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Tailback Jewel Hampton should be ready to go for Iowa in the fall.
- Iowa football: Running back Hampton to avoid surgery, play this fall — Des Moines Register — Hawkeyes tailback Jewel Hampton suffered a potentially scary knee injury last week, but word is he’ll be good to go in time for the season opener. Hampton rushed for 463 yards on 5.3 ypc as a freshman last season, and projects to start for Iowa this season.
- Pieces of Steele — Blue-Gray Sky — BGS looks at a couple of preseason guru Phil Steele’s projection metrics. Both metrics, close-win/close-loss (defined as a win/loss within a touchdown) and turnover margin (self-explanatory), project a Michigan turnaround this season, as the Wolverines lost three more close games than they won and had a -10 turnover margin last season. Also, take a look at BGS’s super in-depth look at the toss play, if you’re into that sort of thing.
- House Odds for 2009 — Eleven Warriors — Jason at 11W takes a look at the odds for certain individual accomplishments for Ohio State players next season. My favorite: WR Ray Small playing every game comes off at 4-1, thanks to his eligibility issues and inability to stay out of the doghouse. Keep it up, Ray!
- And They Say WE’RE The Delusional Ones — Black Shoe Diaries — The best Penn State blog out there savagely picks apart a Bleacher Report post by some Ohio State homer, Fire Joe Morgan-style. Sit back and enjoy the carnage.
- RB recruit Hyde won’t play in 2009 — Columbus Dispatch — Four-star running back Carlos Hyde will not be eligible in the fall for Ohio State, thanks to a stellar score of 16 on his ACT. This shouldn’t hurt OSU too much in the short term, since they already return Boom Herron and Brandon Saine, with freshmen Jamaal Berry and Jordan Hall ready to contribute as well. Still, it always hurts to lose a four-star recruit because of grade issues.
- Fitz Fest – Day 1 — Lake the Posts — LTP honors head coach and ex-Wildcat linebacker Pat Fitzgerald with the first of a full week of Fitz posts leading up to his enshrinement in the College Football Hall of Fame on Saturday. Fitzgerald was a great linebacker and has been nothing but a class act since taking over the reins in Evanston (under tragic circumstances after the death of Randy Walker), and if anybody is worthy of enshrinement in the HoF in the Big Ten, it’s him.
July 13, 2009, 4:58 pm | Tags: Jewel Hampton, Pat Fitzgerald, Phil Steele | Category: Football |
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