My favorite and best college football team

Now im sure you all may have caught on now that my favorite team is Kansas, by the background. if so, you are correct. i love KU with a passion. No matter how bad their season may go or how good, im a die hard KU fan. Kansas had a horrible 3-9 season. i feel that they had the personal to be great, but couldnt put it all together especially with getting a new coach, Coach Turner Gill. it ended up being a rough season with a few highs and a lot of lows. i fell in love with Kansas athletics when i was in middle school, i can see me being a fan forever.

injuries in NCAA

Rutgers defensive tackle Eric LeGrand was paralyzed below the neck after making a tackle during a game against Army, and he will remain hospitalized for the near future.

Coach Greg Schiano said Sunday that LeGrand was resting in the intensive care unit at Hackensack University Medical Center. He had emergency surgery overnight to stabilize the spine after making the tackle during Saturday's game at the New Meadowlands Stadium.

"Eric's spirits were as good as you can expect," said Schiano, who visited with him before and after surgery. "He was cognizant of me being there, his mom, everybody

"He's a fighter."

Schiano, who had tears in his eyes during his press conference following Rutgers' 23-20 overtime win, talked to his team about LeGrand around noon on Sunday.

"As I talked to our team, we're just going to believe that Eric LeGrand is going to walk onto that field again with us," Schiano said. "That's what we believe. We'll see with the speed of which that happens."

LeGrand was hurt with 5:10 to play in the fourth quarter against Army, making a violent tackle on Malcolm Brown on the kickoff return after Rutgers tied the game at 17.

from foxsports.com

college selection process for highschool football players

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has rules and you as a high school coach should be aware of these rules. First, the NCAA defines a recruited prospective student-athlete as a student who has started classes for the ninth grade or has received contact by a coach offering any financial assistance or other benefits before the ninth grade. The student officially becomes a recruited prospective student-athlete when contacted by a college coaching staff on more than one occasion for the purpose of recruitment.

The NCAA limits contact during the year and specifies recruiting and non-recruiting periods. There are four periods specified by the NCAA: the contact, evaluation, quiet, and dead periods. The amount of face-to-face encounters and dialogue the coach is allowed with a recruit differs with each period. The contact period is the only time when coaches may visit the recruit's home and talk with the athlete and his or her parents. In the evaluation period, coaches can visit the recruit's school to observe the athlete at practice or a game and converse with high school coaches and guidance counselors. However, the coach cannot have dialogue with the recruit. The only in-person contact allowed during the quiet period is on the college campus during a visit. No face-to-face contact is allowed during the dead period. Telephone calls are permitted during all periods, with limitations on how often the coach may call.

A recruit can visit a college campus, either officially or unofficially, during the recruiting process. An official visit is paid for by the interested school and consists of transportation to and from the college, room and meals during the visit, and reasonable entertainment expenses such as a home athletics contest for the recruit and his or her parents. Before an official visit can take place, the recruit must provide a copy of their highschool transcripts and ACT or SAT scores. The recruit is limited to five official visits, which can take place during the contact, evaluation, or quiet periods. An unofficial visit is paid for by the recruit and their family, except for complimentary admissions to a home athletics contest the school may provide. The recruit can talk to the coaches on any unofficial visit except during the dead period. A recruit can take as many unofficial visits as desired.

The most important day during the recruiting cycle is signing day, when recruits sign National Letters of Intent (NLI) to play for an institution. Signing a NLI binds the athlete to that college, with penalties if the athlete doesn't follow through, such as losing a year of eligibility for transferring to another school. The NCAA's recruiting year runs from August 1st to July 31st, and the NCAA specifies signing periods for each sport. The signing period for fall sports begins the first week in February and lasts until the end of March. Basketball has two signing periods; an early signing period lasting for a week in November and the second for a month beginning in mid-April. All spring sport recruits will sign their NLI during the November period.

Until a recruit signs a NLI, which binds them to an institution, a prospect can only verbally commit to a school until they are able to sign. When a prospect verbally commits to a school, it is no more than a promise to the coaches he or she will sign. The athlete can break a verbal commitment, and many times coaches will continue to recruit committed prospects of other schools. Negative recruiting (supposedly against the rules), a practice in which coaches from a school will talk badly about another school in an attempt to gain a recruit's commitment, is common in the recruiting world. An important note here is that an athlete does not have to sign a NLI to attend a college.

Kansas Jayhawks recruitment

in this blog today ill discuss the recruiting situation for kansas jayhawks football season next fall.as everyone is aware that KU had a horrible season last year, one of the worst. one thing they are working on is getting better recruits for next season. at the top of their list so far they have signed a 4-star caliber running back from blue springs missouri. some of you may know where that is. if not its by kansas city, mo. the player's name is Darrian Miller he stands at 5' 10" and weighs 190 pounds.

we also got a new quarterback signed at a 4-star caliber weighing 205 at 6' 3" from Valor Christian high in Colorado. i feel we are in need of a good permanent quarterback because this past season we went through three of them and it didnt work out too well.

How i got hooked on NCAA football

When i was kid growing up with two older brothers, they use to play NCAA football all the time and played football in school and i immediately fell in love with the sport. i remember the first team that caught my attention on the game and it was Florida State University Seminoles. i loved to play with them and i was pretty good. being my age of 9 i started playing flag football in school because it peaked my interest even more for NCAA football.

Once i got out of elementary school, we finally got to play tackle football and i was really excited i got to be like the guys on TV now.by this time i was a Kansas Jayhawk fan for life since my family all love KU in my 8th grade year we went undefeated that season and then i went to high school and continued my football path, i played the positions of running back and free safety, i was pretty good at it also. i would love trucking other opponents and scoring, it was the best feeling ever when you scored. the popularity that came with it was also a good thing. so after high school, you would think i went to college to play somewhere...but i didn't. my freshman year of college snapped my life long record of 9 years of playing football. i never stopped working out and hoping one day to play again. so now i am close to making the football team at my college. and ending up like the guys who were on TV playing college football.

NCAA football

OK so this is my first blog ever, so I'm new to this. basically ill be blogging all semester about football. not just any football but specifically in the area of NCAA football. so all you college ball fans here you go, i hope i can make it interesting.