After Adam Rittenberg over at the Big Ten and Brian Bennett in the Big East, it’s now the Big 12’s turn to take a look at the top three-headed monsters in the conference. I may have snuck a fourth or fifth head on a couple of these, but the name of the game is skill positions. 1. Texas A&M QB: Jerrod Johnson RB: Christine Michael and Cyrus Gray WR: Jeff Fuller and Uzoma Nwachukwu What’s so scary about them: Size, speed and skill. These guys have lots of all of it. Johnson was built to be a quarterback at 6-foot-5 and 243 pounds, with fast wheels to match his arm — one of the strongest in the conference. Michael and Gray are a pair of backs with low centers of gravity — especially Michael — who split carries evenly and combined for 1,601 yards on the ground. Johnson threw for 3,579 yards and added 506 rushing yards. At 6-foot-4, Fuller is a perfect red zone target with speed who’s also tough to bring down in the secondary. He and Nwachukwu combined for 13 touchdown catches in 2009. 2. Oklahoma QB: Landry Jones RB: DeMarco Murray WR: Ryan Broyles What’s so scary about them: Lots of points and lots of yards. Murray and Broyles contributed to the best offense in college football history in 2008, and Jones threw for more than 3,000 yards last season in his first year as a starter. Jones didn’t take all the first-team practice snaps until the last half of the year after Sam Bradford underwent season-ending surgery. Jones must limit his interceptions (14, tied for the nation’s fifth-most) and Murray must stay healthy, but the entire group has to learn how to take their act away from Owen Field, where they lost all five games in 2009.
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Former Longhorn and current Tennessee Titans quarterback Chris Simms was arrested this morning in New York City on charges of driving while stoned, the New York Post has reported. According to the story: Simms, 29, of Nashville, was stopped
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So the Big East survived intact during this summer’s conference realignment craze. Great. Breathe a sigh of relief for the league. But the Big East still has issues to worry about. Topping the list is the growing revenue gap between it and the other power leagues. The conference shakeups simply made many of the rich richer. The Big Ten is handing out more than $20 million per team thanks to the Big Ten Network. The Big 12 gave sweetheart deals to Oklahoma and Texas that will allow those schools to make nearly that much. The Pac-10 is seeking a much bigger TV deal with Colorado and Utah added to the mix. The ACC reportedly doubled its previous media deal this spring. Meanwhile, the Big East’s current TV rights package lasts until 2013, and the league’s payout to its teams are being dwarfed by the other BCS conferences. Fanhouse’s Brett McMurphy has an excellent series this week looking at finances in college sports, and in one installment he lists the revenue generated from every BCS auto-bid conference team. The list should make Big East fans shudder. The numbers, based on the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics report for the 2008-09 year, show that only five BCS teams failed to make a profit off their football teams for that year. Three of them — Rutgers, UConn and Syracuse — are from the Big East. (And the other two, Duke and Wake Forest, are not exactly the kind of powerhouse programs the Big East wants to emulate). The report says Rutgers broke even — and certainly, stadium expansion made a dent in the program’s expenses that year — while UConn lost $270,000 and Syracuse was $840,000 in the red. The Big East’s most profitable program was West Virginia, which ranked 28th overall at just over $13 million. The next league program on the list was Louisville at No. 45 ($7.43 million), followed by No. 52 Pitt ($5.57 million), No. 55 South Florida ($3.79 million) and No. 60 Cincinnati ($940,000 profit in a year in which the Bearcats made the Orange Bowl). Now compare those to the sport’s true big boys. Top dog Texas made a whopping $65 million, or more than twice as much as all the profitable Big East teams combined . Seven SEC schools rank in the Top 16, all at more than $20 million. Four Big Ten schools made more than $27 million each. Those dollar figures could get larger for the cream of the crop after conference realignment, while the Big East profit numbers will stay about the same for the next few years. The reasons are obvious; the bigger schools have larger stadiums and better TV deals. As I’ve noted before, no Big East team ranks in the top 30 of home attendance . Big East commissioner John Marinatto has said improving the league’s media rights fees is his top priority. He has hired former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue as a consultant in this area, and the conference is studying all options, including starting its own network or partnering with other entities for a sports-and-entertainment style channel. Big East teams should be commended for remaining as competitive as they are on the field despite the tremendous cash disparity. Doing more with less could be the league’s motto. But it’s clear that whether the league loses teams to other conferences in the future or maintains the status quo, it needs to find more ways to generate revenue
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Alabama senior quarterback Greg McElroy will be making a return visit to the Massing Passing Academy next week on the campus of Nicholls State in Thibodaux, La. McElroy was also a counselor a year ago at the popular camp, which is run by SEC legend Archie Manning and his two famous quarterback sons, Peyton and Eli. Archie Manning said earlier this week that the other SEC quarterbacks scheduled to work this year’s camp are LSU’s Jordan Jefferson , Ole Miss’ Nathan Stanley and Tennessee’s Matt Simms. Arkansas’ Ryan Mallett was also originally scheduled to be there, but had to pull out because he’s still recovering from the broken bone in his foot, according to Archie Manning. While McElroy might have been a bit of an unknown last year at the camp, he won’t be this year. Not after leading Alabama to a 14-0 record and BCS national championship in his first year as a starter. But even last year, Archie Manning said it was pretty obvious with the way McElroy carried himself at the camp that he had the right stuff to effectively lead the Crimson Tide. McElroy reached the final round of the accuracy competition along with former Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford and Texas A&M’s Jerrod Johnson . “Greg just had a great presence about him,” Archie Manning said. “I think we all had a good feeling about him coming out of that week that he was going to be fine. You never know for sure, but there was certainly a presence about him. “And even though he didn’t have any on-the-field experience, he’d been there. They had a good team around him with a great running game, so they didn’t throw him to the wolves and didn’t have a lot of third-and-12s. He’s smart and carried himself well throughout the season.” The college quarterbacks working the camp will arrive next Thursday and work out with Peyton and Eli Manning that first day. Then on the final day of the camp, they will participate in skills competitions.
