LOCK IT UP - College Football - 2009 Season/2010 Off-Season

Anyone has update on how Devin Gardner's doing in camp?

Btw, If Robinson becomes a better passer like reported, man...Michigan can improve dramatically IMO. Tates good but DRob fits the offense perfectly
 
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Maurice Clarett received an early release from prison today after serving 3.5 years of his 7 year sentence. He'll be at a halfway house for the next 6 months, and then he is a free man.

I know a lot of Buckeye fans still hold a lot of anger and resentment towards him, but I'm definitely rooting for him to turn his life around. From everything I've heard/read he's been taking the necessary steps to do just that.
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Has anyone ever read his blog? I swear I still don't believe that's actually him. There is a lot of good advice on there actually.

http://mauriceclarett.wordpress.com/
 
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Originally Posted by gobucksBC

Maurice Clarett received an early release from prison today after serving 3.5 years of his 7 year sentence. He'll be at a halfway house for the next 6 months, and then he is a free man.

I know a lot of Buckeye fans still hold a lot of anger and resentment towards him, but I'm definitely rooting for him to turn his life around. From everything I've heard/read he's been taking the necessary steps to do just that.
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Has anyone ever read his blog? I swear I still don't believe that's actually him. There is a lot of good advice on there actually.

http://mauriceclarett.wordpress.com/
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Thanks for the link...I completely forgot he had a blog.

I was listening to Columbus radio today and it was said that the worst decision that he and his mother made was cutting off contact from his father. In a time when many athletes (and kids in general) do not have a father for guidance, Maurice's wanted to be there. His father is a hard working stand-up guy, but b/c of the problems he had with Maurice's mother (she's crazy...no joke) they decided to cut off all contact with him.
 
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Anyone has update on how Devin Gardner's doing in camp?

Btw, If Robinson becomes a better passer like reported, man...Michigan can improve dramatically IMO. Tates good but DRob fits the offense perfectly
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Heard RRod on the radio today and he said he's at the same point as Tate was at this time last year.  he's been good but the experience the other two have will hopefully lead to a redshirt as long one of the other two doesn't self-destruct.
 
Heard Lewan is starting to impress at LT. That's a good thing.

Cam at S is nice too. Kid is huge. Hope Turner can grab a spot back there two.

Demens also getting some burn over Ezeh. Love it. Ezeh needs to step it up
 
[h1]Kelly changing Notre Dame's focus[/h1]

 SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The painting has a prominent place in new Notre Dame football coach Brian Kelly's office in the Guglielmino Athletics Complex.
"The Original Fighting Irish" is the work of former Notre Dame lacrosse player Revere La Noue, an award-winning artist. Kelly had to have one of the prints after seeing it online.

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Coutresy of Revere La Noue Brian Kelly is using Revere La Noue's "The Original Fighting Irish" as motivation.

"You don't see faces," Kelly said. "You see blue-collar. You see a bit of a swagger. You see toughness. Growing up as an Irish Catholic in Boston, that's what I remember Notre Dame being. That's been one of our goals every day -- to get that fight back in the Fighting Irish. It's good because that's who I am anyway."

It hasn't taken Notre Dame's returning players long to realize life is going to be different under Kelly, who replaced Charlie Weis as their coach Dec. 10. Kelly has instituted several changes at Notre Dame, from where the players eat and study to how they practice and dress. He even wants them to arrange their lockers in a uniform way and had large charts printed to show them how to do it.

Kelly said the changes are designed to make the Fighting Irish more of a "team," instead of individual players performing only for themselves and future NFL careers.

"Most of the guys here were more interested in whether they were on Mel Kiper's Big Board," Kelly said. "I want guys who are more interested in what they can do for Notre Dame."

With four spring practices under his belt, Kelly said his team is still adapting to the way he coaches. His practices are fast and crisp, built around 24 five-minute segments. There are no designed water breaks or rest periods. Players have to adapt to his way fast, or they'll get left behind.

"It says, 'God, Country and Notre Dame' outside of my office," Kelly said. "I think my job is to put teeth back into that. Everybody looks at Notre Dame and assumes it's special. Well, define that for me. I'm still defining 'special.' It's about team, team, team. I'm trying to get it to where they understand this is about Notre Dame, your teammates, your family and then yourself. I think they had it flipped the other way. It started with me and Notre Dame was at the other end."

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AP Photo/Joe RaymondBrian Kelly is focused on changing the mindset of his players.

