Notre Dame football is really starting to make a habit of going after son’s of former NFL stars. At the current moment, there are multiple on the roster like safety Kennedy Urlacher and defensive end Bryce Young, and incoming freshman safety JaDon Blair, wide receivers Elijah Burress and Jerome Bettis Jr. The pipeline of NFL son’s to South Bend is …

On Monday, Notre Dame football made an offer to an 2028 Illinois defensive tackle, and aside from the early offer, it may not have made many waves. What was different for Caleb Tucker, the 6-foot, 5-inch and 355-pounder, is his nickname, which just so happens to be “Bonecrusher.” I actually got a chance to see him play this fall, when …

BLOOMINGTON — Indiana football coach Curt Cignetti is long past the “crisis roster situation” he inherited when he took over in Bloomington. He had to use the transfer portal to replace entire position groups after taking over, but the Hoosiers had minimal attrition after reaching the college football playoff outside of the players who exhausted their eligibility. The Hoosiers head …

BLOOMINGTON — Indiana football did much of the heavy lifting for its 2025 recruiting class long the program made its first appearance in the College Football Playoff. The Hoosiers signed 21 players on the first day of the early signing period in December and have already welcomed 14 of those signees onto campus. It will make for a quiet national signing …

Tuscaloosa Academy’s Preston Lancaster has found his future home. The 6-foot-1, 210-pound quarterback announced his commitment to Tarleton State on Saturday. Lancaster will sign with the Texans on National Signing Day on Wednesday, Feb. 5. “They have a really cool campus and great coaches,” Lancaster told The Tuscaloosa News. “They have a good agricultural program which I will want to do. …

BATON ROUGE — College football teams across the country will begin the final steps of cementing their 2025 signing classes on National Signing Day Wednesday. For Brian Kelly and LSU football, this 2025 class the coach and his staff have already put together has been a solid group. Over the early signing period back in December, Kelly and company hauled …

BATON ROUGE – In a released statement, former LSU football wide receiver Kyren Lacy’s defense attorney has said that his client “did not cause or contribute” to a fatal car accident that happened back in December. Louisiana State Police, after opening up an investigation into a head-on collision on Louisiana Highway 20 on Dec. 17 that claimed the life of …

Last week, the NCAA handed down penalties to West Texas A&M head football coach Josh Lynn for recruiting violations that occurred when Lynn was in the same position at Nebraska-Kearney. According to the school’s resolution with the NCAA, the UNK staff “booked cost-free one-way airfare for six football prospective student athletes to participate in preseason practice and/or enroll in classes, …

Auburn basketball avoided the upset bug that bit several top-25 squads last week to extend its winning streak to 13 games and to keep its unbeaten record against SEC teams alive. Were Auburn’s wins over LSU and then-No. 23 Ole Miss enough to keep Duke and Alabama away from the No. 1 spot? In this week’s USA TODAY Coaches Poll, …

Brennan Carroll, Offensive Coordinator for the Washington football team, answers questions from the media during the coordinator news conference at the Hawthorn Suites in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024. A day after the Raiders landed Chip Kelly as their new offensive coordinator, Kelly already has a member of his staff in place and he was a rival …

ORLANDO, FLORIDA – FEBRUARY 02: Jaxon Smith-Njigba #11 of the Seattle Seahawks celebrates with Jared Goff #16 of the Detroit Lions during the first quarter against the AFC in the NFL Pro Bowl Games at Camping World Stadium on February 02, 2025 in Orlando, Florida. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images) The 2025 Pro Bowl games have concluded, which involved a …

Ryan Grubb was here. I promise. He blew through Tuscaloosa faster than you can get through Cottondale running a stop sign, but he was the first choice to be Alabama football’s offensive coordinator under Kalen DeBoer last year. He was in town just a couple weeks — long enough to pick up some Alabama gear, speak to a few boosters …

Ohio State football just won the national championship, but the celebration didn’t last long as there appears to be a mass exodus from the coaching staff. Ryan Day has to replace his defensive coordinator, offensive coordinator and offensive line coach. Defensive coordinator, Jim Knowles has left for the same position at Big Ten rival, Penn State. Offensive line coach, Justin …

Former Texas A&M co-defensive coordinator and linebacker coach Tyler Santucci has been hired as the new LB coach for the Baltimore Ravens per Ian Rapoport. Santucci is seen as one of the young talents in the college football world and has risen through the ranks after starting his college coaching career in 2010 as a grad assistant at his alma …

The Brief Winston DeLattiboudere is leaving the Gophers as defensive line coach for the same job with the Arizona Cardinals in the NFL. DeLattiboudere was on the 2019 Gophers’ team that went 11-2 and beat Auburn in the Outback Bowl. His defenses had 26 sacks in 2023, and 28 this past season. He was P.J. Fleck’s assistant head coach in …