John F. Silver
St. Paul-Bristol quarterback Logan Marchi announced his commitment on Twitter on Saturday night.
Marchi is a 6-foot-1 175-pound quarterback who also had an offer from Temple and reported interest from Boston College. Marchi is the first high school commit for the Huskies. Marchi threw for 2,935 yards, 38 touchdowns and 10 interceptions for St. Paul.
John F. SilverThe American Athletic Conference will launch officially on July 1st.
The legacy Big East Conference will have a decidedly new look and feel in coming years. The conference will have 10 teams in 2013 with UConn, Louisville, Rutgers, Houston, Temple, Central Florida, South Florida, Southern Methodist, Memphis and Cincinnati. In 2014, Louisville and Rutgers leave and East Carolina, Tulane and Tulsa joining in all-sports in 2014 and Navy in football in 2015, when the league will hold a championship game.
Here’s a look at who is staying and coming into the conference. Today, we’ll look at Southern Methodist.
Coach: June Jones (31-34, 5 years at SMU)
2012 Record: 7-6 (Hawaii Bowl, 43-10 win over Fresno)
Mascot: Mustangs
Location: Dallas, Texas
(32,000)
Website: www.SMUMustangs.com
Beat writer blogs/news: Dallas Morning News; Ponyfans.com
The skinny: Southern Methodist University has a strong football tradition and count Heisman Trophy winner Doak Walker as an alum as well as NFL greats Eric Dickerson, Raymond Berry and Forrest Gregg. It’s located in Dallas, Texas and is in the heart of a competitive, but football crazy state from high school to pros. They’ve had All-Americans and have laid claim to three mythical national championships.
Connecticut head coach Paul Pasqualoni, left, talks to his team after UConn’s Blue-White spring NCAA college football game at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Conn., Saturday, April 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
John F. Silver
Here’s the countdown from USA Today.
One of these things is not like the other. On one hand, you have an annual overachiever of a defense, one that has only once in the last six seasons ranked outside the top half of the Football Bowl Subdivision – a 62nd-place finish in 2009 – and twice, in 2012 and 2008, ranked among the top nine. On the other, you have a cross-eyed offense that can’t get out of its own way.
John F. SilverThe American Athletic Conference will launch officially on July 1st.
The legacy Big East Conference will have a decidedly new look and feel in coming years. The conference will have 10 teams in 2013 with UConn, Louisville, Rutgers, Houston, Temple, Central Florida, South Florida, Southern Methodist, Memphis and Cincinnati. In 2014, Louisville and Rutgers leave and East Carolina, Tulane and Tulsa joining in all-sports in 2014 and Navy in football in 2015, when the league will hold a championship game.
Here’s a look at who is staying and coming into the conference. Today, we’ll look at Memphis.
Coach: Justin Fuente (4-8, 1 year at Memphis)
2012 Record: 4-8
Mascot: Tigers
Location: Memphis, Tenn.
(61,000)
The Liberty Bowl, home to the Memphis football team.
Website: http://www.gotigersgo.com/
Beat writer blogs: Memphis Commercial Appeal ; Tiger Blue (Memphis Flyer)
John F. Silver
An explanation of the NCAA’s APR is here.
The Huskies won the national title in the 2010-11 season and made the NCAA tournament in the 2011-12 season when the scores were compiled.
“Our men’s basketball team again had an outstanding APR score for the second-straight season and I want to congratulate the student-athletes, Coach Calhoun, Coach Ollie and the rest of the coaching staff for that accomplishment,” UConn Director of Athletics Warde Manuel said. “I think it is particularly noteworthy that they earned these scores during a time in which they were playing incredibly competitive basketball, particularly in their great run to the national championship in 2011.”
UConn had to have a 4-year score of 930 or better, which it doesn’t have (897), or a two-year score of above 940. UConn, with a score of 962, qualifies UConn for the NCAA men’s basketball championship.
John F. SilverThe American Athletic Conference will launch officially on July 1st.
The legacy Big East Conference will have a decidedly new look and feel in coming years. The conference will have 10 teams in 2013 with UConn, Louisville, Rutgers, Houston, Temple, Central Florida, South Florida, Southern Methodist, Memphis and Cincinnati. In 2014, Louisville and Rutgers leave and East Carolina, Tulane and Tulsa joining in all-sports in 2014 and Navy in football in 2015, when the league will hold a championship game.
Here’s a look at who is staying and coming into the conference. Today, it’s Central Florida.
Coach: George O’Leary (60-55, 9 years at UCF)
2012 Record: 10-4
Mascot: Knights
John F. SilverThe American Athletic Conference will launch officially on July 1st.
The legacy Big East Conference will have a decidedly new look and feel in coming years. The conference will have ten teams in 2013 with UConn, Louisville, Rutgers, Houston, Temple, Central Florida, South Florida, Southern Methodist, Memphis and Cincinnati. In 2014, Louisville and Rutgers leave and East Carolina, Tulane and Tulsa joining in all-sports in 2014 and Navy in football in 2015, when the league will hold a championship game.
Here’s a look at who is staying and coming into the conference. First up is Houston.
Coach: Tony Levine (2nd year, 5-7 overall)
2012 Record: 5-7
Nickname: Cougars
Location: Houston, Texas
(40,000) (under construction)
Website: http://www.uhcougars.com/
Beat writer blogs: Houston Chronicle
The skinny: Houston is coming off a 5-7 season in Tony Levine’s first year, but the Cougars are one of those programs that have been one of the non-BCS league teams threatening to break into a big bowl. The explosive Cougars are just a year removed from a terrific campaign and a bid in the Ticket City Bowl where it defeated Penn State. That Houston team was led by Case Keenum and also lost their coach — Kevin Sumlin — to Texas A&M where he worked magic with Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel.
UConn linebacker Yawin Smallwood is generating a lot of preseason buzz after leading the ninth rated defensive unit in the country with 120 tackles.
John F. Silver
Smallwood was named to college football guru Phil Steel’s All-American squad with the fourth team. He was named to Steele’s first team All-American Athletic Conference preseason team.
John F. Silver
You want proof?
Commissioner Jim Delaney threw out the first pitch Monday at Yankee Stadium against the Indians.
This was a bowl game that was universally panned when the Big East helped generate it.
So, who will be the Big Ten’s opponent?
John F. Silver
The Huskies showed terrific pitching and a flair for the dramatic.
The only thing that was different on Saturday than what’s been going on the last two weeks was some timely inning.
The Huskies are now facing elimination because of it. That’s how fine the margin of error is in the NCAA playoffs.
Oklahoma’s Max White tripled in the go-ahead run in the 12th inning as the Sooners outlasted UConn 5-3 in 12 innings at English Field in Blacksburg, Va.
