DON BROWN AND THE SPREAD OPTION

Maryland defensive coordinator Don Brown is no stranger to the spread option, having faced it several times both as the head coach of Northeastern and at UMass as the defensive coordinator and head coach. His first meeting against Paul Johnson was in the 1998 I-AA championship game. UMass won, although with a 55-43 final score it’s [...]

BLOGGER OUTREACH: MARYLAND

Chris from TurtleDroppings.com asked if I would answer a few questions about the game. I’m nothing if not accomodating.

WHAT

Recruiting players from other colleges is against NCAA rules. But coaches have their ways of making their interest known. “Coaches had me on Facebook and what not,” said Tuani, who has 96 tackles — including 14.5 for a loss — five sacks and five forced fumbles in his career. Link Well now that the NCAA [...]

ON TO MARYLAND

The football team has wrapped up fall camp and has moved on to game preparation for Maryland, so it’s only natural that I should do the same. Today’s Maryland question: Should Navy and Maryland play every year? It seems like such a no-brainer for the Mids and the Terps to face off every year. The [...]

THE STATE OF SERVICE ACADEMY FOOTBALL: NAVY

We’ll begin our look at the state of the Navy football program by talking about… Air Force basketball?

THE STATE OF SERVICE ACADEMY FOOTBALL: AIR FORCE (REVISED)

TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE

There’s no way this is happening, is there? There can’t possibly be anything to this story, right? I have a very hard time believing that the official Colorado State football Twitter account would be the one to break a story like this, so I’m not setting off fireworks in the street just yet. But on the off [...]

ANALYZING THE HYPERBOLE

Troy Calhoun called this year’s Air Force schedule “the strongest a service academy has played in decades.” With Oklahoma and the Mountain West’s big three, there are definitely some strong teams on there. But the strongest schedule in decades? I don’t think so. I’m not even sure it’s the toughest Air Force schedule in decades, [...]

THE STATE OF SERVICE ACADEMY FOOTBALL: AIR FORCE

I said in my post on Army’s football program that even if the team isn’t as good as some people think they are, they finally have some stability and are moving in the right direction. What do I mean by instability? Over the past decade, Army has been in and out of Conference USA, had to scramble to [...]