Since Thad Matta has been in Columbus, the Buckeyes have had some of the best talent in the nation. The only problem with these players is that they all left after one season and went to the NBA prematurely.   To think that this season Greg Oden, Mike Conely Jr., Kosta Koufus, and BJ Mullens could all be at Ohio State right now paired with the current team is simply mind-boggling.   Despite everyone leaving, they are still ranked ...

With the attempts by the Big 10 and Pac-10 to lure Texas into their conferences, the relative silence by two groups of people, Big 12 fans and Texas supporters, is deafening. That makes me think two things. The first is that Longhorn nation is perfectly happy right where they are, and won't leave unless they are pushed. The second, however, is that several of the other Big 12 programs are more than willing to do the pushing ...

There is so much to love about college football from a fan’s perspective: rivalry games, tail-gaiting, university bands, historic stadiums, team chants and much more. One of my personal favorite aspects of college football is the beautiful uniforms so many college teams wear throughout each fall season. With over one hundred college programs participating at the D-1 level, there is a plethora and diverse amount of colors, nicknames and designs. Today, I will be ranking the Big Ten ...

One Great Season If you think this week has offered up a weak menu of heavyweight tilts, don't worry. This weekend will be a completely different story. Saturday is full of huge hardwood matchups, and just when you're done shaking off the hoops hangover the next day, a potential Big Ten title game stares you right in the face on Sunday afternoon. Kentucky and Tennessee get things started at noon (CBS) Saturday. The Vols are looking to ...

This weekend will be the last home weekend for the Big Red seniors. They hope, however, that there is still a lot more excitement to come. Cornell can clinch an outright berth to the NCAA tournament this weekend by sweeping Princeton and Penn, getting a Columbia win over Princeton on Saturday, and a Harvard loss in one of their two home games to Brown or Yale. Cornell will graduate eight seniors on Saturday versus Penn, but ...

On another wind driven snowy day, with Bonnie Raitt's Not the Only One playing as I type these words, my thoughts drift back to snowy days of yesterday. I used to get up early to get the newspaper. The Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ), with the best sports section in the New York Metropolitan area, regardless of what Vinnie from the Bronx thinks, was my guide of choice. As my coach in Florida would want me to add, "Forget it!" Pouring ...

To say that Rich Rodriguez has had a bumpy two-year start to his tenure as the football coach at the University of Michigan would put you in the Hall of Fame of Understatements. Rodriguez has done nothing but lose football games on the gridiron, and now he’s losing traction as an upstanding coach. The NCAA has spoken after a five-month investigation into U-M’s football program, and the results aren’t pretty. Here it is, in a nutshell. The ...

Ok so I'm a little biased so what. There are college football stadiums and then there are cathedrals that adorn the landscape. There are fields where players roam, and then there are hostile, unfreindly waters where fear and trepidation rule. Finally, there is loud, and there is Ben Hill Griffin stadium at Florida field. Also known to many as simply ,"The Swamp" Coined by Gator Coaching legend, Steve Spurrier in the early '90s, The Swamp is ...

As spring practices peek around the corner, there is a lot of intrigue surrounding the Texas A&M gridiron gang. The Aggies are coming off a 6-7 season and return 16 starters. On the outside, they look poised to make a run at the Big 12 South in 2010. Led by the ultra-athletic Jerrod Johnson and All-American Von Miller, the Aggies could be on their way back to being a Top 25 team. However, four burning ...

Many have yet to witness the damage that can be done to opponents' secondary by Michael Floyd. When healthy, he was even thought higher than of last year's Biletnikoff Winner, Golden Tate. Although Tate's numbers were the most impressive, Irish fans knew they had a pure wide receiver waiting in the wings to be the top priority in South Bend. The lesser version of Floyd, especially in the past two years due to injuries, could be found ...