A Jersey Guy: Where are the adults in CFB?
Coach Nick vs. Jimbo, Chapter?? By now, if you are a college football, you are aware of the verbal jousting between Alabama coach Nick Saban and Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher, who also is a former Saban assistant. My TMG partner, Mr. College Football, Tony Barnhart, provides an ...read more
Mr. CFB: Both Fisher And Saban Were Wrong
It has been my great fortune to cover college football for over 40 years. And in that time, I have seen just about everything—good and bad--the sport has to offer. But as we gather today brothers and sisters, I must confess that I have never seen anything quite like the ...read more
A Jersey Guy: CFB needs to regain control
It is spring, which in the world of college football means spring meetings to prepare for another season. They are held in posh resorts in the desert and on beach front communities in Florida, where ideas spill out in challenge on the golf course and are mopped up over adult ...read more
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Memo to College Football: Heal Thyself.
When 2022 began, I made a New Year’s resolution to follow the adage, ``If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all’’ about college football. . . Even though I knew that would probably mean the emphasis would be on not saying anything at all. That was ...read more
A Jersey Guy: BC needs new leadership
These are turbulent times at The Heights in athletics. Oh, you can't see anything that is visible, but that's the way they like to do things at Boston College, the less people know about their business the better. And it is early May, when tranquility usually prevails. On the ...read more
A Jersey Guy: Show me the $$$ world of CFB is here
We are going to show you three Top 10 lists from the wide and wacky world of college football. List 1 1.Georgia 2 Alabama 3. Michigan 4. Ohio State 5. Cincinnati 6. Baylor 7.Oklahoma State 8. Notre Dame 9. Michigan State 10. Utah. List 2 1. Alabama 2. Ohio State 3. Georgia 4. ...read more
Remembering Mike Royko: Peerless Columnist, Softball Player and Friend.
In Chicago, they are marking the 25th anniversary of the death of Mike Royko, who left us on April 29, 1997, when he was just 64. This is bringing back a flood of memories. Mike—or Mr. Big, as he liked us to call him—was a childhood hero of mine who became a mentor and dear ...read more
A Jersey Guy: BC needs stability in leadership
The cliche you hear most often when describing success in athletic departments is stability in leadership. How would you describe the stability factor for this Power 5 conference school : 6 football and men's basketball coaches and 4 athletic directors over the past decade? Not ...read more
Will New Rule Finally Deal With Fake Injuries in College Football?
Last week the NCAA Football Rules Committee released a group of new rules for the 2022 football season. For the most part it was pretty basic stuff. They changed the targeting rule so that if a player gets kicked out of the second half of a game, his conference can appeal the ...read more
A Jersey Guy: CFB calm before the storm
Traditionally, late April and early May is the time of year when college football can catch its breath. Spring football is over, summer camp is still several weeks away and even the workaholic coaches such as Alabama's Nick Saban retreat to their non football outposts. But these ...read more
A Jersey G[uy: Wright's retirement a sign of the times
The announcement stunned some people, surprised others. It shouldn't have. When Villanova basketball coach Jay Wright made the announcement on Tuesday that he was retiring at the age of 60, college basketball lost one of its superstar head coaches. The void created by the ...read more
A Lot of Questions Remain As Spring Ball Winds Down in the SEC
Okay, I’ll confess. I haven’t been to a college football spring game for quite a while. The fact is that you don’t learn a lot from a spring game and that, of course, is by design. The coaches know that their opponents are watching for any little nugget of information that could ...read more
A Jersey Guy: Jerry York was the best of the best
The announcement came as a surprise, not a shock. It was done--in a style so typical of the man--without fanfare, without the belles and whistles which are now being rung as Jerry York moves into the next phase of his life, ending his tenure as the Boston College men's hockey ...read more
A Jersey Guy: Tsunami warning for CFB and CBB
Right now it is tranquility base time in college basketball, The aftermath of a fabulous Final Four and NCAA tournament are still being felt, as well as the by-products of the bluest of blue blood Final Fours, which produced an epic title game with Kansas edging out North ...read more
A Jersey Guy: Can Tiger Master a Miracle Comeback?
It had been ;more than 500 days since we've seen the competitive fist pump, signifying a Tiger Woods birdie or eagle. The pre-Masters' conversations regarding Wood's recovery and comeback from a near-fatal and potentially career-ending automobile accident 14 months, focused on ...read more
A Jersey Guy: Kansas makes historic run
Let them have their one shining moment. They earned it. Rock Chalk Jayhawk, Kansas. IIn the end, after the nostalgic hysteria about Coach K's farewell tour had been doused, after the Cinderella shoes worn by Saint Peters' had been put back in the closet, and after No. 8 seed ...read more
A Jersey Guy: "Underdog'' Carolina can win it all
With one game remaining in the 2022 college basketball season, No. 8 seed North Carolina looks tougher than the rest. National championship game North Carolina over Kansas--Hard to fathom that month ago, the Tar Heels were an NCAA tournament :"bubble'' team. Normally following ...read more
A Jersey Guy: Final Four Picks
Went 3-1 last week, with only Miami failing to follow our suggestion. Game 1 Kansas over Villanova--Would love to stick with Villanova, but the Wildcats don't have paw power to match the Jayhawks. Game 2 Duke over North Carolina--I'm not going to ruin the story line for Coach K. ...read more
A Jersey Guy: A Scripted Finale for Coach K?
It is all scripted of course, ready for a Monday night conclusion in the Super Dome with Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski cutting down the nets as the Blue Devils celebrate their sixth national championship in Coach K's last game.. With that victory over (fill in the blank) Kansas or ...read more