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David Shaw spoke on how his student-athletes will be prepared for success when the NIL laws go into affect The Stanford Cardinal student-athletes are better off than most when they leave the university because simply put: they have a Stanford education. It wouldn’t be a surprise, however, to hear that the Cardinal are actively preparing for the changes that are to come within collegiate athletics when the name, image and likeness bills are expected to pass. ...
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The Bruins currently have a top-25 class The UCLA Bruins class of 2022 is shaping up quite nicely and is currently ranked second in the Pac-12 by 247Sports. With seven committed players, we take a comprehensive look at those players who are set to join UCLA this circuit as the summer starts to heat up.
4-star TE Jack Pedersen IMG Academy, Bradenton, FL
At 6’4, 255 pounds, Pedersen plays for powerhouse IMG in south Florida. He ranks as the country’s fifth-bes...
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The former Auburn safety is set to join a relatively young secondary Chris Thompson Jr. has officially announced his transfer destination, pledging to YOUR USC Trojans late Thursday night. It’s not his first time out ‘west’ as he visited USC back during his high school recruitment days out of Duncanville, Texas.
Thompson played in six games a year ago as a true freshman for the Auburn Tigers , recording just eight tackles.
He was the country’s 199th overall ...
From Conquest Chronicles
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Bynum was the only Bear selected in the 2021 NFL Draft The 2021 NFL Draft didn’t hear quite as many California Golden Bears as any fan may have hoped, but that wasn’t that big of a surprise for any of those who watched the team the past few seasons. With the amount of talent they’ve produced into the league, mainly from the defensive side of the ball and in the secondary, it’s actually quite amazing they can keep producing top-notch players in such a short amou...
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Adebo landed with the New Orleans Saints in the third-round of the 2021 NFL Draft The Stanford Cardinal were represented very well in the 2021 NFL Draft with Walker Little hearing his name first. Former QB Davis Mills happened to go second after just one shortened year as the starter while 2018’s “lock for first-round pick” Paulson Adebo landed in the third round to the New Orleans Saints .
Adebo is absolutely as talented as the entire crop of cornerbac...
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Odighizuwa could absolutely see some serious time in 2021 The UCLA Bruins weren’t as prominent during last month’s 2021 NFL Draft as maybe they had been in previous years, but with Osa Odighizuwa’s selection to the Dallas Cowboys in the third round, Odighizuwa could be in line early to make an impact during his rookie season.
Odighizuwa was selected with the 75th pick overall, the 11th pick of the third round by Dallas. He was the first Bruin to be selec...
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It’s been awhile – what did I miss while I was gone? It’s been a good bit of time since I’ve been here — and since you’ve heard from me. After 88 ‘business days’ and what equated to just over four months, yours truly is back at it. And what better way to start than dropping all the latest info on your UCLA Bruins as it happened over the weekend.
It was a busy past few months for me as we had a baby, adjusted to life with two, bought and moved into a new house while the real estate marke...
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After a few-month hiatus, what’d I miss? First things first, it feels great to be back. After 88 business days and what equated to just over four full months away, yours truly is back on the grind. Our son is completely healthy and our daughter is coping with being a big sister in all the ways you’d expect while also being a tremendous help. My wife has been amazing through this journey.
And if you’d guess it, we choose the timeframe of having a newborn to also buy and move into a new house ...
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Darnold joins former college coach Matt Rhule in Carolina after spending three years with the New York Jets. The USC Trojans had one player selected in the first round of the 2021 NFL Draft . Offensive lineman Alijah Vera-Tucker went 14th overall to the New York Jets .
Vera-Tucker is joining the team that selected a former USC QB No. 3 overall at the 2018 draft. Sam Darnold spent three seasons with the Jets before being traded to the Carolina Panther...
From Conquest Chronicles
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IT’S HAPPENING! For all the people who never gave up hope and for all the people who refused to believe that the franchise would continue to fade into nothing, this one is for you.
On Tuesday, EA Sports officially announced that they will be rebooting their long-missed franchise of NCAA Football games that has been on hiatus since the 2013 season with the last installment of the series being NCAA Football 14.
For those keeping track at home, it’s bee...
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The Ducks will now face the Trojans for all the marbles The Oregon Ducks may not have reached the Pac-12 Championship Game the way that they wanted to — but nevertheless, they’ll be playing for the crown on Friday night against the USC Trojans .
The Washington Huskies , after meeting with the Conference, will not have the requisite number of 53 scholarship student-athletes available for the meeting against USC as originally scheduled, and per a statemen...
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The Conference announced all 6 matchups for Week 7 The Pac-12 Conference announced all Week 7 matchups ahead of the final week of the football season, headlined, of course, by the USC vs Washington Pac-12 Championship Game.
The conference announced the following matchups for Week 7:
Washington @ USC — Pac-12 Championship Game on Friday at 5:00 pm
Washington State at Utah at 10:30 am Stanford @ UCLA at 5:00 pm Oregon vs Colorado (at USC) at 6:00 pm...
