This article originally appeared with The Red & Black on July 7, 2015 and can be found here.
The South Carolina Gamecocks entered the 2014 season as the favorites in the Southeastern Conference’s East division and left with six losses and a fifth-place finish. Fresh off the team’s worst season since 2009, head coach Steve Spurrier must prepare for another slate of tough games.
This column originally appeared with The Red & Black on July 7, 2015 and can be found here.
Presidential candidates have been ducking their brothers for years. Jimmy Carter had Billy, who spent his time promoting Billy Beer and urinating on airport runways. Bill Clinton had Roger, a musician and actor who the Secret Service nicknamed “Headache.” It just seems odd the brother in the midst of being stowed away for 2016 is a former two-term President.
This article appeared with the Red & Black on July 6, 2015 and can be found here.
It may be July, but it’s not too late for Georgia to add to its 2015 recruiting class.
Mirko Jurkovic Jr., a six-foot-five, 276-pound offensive offensive lineman, announced his commitment to Georgia via Twitter on July 6. Jurkovic had been committed to Ohio State since Dec. 4 and was part of the Buckeyes’ class that Rivals.com ranked ninth in the nation.
This article originally appeared with The Red & Black on July 3, 2015 and can also be found here.
Verbal agreements in the business world don’t guarantee much. They are worth even less in college football recruiting.
College coaches can extend written offers to high school players from Aug. 1 until the first Wednesday in February, aside from a month-long dead period in mid-December. One of the most useful tactics for recruits is verbally committing, which means the player pledges to attend a school. The problem is these commitments are non-binding until pen hits paper on National Signing Day, which leads to chaos when players back out.
This article was published with The Red & Black on July 1, 2015 and can be found here.
Rivalries make college football so much fun for fans. The problem in recent years is conference realignment and non-conference scheduling has ruined many good rivalries. Here’s a look at each Southeastern Conference school and a rivalry that should be renewed.
This column appeared with The Red & Black on June 27, 2015 and can be found here.
NBC’s “Seinfeld,” one of the most popular sitcoms in television history, heads to Hulu this week. While the video-on-demand site paid a pretty penny to make it happen, it will learn firsthand why it needed to start the insanity.
This article was originally published with the Red & Black on June 26, 2015 and can be found here.
Georgia redshirt freshman quarterback Jacob Park announced on June 10 his plans to transfer. While transferring is often treated with shock and surprise, past Bulldog quarterbacks can relate to Park’s decision.
This story originally appeared with The Red & Black on June 25, 2015 and can be found here.
Recruiting in college football is a nonstop endeavor that usually culminates with announcements on National Signing Day. If the quarterbacks in the class of 2016 have their say, the annual day of celebration for fans will be nothing but an afterthought next year.
This column was originally published with The Red & Black on June 17, 2015 and can be found here.
This week marks the five-year anniversary of one of the strangest times in the history of college football.
In a matter of days, Nebraska and Colorado bolted from the Big 12, Texas and Oklahoma flirted with other conferences and Utah moved up from the Mountain West to join the Pac-10. The strange summer of 2010 set off moves that are still happening, and at this point 34 Football Bowl Subdivision teams have new homes, and one conference — the Western Athletic Conference — no longer exists.
This column was originally published with The Red & Black on June 14, 2015 and can be found here.
Georgia Tech ruffled a few feathers around Athens this week when they revealed the rings that football players from the 2014 team would receive. The feature that fans found noteworthy was the emblem of the state of Georgia with the words “State Champs” nestled in the middle, a clear shot at Georgia and the Yellow Jackets’ 30-24 win over the Bulldogs last November.
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