((HT: ESPN))
Since East Carolina was fighting for a 10-win season in Conference USA, but they had to get through Ohio U to do it...
In front of friends and family at the Suncoast Dome (you know... where the Devil Rays play baseball), Vintavious Cooper ran for 198 yards and Shane Carden was 29-for-45 for 273 yards and a score as the Pirates won 37-20...
Carden even caught a TD pass from Cam Worthy to put the Pirates up 31-20 half way through the fourth...
Monday, December 23, 2013
DEVELOPING: Romo Not Out Completely, for Now...
((HT: ESPN))
Possibly a herniated disk... no one, except the Cowboys really know right now...
And dead-man-walking Jason Garrett says that they're not ruling him out for the game against the Eagles- for now...even as everyone else on the planet is saying Romo is out for the season...
Which means Kyle Orton, who hasn't had any real snaps in three years, will be getting the majority of the practice work and the Cowboys will be looking for a third QB for the roster for Sunday...
Here's the early returns on Big D...
A couple of early thoughts... Nick Florence comes to mind... and the running game will get a whole lot of work to keep the Eagles offense off the field in the winner-take-all game for the playoffs next weekend...
Possibly a herniated disk... no one, except the Cowboys really know right now...
And dead-man-walking Jason Garrett says that they're not ruling him out for the game against the Eagles- for now...even as everyone else on the planet is saying Romo is out for the season...
Which means Kyle Orton, who hasn't had any real snaps in three years, will be getting the majority of the practice work and the Cowboys will be looking for a third QB for the roster for Sunday...
Here's the early returns on Big D...
A couple of early thoughts... Nick Florence comes to mind... and the running game will get a whole lot of work to keep the Eagles offense off the field in the winner-take-all game for the playoffs next weekend...
Boise State's Southwick Not Happy Being Sent Home...
((HT: KTVB-TV))
Boise State QB Joe Southwick was sent home two days before the Hawai'i Bowl for what was alleged as (something along the line of) peeing off a hotel balcony...
A Boise State spokesman confirmed that both Southwick and redshirt freshman quarterback Nick Patti missed the Broncos Friday afternoon practice due to "team violations."
Patti has since been reinstated, but Southwick wasn't...
He has even gone as far as taking a polygraph saying he did nothing wrong...
But the ex-starting QB says it turned into three people against one in pinning down who allagedly did what...
Here's Southwick's interview with KTVB...
Boise State issued a statement: "We investigated the matter with university administrators, coaching staff, a law enforcement official, hotel security and student-athletes. We made the decision to send the student-athlete home, and we stand by this difficult decision."
Interesting to see what happens next...
Boise State QB Joe Southwick was sent home two days before the Hawai'i Bowl for what was alleged as (something along the line of) peeing off a hotel balcony...
A Boise State spokesman confirmed that both Southwick and redshirt freshman quarterback Nick Patti missed the Broncos Friday afternoon practice due to "team violations."
Patti has since been reinstated, but Southwick wasn't...
He has even gone as far as taking a polygraph saying he did nothing wrong...
But the ex-starting QB says it turned into three people against one in pinning down who allagedly did what...
Here's Southwick's interview with KTVB...
Boise State issued a statement: "We investigated the matter with university administrators, coaching staff, a law enforcement official, hotel security and student-athletes. We made the decision to send the student-athlete home, and we stand by this difficult decision."
Interesting to see what happens next...
BUZZER BEATER: Southern Cal's Pe'Shon Howard's 3 Defeats Dayton
[HT: Los Angeles Times]
After transferring from Maryland this is Pe'shon Howard's one and only year playing for Southern California and Sunday he gave Trojan fans a shining moment.
Tied at 76 and with 4.7 seconds left Howard took the inbounds pass, dribbled to the right side of the floor and nailed an off-balance 24 foot shot to win it for the Trojans 79-76.
Thanks Pac 12 Network
"J.T. [Terrell] told me if I can't get it to him, I'm coming to you," Howard said, "I think I'm a good shooter so I was trying to get to the three-point line. So I came across half court and two guys came over late, so I just tried to lean and get the shot off."
"When it left my hand it felt good and I'm watching the ball. That's in, that's in. "Howard said. "I had to flop, too, so maybe I could get a foul."
"When you have our four seconds you can at least get to the three point line or close to it." USC head coach Andy Enfield said. "You don't need to throw up a half-court shot. Our players didn't understand that our last game, and I'm just glad they figured it out."
