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SEC Coaches NCAA APR Rankings
Ed: Promoted. Yesterday the NCAA released single-year Academic Progress Rates for Division I head coaches. You probably saw a story this morning about it in your local paper (or its corresponding website) touting your team's success or lack therof in these rankings. According to the NCAA, the APR...
The Way We Were (A Duck Fan's History of Suffering) - Part 5: 1993.. The Last Lost Season
1993: The Last Lost Season Before the first game of 1993, Rich Brooks was touting his team as a Rose Bowl contender. Which it probably could have been, considering the talent returning from the '92 team that finished 8-4. And, there was turmoil in Seattle, as Don James decided during fall practice...
The Way We Were (A Duck Fan's History of Suffering) - Part 4: 1983 -- The Bottom Is Reached
In 1983, reserved seats at Autzen sold for $11.50. GA was $6; RV parking was $5, and you could pretty much count on planting your Winnebago wherever you wanted. The Stadium Club atop the east end of the stadium was finally completed, but there was no Moz, no Cas, no practice field, no baseball...
The Way We Were (A Duck Fan's History of Suffering): Part 3 - New Coach Goes 0-33
This is the story of the three years Oregon went 0-11. You say that can't be true? That all the records say the team has never gone winless? Let me tell you a story about all that. ** Once upon a time, long long ago.. OK, thirty years ago.. there was an ambitious young football coach named Rich...
The Way We Were (A Duck Fan's History of Suffering) - Part 2: The Paycheck Games
Ed. Note: If you haven't read it already, make sure to check out Part 1. Paycheck games. Non-conference matchups at the home field of the top tier of college football, wherein a Team That Needs The Money is offered as a sacrifice to The Team That Is Willing To Pay for a Guaranteed Win. TTNTM comes...
SB Nation SEC blogs provide unique coverage of the 2009 SEC Media Days
SB Nation blogs Team Speed Kills and Rocky Top Talk received credentials to cover the recent SEC Media Days in Hoover, Alabama. On Tuesday evening, cocknfire of TSK hosted a special Media Days preview on the Team Speed Kills Now podcast, with Joel of RTT co-hosting until saying nice things about...
A response to Mark Story
As you may know, Mark Story wrote a column the other day about Brooks' recent complaints vis a vis fan behavior. First off, I want to say that this is in no way a bash of Mark Story -- he is a good writer and I am a fan of his. This response was written by ukfastcat, who sent it to Mark in an...
We've Come a Long Way, ATQ
The VD Special, over at Building the Dam, had a great post giving a short history of the Oregon State program and I thought it would be a good time to reflect on some moments over the same timeframe at Oregon. Oregon has had long-tenured coaches during the last 60 years including Len Casanova, Rich...
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