1. West Virginia Football: Ranking the Mountaineers' Best Offensive Weapons

    In 2012, it was easy to identify the top offensive playmakers on the West Virginia football team. Receivers Tavon Austin and Stedman Bailey were both locks to post 1,000-plus ...

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  2. Bleacher Report's College Football Offseason Survival Guide

    We are officially entering college football’s Bermuda Triangle: The dreadful offseason dead zone between spring games, summer practices and the far away beaches of the 2013 opening weekend, starting on August 29...

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  3. Is Fear Driving Jim Delany's Leadership of the Big Ten?

    When Jim Delany’s head hits the pillow at night, the Big Ten Conference commissioner dreams of his own college football utopia...

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  4. West Virginia Football: All-Time Best Recruit at Each Position

    Every college football program has a list of infamous recruits who were billed as superstars that would change the future of their teams—and West Virginia is no different...

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  5. College Football: Debunking the Relevance of Spring Games

    The books are officially closed on college football’s annual teaser season. And just like a 30-second teaser trailer for a two-hour blockbuster film keeps cinema fans guessing, ...

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  6. West Virginia Football: Post Spring Game Two-Deep Depth Chart

    We're back with our latest installment of West Virginia football depth-chart predictions. Now that spring practice is all said and done, we're going to take another stab at what the Mountaineers depth chart may look like this fall...

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  7. Texas A&M Football: Meet Johnny Football's New Mentor, Jake Spavital

    Last spring—long before Johnny Manziel became widely known as “Johnny Football”—a coach dropped Manziel ’s name in conversation with a beat writer, ...

    Alex Sims Written by Alex Sims about 27 days ago 2,384 reads 19 comments

  8. How Bear Bryant Became the Branch Rickey of Alabama Football

    “I wanted to be the Branch Rickey of football.” That is what legendary Alabama head coach Paul “Bear” Bryant told B.J. Phillips of TIME Magazine just three years before he passed away in 1983...

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  9. West Virginia Football 2013 Spring Game: QB Battle Will Come Down to the Wire

    The West Virginia football 2013 spring game saw the emergence of a few new names for the Mountaineers and provided at least a partial answer to many of the questions in the minds ...

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  10. West Virginia Football: Winners and Losers of 2013 Spring Game

    The West Virginia Gold-Blue spring football game left many questions unanswered going into the 2013 summer session, as the defense emerged as the 41-33 victors at Milan Puskar Stadium...

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  11. West Virginia Football 2013 Spring Game: Live Analysis, Notes and Recap

    Final: Blue (Defense) 41, Gold (Offense) 33 The defense—yes, the defense—emerged victorious at West Virginia's 2013 Gold-Blue spring game on Saturday afternoon in Morgantown ...

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  12. Texas Tech's Kliff Kingsbury Leading Youth Movement for College Football Coaches

    It was all a dream. Or at least it used to be. Not long ago, most young coaching hopefuls only dreamed of nabbing a high-profile head coaching job while in their early 30s...

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  13. West Virginia Football: Week 4 Spring Practice Stock Report

    The first 2013 West Virginia football depth chart is finally here as a precursor to the upcoming Gold-Blue spring game on April 20...

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  14. West Virginia Football: Week 3 Spring Practice Stock Report

    Welcome to the latest installment of our spring practice stock report, as we continue to hammer out what this fall's West Virginia football squad may look like...

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  15. Jim Delany's Pay for Play Threat May Be Empty, but That Doesn't Make Him Wrong

    Talk is cheap, but the prospect of paying athletes isn’t. Jim Delany, the verbose commissioner of the Big Ten Conference knows this...

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  16. 7 Ways You Know You're a West Virginia Mountaineers Fan

    West Virginia's Mountaineer Nation is one of the proudest and most passionate fanbases in all of college sports...

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  17. West Virginia Football: Week 1 Spring Practice Stock Report

    Very few names were dropped by the West Virginia football coaching staff after the first week of the Mountaineers' 2013 spring practice, so the stock is relatively stagnant in the early going...

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  18. West Virginia Football: Complete Pro Day Results and Analysis

    Nearly all 32 NFL teams were represented at the 2013 West Virginia football pro day on March 14 in Morgantown, as Mountaineer stars Geno Smith, Tavon Austin, Stedman Bailey and others ...

    Alex Sims Written by Alex Sims about 2 months ago 6,288 reads 4 comments

  19. West Virginia Spring Game 2013: Date, Time Practice Schedule, TV Info

    Spring football is finally here and we can now take a look forward at the crucial month leading up to the 2013 West Virginia spring game. The Mountaineers will begin their spring football festivities on March 10...

    Alex Sims Written by Alex Sims about 3 months ago 4,523 reads 6 comments

  20. West Virginia Football: Position-by-Position Spring Practice Preview

    On March 10, the West Virginia football team will officially begin its 2013 spring practice. With spring ball rapidly approaching, it's time to take a quick peek at which position battles will be hashed out on the practice field over the coming months...

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  21. West Virginia Football: Why Ron Crook Is a Perfect Fit for O-Line Coach Vacancy

    Though the West Virginia football program is yet to officially announce that it has filled the offensive line coach vacancy, the perfect candidate may have been found in Stanford's Ron Crook...

    Alex Sims Written by Alex Sims about 3 months ago 3,899 reads 22 comments

  22. West Virginia Football: Way Too Early Game-by-Game Schedule Predictions for 2013

    After the departures of some of the best players in West Virginia football history, it is now time to look ahead and make some game-by-game predictions for the Mountaineers' 2013 schedule...

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  23. West Virginia Football: Why Tavon Austin Should Be First-Round Lock in NFL Draft

    Tavon Austin is arguably the best athlete ever to wear a West Virginia football uniform. And while he may lack prototypical NFL size, WVU's No. 1 should still be a first-round lock for the upcoming NFL draft...

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  24. West Virginia Football: 7 Underclassmen the Mountaineers Can Build Around

    Dana Holgorsen and the West Virginia football staff made a point to bring in a nice crop of junior college talent to immediately fill holes on the roster...

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  25. West Virginia Football: The Good and Bad of National Signing Day

    National signing day hasn't always been kind to the West Virginia football program. Recently, with last-minute losses and misses on key prospects, the Mountaineers have had more bad than good on college football's version of Christmas Day...

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