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The Proverbs: Week One

September 1, 2011

Just so we’re clear, let’s recap the reasons why the 2011 college football season can’t get here soon enough: USC, Michigan, and Lindsay Lohan are all suddenly more stable than Ohio State. Paul Wulff has outlived Butch Davis. The total number of offseason Ponzi schemes and Jacory Harris penguin references is up to three. Mack [...]

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An Afternoon in Westwood

August 9, 2011

Because I find it tiresome when people attempt to talk about a subject without seeing it up close and forming an (occasionally) informed opinion, I decided to brave the 77 degree (!) heat and the immortal 405 freeway and make my way to beautiful Westwood, CA to catch UCLA as they opened fall practice Monday [...]

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Elite 11: Day Three

July 21, 2011

I initially wasn’t going to write a Day 3 recap of my amateur observations at the Nike/ESPN Elite 11 (HS QB camp) finals, but then I realized a lot happened, so it’d be wise to make people a little dumber for having spent six minutes reading The Solid Verbal. • The day started with me receiving [...]

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Elite 11: Day Two

July 19, 2011

This week, I will be going to Malibu, CA to take in the Elite 11 QB camp finals. The camp not only features the top high school QB talent we have to offer, but also top college QBs in counselor roles, a TV crew, and weird recruiting media lurking behind every handicam.  ***** Day two [...]

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Elite 11 Camp: Day One

July 19, 2011

On Monday, I decided make the journey to Malibu, CA to watch tomorrow’s quarterback stars today (!) at the Elite 11 finals, a high school QB camp brought to you by ESPN RISE and Nike. And I figured that while I was there, I’d pay attention to the goings-on and then write about it. The [...]

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Part 1: “Those Guys Have All the Feeds”

May 25, 2011

Later this summer, a behind the scenes tome will be published covering the often sordid history of “The Solid Verbal,” the popular college football podcast and radio show hosted by us, Ty Hildenbrandt and Dan Rubenstein. Our choices were to either let somebody else profit from our story or to get in on the action [...]

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The 2011 NFL Draft Diary

April 29, 2011

In case you didn’t know, the much-awaited Fast Five hits the box office this weekend.  Kind of astounding when you realize they actually made a fifth, almost like it was part of a dare or something.  Of course, the great irony here is that nobody didn’t know about this picture.  You couldn’t turn on your [...]

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Three for the Show: The Highlights

April 22, 2011

Earlier today, I finished watching my DVR’d copy of Three for the Show (Pt 1), ESPN‘s latest Year of the Quarterback installment, and it was quite good. And yes, I mean that on every conceivable level. These are my insta-reactions (in no particular order) to the behind-the-scenes look at Cam Newton, Jake Locker, and Tyrod [...]

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Signing Dayaganza

February 3, 2011

Because it’s much easier to just list things than figuring out a cohesive narrative, I organized a chaotic National Signing Day into three thoroughly unoriginal categories. The Good Florida State Certain words come to mind when looking at the players Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher signed, but I’ll go with “unfair.” Depth on both lines [...]

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Jersey Bore: Better Ways to Make Your Recruiting Announcement

February 2, 2011

If you identify with terms like “college football fanatic,” “recruiting junkie,” or “single,” there’s a chance that today means a little something more to you than the average Wednesday.  Indeed, today is an unofficial holiday, when Tom Luginbill warms the cockles of your heart, message boards come to life with the tales of imaginary sources, [...]

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