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LSU fired Will Wade as a hopeful sacrifice to keep the NCAA from digging any further… 
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LSU could be in serious hot water. I think the death penalty talk is over the top but they will face some serious sanctions in both football and basketball. LSU has had issues within the football program dating back to the Les Miles days
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Welcome to southern football Coach Kelly
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Yeah they’ll get a small scholarship loss and then a one year post season ban. They won’t hit them hard at all I bet
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Nico is getting caught up with all the hype. Dude wearing sun glasses at a 7v7. Young man is feeling himself. Enjoy the process!
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Ex-UGA WR Crumpton arrested in murder case
Former University of Georgia football player Akhil Crumpton has been arrested in connection to the murder of a 23-year-old gas station clerk last year.
According to the sheriff's office, shell casings at the crime scene were eventually matched to another crime scene in Philadelphia where local police suspected Crumpton was the shooter.
Oconee Sheriff James Hale said further investigation led to the evidence needed to secure an arrest warrant for Crumpton in the murder of Wood.
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Ohio state is shameless
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The family member that runs that "foundation" was born into billions and funnels a ton of money to the University
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FSU has a cornerback Jarvis Brownlee who is holding out for an NIL deal lol
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He hasn't been holding out for NIL stuff but I believe he's was suspended as a result of it.
I haven't really cared much to keep abreast of it tbqh
I haven't really cared much to keep abreast of it tbqh
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Are you telling truths during lying season?
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Fortuna: This is now Marcus Freeman’s Notre Dame team, and the start of spring practice left no mistaking that
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Marcus Freeman bounced his way into the Notre Dame Stadium interview room at 10:14 a.m., a minute ahead of schedule after his first day of spring ball as a head coach.
“Sorry we had to kick you guys out of practice,” he said to reporters before taking the podium.
“You’re the first coach to apologize for that,” one of those reporters replied, laughing.
Yes, there is a different feel around this place than there was a year ago — or even a few months ago — and not just because the Fighting Irish were in a festive mood on St. Patrick’s Day, which the green-clad Freeman was quick to note as he stood before the microphone.
Freeman hasn’t given himself time to publicly process yet another first that he crossed off on Thursday morning, amid a four-month stretch that has seen no shortage of new opportunities for the 36-year-old leader of the Irish to present himself to the college football world.
That will come later. On a holiday when everybody is Irish, the mood was festive, from the head football coach congratulating men’s basketball coach Mike Brey on his team’s late-night double-overtime NCAA tournament win — “That’s momentum for our entire university, and it’s exciting” — to wishing head women’s basketball coach Niele Ivey and her squad luck when they commence tournament play on Saturday.
That optimism, of course, permeated throughout Freeman’s view of his roster and staff, which were together as one football-playing entity for the first time since he officially took over as Notre Dame’s 30th head coach on Dec. 3.
“I told the guys after practice, I was extremely pleased,” he said. “It was the little things for me that I was pleased about. I was pleased I didn’t see a lot of guys on the ground. Maybe one or two young guys. I was pleased that we didn’t have any fights, and that’s not an issue here. It’s not a competitive issue.
“I’ve been in places where you try to initiate fights. ‘We’ve got to fight. We’ve got to see how tough and competitive we are.’ That’s not a problem here. We have to be able to practice together under control — be competitive, but be under control and be good teammates. And it was good to see us get through an entire practice and not have to deal with any melees today. And so I’m excited.”
He spouted the usual cliches of what he wants to get out of this spring, of wanting to run the ball and stopping the run, of demanding toughness and sensing a competitive spirit.
But three questions in, when asked about looking into hiring a mental performance specialist, is when he really started to distinguish himself and this program from previous standard operating procedure.
The nation’s second-youngest Power 5 coach showed his age in the most refreshing of ways.
“We look for every way to help our student- athletes and serve our players,” he said. “And so those are things that go around my head every day. Hey, what areas do we need to make sure that we are looking at our student-athletes in a holistic approach? And that can be in mental performance, that can be in evaluating trauma from before they got here and evaluating, Hey, what are the things in their life that are causing them not to perform at the highest level?
“And so every day we look at different ways, and if there is something out there we need to help our players to perform at a higher level — but also performing at a higher level is also understanding having a clear mind, right? And to me, we have to make sure that we indulge ourselves, have people that are willing to truly get the heart of the player, so we know, Hey, how are they going to learn? What’s holding them back from reaching their maximum performance? And so if there’s a way to enhance that, we will find it.”
His philosophies continued to show themselves from there. The career defensive coach began an answer about quarterbacks by referring to himself as “no quarterback guru,” saying he will lean on offensive coordinator Tommy Rees to determine who will eventually start.
“He’s played the position, he’s the offensive coordinator,” Freeman said. “He’ll be able to come with grades and say, ‘OK, here’s how we evaluated it. Here’s who I believe at some point is going to be the guy who should be with the 1s.’ ”
He took a question about the influence of Hall of Famer Jerome Bettis — back on campus to obtain his degree — and said the Irish coach has personally benefited from the Irish great, meeting every week with The Bus. He was asked about how he plans to bring leadership voices to the forefront, and he said he is driving home the message of not just leading by example, and how the only returning captains who could do that anyway — Avery Davis and Jarrett Patterson — are hurt this spring, meaning others need to become more vocal.
