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Report: Southern Miss Hires Ellis Johnson
The Jackson Clarion-Ledger is reporting that Southern Miss will hire South Carolina assistant head coach for defense Ellis Johnson as head coach, perhaps as soon as today. He missed the Gamecocks' practice yesterday to interview for the job, which is open thanks to previous coach Larry Fedora...
Mark Richt's Name Coming Up for Penn State Job
When Mark Richt's name began appearing in connection with the Texas A&M opening, I remarked on Twitter than I thought it was a result of his agent trying to get the contract extension process going. That comment sparked some good debate about Richt's status and whether the source of the rumors were...
Urban Meyer's Ohio State Move Leaves His Florida Legacy in Flux
Urban Meyer did not leave the University of Florida to take the head coaching job at Ohio State. It may feel that way to some disillusioned Gator fans, but no one knew last December that the scandal just then unfolding in Columbus would lead to Jim Tressel's ouster. Had Meyer stuck to his 2009...
Georgia 24, Florida 20: That's How You Break a Curse
I don't believe in curses. Well, maybe curses exists, but certainly sports curses don't. People win and lose games without supernatural help one way or the other. However, if I had told you that against Florida that Georgia would: Allow a pair of long kickoff returns, one of which went for a...
Spurrier Benches Stephen Garcia for Now, Connor Shaw to Start Saturday
In a move everyone was expecting, Steve Spurrier has benched Stephen Garcia for this weekend's game against Kentucky. "Barring injury", the coach said, Connor Shaw will start and play the whole game. Making jokes about Spurrier rotating quarterbacks has become hackneyed in recent years, though...
How Much Magic Does South Carolina Have?
South Carolina has had a weird couple of games so far. It fell behind 17-0 with the backup quarterback before steamrolling ECU 56-20 the rest of the way. Even Steve Spurrier thought the Gamecocks got outplayed in Athens, yet they pulled out a three-point win. What's been remarkable about the team...
SEC Quarterback Situation Still Fluid After Week 1
Player Att. Comp. Pct. Yards TD INT Efficiency Tyler Bray, Tennessee 24 17 70.8 293 3 0 214.63 Barrett Trotter, Auburn 23 17 73.9 261 3 0 212.28 Tyler Wilson, Arkansas 24 18 75.0 260 2 0 193.50 Chris Relf, Mississippi St. 21 13 61.9 202 2 0 174.13 A.J. McCarron,...
South Carolina Faces East Carolina and a Quarterback Derby
Note: cocknfire wrote this, but he's stuck with some wonky WiFi that won't let him post it right now. So here it is. -Y2 South Carolina Gamecocks vs. East Carolina Pirates (Charlotte), 7 p.m. ET, FSN The quarterback drama in Columbia this week shouldn't mask the fact that the Gamecocks play a...
SEC Coaches React to Texas A&M News
With the news of Texas A&M's letter of conditional resignation from the Big 12 coming right as the SEC coaches teleconference began, it gave reporters the chance to get their initial reactions largely without them being crafted by lawyers or PR people. Here is what each had to say about the...
Year2 Brand SEC Picks: 2011 Edition
See here for last year's picks and here for the evaluation of them. Timing is everything in college football. It's going to be a major theme of my picks this year, as there are some outcomes that I don't think make that much sense in any other light. Honestly, I don't really like this set of picks....
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