Suffice to say, this isn’t a breaking news post. The breaking portion of the news about Stan Parrish being terminated as the Ball State head football coach came to me via about a dozen texts from players, friends, and fans on Tuesday as I was driving across central Ohio as I made my way back to [...]
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Multiple sources, none of which are anything close to an official announcement, are saying that Stan Parrish will not be returning to the Cardinals next season. Whether this is an outright termination or a role reassignment is unclear, and nothing official has come from the University yet. I would guess that most familiar with the [...]
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OverThePylon Ballot – Week 13 Rank Team Delta 1 Boise St. Broncos 1 2 Auburn Tigers -1 3 Oregon Ducks – 4 TCU Horned Frogs – 5 Wisconsin Badgers – 6 LSU Tigers – 7 Stanford Cardinal 1 8 Ohio St. Buckeyes 1 9 Michigan St. Spartans 1 10 Alabama Crimson Tide 1 11 Oklahoma [...]
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For eleven weeks this season I’ve watched this Cardinal team as many of you have. There have been times of elation, times of frustration, times of great success, times of bitter disappointment. We were able to see clutch wins against Central Michigan and Buffalo, as the Cards performed like the Cards we all expected and [...]
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Time once again to come together with the best and brightest (read: only) sports blogs out there that dare cover the MidAmerican Conference. This week’s roundtable forays are posed by Falcon Blog, the always stellar BG blog. Off we go… 1.) Northern Illinois is having a nice season and appears to be getting stronger. Do [...]
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Hey… look at us! Getting the Blogpoll ballot in on time, which we missed last week by about 30 minutes, hence no deltas for change. The ballot… OverThePylon Ballot – Week 12 Rank Team Delta 1 Auburn Tigers – 2 Boise St. Broncos – 3 Oregon Ducks – 4 TCU Horned Frogs – 5 Wisconsin [...]
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We here at OverThePylon were asked to be a voting member in the SEC Power Poll this season hosted by Team Speed Kills. It’s a collection of the best and brightest SEC blogs throughout the college football landscape and we are fortunate to be a part of it with our loose affiliation to the Kentucky Wildcats. [...]
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It’s Monday, so it’s time to hear from Coach Parrish on the weekly MidAmerican Conference teleconference. Obviously the focus of conversation is the Buffalo win, but there’s also some chit chat about NIU and the challenges they present. NIU will be a challenge for the Cardinals and you can tell that Coach Parrish is well aware of [...]
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It’s two days after Buffalo, and I am almost a little embarrassed to admit that I’m still giddy over the victory. I understand and comprehend that beating a 2-7 team normally shouldn’t conjure up exuberance and elation, but this particular victory is different than others for so many reasons. First and foremost, it was Ball [...]
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I remember the 2008 MAC Championship like it was yesterday. I remember the anticipation leading up to the game, readying my home for a watch party for our friends, and feeling confident that the outcome would be like the other 12 games we watched that year, as the coronation continued for the Ball State Cardinals. [...]
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