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“You can tell everybody that Prairie View football is back.”
In those words, the most remarkable rebuilding process ever to go undocumented was kept silent from the world. There was no mention on ESPN; there was no article on cbssportsline.com; there was no acknowledgement anywhere in mainstream sports society. But in the graceless ignorance given to Division 1-AA football, Prairie View A&M, the worst football program of the 1990s, has returned.
Ahh….it’s Championship game week. Some teams love it, some teams hate it, and for some teams, winning this one is the “big one” compared to winning a bowl game (no, I’m serious).
Here are my predictions for the Big XII and ACC Championship games, with the SEC and `Pac-10 Championship game’ between USC and UCLA coming later in the week.
November 14, 2005, will mark the end of an era in Kansas State football. The man who orchestrated the greatest turnaround in college football history stepped down. Yeah, I’m dumbfounded also. ESPN.com stated that Head Coach Bill Snyder announced his decison to his team on Monday. After 2 strait losing seasons, you might be thinking that he quit. Feeling that he wasn’t a use to the program anymore. But Ted Sims, a senior linebacker, said it best, “Coach isn’t quitting, he’s retiring.” I have no idea what his thought process was. But I truley respect the man with all my heart. He didn’t just take a “hard” job 17 long years ago at Kansas State. He took the hardest Head Coaching job in the whole country. The team had lost 27 strait, was on the verge of being the 1st team to lose 500 games, absolutley horrid facilites, and if the school didn’t see results, the program was going to be dropped. Coach Snyder began to take the loyal Purple Pride on a ride of a lifetime. His 1st season, the team went 1-10, but had a enthusiasm towards the teams play. In 1991, the team went 7-4, 1992 the “Kansas State Kittens” went 5-6, and in 1993, hell froze over. Coach Snyder did the impossible and took the 1993 version of his Wildcats to the Copper Bowl in Tuscon, Arizona. An estimated 20,000 ‘Cat fans made the trip to the game. In the 54-17 romp, the team showed that something specail was on the way
I’m just sad it’s Week 13 of the college football season. Honestly…
The window of opportunity is closing for these Heisman candidates to show what they are really made of. Season is coming to a close and these exciting games could be the defining factor on the person winning the Heisman. So these last couple weeks are more important than ever for Heisman candidates trying to get a chance to hoist the Heisman.
Who impressed, depressed and didn’t move us after Week 12 of the college football season.
By Sean Quinn
There’s only one way the BCS will get off the hook this year – if Reggie Bush doesn’t win the Heisman Trophy.
Fast forward 20, no 30 years from now. Suzanne Somers will cover the remaining five percent of her body in plastic, Freddy Adu will be one year away from reaching his potential and Flintstones Vitamins, not steroids, will be the latest drug used by MLB sluggers. More foolish, though, is the fact that the best college football player of most people’s lifetime didn’t win the Heisman Trophy. It’s just as foolish as Citizen Kane not winning the Oscar in 1941.
A 2-year old rap called “If that Ho only knew” created by some Miami
football players recently surfaced on the internet, much to the
chagrin of the Univesity of Miami Athletic Director. The group
called themselves the 7th Floor Crew and recorded a rap that degraded
women and minorities. This rap isn’t your average explicit rap song,
this is an expletive-filled rap that lasts for 9 minutes. (See the
end of this article for the download) One of the biggest problems of
this ordeal is the fact that it has come from Miami, a school
struggling to recover from their image of out of control “student”-
athletes. The release of this rap song certainly is another black
mark on their athletic program.
Rarely do four tenured coaches leave their schools in the same year.
First it was Barry Alvarez, who announced in July that this, his 16th season, would be his final at Wisconsin. Then it was Bill Snyder, who retired after 17 years from Kansas State just this past week. But there is no word yet on Fisher DeBerry of Air Force and Ken Hatfield of Rice. The previous infringed on the rights of his players and should be fired, while the latter made derogatory comments three years ago without paying the price.
Before Bill Snyder graced Manhattan with his presence in 1989, Kansas State was an insult to abysmal.
The Wildcats had not won a game since October 18, 1986. They had not won a road game since October 26, 1985. They had not won consecutive games since September 24, 1983 and three consecutive games since the beginning of 1982. They had not played in a bowl since losing to Wisconsin on December 11, 1982 in the Independence Bowl, then the weakest of all the bowls. They had not won consecutive road games since October 27, 1979. They had not been ranked since November 14, 1970. They had not beaten a ranked team other than by forfeit since October 31, 1970. And they had not beaten a top ten team since October 3, 1970.