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Wednesday, February 25, 2015
FSU freshman scores 30 in final 4:38 in loss
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Okafor scores 30 as Duke wins in OT again
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Report: 49ers to bid to host CFP title game
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Richmond upsets No. 22 VCU in double OT
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From Kentucky rolls past Mississippi State to 28-0
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Short-handed UVa stifles Wake Forest in rout
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Big 12 reprimands K-State for court storming
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TCU doctor: Concussion policy 'huge PR stunt'
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Big 12's Bowlsby made $2.5 million in 2013-14
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Vandals damage case around Howard's Rock
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Pete Carroll to receive honorary degree from USC
Though his tenure as USC head coach ended five years ago under rather unceremonious circumstances five years ago, the school announced Wednesday that Pete Carroll will receive an honorary degree on May 15 during the school’s commencement ceremony.
Former USC and current @Seahawks head coach @PeteCarroll will receive an honorary @USC degree at the 2015 commencement ceremony. #FightOn
— USC Trojans (@USC_Athletics) February 25, 2015 Carroll, now the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, will also be inducted into the USC Athletic Hall of Fame on the following day, May 16. He led the Trojans to a 97-19 record, two AP National Championships in 2003 and 2004 and a BCS National Championship in 2005, which was later vacated.
Carroll left for the Seahawks after the 2009 season while the program was investigated for improper benefits given to Heisman Trophy-winning running back Reggie Bush while Carroll ran the program. As a result of those findings, the NCAA vacated the program’s BCS title, two wins from the 2004 season and all of its wins in 2005. The program also was hit with reduced scholarships and a two-year bowl ban.
After leaving USC, Carroll led the Seahawks to three division championships won the 2013 Super Bowl.
“Carroll returned USC football to national prominence during his nine- year tenure as head coach at the university,” said the university in a release. “His ‘Always Compete’ philosophy has led to a successful four-decade career in football. Carroll is one of just a few coaches in football history to have won a Super Bowl and a national college championship.”
The university also lauded Carroll for his charitable efforts both in Los Angeles and Seattle.
“He is also the founder of A Better LA and A Better Seattle, two gang- violence prevention and community-building organizations that empower inner- city youth and forge relationships with service organizations,” the statement said.
In addition to Carroll, Attorney General Kamala Harris, health-care policy expert Leonard Schaeffer, conductor-composer Michael Tilson Thomas, Nobel Prize- winning chemist Ada Yonath, and Ariel Investments president Mellody Hobson will also receive honorary degrees.
For more USC news, visit TrojanSports.com.
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Case containing Howard's Rock at Clemson vandalized
The case for Howard's Rock at Clemson's Memorial Stadium was vandalized early Wednesday.
According to the school, the rock appears to be unharmed but the glass from the case it sits in was broken. The rock was taken out of the stadium on Wednesday.
Howard's Rock removed from Death Valley, Photo via @steelerwill and @ClemsonInsider http://t.co/R4vVpjBwM2 http://ift.tt/1FXQmEs
— Aaron Ransdell (@RansdellatTheSt) February 25, 2015 Clemson released a statement Wednesday afternoon saying it was looking into the incident. The school said the vandalism was reported by construction workers working on stadium renovations early Wednesday morning and that police are currently investigating.
“Howard's Rock is a very important and visible part of our campus and our stadium, and we know many students, alumni and fans come to see it throughout the year,” Clemson athletic director Dan Radakovich said. “We’ll work to quickly have it back in its home and available for all to see as quickly as possible.”
It's not the first time the rock has been vandalized. An 18-year-old was arrested in June 2013 after a vandalism incident on June 2, 2013. After that vandalism incident, which saw a piece broken off the rock, Howard's Rock got a new case. And now, it'll have to have an even newer case to replace the replacement that was just vandalized.
Clemson players rub the rock, named for former Clemson coach Frank Howard, before every home game for good luck.
For more Clemson news, visit TigerIllustrated.com.
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Seahawks' Carroll to get honorary USC degree
Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll is going back to Southern California to pick up an honorary degree. From ESPN.com - College Football - Seahawks' Carroll to get honorary USC degree
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Oklahoma State loses RB coach to Arkansas
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TCU promotes Glasgow, Cross to co-DCs
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USC to play Utah State, West. Michigan, UNLV
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Baylor RB Silas Nacita says NCAA ruled him ineligible, but the story has holes
Baylor walk-on running back Silas Nacita has been dismissed from the Baylor football team after he claimed the NCAA ruled he took an impermissible benefit.
His benefit?
Taking permanent lodging from a friend instead of sleeping on various apartment floors.
Nacita, who detailed his ordeal with the NCAA on Twitter, claimed he was homeless when he enrolled at Baylor and was staying on the floors of various friends. He said a longtime family friend took him in, gave him a place to live, and that the NCAA deemed that impermissible benefit and ruled him ineligible.
All I wanted to do was go to school and play the game I loved. http://ift.tt/1AKI5PQ
— Silas Nacita (@Salsa_Nacho) February 25, 2015 It’s easy to point the finger at the NCAA and even at Baylor in this instance, but that might not be the right thing to do.
The NCAA said in a tweet that it did not declare Nacita ineligible as previously stated.
The NCAA did not declare Silas Nacita ineligible and Baylor has not requested a waiver for him.
— NCAA (@NCAA) February 25, 2015 According to David Smoak, who works for an ESPN station in Central Texas that profiled Nacita during the 2014 season, Nacita was given options to relieve his homelessness and stay within NCAA rules and might not have taken advantage of them.
