Player Notes

Eugene Register-GuardFall camp begins Wednesday for the Oregon football team, which means the first game of the season — Sept. 2 against Portland State — is fast approaching.Picked to finish fourth in the Pac-12 in the preseason media poll, the Ducks get to work with higher expectations of what this season has in store in year two of the Dan Lanning era.Oregon went 10-3 last season with a thrilling ...

Jul 31, 2023In becoming Oklahoma State’s all-time winningest head football coach, Mike Gundy encountered numerous responsibilities. He still does.Gundy enters his 19th season at the Cowboy helm when preseason practices begin Wednesday. He has compiled a 156-75-0 overall record and a 95-61 Big 12 Conference record. Under Gundy, O-State won one Big 12 title (2011), has an 11-6 bowl game record and endured ...

The OklahomanNORMAN — OU coach Brent Venables and his coordinators — Jeff Lebby and Ted Roof — held their media day press conferences Tuesday at Gaylord Family — Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.The Sooners — coming off a 6-7 season, their first losing record since 1998 — open preseason camp Thursday as they look toward their Sept. 2 opener against Arkansas State.Here are some takeaways from the press conferences:OU ...

The OklahomanNORMAN — Faith has long been central to OU football coach Brent Venables’ life.Now, as his wife, Julie, is battling breast cancer, faith has become even more of a rock for Venables and his family to lean on."There's no blueprint on how you handle that but our real sanctuary and our true shelter is our faith," Venables said. "It's been nothing short of amazing the group of people that have ...

South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND — Johnny Lujack’s recent death at age 98 gave another son of Western Pennsylvania a chance to brag about the Notre Dame football legend.Offensive line coach Joe Rudolph, who grew up southeast of Pittsburgh in Belle Vernon, Pa., about 19 miles from Lujack’s hometown of Connellsville, took a few minutes out of position meetings last week to read from Lujack’s remarkable obituary.Rather ...

August 01, 2023 at 11:29 amBright and early Wednesday morning, the Northern Illinois University football team will take the field at either Huskie Stadium or the Chessick Center to open fall camp ahead of the 2023 season.The 2022 season did not go according to plan for the Huskies, as injuries had a hand in turning a MAC championship team into cellar dwellers in the MAC West.But what is fall camp if ...

UPDATED AUGUST 01, 2023 3:30 PMRALEIGHN.C. State quarterback Brennan Armstrong, new to the Wolfpack program, was asked last week what one word best describes his head coach, Dave Doeren.“Focused,” Armstrong said.And there’s another, the QB quickly added.“Detailed-oriented.”Both fit the man, the coach. As Doeren enters fall practice for his 11th season at N.C. State, his focus again is on molding his ...

UPDATED AUGUST 01, 2023 1:31 PMDrake Maye watched it happen, in uniform but merely a spectator, his first fall on campus. Then he was swept up in it last year, as a promising North Carolina season fizzled out. In both seasons, the Tar Heels faced high expectations — endowed in 2021, earned in 2022. In both, they failed to handle it.And so in Maye’s third and presumably final season in Chapel Hill, ...

Tuesday, August 1, 2023The Nevada Wolf Pack football season will come down to the quarterback position. This statement, of course, will surprise nobody except maybe Wolf Pack head coach Ken Wilson. Wilson, after all, went through the entire 2022 season by treating the position as if it was about as important as the fifth tuba in the Wolf Pack Marching Band. It must be noted that the band, known as ...

Nick Henrich considered the possibility that it was all over.The linebacker had already been banged up, missing a pair of games in September. His body had taken the toll of a lifetime on the football field, injuries and surgeries piling on top of each other.So when he tore his ACL at Purdue in the seventh game of the 2022 season, he thought there was a chance he had played his last snap, that bad luck ...