April 2009 - Posts
Although to little fanfare, the odds for the next college football national champion come out in mid-January, a week or so after the crystal football gets hoisted into the air. As you can see, betting on “futures” waits for no one, however, we prefer to wait at least until after spring ball wraps up to take a look.
According to Bodog, here are the current odds to win the next BCS title:
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At Florida, Oklahoma and Texas, they’ve got no worries about their quarterback. Nearly everywhere else in the country, however, there’s no shortage of quarterback questions. Here’s 20 that come to mind as spring practice has concluded at most schools around the nation.
Is there any tougher assignment than replacing Pat White at West Virginia? No matter what the circumstances -- unbalanced squad division or not -- how valuable is the confidence gained by Jarrett Brown after completing his first 15 passes in last Saturday’s Gold-Blue scrimmage?
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I didn’t get a chance to tune into the Georgia’s “G-Day Game” last Saturday. Since I was vacationing in Honolulu at the time, the telecast was on too early for me. Had it been on at a more convenient time, I probably would have passed on it anyway, in favor of dozens of other things. Having already seen hundreds of college football practices, I’m usually in no rush to take in another, especially on television.
I’m sure there were no shortage of viewers hungry to devour a slice of college football in April. And if that’s your situation, it’s hard to do any better than checking out what’s going in between the hedges.
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Ahh spring practice ... a time of so many questions ... and, in most cases, far fewer answers, even after the last scrimmage. Nowhere in the country is this more true than in the Big Ten, where question marks are as plentiful as mopeds in Madison. Here’s 20 to start with.
After watching Javon Ringer tote the rock seemingly a million times in his career -- 843 carries to be more exact -- what will Michigan State fans do when they don’t see No. 23 lined up in the backfield? Will spring practice produce any successors or will the Spartans have to wait until August to see if incoming freshmen Edwin Baker and Larry Caper pan out?
Although Kirk Ferentz has a host of other issues to sort out, who will be his new workhouse in the backfield now that another No. 23, Shonn Greene, no longer calls Iowa City home?
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When Larry Scott settles into his corner office in Walnut Creek, Calif., on July 1, and officially takes over as the Pacific-10 Conference commissioner, he’ll have several pressing football issues to tackle.
The current chairman and CEO of the Women’s Tennis Association certainly knows his way around sponsorship and broadcasting discussions. Hopefully, he knows a thing or two about football, which is the league’s biggest problem.
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