Monday, April 12, 2010

With a big hole in the college sports schedule until next August, the talk now concerns league expansion. The Miami Herald raised the question if the Big 10 expands to 16 teams as many feel they may, the SEC would be right behind. And two of the teams the SEC may look at are Florida State and Miami. Folks, I think we’re headed to four 16-team super conferences and I think it’s going to happen sooner rather than later.
 

Clemson has reportedly interviewed six coaches for its head basketball job and most of them are of the mid-major variety. The Tiger brass has talked to fired Boston College coach Al Skinner along with head coaches at Wofford, Jacksonville, Old Dominion and Wright State as well as interim head coach Ron Bradley.

Just when you thought that Florida might be losing a little traction in football, the Gators’ spring game was highlighted by backup freshman quarterback Trey Burton. Burton ran the ball 10 times for 128 yards including a 76-yard scamper and completed 12 of 18 passes and one touchdown.

The Philadelphia Eagles will draft a quarterback in the NFL draft in less than two weeks. Since the Eagles traded Donovan McNabb to the Redskins, they have only two quarterbacks on their roster in Kevin Kolb and Michael Vick. They hope to trade Vick in the fall, thus they’ll try and pick up at least one QB in the draft.

I was sorry to see that former heavyweight champ Evander Holyfield knocked out Frans Botha in Las Vegas over the weekend. The 47-year-old doesn’t need any encouragement to continue fighting when he has so obviously lost his skills set. Retire Evander. Save what’s left of your battered brain.

Not so fast. When Kentucky announced that five players were entering the NBA draft last week, nobody checked with junior Patrick Patterson, who was reported as leaving along with John Wall, Eric Bledson, Daniel Orton and DeMarcus Cousins. Patterson says he "half in and half out."
And speaking of the Wildcats, head coach John Calipari was on the recruiting trail over the weekend, splitting his time between Virginia and North Carolina. He said he plans on a trip to California and then New York City after that. The Kentucky boss plans on bringing in as many as eight freshmen next season.

This is Norman Arey and I think Clemson should hire a Duke assistant.