Truth be told, Notre Dame hasn't been very special in quite a while. Kelly guided Cincinnati to consecutive Big East championships and BCS bowl games in his last two seasons with the Bearcats. He inherits a Notre Dame program that went 16-21 the last three seasons combined. The Irish have finished in the top 10 of the final Associated Press Top 25 only once since 1993.

"We're trying to create new habits," Kelly said. "We're not changing the culture because culture is too big of a word. This is about creating new daily habits."

Kelly has changed the way the Notre Dame program operates on a daily basis. Team meetings begin at 2:15 p.m and last for 45 minutes. Practice starts at 3:15 p.m. and typically lasts two hours. Dinner begins at 6 p.m. and a two-hour study hall starts 30 minutes later.

For the first time anyone at Notre Dame can remember, the football players have their own training table. In the past, players had to rush out of the locker room to eat dinner at an on-campus cafeteria before its doors closed. If they missed dinner, players often ate fast food. A few of Notre Dame's offensive linemen lost as many as 15 to 20 pounds last season.

The Irish now have study hall inside the team's position meeting rooms, and most of their daily activities outside of classes take place in the football complex, which is fondly called "The Gug" by students. Kelly has prohibited his players from wearing hats and earrings in The Gug. He printed a new Irish creed -- "The pride and tradition of Notre Dame football will not be left to the weak, timid, or non-committed" -- and splashed it on a wall in the locker room.

There's also an Irish covenant for all his players to read every time they walk into their locker room:

"Do you care?
Can I trust you?
Are you committed?
Observe the Golden Rule.
Do the right thing."

"It's definitely new for us, with the diagram of how our lockers should look and everything else," Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o said. "It's forced us to be responsible and pay attention to details. Coach Kelly tells us if we take care of the small things, the big things will fall into place."

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Kelly jokes he has a "five-minute plan" because he knows Notre Dame fans won't wait five years for things to fall into place. It won't be easy this coming season. The Fighting Irish have to replace record-setting quarterback Jimmy Clausen and Golden Tate, who won the Biletnikoff Award as the country's top receiver last season. Three starters on the offensive line, including both tackles, also have departed.

Junior Dayne Crist is the only returning quarterback on scholarship who won't be a freshman this coming season. Crist has attempted only 20 passes in college and is recovering from a torn ACL in his right knee, which he suffered against Washington State on Oct. 31. The Irish do have potential stars in receiver Michael Floyd and tight end Kyle Rudolph, along with a deep group of running backs.

Eight starters are coming back to a defense that ranked 86th nationally in total defense (397.8 yards per game) and 63rd in scoring defense (25.9 points) in 2009. The Irish are switching from a 4-3 to 3-4 defensive alignment under Bob Diaco, who was Kelly's defensive coordinator at Cincinnati.

"I think we have enough on defense to play good defense, and our offensive line is probably fundamentally the best group we have on offense," Kelly said. "There are enough pieces on offense. At the end of the day, it's going to be up to our ability as coaches to get Dayne Crist to play consistently from week to week."

The Irish have certainly lacked consistency the past three seasons. During a disappointing 6-6 finish in 2009, Notre Dame lost its last four games and Weis was fired. Weis, a former offensive coordinator with the New England Patriots and a Notre Dame alumnus, had a 35-27 record in five seasons. The 21 losses in his last three seasons were the most by the Irish in a three-year span.

More than anything else, Kelly said he's trying to change the mindset of his players this spring.

"Coach Weis' pedigree was the NFL," Kelly said. "It was a different way of going about it and it was what he was exposed to. Coach Weis had the NFL pedigree and that big ring on his finger. He coached Tom Brady and led him to a Super Bowl, and he told kids he could do it for them, too. That would be my pitch, too, but I haven't done that."

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Instead of selling Notre Dame's players on a possible future in the NFL, Kelly wants them to appreciate the opportunity they already have.

"My biggest surprise was the [sense of] entitlement and selfishness," Kelly said. "I think at the end of the day, there wasn't a true appreciation for what they had. I know those are harsh terms, but they're 18, 19 or 20 years old and they're playing at a school where its existence as a university is because of football. You're a football player at Notre Dame and you need to appreciate what you have."

Kelly's words haven't fallen on deaf ears, according to Te'o.

"It's definitely true," Te'o said. "Last year, people were looking forward to graduating and weren't necessarily taking advantage of the things Notre Dame was offering them. Coach Kelly really helps us realize what we have here, and we're not just going through the motions anymore. You don't hear talk about the NFL anymore. You hear guys talking about winning a national championship. That's a conversation you didn't hear last year."

