While college football coaches are busy with offseason evaluations, Sporting News' Matt Hayes has his own red pen in hand, grading the jobs done by first-year coaches in 2012. We look of the performances of those 14.
The Big East still has a BCS automatic qualifying berth for one more year, but after that it will no longer exist in the same stratosphere as its five former power-conference colleagues. Starting with the 2014 playoff system, it will be among the so-called Group of Five conferences -- along with the Mountain West, Conference USA, Sun Belt and MAC -- that will share a guaranteed berth in one of the six premium bowls.
Pre-Combine quick looks at the tight ends invited to Indy.
Most saw it coming the minute SEC Commissioner Mike Slive galloped out to Texas looking to strike college football oil. The league wasn’t adding Texas A&M. They were adding Texas with different-colored uniforms.
Scarborough joined ESPN.com in 2012 after covering University of Alabama athletics and high school football for The Tuscaloosa News. He currently resides in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Winning back-to-back national championships and developing into one of college football's best quarterbacks will do that. Publicly dating a supermodel pushes McCarron well into the threshold of celebrity, past the occasional television spot into the realm of obscure media reports on his parking habits.
.Former Alabama secondary coach Jeremy Pruitt will make a $500,000 salary in his new position as defensive coordinator at Florida State, according to a Palm Beach Post report.Pruitt, who coached at Hoover High before joining the Alabama staff in 2007 as Director of Player Development, made $260,000 in 2012. Pruitt, who is Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher's highest-paid assistant
Former Alabama OT D.J. Fluker drops 16 pounds, down to 339-al.comFormer Alabama offensive tackle D.J. Fluker weighed in at 339 pounds today at NFL Combine, down 16 from what he posted at last month's Senior Bowl. Fluker is considered to be the top-rated right tackle available in the 2013 NFL Draft. Most NFL Draft experts project him to land in the late part of the first round.
The on the field work does not begin until Saturday but the offensive linemen and tight ends are already in Indianapolis to be measured and medically tested. Here's the buzz filtering around town on Day 1, February 21st. Update: Stanton gaining steam in free agency...
The 2013 NFL Scouting Combine may not feature the always animated and motivating bench press coach John Lott to help prospects get their maximum reps,…