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Senior DE Sam Acho has returned from his medical mission trip to Nigeria with his family and several teammates and caught up with MB-TF.com.
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No. 2: Case Keenum , QB, Houston 2009 numbers: Led the nation in total offense for the second consecutive season with 416.36 yards per game. He also led the nation with 5,671 passing yards. Making the case for Keenum: Keenum was fun to watch last year because of his ability to lead his team back in almost any situation. He started to gain national recognition after come-from-behind wins against Oklahoma State and Texas Tech, but some key mistakes during the conference season and at the end of the year eliminated his name from Heisman contention. However, he’ll be on the watch list again this year especially with all of his offensive weapons returning. Keenum completed 70.2 percent of his passes and threw 44 touchdowns.
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AUSTIN, Texas – Just weeks before her wedding to No. 12, Rachel Glandorf, a 6-foot, lean and blonde Baylor University graduate, appears calm and relaxed on a late June afternoon despite her serious to-do list, which includes officially becoming an NFL … Source: Dallas Morning News
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Miss your team’s mailbag? Here’s the first two: Texas Tech Texas A&M On with the show… Dan St. Peter, Minn. asks: Who do you think has/had more pressure put on them, Freshman Colt McCoy following VY’s run into glory or Grapes (GG) following his…um…encounter with the Alabama Defense?Do you think the “lights will be to bright for him” as they were for Nebraska’s Cody Green or will he deliver as a freshman? DU: First off, Grapes is a fantastic nickname. Although, it opens up the Horns to some too-easy jokes every time he gets sacked about what’s eating him. And I can only assume you’d have to pay Johnny Depp some royalties. I’m sure no one wants to get into that. But to your question: It’s Gilbert. The hopes were high for McCoy, but no one expected him to do what Vince did. Even though he never got that national title, he was arguably as good overall as Vince was, even though they were very different quarterbacks. Now, the folks in Austin have seen that legends can be replaced and that it’s possible for Gilbert to be as good as McCoy—and he might be. No pressure, just replace the quarterback with the most wins in the history of college football. I don’t think “the lights will be too bright,” but like McCoy in his first year (Ohio State, Texas A&M), Gilbert’s going to have his bad days and forgettable games alongside his memorable ones. But unlike McCoy, he’ll have a top-notch defense to fall back on and help the Longhorns “down year” be pretty high. The Longhorn defense finished 24 th nationally in scoring and total defense when McCoy was a freshman. I’d be shocked if Texas was that low this year. Eric in Dallas, Texas asks: Which running back actually steps up to take some of the load off Gilbert, and will Texas stick with the running game if Gilbert proves he is consistent and reliable?………..Or will Texas ditch running the ball around the UCLA game, only to try and revive it after OU takes a halftime lead in the RRR? DU: Tre’ Newton and Fozzy Whittaker should receive the bulk of the carries, but I think the distribution will vary game-to-game based solely on who’s being more productive
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Mailbag: All Longhorns edition
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Aaron Fitt July 2, 2010 OMAHA—About 14,000 people packed Colonial Life Arena in downtown Columbia on Wednesday afternoon to welcome home South Carolina ’s first national championship team. Fans then packed downtown Columbia Friday for a championsh Source: Baseball America
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Looking Ahead: Eight For Omaha 2011
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Texas A&M catcher Meagan May will miss some coveted opportunities with a couple of national softball teams this month, but she counts herself fortunate nevertheless. May, from Spring, was en route to visit a friend in Buda on Sunday afternoon when she a Source: Austin American-Statesman
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