Howard would score 12 points in the Dayton game and was 3-5 from the three point line. Very appropriate for Pe'shon Howard to take the shot to win it since he had the hot hand from behind the arc.
Southern California was led by Byron Wesley who scored 26 points and 10 rebounds coming off the bench.
After transferring from Maryland this is Pe'shon Howard's one and only year playing for Southern California and Sunday he gave Trojan fans a shining moment.
Tied at 76 and with 4.7 seconds left Howard took the inbounds pass, dribbled to the right side of the floor and nailed an off-balance 24 foot shot to win it for the Trojans 79-76.
Thanks Pac 12 Network
"J.T. [Terrell] told me if I can't get it to him, I'm coming to you," Howard said, "I think I'm a good shooter so I was trying to get to the three-point line. So I came across half court and two guys came over late, so I just tried to lean and get the shot off."
"When it left my hand it felt good and I'm watching the ball. That's in, that's in. "Howard said. "I had to flop, too, so maybe I could get a foul."
"When you have our four seconds you can at least get to the three point line or close to it." USC head coach Andy Enfield said. "You don't need to throw up a half-court shot. Our players didn't understand that our last game, and I'm just glad they figured it out."
Howard would score 12 points in the Dayton game and was 3-5 from the three point line. Very appropriate for Pe'shon Howard to take the shot to win it since he had the hot hand from behind the arc.
Southern California was led by Byron Wesley who scored 26 points and 10 rebounds coming off the bench.
Sunday, December 22, 2013
OSG High: UIL Games At Jerry-World Set Records
((HT: WFAA-TV))
And made for good highlights...
Aledo High became the first team in US high school football history (that the HQ can think of) that cleared 1,000 points in their season. Remember, Aledo was the team that beat one team 91-0 and caused the one of the parents of the team that got beat to call for a bullying investigation...
That went well...
And the Allen-Pearland game set a UIL record for attendance of almost 55,000 at Cowboys Stadium
Here's your look...
And made for good highlights...
Aledo High became the first team in US high school football history (that the HQ can think of) that cleared 1,000 points in their season. Remember, Aledo was the team that beat one team 91-0 and caused the one of the parents of the team that got beat to call for a bullying investigation...
That went well...
And the Allen-Pearland game set a UIL record for attendance of almost 55,000 at Cowboys Stadium
Here's your look...
OSG High: St John Bosco Snaps De La Salle Win Streak
((HT: Gazette Sports))
At 40 straight...
A record crowd of 16,791 at StubHub Center saw a piece of history...
St. John Bosco (Bellflower, California) followed up their first CIF-Southern Section championship by beating De La Salle, 20-14, to win the Open Division of CIF State Football...
Josh Rosen threw for 200 yards and 2 TD's as De La Salle ends their consecutive title run at 4. St. John Bosco finishes 16-0, one of only 11 teams nationwide with a 16-0 record. De La Salle finishes 14-1 and it was the first time since 2008 that the Spartans lost to a team from the state of California.
Here's the highlights...
At 40 straight...
A record crowd of 16,791 at StubHub Center saw a piece of history...
St. John Bosco (Bellflower, California) followed up their first CIF-Southern Section championship by beating De La Salle, 20-14, to win the Open Division of CIF State Football...
Josh Rosen threw for 200 yards and 2 TD's as De La Salle ends their consecutive title run at 4. St. John Bosco finishes 16-0, one of only 11 teams nationwide with a 16-0 record. De La Salle finishes 14-1 and it was the first time since 2008 that the Spartans lost to a team from the state of California.
Here's the highlights...
OSG NAIA: Rome's Last Ride Was A Good One...
And, it was a good one...
The HQ has had its hands in the NAIA for a few years now, and we enjoy our time there...
It's towns like Williamsburg, Barbourville, Central, Pulaski, McKenzie and, at the same time, places like Jackson, Montgomery, New Orleans, Hattiesburg, and Georgetown (Kentucky, not DC)...
It's athletes that do really cool things on the field of play and, at the same time, have their priorities straight in their late
teens and early 20's...
It's kids who had nothing or, in some cases- less than nothing- and are making something of themselves. There are political prisoners, emigres, third-world families, and such that see something in this country and decide to make something of themselves...
