? We've still got our eyes on you. The NCAA issued a letter through the NFL Monday warning players headed to New York for the draft later this month that, although they may have escaped the omnipresent heel of amateurism, draft parties and other festivities can still get their former teammates in trouble. Undergraduate players with eligibility remaining can still go to New York and hang around, but they have pay their own way for travel, lodging, meals and entertainment, and remain barred from agents and other nefarious types who threaten to corrupt their "amateur" status. In bold type, the letter adds, "Please do not jeopardize the eligibility of your friends or former teammates." But otherwise, have a good time! [Associated Press]
? Wait for it... Villanova's Board of Trustees was scheduled to vote today on whether to accept a standing offer to join the Big East in football, but has delayed the vote indefinitely due to concerns from other Big East members over the Wildcats' lack of an adequate venue. To accommodate FBS attendance requirements, 'Nova plans to move home games to 18,500-seat PPL Park, current home to Major League Soccer's Philadelphia Union, and expand capacity to 30,000. That would still be the smallest stadium in the conference (Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati seats 35,000), but there may still be enough support from their fellow members ?�remember, 'Nova is already a Big East member in every other sport ?�to get it approved. [Associated Press, Philadelphia Inquirer]
? New uniform alert. Washington State unveiled a new "brand and identity program" Monday night in Pullman, which is another way of saying the Cougars trotted out some new unis for most of its teams. For the football team, that including a gray-on-gray look that goes so far as to put a gray logo on a gray helmet:
To be fair, I'd try to make my brand's association with Washington State football as hard to discern as possible, too. [WSUCougars.com]
? The Rap Sheet. Taking their place in the rare police report in which football players are the apparent victims, seven Georgia players reported multiple iPhones and iPods as stolen from the team locker room last Thursday afternoon. Usually, the Georgia athletic building requires fingerprint identification to access (what is this, NORAD?), but was left unsecured last Thursday for "faculty appreciation day." Items taken were valued at $1,330; the lockers were left unlocked. No players are suspected in the theft. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
? Get well soon. Iowa offensive lineman Dan Heiar, a juice transfer who joined the team in January, remained hospitalized Monday night with unspecified injuries he suffered in a one-vehicle accident over the weekend. Coach Kirk Ferentz said more information would be released when appropriate. [Des Moines Register]
? I'm about 60 percent certain this "source" didn't exist. Yeah, so that rumor floating around Monday that Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor was considering entering the NFL's Supplemental Draft looked bogus, and is bogus: In all likelihood, Pryor's not even eligible to go the supplemental route. For his part, Pryor took to Twitter Monday night to pledge his return as the Buckeyes' quarterback in October, following a five-game suspension:
I hope National Football Post and all the blogs and other sites that floated a suspicious and speciously sourced "story" from a site with a track record of being wrong about the draft got like a ton of hits for their efforts. [Cleveland Plain Dealer, @TPeezy2]
Quickly… The SEC cleaned up in 2010, even by SEC standards. … Mike Gundy endows a scholarship for Oklahoma State quarterbacks. … Fox Sports West puts a camera on Matt Barkley's head, and a thrashing soundtrack behind his view of USC's latest scrimmage. … Frontline takes a look at the outsized stakes of high school football. … Nick Perry sets his sights on an ambitious sack total. … Arkansas signee and Name of the Year candidate Quinta Funderburk says he's still on the team after his high school coach told a hometown paper Funderburk doesn't want to play football anymore. … Prized quarterback recruit Zeke Pike gives his side of his ejection from a 7-on-7 tournament over the weekend. … How Randall Mackey's former coaches handled his communication problems at the line of scrimmage. … And AuburnSports.com pieces together the recruiting equivalent of the Warren Commission Report on the turbulent courtship of Brent Calloway.
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