Heismanpundit

As you can see, we’ve changed our look somewhat and are in the process of making a couple other revisions.
So, we’ll be back on Monday with some more hard-hitting, bone-crunching blogging….after all, it’s the beginning of fall practice!

SI’s John Walters gets it right and stands on the shoulders of the blogging giants who came before him as he lets the mainstream media in on our little secret about SEC scheduling. Or rather, the lack thereof.
Money quote:
Memo No. 2 to the SEC: There’s this contraption, see. You put people in it and [...]

The Big 12 has already had its media day, as has the ACC, but the SEC media gathering starts today with Florida coach Urban Meyer and Tennessee coach Phil Fulmer the first ones up on the interview docket.
The Big-10 and the Pac-10 will hold their media days on Tuesday, August 2.
Having been to several media [...]

Fox Sports.com contributor Eric Moneypenny talks about Heisman contenders and pretenders in a piece with a headline that reads: Leinart won’t win Heisman again this season
Based on this column, I’d say it’s certainly possible that Moneypenny has taken an extended peak at Heismandment No. 9 and the rest of The Heismandments.
How else to explain [...]

Nestor at Bruinsnation.com rehashes the ol’ ‘What If?’ question in regards to late 1990s UCLA football in his most recent post.
UCLA football has given us nothing but bad memories full of nightmares, heartbreaks, and frustrations since the night of December 5, 1998, when an undefeated 10-0 UCLA football team choked away a 54 year drought [...]

Here’s a cool story from the Minneapolis Star Tribune on athlete blogs and the impact they are having on the sports world.
Money quote:

(Mark) Cuban said blogs (short for weblogs) provide “a balance against the power of the pen in a voice that can’t be misquoted or referenced out of context.”
“You need a place where you [...]

That’s what Vince Young has become, according to this story in the Dallas Morning News. The writer (Chip Brown) talks about Young’s development as a leader.
Asked about his impressions of USC’s rout of the Sooners in the Orange Bowl last season, Young said, “I thought Jason White should have done a better [...]

Uh, no. But incoming Oregon freshman Jonathan Stewart–the No. 1-ranked prep running back in the nation–should be a pretty good player when it’s all said and done. Here’s a look at what he’s doing to try to be like A.D. from the Portland Tribune.
We saw tape of Stewart last year and thought he [...]

College Football News asks who would be the Heisman favorite if you took away the Heisman finalists from last year (Leinart, Bush, Peterson)?
Pete Fiutak goes with Laurence Maroney and Richard Cirminiello goes with Vince Young, as does Matthew Zmek.
Fiutak LOVES Big 10 running backs for his Heisman picks (he chose Anthony Davis from his alma [...]

Blogosphere court jester Every Day Should Be Saturday (EDSBS) has revamped and now looks non-crappy as he blogs from somewhere off of Highway 441, what we in O-Town used to call the ‘Orange Blossom Trail.’
Our view on the re-design? Well, it’s definitely non-crappy, to say the least. Not sure if I like the [...]