Archive for April, 2015

Best Candidates to Replace Billy Donovan as Florida’s Basketball Coach

Posted by Rob Goldberg on April 30 2015 Add Comments
With Billy Donovan bolting for the NBA, Florida will now have to find a suitable replacement as head coach of the basketball team. According to Jeff Zillgitt of USA Today, Donovan has agreed to a deal to make him the next head coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder. This leaves the Gators without the coach who had led the program to two national championships and four Final Four appearances since 2000. Obviously, these will be big shoes ...

Ranking the Top Seniors for the 2015-16 College Basketball Season

Posted by Kerry Miller on April 30 2015 Add Comments
We annually latch onto the one-and-done freshmen in college basketball, but the seniors are the players that the true fans of the game love (and hate) the most. They're the ones billed as team leaders, the ones whose experience we buy into come tournament time and the ones we have fond memories of from seasons past. People will try to tell you that early entrants into the NBA draft are killing the college game, but how ...

Florida Head Coach Search: Latest News, Rumors, Speculation on Position

Posted by Mike Chiari on April 30 2015 Add Comments
With longtime head coach Billy Donovan leaving for the NBA, the University of Florida is set to begin a search for his replacement. Continue for updates.   Candidates Emerge to Replace Donovan Tuesday, May 5 Kevin Brockway of GatorSports.com reported Clippers assistant coach Lawrence Frank is not interested in the Florida position. On April 30, Brockway reported there are already three candidates on the school's radar: Archie Miller is a hot commodity after leading Dayton to victories in the NCAA tournament ...

10 College Basketball Teams Doomed for a Rebuilding Year in 2015-16

Posted by Jason Franchuk on April 29 2015 Add Comments
This isn’t necessarily a disaster report. Having to rebuild or reload—whatever tone you want to use—has its benefits. No one really thought young Duke would be a championship-contending team in 2015, but look what happened. Same goes for Michigan State, which seemed to have decent parts but not enough to make a reliable automobile to get to Indianapolis. The beauty and agony of college basketball reaches its out-of-season peak right around now. The NBA draft guys have ...

2015 College Football Coaches and Players as Superheroes

Posted by Brian Pedersen on April 28 2015 Add Comments
In honor of National Superhero Day (April 28), North Carolina's football Twitter account sent out a picture that superimposed football coach Larry Fedora's face onto that of the X-Men's Wolverine. The resemblance is similar, but it's hard to imagine Fedora shares many other of Wolverine's traits like super strength or adamantium claws coming out of his hands. But the image did get us thinking: What other college football players and coaches would make for good superheroes? They ...

Projecting Kansas’ 2015-16 Rotation After 5-Star PF Cheick Diallo Commits

Posted by Rob Goldberg on April 28 2015 Add Comments
Kansas will get a big boost for the 2015-16 season after receiving a commitment from top prospect Cheick Diallo. Evan Daniels of Scout.com reported the news of Diallo's decision, a 6'9" forward who checks in as the No. 6 recruit in the nation, according to 247Sports. He will join fellow 5-star forward Carlton Bragg in a two-man recruiting class so far for head coach Bill Self. This adds to an already deep returning lineup that should once again ...

Alabama Football: 5 Things We Learned About the Crimson Tide This Spring

Posted by Marc Torrence on April 28 2015 Add Comments
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama is officially in 2015 season mode. Spring practice is over, and the next time the Crimson Tide take to any kind of field as a team, it will be in August during fall camp, preparing for real-life, actual football against Wisconsin. As we take one final look back at spring practice, we can glean a little bit about what the team will look like next year, based on the results of the last ...

Jim Delany’s Plan for Freshman Ineligibility Would Be Crippling Blow for Big Ten

Posted by Ben Axelrod on April 28 2015 Add Comments
"What is he thinking?" No Big Ten coach has come out and said that—at least not verbatim—when it's come to commissioner Jim Delany's fascination with freshman ineligibility. But it wouldn't be surprising if Urban Meyer, Jim Harbaugh, Mark Dantonio, James Franklin and Company were each thinking it at this very moment. And for good reason. For whatever reason, the Big Ten commissioner has put himself front and center in a seemingly needless quest to make freshmen across the ...

Michigan Football: 2015 NFL Draft Tracker, Analysis and Results

Posted by David Kenyon on April 28 2015 Add Comments
Jim Harbaugh will make the Michigan Wolverines a national powerhouse by the time he leaves the school, but that doesn't mean he has the magic touch for the team's 2015 NFL draft prospects. Wide receiver Devin Funchess and linebacker Jake Ryan are the only locks to be selected, while defensive end Frank Clark and quarterback/receiver Devin Gardner will be late-round thoughts. This piece will highlight the Wolverines' draft hopefuls. Prior to the April 30 event, we will ...

4-Star Naseir Upshur Says Michigan, FSU, USC Among Others Showing Him Most Love

Posted by Tyler Donohue on April 28 2015 Add Comments
Naseir Upshur is on a mission to prove he's the premier tight end prospect in America and refused to allow a sore back to slow things down on Sunday. The 4-star Philadelphia playmaker picked up an invitation to The Opening, an annual showcase held at Nike's world headquarters, by outshining a star-studded collection of recruits at a regional Nike camp in New Jersey. By the end of competition, he needed help picking up his cleats off of ...