Latest Brian Cook Stories

• Various Unimportant Badgers Now Unimportant Ex-Badgers
• By Brian Cook 3/04/2009 4:20 PM ET
• Ah, March, that time of year when various people you've never heard of pop up on your radar screen solely to inform you they no longer exist as entities that you had little chance of knowing even ... More »
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• Sam Maresh Suffers Another Setback
• By Brian Cook 2/18/2009 1:47 PM ET
• You may recall the strange, sad story of Minnesota linebacker recruit Sam Maresh, a burly young man who seemingly saw his nascent football career ended by a heart defect that required open-heart ... More »
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• Ohio State Really, Really Wants Terrelle Pryor to Stay Healthy
• By Brian Cook 1/29/2009 11:56 PM ET
• Okay, that headline is not exactly news. It's up there with "points good to win foot-ball" as far as things you already know. But perhaps the news here is the vast extent to which Ohio State's hopes ... More »
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• DeWayne Walker Has Lingo Problems
• By Brian Cook 1/28/2009 8:47 AM ET
• After last year's oversigning kerfuffle it's gotten to the point where people are emailing me the various malfeasances of coaches in search of hot young things with the expectation head will asplode ... More »
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• No, Rich Rodriguez Didn't Make $6.6 Million Last Year
• By Brian Cook 1/22/2009 6:25 PM ET
• This statement on how much Rich Rodriguez was paid last year, while technically true, is a vast misrepresentation: In the 1970s, Col. Steve Austin became a household name as the lead character in the ... More »
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• Early Signing Period: Loved By Coaches, Hated By Conferences
• By Brian Cook 1/21/2009 12:31 PM ET
• Recruiting starts earlier every year and gets more coverage every year. Those trends combine to bring a record number of decommitments every year, annoying fans and coaches, but apparently not ... More »
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• Ed Podolak 'Retires' From Iowa Gig After Enjoying Women, Beer
• By Brian Cook 1/14/2009 12:09 PM ET
• Hawkeye football announcer Ed Podolak likes Budweiser and, er, the inside of ladies' shirts. As you can see above, there's now photographic proof thanks to some Iowa State fan who took the above ... More »
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• Lane Kiffin Likes to Gamble, Hates Already-Committed Five Star Quarterbacks
• By Brian Cook 1/13/2009 10:57 PM ET
• Take it from a Michigan fan: one thing you do not want to do as a first- or second-year head coach is throw out a walk-on or freshman at quarterback. Death follows, and quickly. So, yeah, I think ... More »
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• Feeling the Pressure, Steve Spurrier Gets Down and Dirty
• By Brian Cook 1/13/2009 6:10 PM ET
• Last year there was an enormous blowup in the blogosphere about whether or not Nick Saban's massive over-signing was ethical or not. A few months, one Jimmy Johns nose-candy arrest, and a half-dozen ... More »
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• Mark May Cannot Grasp Concepts Like Math
• By Brian Cook 1/08/2009 10:03 PM ET
• Don't know if anyone's watching the ESPN halftime show, which is sort of like MTV's annual attempt to steal viewers during the Super Bowl halftime, except instead of hot gyrating babes you get Lou ...
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• Boston College: Hire Charlie Strong or Die
• By Brian Cook 1/07/2009 4:27 PM ET
• So you're a moderately successful ACC program in a state where the college football prospects all wear skates and drop their Rs. You've just fired a guy for having the temerity to interview with an ...
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• Joe Paterno's Statue Is More Realistic, Less Hallowed Than You Think
• By Brian Cook 1/06/2009 8:51 AM ET
• What's your instant reaction to this bit of hijinks? COACH Joe Paterno's glasses are classics in their own right, and now somebody has taken the glasses from the Paterno statue at Beaver ...
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• Gene DiFilippo: Worst AD This Year, or Worst in the History of Ever?
• By Brian Cook 1/05/2009 12:34 PM ET
• The hottest new trend of 2008 and 2009 appears to be a diseased athletic department. See: West Virginia, Rich Rodriguez, and Bill Stewart or Auburn, Tommy Tuberville, and Gene Chizik. You can add ...
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• The Gene Chizik Hire Through the Prism of Lizard Consumption
• By Brian Cook 1/02/2009 3:31 PM ET
• Or: Youtube videos as modern-day editorial cartoons. Somewhere in the four-minute video below of an ample Auburn fan being goaded into eating a ketchup-dipped lizard is a parable for all folks liable ...
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• Rage, Rage Against the Slight Shortening of College Football Games
• By Brian Cook 12/19/2008 1:45 PM ET
• In the offseason the NCAA decided to change its clock rules for the third consecutive year, implementing a 40-second clock a la the NFL and allowing the clock to run on an out-of-bounds play after the ...
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• Places You Can Catch the BCS Championship Game in 3D
• By Brian Cook 12/18/2008 9:32 AM ET
• So there's some company that's producing sporting events in 3D, and they've picked the BCS championship game for one of their first major test runs. Should be interesting. The halftime feature on Tim ...
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• Urban Meyer Sort of Retracts Notre Dame Dream Job Comments
• By Brian Cook 12/17/2008 4:06 PM ET
• A couple weeks ago Urban Meyer sent a couple fanbases into a tizzy when he said Notre Dame remained his "dream job" and that he could see himself coaching there down the road. Naturally, this made ...
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• Surprise: Gary Danielson Upset at Tebow Diss
• By Brian Cook 12/17/2008 1:30 PM ET
• Raise your hand if you saw a Gary Danielson hissy fit coming after the Tebow Child was inexplicably passed over for the Heisman by a guy with 18 more touchdown passes than he has. Okay, that's ...
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• Humanitarian Bowl Ticket Sales In The Dozens
• By Brian Cook 12/15/2008 2:26 PM ET
• No, seriously. Buried at the end of a positive article on the Humanitarian Bowl "hoping for a big turnout" that matches the whopping 26,000 that showed last year is this stark reminder of what ...
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• Everybody Hates Gene Chizik
• By Brian Cook 12/14/2008 12:30 PM ET
• At right, Track 'Em Tigers reacts to the Chizik hire. It's been clear that the people running Auburn's athletic department were kind of petulant little babies for a while now -- ever since the Petrino ...
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