And for the sixth, and last, time the football championship was in Rome, Georgia- about 90 minutes north of HQ. It's heading to Daytona Beach for a three-year gig next season...
Grand View started a football program only six years ago, but they made it to the title game. University of the Cumberlands (KY) is from that Williamsburg I mentioned earlier and made it through the eastern gauntlet to play for a title for head coach John Bland.
FOSG Courtney Lyle had the preview
((HT: WBIR-TV))
Cumberlands had 18 athletes on their roster from the HQ's perview... and we knew the schools and the talent pools of all of them. Grand View, from Des Moines, announced that it will be creating a football team in the fall of 2008 with the hiring of Mike Woodley in July 2007. Woodley was head coach at Pasadena-Sam Rayburn (TX) High School and had a lot of Texas influence in his roster- as any growing program should... Woodley stated when he took the job: “Anybody who’s been in this business long enough knows that the opportunity to start a program from scratch is very rare. There are so many exhilarating things happening on campus with the addition of athletic programs, new student housing, and new buildings. Grand View is headed in the right direction, and I want to be a part of it." The team went from 2-7 in year one, to 8-3 in year two, and they haven't looked back...
Cumberlands was the site of the first-round playoff game the HQ attended a few years ago, and John Bland has created a monster in the Mid-South Conference. Scholarships have to be doled out over a lot of kids on any given roster and UC is no different...
"A lot of them have to pay for school on their own. These guys make sacrifices, tremendous sacrifices," says University of the Cumberlands head coach John Bland told WBIR-TV earlier this week. "A high percentage have work study jobs, well over 50%"
"I mow yards, pressure washing, landscaping and stuff," said senior, linebacker Weston Hazelhurst.
"My job is in my dorm, I work in the Rob Cooke computer labs." said junior, running back D'Angelo Jordan.
"I think its kind of difficult for us to do school, work, work study, and football. I think we're some special guys to be able to do something like that," explained Hazelhurst.
And that's what makes the NAIA special...
There are tremendous athletes that, on rare occasions, make it to the NFL. But, in reality, these guys are playing on their last level of organized football...
And that's what makes title games like these special...
You find out about guys like Derek Fulton, Adam Craig, Jordan, Jason Gladfeldner, and Hazlehurst...
You learn, through your time in the NAIA about talented QB's like Josh Hollingsworth at Faulkner- and hope he gets a chance to show his stuff... somewhere...
And for the record, Grand View adds their name to Rome's title game history with the likes of USD, Carroll, Saint X, and Marion (IN) for wins in Barron Stadium.
It will be interesting to see how football continues to grow from here...
Here's the highlights...
((HT: Grand View their own selves))
The HQ has had its hands in the NAIA for a few years now, and we enjoy our time there...
It's towns like Williamsburg, Barbourville, Central, Pulaski, McKenzie and, at the same time, places like Jackson, Montgomery, New Orleans, Hattiesburg, and Georgetown (Kentucky, not DC)...
It's athletes that do really cool things on the field of play and, at the same time, have their priorities straight in their late
It's kids who had nothing or, in some cases- less than nothing- and are making something of themselves. There are political prisoners, emigres, third-world families, and such that see something in this country and decide to make something of themselves...
And for the sixth, and last, time the football championship was in Rome, Georgia- about 90 minutes north of HQ. It's heading to Daytona Beach for a three-year gig next season...
Grand View started a football program only six years ago, but they made it to the title game. University of the Cumberlands (KY) is from that Williamsburg I mentioned earlier and made it through the eastern gauntlet to play for a title for head coach John Bland.
FOSG Courtney Lyle had the preview
((HT: WBIR-TV))
Cumberlands had 18 athletes on their roster from the HQ's perview... and we knew the schools and the talent pools of all of them. Grand View, from Des Moines, announced that it will be creating a football team in the fall of 2008 with the hiring of Mike Woodley in July 2007. Woodley was head coach at Pasadena-Sam Rayburn (TX) High School and had a lot of Texas influence in his roster- as any growing program should... Woodley stated when he took the job: “Anybody who’s been in this business long enough knows that the opportunity to start a program from scratch is very rare. There are so many exhilarating things happening on campus with the addition of athletic programs, new student housing, and new buildings. Grand View is headed in the right direction, and I want to be a part of it." The team went from 2-7 in year one, to 8-3 in year two, and they haven't looked back...
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