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I recently got this question into the mailbag and thought it was a good one to break out into a separate post. Michael in Louisville writes: Andrea, can you please explain to me why people think Rutgers will compete in the Big East. I don't know if ...

Let's end the week with another dip into the mailbag. Anthony in Clyde, Ohio, writes: Looking to the past, had Brian Kelly or RichRod or some of the other good coaches not left for other schools how would the Big East look today? Would Cincy or We...

Earlier today, you saw my compilation of recent Big East coaches who have left their respective teams in, well, not the greatest ways. Now it is your time to vote: Which coach do you think is the most hated or vilified in recent Big East history? ...

Enjoy a weekend full of hoops, everybody. The salaries of three new Iowa football coaches were released; offensive coordinator Greg Davis will make $300,000. It's safe to say LeVar Woods and Brian Ferentz are a little more social-media savvy than...

So now that Rich Rodriguez has raided the West Virginia defensive staff, Ted Miller over at the Pac-12 blog notes that Arizona has become West Virginia -- Southwest. With Jeff Casteel and Bill Kirelawich on board, six of the nine assistants Rodrig...

The Big Ten and Pac-12 announced Wednesday that the two leagues would join forces for annual interconference games (And if somebody hasn't already trademarked the Biggie-Pac Midwest/Coast Feud as the title of this series, I'm running to the patent of...

MICHIGAN WOLVERINES Record: 10-2 (6-2 Big Ten) It's hard to imagine the Brady Hoke era getting off to any better start than it did. Mired in mediocrity -- at best -- during Rich Rodriguez's three years, the Wolverines made one of the biggest...

Pitt co-offensive coordinator Calvin Magee and assistants Tony Dews and Tony Gibson have left the staff for another coaching opportunity, coach Todd Graham announced Sunday. It is expected the three will join Rich Rodriguez in Arizona. All three w...

Michigan is moving on up. The 5-0 Wolverines are ranked No. 12 in the latest Associated Press poll and are 11th in the new USA Today coaches' poll. The team was never ranked that high under Rich Rodriguez and hasn't sniffed this kind of real estat...

Maybe somewhere, Jim Tressel is spending some time alone with the NCAA rules manual. But the disgraced former Ohio State coach opted not to attend a rules-compliance seminar in Tampa, Fla., last week that was supposed to be a part of his school-im...

So a movie comes out with both Natalie Portman and Zooey Deschanel in it, and it bombs. How is that possible? On to more important questions: yours. Hank from Leeds, Mass., writes: BB, I thought that opening with Michigan was a driving force fo...

Pittsburgh is starting to feel a little bit like Ann Arbor East. The Panthers' new coaching staff includes former Michigan assistants Calvin Magee, Tony Dews and Tony Gibson, all of whom were on Rich Rodriguez's staff. Pitt also landed a Wolverine...

The grass isn't always greener on the other side. Rich Rodriguez seemed to admit as much in an interview with CBSSports.com over the weekend. The former West Virginia coach -- who is a guest analyst for CBS Sports' coverage of the NFL draft -- was...

Mail time! Paki from Chicago writes: As I recall, when Rich Rodriguez left West Virginia for Michigan, he said in interviews that installing his spread offense was always a very rough transition for the players that yields very poor results in the...

Todd Graham hired a bunch of people he is familiar with on the Pitt staff. Graham had a fun first week. Rich Rodriguez wrote a check to West Virginia. A UConn recruit is weighing his options. Former USF coach Jim Leavitt has landed a job as an ...

So it looks like the inevitable parting between Rich Rodriguez and Michigan has come to pass. And now the inevitable question: Why not Rodriguez to Pittsburgh? The Panthers need a coach, and a big name would help them erase the turmoil of the p...