By the time the 2010 season kicks off against Purdue at Notre Dame Stadium on Sept. 4, Kelly hopes his team has the tough, menacing and almost anonymous look of the Fighting Irish army in the painting hanging on his office wall. He hopes to put the print on the cover of Notre Dame's media guide.

"That's such a stark contrast to what it was," Kelly said. "They'd probably all be in a Mercedes before."

If Kelly has his way, a beat-up truck might be a more appropriate vehicle for the Irish in the future.
 
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Seems Like EA is knocking this NCAA 11 out the Park
[h1]Locomotion[/h1][h3]by Larry� 04/05/10 5:05 PM [/h3]

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Hey there NCAA Football fans, I am very excited to talk to you today about one of the big changes coming to NCAA Football 11. Over the past several months, we've been working hard on a new momentum-based locomotion engine that will significantly change core gameplay.� Locomotion includes running, turning and cutting; basically what any player is doing for the majority of a play.�� The goal of this new locomotion technology is to create more realistic movements, while also maintaining responsiveness for the user.

One of the first areas we concentrated on for NCAA Football 11 was to create more realistic player acceleration.� In previous versions, there wasn't a noticeable difference between players with a high acceleration rating versus players with a lower one, as speed was the only thing that seemed to matter.� For the first time in NCAA Football 11, acceleration will be a huge factor into how quickly a player can reach their top speed.� This new acceleration will also help differentiate the styles of players across the various positions on the field.� For example, a "Possession" type receiver may have a high acceleration rating but not have that breakaway speed that a "Speed" receiver possesses in the open field.� However, this possession receiver will have the ability to get in and out of his cuts, and back to full speed on his routes quicker.� Another area where acceleration is a big factor is differentiating speed type rushers versus the more conventional run-stopping defensive lineman.�� Defensive ends that have a high acceleration rating will be able to get off the ball and to the quarterback quicker, due to their top end speed.� The bigger interior type defensive lineman will have a harder time trying to speed rush, as it will take them longer to accelerate to top speed.

Momentum is another piece of our new locomotion technology that improves the NCAA Football 11 experience.� Momentum will be even more noticeable than ever by requiring players to realistically slow down before making a drastic direction change or turn.� When going full speed in one direction, it's nearly impossible to stop and turn without momentum carrying you a few more steps in the original direction.� A huge goal of ours is to keep the responsiveness in these situations so that users have full control throughout the play.� We also now layer in a dynamic leaning system that is based on how much a player is accelerating or turning. Our ball carriers will keep their shoulders square up field, for the first couple of steps after a cut.� This allows them to quickly get moving back up field again.� Agility ratings will determine how much speed a player can maintain while attempting to turn.

Locomotion also plays an important role during longer runs.� In previous years, when a ball carrier hit the open field for a long breakaway run, his steps would look somewhat choppy.� In NCAA Football 11, we were able to implement a longer run cycle for the first time in franchise history, through a new approach in motion capture.� By setting up a special field (consisting of 40 yards), this allowed us to capture a full sprint, whereas in years past we had much more limited space.� Can't wait to see some of the new highlights on EASPORTS.com!�� You can see some clips, from our latest mocap shoot, in the video.

These new locomotion changes help make NCAA Football 11 much more realistic; it's just like watching a game in your favorite college stadium on a Saturday afternoon.� Thanks for reading and expect more gameplay info for NCAA Football 11 in a few weeks...

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supposed Incumbent QB Nick Stephens   quit the Tenn team on Thursday  cus he got beat out already by Matt Simms and Tyler Bray
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 He's looking to transfer to a D2 school.

Looks Like Matt Milton and Ted Meline are earning some burn at WR for the Vols

and Juwann James is a Beast and will prolly be a 4 yr starter at OT  if he doesnt leave early.
 
Lemay has eliminated UNC, Va Tech, & FSU and is now considering Auburn, CLemson, UGA, aTm, Tenn, Bama, UF (the first 3 are the strongest)
 
Yeah, he eliminated FSU a while ago. Auburn doesn't fit w/ what he and his pops have been preaching, which is "We want to go to a pro style offense". It fits the other part though, which is that they only wanted CL to sit 1, OR 2 years AT THE MOST before he would be @ the helm.

I saw that he really liked Clemson though.
 
yea he eliminated Tenn a while back but re-evaluated, he put us back in the mix.

me prefers Teddy B over everyone else tho.

supposedly we have a legit shot at Driskell tho, I'd take that.