There are methods in place to help student-athletes in the position like @Salsa_Nacho, he chose to ignore them, NCAA or Baylor not at fault.
— David Smoak (@DavidSmoak) February 25, 2015 Smoak also noted that Nacita was told of potential housing options prior to accepting housing from a friend.
Calls and emails to Chad Jackson, Baylor’s associate AD for compliance, were not immediately returned. However, Baylor’s Campus Living and Learning said it was not aware of subsidized housing for homeless students or students whose scholarships did not cover housing. The call was directed to financial aid.
Baylor athletics director Ian McCaw released a statement regarding Nacita’s eligibility and appeared to be shutting the door on a possible return.
“Silas Nacita will not be a part of the football program moving forward due to rules violations that impact his eligibility. We appreciate his contributions to Baylor football and wish him well as he completes his studies.”
Baylor said it will have no further comment on Nacita.
Nacita’s incredible journey from a homeless high school football player and wrestler in Bakersfield, Calif., to a scholar-athlete at Cornell to homelessness vagabond, community college and ultimately Baylor was documented in a Sports Illustrated piece last December. It detailed Nacita’s broken relationship with his mother and his decision to forgo a scholarship at Cornell after a year to come to Baylor. It also chronicles his journey from Cornell to Bakersfield, which included hitchhiking and sleeping in ditches, as well as his attempts to enroll in Baylor before finally earning enough scholarship money to pay for school and walk onto the team.
There are, however, holes in the Sports Illustrated story, including a part that says Nacita had earned scholarship money from a community college and a federal loan to get enough funds to rent an apartment and buy a moped prior to joining Baylor for summer workouts in 2014.
This is the same time period that Nacita tells the Sports Illustrated writer that he was homeless and sleeping on the floors of friends.
Also, Baylor did not set up the interview with Sports Illustrated, Nacita sought it out.
It's worth noting that for Nacita to be declared ineligible by the university he would have had to have taken the apartment from a Baylor booster or someone with ties to the university not just a plain old family friend.
Fact is Baylor dismissing Nacita and the NCAA debunking Nacita’s tweet raise major questions about the validity of this story in the first place. It’s unfortunate that we can’t take what appears to be good, heartfelt and inspiring stories at face value anymore; Manti Te’o’s fictitious girlfriend saw to that.
And while it would be easy to blame the evil and heartless NCAA for forcing a poor walk-on to choose between homelessness and his dream of playing Baylor football, well, that’s not quite the case either.
Are there still good stories of people overcoming odds and pursuing their dreams? Sure. Is the story of Silas Nacita one of them? Maybe.
But right now, it’s too difficult to discern between fact and fiction.
For more Baylor news, visit SicEmSports.com.
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K-State fan cited for court-storming elbow
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Oregon's Brown almost needed leg amputation
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LeBron: Stop recruiting my 10-year-old son
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The Gang From ‘Frozen’ is Back! Watch the Short Film Sneak Peek
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BYU AD: School intends to play in Power 5 conference in 'near future'
BYU is still sending signals that it would like to be a member of a Power Five conference sooner rather than later.
Athletic director Tom Holmoe said Tuesday that he thinks there's a round of realignment in college football to come. And he hopes the Cougars are involved in it.
"We’re an independent team playing an independent schedule,” Holmoe said. “That’s what we’ve got and that’s where we are. We’re not really looking back, we’re looking forward because there are possibilities, and I have to do my due diligence on that.”
Meanwhile, Holmoe also said he foresees another shift in conference alignment coming, and "it’s our intention that we would be playing in what they commonly call a 'Power 5' conference sometime in the near future."
The Cougars have a television deal with ESPN for home games. As Power Five conferences have added mandatory out of conference games against fellow Power Five opponents, BYU has fought to be considered like Notre Dame. The Irish are independent too, but they're treated like a P5 school. BYU is considered a Power Five opponent by the ACC but not the SEC.
In June, coach Bronco Mendenhall expressed his desire for BYU to join the Big 12. With 10 teams, the Big 12 seems the most likely candidate for the Cougars. However, members of the conference said shortly after Mendenhall's comments that it wasn't looking to expand.
While BYU would likely have to give up its ESPN deal if it joins a Power Five conference, the conference revenue would more than make up for the loss of the ESPN revenue.
Holmoe also said that the school was handling discipline internally for the brawl at the end of the Miami Beach Bowl. BYU and Memphis players fought at the end of the double overtime game and Memphis has previously announced suspensions for players involved in the fight.
"There is a lot going on behind the scenes and we'd like to keep it that way," Holmoe said.
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DL Javonte Magee not on Baylor's spring football roster
Javonte Magee is currently not a member of Baylor's football team.
The defensive lineman, who had nine tackles and a sack last year while playing in all 13 of Baylor's games, isn't on the Bears roster right now, according to coach Art Briles.
“He’s not here this spring,” Briles said via the San Antonio Express News. “There’s a possibility that he’ll come back this summer. But this spring, he’s not with us.”
Magee is back in San Antonio right now. Briles was coy when he was asked what Magee needed to accomplish to rejoin the team.
“That’s kind of between us and him and the university,” Briles said. “So we just hope that it works out for his benefit.”
According to teammate Jamal Palmer, Magee has a lot on his mind.
A former four-star recruit out of high school, Magee has left and returned to the football team previously. He was not part of Baylor's 2013 team after leaving in the summer and returned before the 2014 season.
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U-M has 1st spring practice under Harbaugh
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