Category Archives: College Football

New IU football coach Kevin Wilson addresses students for the first time

It was three months ago today when Indiana University introduced Kevin Wilson as its next football head coach. Coming from Oklahoma, Wilson had never previously been a collegiate head coach. Now after a quarter of a year into the job, he has his staff filled out, jobs assigned, players assessed and ready to head into spring football practice tomorrow.

Monday night’s even was held at …

IU, PU, BSU Look to Rebuild Through Recruiting

13-23 was the combined record of the three Division 1 public schools in the state of Indiana. 13-23 with no bowl appearances.  Purdue hasn’t bowled in 3 years, IU in 3, and BSU in 2 years.  So how are programs turned around? Recruiting of course.

First lets take a look at the Hoosiers.  IU rode 4 wins against non BCS conference teams, and a victory …

Indiana, Kevin Wilson introduce 21 member signing class

Wednesday was signing day throughout the country. First-year head coach Kevin Wilson had 21 players sign their National Letter of Intent to play football at Indiana University.

A third of his first Indiana signing class are from the state of Indiana, seven of the 21 players. Indiana added four defensive linemen, three linebackers, three cornerbacks and two safeties. IU also signed four offensive linemen, three …

Signing day is special day in an athletes life

Today is a meaningful day in the life of a high school athlete. College football players around the country will be signing a National Letter of Intent to continue playing football (or their respective sport) at the next level.

To see what the papers look like, click here, courtesy of CNBC’s Darren Rovell.

On this spring signing day, thousands of student-athletes around the country will …

So much for retirement – Urban Meyer joins ESPN

Well that didn’t take long. Urban Meyer stepped down December 8, 2010 as the head coach of Florida football after six seasons.

But now he is getting back into the profession from a different angle, a television analyst. Meyer will join ESPN as a college football game and studio analyst. He will make his debut Wednesday as a studio analyst during ESPNU’s coverage of football …

Brent Pease leaves IU, returns to Boise State as offensive coordinator

Coach Kevin Wilson will have to turn to plan B in his search for an offensive coordinator at Indiana University.

Today Boise State officially announced that Brent Pease will return to the Broncos after joining the Hoosiers coaching staff less than two weeks ago.

Pease did not sign legally binding agreement, so there are no issues with breach of contract. This all was made possible …

Digging into the Jim Harbaugh frenzy – Captain Comeback should ultimately stay at Stanford

The Jim Harbaugh hoopla has went on long enough. Like everyone else, I am ready for this commotion to conclude.

Captain comeback is clearly the hottest name in coaching both at the college and professional level. He is very charismatic and carries himself like a ‘real’ football coach; demanding, hard-nosed, and intense.

Thursday, junior quarterback Andrew Luck announced that he will return to Stanford for …

Andrew Luck staying in college isn’t admirable. It’s dumb.

Andrew Luck’s recent decision has me dumbfounded.  His choice to stay at Stanford next year has been called admirable, courageous, smart.  If Luck went to the NFL draft he would be the sure-fire first overall pick from the Carolina Panthers. They even said so.

There are so many things that could go wrong here.  The first being, he’s throwing away millions, even if he is …