As SEC baseball has grown in popularity and increasingly exerted its dominance, its salaries for coaches, too, have skyrocketed. In 2022, only Vanderbilt’s Tim Corbin made over $1.5 million among SEC coaches. Now, four coaches will hit that mark for the 2024 season, according to records obtained by the USA TODAY Network. The two coaches who faced off in the …
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Michigan football’s Semaj Morgan – a self-described ‘straight dawg’ – plans on big leap
Semaj Morgan has never shied away from expectations, and he won’t start now. A rising sophomore on the Michigan football team, Morgan was at his high school alma mater — West Bloomfield — where he served as host to a football camp: “Camp with the Champ” for three hours on Saturday afternoon. More than 100 young athletes went through various …
Read More »Tuesday Spring Football Previews: Barron Collier and Naples in action
As spring football continues, the News-Press and Naples Daily News will provide in-depth lookaheads for each SWFL program. Here’s a look at the games being played on Tuesday, May 21. Naples at Venice Shawn Simeon #5 of the Naples High School football team is congratulated after running for seven touchdowns against Port Charlotte during Region 3S-4 semifinal on Friday, Nov. …
Read More »Berlin Brothersvalley football player makes college declaration
BERLIN — Rockwood senior Cody Kimmel has competed in a co-op with Berlin Brothersvalley for both football and wrestling. The co-op has proven beneficial to Kimmel on and off the gridiron and mats. Monday, Kimmel announced his intentions to attend and play football at Division III Lycoming College. “The coaches are very competitive over there. They like to compete,” Kimmel …
Read More »Here are the players Missouri State football’s landed since its Conference USA announcement
Missouri State football coach Ryan Beard began pitching to recruits that the Bears will be in the FBS rather than the FCS come 2025. He’s already landed a handful of prospects ready to lead the football program into its new era. Here are those MSU has landed since announcing it will join Conference USA before the 2025 season. Khalil Anderson, …
Read More »EA Sports College Football 2025 coming this summer. See release date, reactions and more
After 11 years in the making, it’s finally here. There will be a college football video game for the first time in 11 years with EA Sports College Football 2025 coming out worldwide this summer. The full, nearly two-minute official trailer for this year’s installment premiered Friday across numerous social media platforms. The last installment in the franchise was back …
Read More »Transfer tracker: Florida football lands commitment from starting Arizona State WR
Florida football landed one of the top offensive players in the spring transfer portal as four-star receiver Elijah Badger committed to the Florida Gators. Badger, who visited UF last week, had 65 catches for 713 yards and 3 TDs for Arizona State last season. Overall, the 6-foot-2, 190-pound Badger has posted 142 catches for 1,640 yards in three seasons at …
Read More »Hugh Freeze gives update on Brian Battie after Auburn football RB injured in shooting
Auburn football coach Hugh Freeze gave a brief update via social media Monday morning on the status of running back Brian Battie, who was injured in a shooting in his hometown of Sarasota, Florida, over the weekend. “Auburn family. Please continue to pray for Brian Battie,” Freeze wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “There was a set back last …
Read More »J.D. Pickell explains what a deep College Football Playoff run would mean to Notre Dame
We are entering year three of Marcus Freeman’s tenure as Notre Dame football’s head coach and he has yet to reach the College Football Playoff. Over the course of the first two full seasons, the Irish have improved on their record each season. Last year a high-water mark for wins was established with 10, but once again missed out on …
Read More »The QB who stayed: In this transfer portal era, Utah’s Brandon Rose became an outlier
University of Utah Athletics Brandon Rose, a quarterback who has been waiting in line for playing time at the University of Utah for two years, doesn’t get it. He apparently doesn’t understand the way it works now. The transfer portal opened and closed in the fall, and he stayed put. The transfer portal opened and closed again in the spring, …
Read More »Brandon Sosna, Sycamore HS grad, named Washington Commanders’ VP of football operations
The Washington Commanders named Brandon Sosna their senior vice president of football operations. The Sycamore High School graduate, a former chief revenue officer for the University of Cincinnati Bearcats, has spent the past two seasons as the Detroit Lions’ senior director of football administration. He left University of Southern California for the Lions about two years ago, when the Trojans …
Read More »Is Ohio State in danger of losing a 5-star commit to rival Big Ten program?
In the 2025 recruiting cycle, Ohio State football has commitments from more than a few of the top secondary players in the country. One of those is Alabama cornerback, Na’eem Offord, who has been committed to the Buckeyes since early February. At 6-foot, 1-inch and 185-pounds, he’s one of the nation’s best, ranking as the No. 6 overall player and …
Read More »Rutgers football offers standout class of 2026 running back Jaylen McGill
Jaylen McGill, one of the top running back prospects in the class of 2026, was offered by Rutgers football on Monday. The offer from Rutgers now puts McGill at five offers from Power Five programs. Twice named an All-American by MaxPreps, McGill will be a junior this fall at Broome (Spartanburg, South Carolina). Last year in 10 games played, he …
Read More »Ohio State football makes top three for five-star receiver
Following the recruitment of Dakorien Moore has been similar to riding a roller coaster with the constant news updates. The Texas product is a five-star wide receiver in the class of 2025 and has been labelled by virtually every recruiting service as an instant impact type of talent. The consensus top five player in the country was previously committed to …
Read More »Did EA Sports troll Ohio State with College Football 25 trailer?
The new trailer for EA Sport’s College Football 25 dropped and it was gorgeous, but also insulting to Ohio State fans everywhere. We are already well aware that the Buckeyes have never had a cover athlete during the history of the game, (Quinshon Judkins doesn’t count as he is only in the background of this year’s version) but this trailer …
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