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Howard happy to see prominent role

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:44:00 +0000

Jaye Howard is of the opinion that you should not believe everything you read in the papers.

Headlinin’: Brown’s ‘bogus’ Rocky Top exit could get its own lawsuit

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:37:03 +0000

Making the morning rounds.

• And heeerrre coooome the lawyers. Inevitably, Bryce Brown’s father has threatened to sue Tennessee after the university denied an appeal to release his son from his UT scholarship. That means Brown has to pay his way for the next year at Kansas State, where he enrolled last month with an eye toward playing alongside his brother in 2011. Arthur Brown Sr. called Tennessee’s decision “bogus” and plans to hire an attorney to explore a long-shot suit against UT to recoup some of those tuition checks. [Knoxville News-Sentinel]

• Movin’ on up. Boise State’s comeback win over Virginia Tech Monday night earned the Broncos a little love in both polls, drawing them within 13 points of Ohio State (with a handful of first-place votes) for the No. 2 spot in the Associated Press poll and leaping Texas and Florida to land at No. 3. in the Coaches’ poll, as well, after debuting at No. 5. Unlike the writers, though, no coaches were willing to tab the Broncos No. 1, where Alabama still reigns for the time being. Associated Press, USA Today]

• Another brick in the wall. John Blake, forced out as North Carolina defensive line coach over the weekend in the wake of NCAA and media inquiries into his relationship with NFL agent Gary Winchard, withheld his professional connections to Winchard on his UNC resum

Headlinin’: Brown’s ‘bogus’ Rocky Top exit could get its own lawsuit

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:37:03 +0000

Making the morning rounds.

Gators fall in both AP, Coaches polls

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:18:00 +0000

Florida’s offensive struggles against Miami (Ohio) in the 2010 season opener did not go unnoticed by the voters in this week’s Associated Press (media) and USA Today/ESPN Coaches polls released Tuesday.

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Pouncey bouncing back from off-day

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:14:00 +0000

Mike Pouncey is different than most college football players.

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Channing Crowder Reflects on Bill Parcells’ Work With Dolphins

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:06:22 +0000

by Andy Kent

Filed under: Dolphins, AFC East

DAVIE, Fla. — Tuesdays are normally pretty quiet around the Miami Dolphins‘ practice facility as the players are off. In fact, the only noise that could be heard this afternoon was dance music from inside the practice bubble where the team was hosting a community relations function for area school kids getting ready to go back to school.

But at 3:24 p.m., a short, three-sentence statement was released by the team addressing a major power shift at the top of its football operations between Executive Vice President of Football Operations Bill Parcells and General Manager Jeff Ireland:

“Effective immediately, Jeff Ireland will assume full control over all aspects and decisions in regard to the Miami Dolphin football team and support staff. This was the intent of the structure put in place in the past. Bill Parcells will remain with the club on a daily consultant basis.”

Just like that, the man referred to as the football czar in South Florida has turned over the keys to what was his Rolls Royce to the 39-year-old Ireland, 30 years his junior — and just five days before Miami opens the 2010 season at the Buffalo Bills. The thinking all along was that whenever Parcells did decide it was time to move on that would mean he felt comfortable leaving the Dolphins in the hands of Ireland and head coach Tony Sparano, it just wasn’t expected to happen until after his four-year contract was up at the end of the 2011 season.

Bill Parcells Steps Aside; Jeff Ireland Takes Over Dolphins

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:04:29 +0000

by Chris Harry

Filed under: Dolphins

Bill Parcells is on the move again. He’s just not going very far.

At least not yet.

The Miami Dolphins announced an organizational shakeup Tuesday, with general manager Jeff Ireland taking over full control of the team’s football operations, with Parcells, the executive vice president of football operations since December 2007, stepping aside but staying on as a consultant.

“This was the intent of the structure put in place in the past,” the Dolphins said in a statement released through the team’s media relations department. “Bill Parcells will remain with the club on a daily consultant basis.”

The Dolphins open the 2010 season Sunday at Buffalo.

Parcells, 69, came out of his third retirement and signed a four-year contract and assumed control of a football team at the tail end of a 1-15 season in ‘07. Parcells fired then-coach Cam Cameron and brought in two of his lieutenants from Dallas in Tony Sparano, hired as head coach, and Ireland, charged with overseeing personnel.

Irish, Wolverines together again for right to obligatory September optimism

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:42:58 +0000

Of the multitude of “name-brand” games this weekend, probably none stand to tell us quite as much as Michigan’s visit to Notre Dame, or quite as little. One one hand, the Irish and Wolverines have served as an early litmus test for one another for the last 30 years, ad never more so than when one – or, lately, both –

2010 Crystal Ball: Weeks 12 and 13

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:30:00 +0000

With the Southeastern Conference Eastern Division championship now firmly clutched in their Orange-and-Blue gloves, Florida will take on the school more than a few college football observers have said started the downfall of Michigan’s once-proud program: Appalachian State.

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Top 10 prospects on Florida’s board

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:00:00 +0000

With the Florida Gators currently at 15 verbal commitments, I expect Florida to sign somewhere between 9-11 more players. With the depth that has been accumulated over the last several recruiting classes, Florida can afford to be very selective with those choices.

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