National University Catalog

The Florida Gators are one of the NCAA's most successful collegiate sports teams. They have multiple titles in multiple sports and are generally regarded as an elite program. The rabid fanbase, ever seeking the next tidbit of Gators news, created an entire segment of journalism devoted solely to covering Gators sports. Unfortunately for all of those writers, this has not been a good week. Like, literally nothing has happened. In response to the borefest, and seeking to not lose readers, some Florida beat writers have gotten creative with their stories. I caught up with Ben Volin, a Palm Beach Post blogger and columnist, who gave me a quick rundown of what this hell week's been like. "Normally, covering Gators football and basketball gives me enough material for a year, but this year's been different. I mean, it's been a really slow offseason on the football side, and we're really struggling to find enough info to satisfy daily readers. "It's like, c'mon, guys, steal your car back from the impound lot or something! "Then, on the basketball side...you know what? I don't even want to talk about it. I don't think I've written a basketball piece in over a month. "I had to write a story about Gators walk–ons filing tax returns. Nobody wants to read that, but I hadn't updated in almost 10 days, and my boss was really hammering me to get something out there. "Mostly I've just been playing Mario Kart Wii with [Orlando Sentinel Gators beat writer/blogger/columnist ...

As the game of football has evolved, more teams have shied away from the traditional ground game and have concentrated on developing pass-oriented offenses. However, old-school fans (this writer included) still enjoy a relentless, smash-mouth running attack. In this slideshow, we will take a look at 20 teams whose rushing offenses should be among the best in the coming season. If you think that rankings like this can be silly and subjective, you're not alone. Often times they devolve into nothing more than a popularity contest; there's just too many unknown variables. Therefore, assigning a specific ranking to each team this far from any meaningful action would border on the ridiculous. Instead, this slideshow is the result of factoring in the KNOWN variables of the various FBS schools and will spotlight the teams that should be among the best in 2010 when it comes gaining those hard-earned rushing yards. However, as the list progresses, you will find the more prolific ground attacks toward the end. On the other hand, some might surprise you. If your team didn't make the list, it doesn't mean that they won't be good at running the ball; it just means that there were enough question marks surrounding their rushing game to warrant exclusion from this particular list. So buckle up your chinstrap and enjoy this list of 20 teams that should be among the elite rushing attacks in 2010.Begin Slideshow

You’re coming off back-to-back 13-1 seasons, in which most of your fans believe that you were a healthy quarterback and a tick-of-the-clock shy of two national championships.  Your record setting, two-time Heisman finalist quarterback is leaving the 40 acres.  And in the upcoming season, you’ll be breaking in a new quarterback for the first time since 2006. But if you are Mack Brown, you aren’t answering the what-ifs of past seasons, or questions about your new signal-caller.  It’s the same old question that lingers; a question that he’s been trying to answer for the last few seasons. What about the running game? UT’s spread offense has been piling up the points since 2004, when Vince Young ran the zone read to perfection, culminating with a dramatic national championship victory in 2005.  When Colt McCoy took over in 2006, the zone read was still a large part of the offense, but it has slowly morphed into the pass-centric, spread offense that UT employs today.  Yet you wouldn’t be talking Texas football if you didn’t acknowledge the critics and their grass-is-always-greener concerns of one of the more successful programs of the last decade.  Never mind that the ’08 and ’09 seasons saw the ‘Horns ranked fifth and third in the nation in offensive scoring, respectively.  Forget that UT put up over 40 points a game in that stretch, a mark that nearly every program in the country would love to be able to claim.  So ...

Successful coaches know the key to maintaining a top program is through recruiting. Coach Sarkisian learned this lesson well watching his mentor Pete Carroll awaken the echoes of a powerhouse in Los Angeles. Sarkisian’s first recruiting class at Washington was considered small, and average. With previous coach Tyrone Willingham giving up on recruiting, knowing he wasn’t going to be back, Sarkisian had to work to catch up. The 2010 recruiting class was the first for Sarkisian after running his own program for a year. He did not disappoint either. Bringing in 31 kids to a program desperately in need of bodies, he was able to address a lot of concerns as far as depth. The class garnered a top 25 ranking in all but one recruiting service. Now that the 2010 class has signed their letters of intent, it is time to start looking forward to the recruiting class of 2011. The first edition will look at quarterbacks and running backs that Washington has currently offered as confirmed by Rivals at this point. Kyle Boehm Boehm is a 6-3/205 quarterback from San Jose, California. He is a drop back quarterback who produced 936 yards through the air, along with 877 yards on the ground. He has the size and build of a pro-style prospect, ...

This has been an extremely rough offseason for the Oregon Ducks to say the least. There have been enough arrests for the men in green to fill a county drunk tank. The worst of all is Jeremiah Masoli's 2010 season-long suspension. So now the question is what will, and should, happen to his career at Oregon? Many have been saying that he should just transfer and forever leave the state of Oregon in order not to create a snowball effect on the future of the other Duck quarterbacks. But what good can come from that for Masoli himself, and actually, the future of Oregon? None. I believe that Chip has made a great decision in allowing Masoli to redshirt his suspended year for the chance to come back in 2011. Why? Chip doesn't give up on his players, and neither should the media or the fans. Do I think Masoli should play on Saturdays again? Nope. I just believe that giving up on someone probably means they too will give up on themselves. Jeremiah Masoli should practice hard all of this year, next year and for the remainder of his life. He should attend every team event. He should sit behind Darron Thomas next year, and he should earn his degree, that Chip has so graciously allowed him to, and give him a shot at earning a spot on an NFL team. If he can't continue his football career, he has a prestigious degree from ...