The Mountain West Conference is pushing for an automatic annual entry into the Bowl Championship Series’ postseason lineup, USA Today reported on its Web site Monday night. The newspaper said that presidents and chancellors of the league’s nine schools, along with commissioner Craig Thompson, will press for a meeting with BCS coordinator John Swofford, to [...]
Posted on January 27th, 2009 by admin
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Purdue head football coach Danny Hope tonight announced the hiring of Cornell Jackson as the Boilermakers running backs coach. He replaces Joel Thomas, who left to become running backs coach at Washington. Jackson, who has 11 years of experience coaching running backs, comes to Purdue from Kansas State, where he was the linebackers coach in [...]
Posted on January 26th, 2009 by admin
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New San Diego State football coach Brady Hoke is the schools seventh head coach hired since Claude Gilbert, Don Coryells hand-picked successor, was fired in 1980. Johnny Moore, one of Gilberts former players that was a senior safety on the 1980 team that finished 4-8, wrote me a letter to express his gratitude for the [...]
Posted on January 26th, 2009 by admin
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Houston guard Aubrey Coleman issued an apology Sunday after stepping on the face of Arizona player Chase Budinger during a game the previous day. Coleman, a junior and the team’s second-leading scorer, was ejected after stepping on Budinger’s face following a charge call with 9:51 left in the second half. Arizona rallied for a 96-90 [...]
Posted on January 26th, 2009 by admin
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At Morgantown, W Va. No. 4 PITTSBURGH 79, WEST VIRGINIA 67 PITTSBURGH (18-1) Biggs 1-3 2-2 4, Young 9-14 4-4 22, Blair 6-12 4-8 16, Fields 4-7 5-5 13, Dixon 4-8 0-0 11, G.Brown 2-5 0-1 4, Gibbs 1-2 0-0 3, Tiesi 0-0 0-0 0, Wanamaker 1-1 0-0 2, Frye 0-1 0-0 0, Robinson 2-2 [...]
Posted on January 26th, 2009 by admin
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(12) LOUISVILLE 67, (8) SYRACUSE 57 SYRACUSE, New York Earl Clark and Louisville continued their recent hot stretch with an unprecedented win in the Carrier Dome. Clark scored five pivotal late points and finished with 16, leading 12th-ranked Louisville to a 67-57 victory over No. 8 Syracuse. It was the seventh consecutive win for the [...]
Posted on January 26th, 2009 by admin
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Ole Miss leading receiver Mike Wallace had a 39-yard scoring catch in the Senior Bowl while teammate Peria Jerry recovered a fumble for a score to help pace the South squad to a 35-18 win over the North in the Senior Bowl on Saturday night. Wallace and Jerry were joined by left tackle Michael Oher [...]
Posted on January 25th, 2009 by admin
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A cast of Purdue and Big Ten football luminaries were among those to honor retired coach Joe Tiller Saturday night. In front of a sold-out crowd of about 450 at the University Inn in West Lafayette, numerous former Boilermaker players returned to campus for the Roast and Toast of their former coach. There was much [...]
Posted on January 25th, 2009 by admin
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Gary Tranquill, a former head coach at Navy, was named Boston Colleges offensive coordinator Saturday. Tranquill replaces Steve Logan, who resigned on January 16 after two years on the Eagles staff. Navys head coach from 1982-86, Tranquill has served under some of the top coaches in football, including Bill Belichick, Nick Saban, Frank Beamer, George [...]
Posted on January 25th, 2009 by admin
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Tennessee will pay more than $5,3 million to its football coaches in 2009, including $2 million for head coach Lane Kiffin $1,2 million for defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin. The previous staff under Phillip Fulmer was set to make a combined $4.7 million in 2009. Recruiting coordinator and defensive line coach Ed Orgeron has the next [...]
Posted on January 23rd, 2009 by admin
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