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Dan Mullen continues to screw pooch at Florida with recruiting violationsDan Mullen and the Florida Gators have been tripping over themselves all season, so it’s only fitting that their 2020 campaign ends with more embarrassment. ...

Art Briles Already In Trouble In First Season As Head Coach At Texas High SchoolIt appears disgraced former Baylor head football coach Art Briles has brought scandal to his new team, the Mount Vernon Tigers of the Mount Vernon Independent School District, in (you guessed it) Mount Vernon, Texas. Briles and his high school program were publicly reprimanded by a unanimous six-mem...

Bruce Pearl Hosts BBQ To Address NCAA Sanctions For BBQ He Once HostedOn Wednesday, the NCAA announced that it would penalize former Tennessee men's basketball coach Bruce Pearl with a three-year show-cause penalty. The decision, which effectively shuts him out of a college coaching job for three years, is a result of infractions Pearl committed during his tenure at U...

Bruce Pearl's Wife Rushes To His Defense With Ill-Advised Crucifixion Comparison

Bruce Pearl received an 8-game suspension for recruiting violations that he admitted to. To Brandy Pearl, that makes him just like Jesus....

Are The Reporters Going After Cam Newton "Slave Catchers"?

That's the term Jason Whitlock used. It's upsetting lingo, but there's something there. What's the culpability of those exposing rule-breakers when the rules are unjust?...

What Did Vernon Davis Buy A UNC Player For $20?

Buried in North Carolina's latest document dump on impermissible benefits to players includes former Maryland and current 49er tight end Vernon Davis giving $20 worth of stuff. That's a heck of a lot more interesting to us than Hakeem Nicks's $3,300....

The University Of Miami's Jose Canseco Arrives, Shocks No One

Nevin Shapiro—an alleged Ponzi schemer and ex-University of Miami booster—is threatening to publish a tell-all book about the program. It'd be like that movie The Program, but with less James Caan and more fiduciary malfeasance. Or something along those lines....

Florida Manages To Commit Recruiting Violations On Facebook

Today in "Snitches Get Stitches" news, a rival school—not necessarily an SEC rival—has tattled on two Florida coaches for improperly communicating with recruits over Facebook on separate occasions. The improper method: public wall postings. Wait, what?...