Player Notes

AUGUST 12, 2023 12:51 PMThe TCU Horned Frogs are approaching the midway point of training camp after wrapping up practice No. 9 on Saturday.The biggest news from practice was the arrival of transfer receiver Dylan Wright. The former Minnesota receiver was finally cleared academically Friday and able to take the practice field.Wright was a top-100 recruit in the Class of 2019 out of Mesquite. He signed ...

A movement that has been relatively forgotten around the country but was a major storyline back in 2013 was the "Nerd Nation" movement Stanford players created.Shane Skov, Tyler Gaffney and A.J. Tarpley donned the black bulky glasses with tape on the bridge after a victory over Oregon. When asked if they were referencing a movie, the players explained that they were more so embracing what it meant ...

AUG. 12, 2023 3:34 PMSez Me …What’s going to happen to San Diego State athletics is a revolving enigma, a whirling mystery Vitamixed into a filthy, slimy frappe, inside a maelstrom, placed on a lazy Susan for everyone to enjoy at a vortex table.Dizzying.Will the spinning wheel stop on big money or the joker?The Aztecs are involved in a wild, greedy game of musical chairs and they can’t find a seat. ...

Defense was the prevailing force Saturday on the Rice practice field. Chalk up a victory for the unit, which dominated the offense in the Owls’ first scrimmage of camp.Lineman De’Braylon Carroll and end Coleman Coco were at the forefront.“Every time I looked up, they were playing on the offensive line of scrimmage,” said coach Mike Bloomgren, starting his sixth season as Rice head coach.It is not as ...

Lafayette Journal & CourierWEST LAFAYETTE — Quarterbacks beware.What Ryan Walters did with outside linebackers at Illinois had quarterbacks under duress and made the Illini one of the best defenses in college football.Purdue football defensive coordinator Kevin Kane was along for the ride and now has been handed the keys to doing the same with the Boilermakers, using Walters' influence to hopefully ...

While for some it might feel like it was just yesterday when the Pitt football team reported to its facility on the South Side to begin training camp for the 2023 season, two of the four weeks are already in the books. From tight position battles to changes in scheme, numerous notable storylines developed over the past few practices. Here are five takeaways from Pitt’s training camp, as we arrive at ...

By Nick Daschel | The Oregonian/OregonLiveOregon State, stunned a week ago when five schools decided to leave the Pac-12, has decided its best path is rebuilding the conference.In a statement to “OSU Community Members,” school president Jayathi Murthy wrote that “we continue to believe that preserving the Pac-12 is in the best interests of OSU student-athletes and the remaining universities, and so ...

Other coaches on Nebraska’s staff like to show Tony White pictures of shoes. The Huskers’ defensive coordinator isn’t particularly interested in or knowledgeable on the topic, but it’s a product of the rest of the staff’s youth and enthusiasm he likes so much.White has been impressed by linebackers coach Rob Dvoracek’s attention to detail and understanding of his position group not as a lone, isolated ...

Columbia Daily TribuneLeft guard Xavier Delgado was taken aback by one of Mizzou football’s newcomers along the offensive line at the beginning of training camp.Missouri cornerback Kris Abrams-Draine echoed his co-star in the secondary, Ennis Rakestraw Jr., in complimenting a player who could prove to be his successor.And Harrison Mevis paid a big compliment to his presumed backup.Here are three true ...

Mississippi Clarion-LedgerOXFORD — New Ole Miss football defensive coordinator Pete Golding is working with a secondary that, on its own, has added more transfer pieces this offseason (seven) than three different SEC programs have brought in total.Alabama, which Golding left to join Lane Kiffin's staff in Oxford, is one of those three. The Crimson Tide made five offseason transfer acquisitions and ...