Player Notes

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 ...

Scores of Millennials and Gen Xers remember the phrase.For us, hearing “Welcome to my crib” is basically a time machine back to 2005 — even if we haven’t screened an episode of MTV Cribs since it was originally taken off the air in 2009.The multi-million dollar mansions filled with outlandish luxuries, extensive car and shoe collections, lavish pools and extravagant wardrobes commanded our attention ...

Jul 31, 2023Jeff Sims and Billy Kemp IV arrived at Nebraska's campus in the winter on a similar path.Both transfers were leaving an ACC program to join the Huskers as veterans with several years of starting experience. They knew the immediate expectations would be high as soon as they stepped foot on campus in the winter — Sims as a potential starting quarterback and Kemp as one of his top targets ...

Capital GazettePublished Aug 01, 2023 at 5:30 amNavy football has no shortage of candidates for the starting quarterback job.Sophomore Teddy Gleaton had been heading the list after emerging from spring camp atop the depth chart. However, Gleaton has yet to participate in any of Navy’s six practices during preseason training camp because he is attending summer school.Senior Tai Lavatai did not participate ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Brandon Jones did not enjoy his first impression of Mizzou football.It was Oct. 25, 2003. He was a redshirt freshman offensive lineman for Texas Tech. The Red Raiders were in Columbia armed with coach Mike Leach’s explosive “Air Raid” offense.“It was homecoming,” Jones recalled this week. “Sheryl Crow came out and did the M-I-Z chant. And then Brad Smith rushed for about 300 yards. ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The rain didn’t let up Tuesday morning and sent the Tigers back into their palatial new Stephens Indoor Facility.Some quick thoughts and observations on Mizzou’s offense after two days of camp …You don’t need to be Mel Kiper Jr. to watch a Mizzou practice and figure out the Tigers have upgraded the quarterback position. Compared to the past three seasons under Eli Drinkwitz, this is ...