I got my early heisman winner too, Cam Newton
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Originally Posted by GUNNA GET IT

Lemay has eliminated UNC, Va Tech, & FSU and is now considering Auburn, CLemson, UGA, aTm, Tenn, Bama, UF (the first 3 are the strongest)
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A&M is next... Jerrod Johnson could win the Heisman this year and Sherman wouldn't be able to sell dude...

Brett Hundley is visiting College Station this weekend though...
 
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In September of '09 it was the Scout 100. In February it was the Scout 150. Now Scout releases its first edition of the Scout 300 for the class of 2011.
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[table][tr][td][h3]By the Numbers:[/h3]Scout 300 by Position[table][tr][td]POS[/td] [td]#[/td] [td]POS[/td] [td]#[/td] [/tr][tr][td]QB[/td] [td]21[/td] [td]DT[/td] [td]25[/td] [/tr][tr][td]RB[/td] [td]32[/td] [td]DE[/td] [td]32[/td] [/tr][tr][td]OL[/td] [td]46[/td] [td]LB[/td] [td]33[/td] [/tr][tr][td]TE[/td] [td]16[/td] [td]CB[/td] [td]24[/td] [/tr][tr][td]WR[/td] [td]47[/td] [td]S[/td] [td]24[/td] [/tr][/table]Scout 300 by Region
(RegionList)[table][tr][td]Region[/td] [td]#[/td] [/tr][tr][td]South[/td] [td]105[/td] [/tr][tr][td]West[/td] [td]49[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Midland[/td] [td]61[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Midwest[/td] [td]45[/td] [/tr][tr][td]East[/td] [td]40[/td] [/tr][/table][/td][/tr][/table]Scout once again sets the standard for recruiting rankings by keeping you aheadof the curve with our national rankings. Scout was first to rank players for theClass of 2011, and now we're expanding our rankings to include roughly 600players including the prestigious Scout 300 list.

Athlete extraordinaire DeAnthony Thomas (5-11/180) of Los Angeles, Calif. hasbeen atop the '11 Scout rankings since its inception. Thomas had previously beenlisted as running back, and I had said that it's not out of the question that hecould be a 5 Star prospect at four positions, running back, wide receiver,corner, and safety.

Thomas has moved from the No. 1 spot in the rankings to No. 5, and he is alsolisted at a new position, cornerback. He's the highest rated corner on Scoutsince Demetrice Morley ('05 Tennessee) also had the No. 5 spot, and Ted Ginn('04 Ohio State) who was rated the No. 4 player in the country.

Taking Thomas' spot atop the Scout 300 is defensive end Jadeveon Clowney(6'5/235) of Rock Hill, S.C. Clowney is the second defensive end to be rankedNo. 1 by Scout following probable 1st round NFL draft pick Everson Griffen ('07USC). Clowney is considering Alabama, Clemson, North Carolina, and South Carolina among others.

No. 2 on the Scout 300 is defensive tackle Tim Jernigan (6-2/275) of Lake City,Fla. was a strong contender for the No. 1 spot. South Regional Manager ChadSimmons actually has Jernigan at the top of his regional rankings. Jernigan isconsidering a host of schools including the three traditional powers in state,Florida, Florida State, and Miami.

The state of Texas is well represented in the Scout 300 with 52 playershailing from the Lone Star State. Its top prospect checks in at No. 3 overall inrunning back Malcolm Brown (6-1/200) of Cibolo, Texas. Brown leads a deep poolof running backs for the Class of 2011. Seven of the Top 31 prospects in thecountry are running backs this year.

Standing alone at the top of the quarterback class is Braxton Miller (6-4/200)of Huber Height, Ohio. Miller is the sole quarterback amongst Scout's Top 35prospects, and he is joined by Christian LeMay (6-2/190) of Matthews, N.C., andTeddy Bridgewater (6-3/190) as the only quarterbacks in the Top 100. Miller isconsidering a host of teams including Florida, Ohio State, and Notre Dame.

Rounding out the top five is the aforementioned DeAnthony Thomas of Los Angeles,Calif.

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UNC spring game today at 3:00 PM.

I'm excited to see what Bryn Renner can do. Also want to see how Todd Harrelson and Dwight Jones play (both WRs).
 
Michigan had a scrimmage today. Word is Gardner's pocket presence and awareness seems to be better than DRob or Tate. They said that Tate and DRob both panic too quick if they don't see someone open, especially DRob who they said if he doesn't have a short, quick-hitter he'll take off. But its only spring ball, our spring game is next week, which I'll be going to. Gunna you boy JG better do something sweet.
 
Can't wait to watch UNC Spring game
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