About

Dave is one of Bleacher Report's College Football National Featured Columnists.
Previous sports writing experience include a staff sports writer position with a university newspaper, as well as other on-line and print publications.
Named a B/R College Football Featured Columnist in 2009.
You can follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/davidrluther

Short List

  • Favorite Athletes

    Anyone who can speak in complete sentences, and does so with class.

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    GVSU, Detroit Red Wings

  • Favorite Coaches

    Chuck Martin, Scotty Bowman, Brian Kelly

  • All Time Sports Moment

    GVSU defeating Michigan State in men's basketball in double OT at the Breslin Center in 2007.

  • Most Memorable Game Attended

    2005 NCAA Division II Football National Championship Game

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    GVSU Basketball's NCAA (All Divisions) current active streak of consecutive games with a three-point field goal. (Somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,100 games).

  • Ruth or Mays?

    Ruth

  • Unitas or Montana?

    Montana (Go Irish!)

  • Jordan or Russell?

    Jordan

  • Gretzky or Orr?

    Orr

  • Pele or Maradona?

    Neither! (Football is played with pads and a helmet!)

  • Federer or Sampras?

    Sampras

  • Tiger or Nicklaus?

    Nicklaus

  • Petty or Earnhardt?

    Neither! (Left turn... left turn... left turn... left turn...)

  • Schumacher or Senna?

    Schumacher

  • ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 or SEC?

    Big Ten

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  • john collins posted 5 days ago

    john collins

    I enjoyed your article on the 4 Super Conferences but have one question. I understand 3 of your 4 conferences would be the Pac12, the Big Ten and SEC. I can't figure out what the fourth would be and what teams would make out that conference. Very confusing.

  • David Luther posted 18 days ago

    David Luther

    @Douglas: Thanks for the comments.
    My take on Texas and Mack Brown has less to do with his record (141-39) and more to do with his lack of championship success.
    And for the record, Bob Stoops is 139-34 in 13 seasons; ahead of Brown's pace.
    And Stoops has seven Big 12 titles to Brown's two.
    By any measure, Brown can't even be called the best coach in the Big 12.
    Again, it depends on how you define success, and for my purposes, I'm comparing him to his contemporary—Bob Stoops—and he's coming up a bit short.

  • Douglas Beall posted 18 days ago

    Douglas Beall

    David, I generally agree with your takes but beg to differ with your comment that the Longhorns have been more miss than hit under Mack Brown. He has won 140+ games in his 14 years and there can't be many coaches that can match that record.

  • Christopher Lowery posted 26 days ago

    Christopher Lowery

    I enjoyed your CFB stadium "bucket list." However, as far as the Cotton Bowl is concerned, I believe they were host not to the Dallas Cowboys, but rather the Dallas Texans(now KC Chiefs). Also, I would have included the annual Texas-OU game.

  • Rigor Mortis posted 41 days ago

    Rigor Mortis

    Sommebodddieees Jealous!!!!!!

  • Charlie Arndt posted 44 days ago

    Charlie Arndt

    It's downright disgusting the people who B/R allows to write so called articles. Jag-off.

  • Cynthia Moore posted 44 days ago

    Cynthia Moore

    who asked you?

  • Dennis Nunez posted 44 days ago

    Dennis Nunez

    Big Ten homers are just so desperate to find some rationalization for why the Big Ten is not inferior to the SEC...........

    http://www.rollbamaroll.com/2010/7/26/1582868/the-mnc-examining-the-dual-poll-era

    Here is the quote from the above referenced article (that you should probably read) illustrating that you don't know what the hell your talking about:

    "That means exactly half of the 26 champions crowned under these rules [Dual Poll Era NC's] either didn't even participate in a bowl game or lost their bowl game after being crowned national champion, while only half actually went on to win a bowl game."

  • Woody Hayes posted 44 days ago

    Woody Hayes

    As for Ohio State: "a systemic problem of repeatedly breaking the rules" - are you kidding me? Seriously? Tattoogate was tattoogate and Tressel paid for his sins, and is still paying for his sins. This is a program that has one of the highest graduation rates in big time CFB, has had very very few run-ins with the law, sends kids to the NFL and produces Big Ten title after title. We want the program to be clean and by and large it has been. Yes, Gene Smith should be let go and what he said was moronic; but look at Tressel's full body of work. There is no way that this was a "systemic problem" of repeatedly breaking the rules. The car thing turned out to be nothing. NADA. DiGoralamo over paid a few kids working on his construction crew -- paid them union wages rather than summer wages . You had tattoogate and a few overpayments by a rogue booster and that was it. C'mon, man. Are you really a Wolverine fan? Is that why you continually bash Ohio State?.

  • David Durham posted 73 days ago

    David Durham

    Ive looked at your whole list and you dont know very much about college football obviously...four of Bama national titles are dubious at best? youve lost your rabbit ass mind... there are four that should have been counted more like it...1966 should have been 3 in a row for Bama...we were the only team to go undfeated and untied and was the 2 time defending champs...now thats robbery...look you and every other hater just know this Bama has every major record...most national titles and most bowl wins and apperances...ROLL TIDE

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