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Razorbacks Make a Change at Defensive Coordinator

Razor­backs make a change at defen­sive coordinator Posted by John Tay­lor on Decem­ber 6, 2011, 4:59 PM EST Ear­lier today Arkansas announced that Paul Petrino was return­ing as its offen­sive coor­di­na­tor to replace Gar­rickM­cGee, who left to become the head coach at UAB. While that coor­di­na­tor slot may have been filled, head coach Bobby Petrino now has the other coor­di­na­tor posi­tion to fill in the com­ing weeks. In a press release, UA announced that defen­sive coordinator/secondary coach Willy Robin­son has “resigned” his post. Before the release was... 

KSU’s Snyder Named Big 12 Coach of Year

MANHATTAN, Kan. — Kansas State coach Bill Sny­der is the run­away pick as the ‘s Big 12 coach of the year after lead­ing the Wild­cats to a 10–2 fin­ish and an appear­ance in the Cot­ton Bowl. Picked to fin­ish eighth in the Big 12, the Wild­cats instead fin­ished eighth in the BCS after beat­ing ranked teams Bay­lor and Texas and los­ing only to Okla­homa State and Okla­homa. They were snubbed by the Sugar Bowl for two teams with lesser resumes, but will play Arkansas in a high-profile Cot­ton Bowl matchup. Sny­der was selected on 16 of the 17 bal­lots turned in by mem­bers... 

Report: Paterno Dealt With Second Mile

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — For­mer Penn State head foot­ball coach Joe Paterno had busi­ness ties with board mem­bers of The Sec­ond Mile, the char­ity founded by alleged child moles­ter and for­mer Penn State assis­tant coach Jerry San­dusky, The Daily is reporting. The Daily (http://bit.ly/vwE2vC ) reported Mon­day that Paterno and three fel­low investors, includ­ing long­time Sec­ond Mile board chair­man Robert Poole, secured financ­ing to build a $ 125 mil­lion lux­ury retire­ment com­mu­nity around 2002, accord­ing to pub­lic records. The pub­li­ca­tion also reported... 

Luck, Griffin Among 5 Heisman Finalists

NEW YORK — Stan­ford quar­ter­back Andrew Luck entered the sea­son as the over­whelm­ing favorite to win the Heis­man Trophy. He will head to New York for the pre­sen­ta­tion of col­lege football’s most famous player of the year award hav­ing relin­quished front-runner sta­tus to another quar­ter­back– one known as RG3. Luck, along with Robert Grif­fin III, Trent Richard­son, Tyrann Math­ieu and Mon­tee Ball are the Heis­man final­ists. The group, announced Mon­day on ESPN, will be at the pre­sen­ta­tion Sat­ur­day night in Manhattan. It’s a return trip for... 

Stanford QB Luck Wins Unitas Award

STANFORD, Calif. — Stanford’s Andrew Luck has won the Johnny Uni­tas Golden Arm Award, pre­sented annu­ally to the nation’s top quar­ter­back who best exem­pli­fies char­ac­ter and scholas­tic and ath­letic achievement. The award was announced Mon­day by the Johnny Uni­tas Golden Arm Edu­ca­tional Foun­da­tion. The tro­phy will be pre­sented Fri­day in Bal­ti­more, where Uni­tas starred with the Colts. Luck threw for 3,170 yards and 35 touch­downs this sea­son to lead fourth-ranked Stan­ford to an 11–1 record. The Car­di­nal will face No. 3 Okla­homa State... 

Penn St. Relegated to Ticket City Bowl

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — No. 24 Penn State will close its tumul­tuous sea­son on Jan. 2 in the Ticket City Bowl against No. 20 Houston. The Nit­tany Lions (9–3, 6–2) tied Wis­con­sin for first in the Big Ten Lead­ers Divi­sion. But the pro­gram is in tur­moil after for­mer assis­tant coach Jerry San­dusky was charged last month with sex­u­ally abus­ing eight boys over a 15-year span. School trustees fired Joe Paterno in the after­math of the charges amid mount­ing crit­i­cism that the Hall of Fame coach and other school lead­ers should have done more to pre­vent alleged abuse. The... 

Sugar Skips Boise for Hokies, Michigan

The Sugar Bowl passed on the chance to take the higher-rated teams Sun­day night, reviv­ing long-standing com­plaints that the sys­tem is more about dol­lar signs than per­for­mance on the field. No. 13 Michi­gan will face 17th-ranked Vir­ginia Tech in the Jan. 3 game at New Orleans, a show­down of sto­ried pro­grams that was patched together after the Sugar Bowl couldn’t invite one of its tra­di­tional part­ners from the South­east­ern Conference. Top-ranked LSU and No. 2 Alabama will both be com­ing to the Big Easy, but they’ll be play­ing six days later in the BCS cham­pi­onship... 

BCS No. 2 Comes Down to Alabama, Ok. St.

Too soon to call, but things are look­ing up for Alabama. Alabama and Okla­homa State are await­ing word on which team will play LSU in the BCS national title game on Jan. 9 in New Orleans. The returns have been trick­ling in Sun­day, and so far the Crim­son Tide seems to be in the lead. In the USA Today coaches’ poll, Alabama was No. 2, but the com­mand­ing lead it had last week is now down to 22 points. The coaches’ poll and the Har­ris poll count for two-thirds of a team’s BCS score. The Har­ris poll was due out later Sunday. A com­pi­la­tion of six com­puter rat­ings... 

Sunday Morning Observations, Week 14: There Is LSU. and Then There Is Everybody Else.

As I write these words on Sun­day morn­ing, we don’t know who will face LSU for the national championship. We don’t know who’s going to end up ranked where. We don’t know the bowl lineup. We don’t know, to be frank, quite a lot. But after see­ing LSU dis­man­tle Geor­gia on Sat­ur­day night in the SEC Cham­pi­onship Game, I am pretty sure we know at least one thing. That thing is this: LSU is the best team in the coun­try. And it’s not really even close. We took a look at these amaz­ing Tigers in this weeks’ edi­tion of Sun­day Morn­ing Observations. Read Sun­day... 

Oklahoma St. Routs Sooners, Takes Big 12

STILLWATER, Okla. — Mike Gundy didn’t feel com­fort­able cam­paign­ing for No. 3 Okla­homa State to play for the national title until his Cow­boys had at least won a con­fer­ence crown. His team made a bet­ter case than any­thing he could have ever said. Joseph Ran­dle ran for 151 yards and two touch­downs, Richetti Jones returned a fum­ble for a score and No. 3 Okla­homa State throt­tled No. 13 Okla­homa 44–10 Sat­ur­day night to win the Big 12 cham­pi­onship and make its case to play for the BCS national title. “I don’t think there’s any ques­tion Okla­homa...