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We took to the grade books to see who’s doing what The Pac-12 football season has been unlike any other season, ever, in the history of the conference. We’ve seen game after game get canceled, new opponents added and scheduled games just 36 hours in advance. Yet, we’ve made it past Week 4 of the season and with two regular season weeks left to play, we thought it was a good idea to take a look at the gradebooks to see who has been pl...
From Pacific Takes
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The Pac-12 reversed its course and is set to allow the 12 member schools to play a non-conference football game this season Well now we have it. Two weeks into the Pac-12 Football season and we’ve already made some major adjustments around the protocol set in place to be able to play this season during a global pandemic.
The conference, previously staunch in their saying they won’t allow non-conference games to be played this seaso...
From Pacific Takes
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The Pac-12 is back, baby! The Pac-12 was welcomed back with open arms from those in the national media and despite some cancellations that saw Utah vs Arizona and Cal vs Washington canned, we were still treated to some amazing matchups and dominant performances.
Here are your top players at each position in our Week 1 Pac-12 Team of the Week:
Quarterback
Sam Noyer , Colorado Buffaloes
Sure, Noyer didn’t throw for more yards than everyone,...
From Pacific Takes
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Six games are set — will we make it to Saturday will all six still intact? The Pac-12 football slate is set to commence for Week 2. Even though we saw two games cancelled and four teams with a season-opening performance, optimism runs wild for a full slate of games this weekend.
The Pac-12 football season continues with
No. 20 USC (1-0) squaring off against Arizona (0-0) at 12:30 pm (3:30 pm ET) Colorado (1-0) facing Stanford (0-1) at 12:30 pm (3:...
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The Utes and Wildcats now join Cal and Washington as spectators to the Pac-12 in Week 1 The Pac-12 released a statement on Friday, announcing the cancellation of the upcoming Utah Utes vs Arizona Wildcats game, originally scheduled for November 7 at 1:00 pm local time.
According to the conference’s statement, the request to cancel the game came from Utah and came on the backs of an influx of positive Covid-19 test results.
“The Pac-12 has approved a r...
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ON CLARITY
You know when you get old in life, things get taken from you. That’s, that’s part of life. But you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out that life is just a game of inches. So is football. Because in either game — life or football — the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half step too late or too early you don’t quite make it. One half second too slow or too fast and you don’t quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They are in every...
From Every Day Should Be Saturday
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THE MICHIGAN MONEY CANNON TAKES RETURN FIRE When we get charitable around here, we expect certain things.
You’re going to step up in a big way.
You’re going to use some clever numerology in how you make donations.
Somehow, Michigan is going to end up on top.
Through the first day, that bore out — our largest Monday donation was made in honor of Michigan’s 40-34 win over Ohio State in Brady Hoke’s first year.
Now, there’s been some volleys overnight — big shots from Texas A&M, Louisia...
From Every Day Should Be Saturday
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I’ll make this brief: y’all are great.
Yesterday, in the third day of our charity drive to support Personal Counseling Services of Southern Indiana, the numbers understandably slowed for much of the day, after a blazing start on Monday and Tuesday.
And then came the bombs.
A couple BIG evening donations, capped late by a $666 donation with only the comment “Run up the score three times as much as Heisman on Cumberland”.
I can only infer that our new champion — current leader for the Ga...
From Every Day Should Be Saturday
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Some major football powers are built upon their ability to monopolize in-state recruiting. Over at SB Nation I have a piece examining Mack Brown’s early moves at UNC to try and build out the Tar Heel football program to be remotely as competitive as their basketball team. It’s pretty obvious that the major impediment to UNC being great at football is the fact that they seem pretty content as a basketball power. The school is very well situated to be better t...
From Football Study Hall
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The zone-read play has come a long ways since it was originally developed as a way to run the ball from the shotgun spread and gave that formation legitimacy in the college game. Once teams realized they could run the option from the shotgun spread and use the spacing of the receivers to create space in the alley, then teams begin to build run-centric systems from the zone-read play.
Like with other major tactics within the spread offense, the zone-read inevit...
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This offseason Gary Patterson has quietly been assembling the staff and players to infuse his program with the one offensive tactic that has always given him fits. The greatest rivalry of the early 2010s in the Big 12 was the one between Gary Patterson’s TCU and Art Briles’ Baylor. It was an annual showdown between the state’s brightest offensive and defensive minds, played out through a pair of private schools largely considered as afterthoughts in th...
From Football Study Hall
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Kevin Steele broke against type and tried to utilize a few different tricks, including one borrowed from Bill Belichik, to bust up Joe Moorhead’s option offense at Mississippi State. Instead Nick Fitzgerald ran wild and the option guru came out ahead. When Joe Moorhead first arrived at Penn State in 2016 after a nice four-year run at Fordham at the FCS level, the big breakthrough he brought to the Lions was in the vertical passing game. Penn State loved going de...
From Football Study Hall
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The Washington Huskies have had their rival’s number over the last few years in the Apple Cup. In 2018 they had a showdown against Mike Leach and Gardner Minshew in the snow and came out ahead once more. The 2018 Apple Cup was often treated as a sort of “that’s what you get for trying to throw all the time, Leach,” game by many commentators. Washington’s DB coach and co-defensive coordinator Jimmy Lake played that angle up with some of his quotes after the gam...
From Football Study Hall
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