coach, owner of more wins than any other coach in the history of college...
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Yes, Jerry Sandusky had the guts to issue a statement on Joe Paterno’s death
All over the country, reporters are calling young coaches and old rivals alike today for polite reactions to the death of an icon in their profession, Joe Paterno. Most of their statements have been...
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Those Chip Kelly-to-Tampa Bay rumors are more than just rumors
Winter on the college football beat means a lot of dumb coaching rumors from dubious sources. So when a local television station in Portland, Ore., cited anonymous "sources" Sunday night who claimed...
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Update: Chip Kelly ends his first NFL fling (for now)
Chip Kelly does everything else fast, so it probably shouldn't come as any surprise that it took him just a few hours to make up his mind on serious overtures from the NFL. But on the heels of...
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Joe Paterno remembered for what he did, not what he didn’t
As colleagues and friends looked back on the life of former Penn State coach Joe Paterno, they did so with fondness. The events of the past two months that could have tarnished — and did in some eyes...
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