None of this was particularly surprising to anyone who has followed this program closely in the months since Freeman took over for Brian Kelly, as the former has been a walking and talking billboard for the school in every possible way. Freeman led bowl practices, coached a bowl game and completed his first signing day. He did it all while — at risk of oversimplifying matters — making Notre Dame cool, if not a lot less distant than it had always come across under his predecessors.
Still, the substance of this front-and-center approach has differentiated itself from first-year coaches of Irish past. And this was, after all, the first time Freeman could just go out and coach (and then talk about) ball with an entire coaching staff of his hiring, without having to worry about any of his mounting external duties.
“We’d done winter workouts where you can do conditioning without a ball and you can do, like, walkthroughs,” he said, “but it was for me a relief to go practice. Like, there’s no restrictions, go practice, use a ball, go full-speed. And that’s to me what was the biggest relief.”
He added: “Now you turn the chapter to football. It’s just football. It’s spring football time. And so that’s exciting for me to turn the page to get to spring football.”
Chapters and pages fall short of capturing a change that deserves its own book. This is a new day for Notre Dame football, and Marcus Freeman has continued to make a strong first impression.
That optimism, of course, permeated throughout Freeman’s view of his roster and staff, which were together as one football-playing entity for the first time since he officially took over as Notre Dame’s 30th head coach on Dec. 3.
“I told the guys after practice, I was extremely pleased,” he said. “It was the little things for me that I was pleased about. I was pleased I didn’t see a lot of guys on the ground. Maybe one or two young guys. I was pleased that we didn’t have any fights, and that’s not an issue here. It’s not a competitive issue.
“I’ve been in places where you try to initiate fights. ‘We’ve got to fight. We’ve got to see how tough and competitive we are.’ That’s not a problem here. We have to be able to practice together under control — be competitive, but be under control and be good teammates. And it was good to see us get through an entire practice and not have to deal with any melees today. And so I’m excited.”
He spouted the usual cliches of what he wants to get out of this spring, of wanting to run the ball and stopping the run, of demanding toughness and sensing a competitive spirit.
But three questions in, when asked about looking into hiring a mental performance specialist, is when he really started to distinguish himself and this program from previous standard operating procedure.
The nation’s second-youngest Power 5 coach showed his age in the most refreshing of ways.
“We look for every way to help our student- athletes and serve our players,” he said. “And so those are things that go around my head every day. Hey, what areas do we need to make sure that we are looking at our student-athletes in a holistic approach? And that can be in mental performance, that can be in evaluating trauma from before they got here and evaluating, Hey, what are the things in their life that are causing them not to perform at the highest level?
“And so every day we look at different ways, and if there is something out there we need to help our players to perform at a higher level — but also performing at a higher level is also understanding having a clear mind, right? And to me, we have to make sure that we indulge ourselves, have people that are willing to truly get the heart of the player, so we know, Hey, how are they going to learn? What’s holding them back from reaching their maximum performance? And so if there’s a way to enhance that, we will find it.”
His philosophies continued to show themselves from there. The career defensive coach began an answer about quarterbacks by referring to himself as “no quarterback guru,” saying he will lean on offensive coordinator Tommy Rees to determine who will eventually start.
“He’s played the position, he’s the offensive coordinator,” Freeman said. “He’ll be able to come with grades and say, ‘OK, here’s how we evaluated it. Here’s who I believe at some point is going to be the guy who should be with the 1s.’ ”
He took a question about the influence of Hall of Famer Jerome Bettis — back on campus to obtain his degree — and said the Irish coach has personally benefited from the Irish great, meeting every week with The Bus. He was asked about how he plans to bring leadership voices to the forefront, and he said he is driving home the message of not just leading by example, and how the only returning captains who could do that anyway — Avery Davis and Jarrett Patterson — are hurt this spring, meaning others need to become more vocal.
None of this was particularly surprising to anyone who has followed this program closely in the months since Freeman took over for Brian Kelly, as the former has been a walking and talking billboard for the school in every possible way. Freeman led bowl practices, coached a bowl game and completed his first signing day. He did it all while — at risk of oversimplifying matters — making Notre Dame cool, if not a lot less distant than it had always come across under his predecessors.
Still, the substance of this front-and-center approach has differentiated itself from first-year coaches of Irish past. And this was, after all, the first time Freeman could just go out and coach (and then talk about) ball with an entire coaching staff of his hiring, without having to worry about any of his mounting external duties.
“We’d done winter workouts where you can do conditioning without a ball and you can do, like, walkthroughs,” he said, “but it was for me a relief to go practice. Like, there’s no restrictions, go practice, use a ball, go full-speed. And that’s to me what was the biggest relief.”
He added: “Now you turn the chapter to football. It’s just football. It’s spring football time. And so that’s exciting for me to turn the page to get to spring football.”
Chapters and pages fall short of capturing a change that deserves its own book. This is a new day for Notre Dame football, and Marcus Freeman has continued to make a strong first impression.
Very interested to see how his tenure works out
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You know what, the team is on Spring Break so I forgot it was lying szn. My bad playa
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Didn't realize he was the corner who got cooked on the Jacksonville State University hail mary.
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Was he supposed to be the starter?
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Doesn’t matter, both those UF QBs were scrubs.
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Their broadcasts are 4 hours long and milk commercials, but one thing CBS’s college football broadcasts have figured out that none of the other networks have is really conveying the personality of each individual stadium. They really focus on the unique pre game rituals when they’re there.
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