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.
Became a member of the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) in 2012.
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

    Detroit Red Wings

  • Favorite Coaches

    Scotty Bowman, Brian Kelly

  • All-Time Sports Moment

    Watching the Red Wings win the Stanley Cup in 1997.

  • Most Memorable Game Attended

    2005 NCAA Division II Football National Championship Game

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    Barry Bonds' home run record*.

  • Ruth or Mays?

    Ruth

  • Unitas or Montana?

    Montana

  • 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?

    All are great at something, all are terrible at something else.

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  • Jamie Leyndyke posted 13 days ago

    Jamie Leyndyke

    Great article about Michigan and Ohio State.
    Also loved your piece about college and NFL QB comparisons.
    You're a big hit with my coworkers at the office, too!

  • Josh Smith Sucks posted 13 days ago

    Josh Smith Sucks

    I just read your article comparing CFB QB's to NFL QB's and I gotta say.... you should really spend more time on your next article. I don't even know what your basis for the comparisons were. Statistics? Team success? Media attention? How about watching some film and making more accurate comparisons based on size, mobility, arm strength, throwing motion, playing style, deep ball, intermediate, and short accuracy, pre-snap reads, type of offense they play in, etc, etc. Aaron Murray compared to Tebow? Seriously? Those two could not be any more different. Mettenberger to Matt Ryan? Come on man....

  • Tim Eovino posted 29 days ago

    Tim Eovino

    David,

    While I agree with your tailgating article for the most part. I have to disagree about Iowa being flat. I was born and raised in Florida. Florida is flat. Iowa has beautiful rolling hills. Try walking a golf course in Iowa, and you will not call it flat again. Nebraska is flat. Iowa definitely has lots of cornfields, but if you have ever sat down to a pot full of hot steaming sweet corn in late summer and had a whole meal of just corn, you wouldn't call Iowa corn fields boring, God Bless the Farmers.

    Coacheo

  • Conn Edison posted 39 days ago

    Conn Edison

    You ever heard of the words "Editor" and "proofreading"

    The plane's wing game off

    . In face, he never even had a .500 season.

    his 28 seasons at head Buckeye

    His perceived underachievement on defense kept him in Bryant's doghouse, and eventually quit the team. (Note: apparently, Mr. Underachievement, quit the team)

    A record of 105-12-5 with three national titles over just 13 seasons, and had it not been of a plane crash that killed Rockne in early 1931, who knows just how lofty those numbers may have become.

  • Conn Edison posted 39 days ago

    Conn Edison

    You ever heard of the words "Editor" and "proofreading"

  • David Luther posted 47 days ago

    David Luther

    @Earl McClary: Couple of things. First, the list contained head coaches. While I thought about putting in coordinators, that opens up some flood gates. If I include one coordinator because he's assisting in turning a team around, I'd need to include ALL coordinators that are doing so.
    Secondly, Morris has been with Clemson since 2011. The Tigers didn't have a Top 25 offense in 2011. Things were notably better in 2012, but Clemson still ranked 36th in rush offense and 13thin pass offense in the FBS last season. So when I limit a list to seven coaches—all of whom are head coaches—I can't put the COORDINATOR from a team without a top ten passing or rushing offense on a list when guys in the top ten in both categories were left off.
    So, no, it wasn't an oversight. Sorry.

  • Earl McClary posted 47 days ago

    Earl McClary

    I think you left off one of the greatest offensive minds in college football today when you did not include Chad Morris the offensive coordinator at Clemson. Can you admit an oversight?

  • Buckeye-KuhnDog posted 139 days ago

    Buckeye-KuhnDog

    you are high if you think Spaty can beat Ohio State let alone make to the BIG 10 championship

  • hammer watts posted 145 days ago

    hammer watts

    Biased Notre Dame HOMER.

  • tennek raminex posted 199 days ago

    tennek raminex

    Seriously, regarding the Arizona State University colors: They are maroon and gold, not red and yellow.

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