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AUGUST 04, 2023 6:51 PMWhat high school quarterback recruiting drought?For all the success Mark Stoops, Vince Marrow and the rest of the Kentucky football staff have had elevating the Wildcats’ recruiting over the last decade, the one consistent struggle was landing top-level high school quarterbacks.No high school signee recruited as a quarterback has been the primary starter for a UK team with a ...

AUG 4, 2023Andy Kotelnicki, the Kansas football team’s offensive coordinator, envisions the Kansas football team’s workload as a pie.That pie, he said Thursday, comprises 803 cumulative snaps — the average of 73 offensive plays per team in a Big 12 Conference game, with 11 players — to be distributed among the different members of his unit.Even within the tight end room, his primary responsibility ...

Aug 4, 2023 Updated Aug 4, 2023When James Madison running back Kaelon Black gets back to his dorm room after practice, he’ll pull up YouTube highlight clips of New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley and Atlanta Falcons running back Bijan Robinson.Black, like Barkley and Robinson, is just under 6-feet tall, but he wants to grow his game in the backfield. Black’s been known to be the Dukes’ “shifty” ...

JACKSONVILLE – Jacksonville State's Sean Brown was named among the nation's elite tight ends on Friday, when his name was listed on the John Mackey Award Watch List.The John Mackey Award has been given to college football's most outstanding tight end each season since 2000 and is named in honor of Mackey, who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1992.The John Mackey Award focuses on the ...

Des Moines RegisterAMES – Breece Hall sat in front of a computer screen somewhere deep inside Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium and delivered a line that became a motto for Iowa State football.“It’s five-star culture,” the future NFL running back said in November 2020, “versus five-star players.”Hall’s words came over Zoom amid the COVID-19 pandemic after beating mighty Texas near the end of ...

Aug 4, 2023Training camp continued Friday for Illinois football. Defensive coordinator (and new dad) Aaron Henry and three of hisplayers were up on the media availability list. Here’s some of what they had to say, from Illinois beat writer Scott Richey:Fluid depth chartUnless Illinois third-year coach Bret Bielema has changed his mind, the Illini won’t publicly release a depth chart at any point during ...

All eyes are on Georgia Tech’s quarterback competition this month. Four days into the team’s preseason practice, Chris Weinke likes what he’s seen from his pupils.“I’ve had the opportunity to coach a lot of quarterbacks over the years, and I always look for makeup first. This summer, this is about as excited as I’ve been approaching a fall training camp,” Weinke said Friday after Tech’s fourth practice ...

Athens Banner-HeraldGeorgia football opened preseason practice Thursday on a day where rain fell in Athens, but the Bulldogs began with a break in the precipitation.It was a rare morning practice under Kirby Smart due to summer exam conflicts for some players.It offered another evaluation of how ready the players are for the weeks of practices ahead.“Don’t tell me you’re in shape,” Smart said on his ...

AUGUST 05, 2023 6:00 AMDURHAMAdam Cushing is not a defendant in the latest lawsuit filed by a former Northwestern athlete claiming he was hazed, but Duke head coach Mike Elko came to his current aide’s defense just the same Friday night.After the Blue Devils held their first practice of the new season, Elko stood by Cushing, the former Northwestern assistant coach who is in his second season on Duke’s ...

August 4, 2023 at 2:12 p.m.FORT COLLINS — Oh, sure, Tory Horton got calls from other places. Big places. Deep-pocket places. You don’t think tampering is a thing in this certifiably insane college football world of the present?Yet when a reporter asked CSU’s star wideout on the first day of Rams preseason camp Friday morning why he stayed put, the senior walked the convo back to three words: Coach ...