I love that QB. He was so cool as he walked through the line.
Category: College Football (Page 72 of 296)
FOXSports.com is reporting that Auburn quarterback Cam Newton had three separate instances of academic cheating while enrolled at Florida in 2007 and 2008.
Newton was arrested for the theft of a laptop from a Florida student’s dorm room in November 2008. He again violated the university’s honor code by putting his name on another student’s paper and turning it in, according to the source. Newton was caught after the instructor asked the real author of the paper why he had not turned in his work, the source said.
According to the source, after the student said he had turned in a paper, he and the instructor went through all the submissions and discovered that Newton had put his name on the paper in question.
Newton subsequently turned in a second paper to the instructor, but it was later found to have been purchased off the Internet, according to the source. The source said Newton was to appear for a hearing in front of Florida’s Student Conduct Committee during the spring semester of 2009 but instead transferred to Blinn College.
This report comes less than a week after ESPN.com report that a man named Kenny Rogers claimed to represent Newton and allegedly sought $180,000 for to attend Mississippi State. Newton and Auburn maintain that the 2010 Heisman candidate has done nothing wrong, but this latest report makes you wonder what else is yet to come out.
Meanwhile, the Tigers currently rank No. 2 in the BCS standings and have a date with Georgia this Saturday. They control their own destiny in the SEC West, although they have to travel to Tuscaloosa in two weeks to take on Alabama so they have a tough road to hoe.
In five seasons at Boise State, Dan Hawkins led the Broncos to four bowl games and compiled a 53-11 record (.828).
In five seasons at Colorado, Hawkins took the Buffaloes to just one bowl game while racking up a 19-39 record (.328) and was subsequently fired after five straight losing seasons and one horrific loss to Kansas.
At one point, Colorado held a 28-point fourth quarter lead over the Jayhawks on Saturday but found a way to lose, 52-45. It was the biggest collapse in the Buffaloes’ 121-year history. It was perhaps the worst coaching job of the season, as Hawkins continued to let his team throw the ball instead of milking the clock and wrapping up a sure win. There’s been speculation that he continued to throw the ball so that his son, Cody Hawkins, could break Colorado’s all-time passing record.
Thanks, Dad.
He’ll probably resurface somewhere in college football but I wonder if this debacle in Colorado will cost Hawkins an opportunity to coach one of the big ones anytime soon. Logic says……………….no.
No real big surprises in today’s USA Today/ESPN coaches poll, as the top two remained the same — Oregon and Auburn — and TCU moved up to No. 3 after a dismantling of Utah.
Boise State, of course, was the victim of TCU’s rise, even after a dominating win over a pretty good Hawaii team. But that shouldn’t surprise you. Last week, Auburn jumped Boise State after a win over a bad Ole Miss team, so the fact that TCU jumped the Broncos after perhaps the most impressive performance of the season shouldn’t come as a shock. In fact, I really don’t have a problem with this jump. TCU has played a better schedule thus far than Boise State, and absolutely dominated it much in the same way Boise has dominated its schedule. This was an exclamation point win for the Horned Frogs, and if voters believed TCU was the better team, there was no better time than now to make that move.
The top two in the BCS standings should remain the same, but I’d expect the gap between Auburn and TCU at 2 and 3 to close. First off, the Horned Frogs moved up in the coaches poll, and I’ll guess they’ll do the same in the Harris Poll. Plus the computers will likely close the gap as Auburn played Chattanooga and TCU played what was the No. 5 team in the BCS standings.
The best news for TCU and Boise State, however, had to be Alabama’s loss. There’s a good chance that the Tide were the only one-loss team capable of jumping over them into the national title game. I don’t know all the tie-breaker rules off-hand, but I believe LSU needs Auburn to lose each of its next two games in order to get into the SEC championship game. So if Alabama beats Auburn in the Iron Bowl, that will open up a spot for either TCU or Boise State.
I doubt a win over a three-loss SEC East champion would be enough for voters to vault Auburn back into the game. And even though it’s happened before, I can’t imagine an 11-1 LSU team that didn’t even play in its conference title game would jump the unbeatens. It wouldn’t be unprecedented — see Nebraska in 2001 — but it would be borderline criminal. Then again, that pretty much fits right in line with the BCS.
With a recruiting pitch like that, it’s no wonder that Joe Paterno has hit the 400-win milestone.
He got it today with a 35-21 comeback win against Northwestern. As I have written in this place before, I feel like this should be Paterno’s final year at Penn State, but I say that knowing that he’s done so much in this sport, and I didn’t need today’s milestone to tell me that. Hitting 400 might be what he was waiting for, who knows.
Either way, it’s absolutely remarkable that a man at his age is still doing what he’s doing. I realize that he’s not calling the plays, and that he’s probably not as involved in the game-planning as he used to be, but he’s still there. He’s still stalking the sidelines and demanding respect from his players with his mere presence. He’s still Penn State personified.
So today is not a time to talk retirement or direction of the Penn State program. Today is a day to celebrate an absolute legend and the milestone he’s reached that won’t likely ever be hit again.
Congrats, JoePa, you deserved it.
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