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Pac Ten Football Preview '07: Top Five Players

Coming up with a list of the best players in the Pac Ten conference is no easy task. It would be very easy just to go down the roster of the University of Southern California and pick at random and you'd probably come up with five players that are arguably among the best at their position. We tried to resist the urge...but...

Memo to NFL Teams: Avoid the Wolverines, Hokies and Tedford QB's

So sayeth this guy.An analysis of the NFL performance of three particular groups of college players suggests these groups are vastly overrated in the NFL draft and unlikely to succeed in the NFL. Those groups are Michigan skill position players, Virginia Tech defenders and Jeff Tedford coached quarterbacks.The draft is...

07 Issues: The Need for Speed

Few things awe people more than the act of speed. I sit here writing this while the Daytona 500 plays out on my television screen, cars ripping across asphalt at nearly 200 miles an hour. The main event at the Olympic games is the 100 meter dash. In college football, our fastest players have quite often been amongst the...

Impact National Recruits Part II

In Part One I named five college football recruits who will make an "impact" in 2007 and beyond. What follows are the top five impact recruits.Please keep in mind the word impact can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. My rubric is slanted towards guys who people will be talking about early in their careers and not...

Jeff Tedford Re-Ups With Cal to Chants of "Four More Years"

Cal football's scheming and stoic emperor has played a hand, agreeing to a contract extension to be with the Bears until 2013. Nick Saban, Todd Graham and many before them have taught us how meaningless these deals are. But you know what? The ties that bind may be weak but the principle speaks volumes: Tedford's happy...