According to Orangebloods.com, East Mississippi Community College freshman quarterback Bo Wallace intends on making an official visit to Texas Saturday. Wallace, the 2011 NJCAA Offensive Player of the Year, will visit Indiana today before flying to Waco. Following the visit at Baylor, Wallace will make his way to Austin.
Wallace broke NJCAA records for passing yards (4,604), total yards (4,810), and passing touchdowns (53) while completing 67% of his throws. The first-team NJCAA All-American and three-time NJCAA player of the week led East Mississippi Community College to a perfect 12-0 season and the school’s first ever national tite. One of his teammates, 6-foot-7, 330-pound defensive tackle Brandon Moore, committed to play for the Longhorns in December.
“Texas, they’re going straight to the top,” Wallace told Orangebloods.com. “It’s one of the biggest programs in college football. Growing up, watching Colt, VY [Vince Young], even back to Simms, I’ve always watched Texas when they’re on TV.
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Texas A&M has moved up Kiplingers list of “best values” in public colleges and is the top Texas institution.
Texas A&M University continues to move up in Kiplinger’s annual listing of “best values” among the nation’s top 100 public colleges, now ranking 21st — and tops in Texas.
The widely circulated personal finance magazine has just released its 2011-12 rankings, which are based on a combination of academic quality and affordability, note the publication’s editors.
Texas A&M ranked 23rd on Kiplinger’s “best values” public college list last year and 30th the previous year. It is one of only three Texas universities to be included on that list this year, followed by the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Texas at Dallas.
The 2011-12 public college list is again headed by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Kiplinger’s rankings are the latest in a host of such assessments in which Texas A&M fares well, university officials note. Last month, for exa
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COLUMBUS, Ohio Two prized Penn State recruits have already backed away from their verbal commitments and will go elsewhere, due to the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal hanging over the football program and the uncertainty over the Nittany Lions’ next head coach.
More decommits may be on the way.
Until the focus shifts to the future instead of the ugly recent past, national recruiting analysts believe it will be difficult for the Nittany Lions to turn things around.
“They’re going to need someone to come in and re-invigorate the fans,” said Scott Kennedy, director of scouting for Scout.com. “In today’s society, I don’t think this is as program-killing as people have talked about. Not to minimize what’s been going on there, but I just don’t think this is akin to a death penalty.
“However, I do think in the short term it’s going to get worse before it gets better.”
What was at one time considered a solid class of prospects possibly among the 10 best in the nation has no choice but to pin its future on the reassurance of what is expected to be a lame-duck coaching staff.
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Chicago Bears’ WR Sam Hurd was arrested Wednesday night after authorities organized an undercover operation in which Hurd allegedly attempted to purchase five to 10 kilograms of cocaine and 1,000 pounds of marijuana PER WEEK to distribute in the Chicagoland area.
According to the criminal complaint, Hurd told an undercover agent that he and a co-conspirator already had been distributing about four kilos of cocaine per week in Chicago, but that they currently could not keep up with demands.
According to one law enforcement official I spoke with, the amount of narcotics involved in the attempted deal are consistent with a “big operation.”
Hurd, who played five seasons with the Dallas Cowboys, serving as special teams captain for a portion of that time, signed with the Bears back in July; just one day after agreeing to a consensual interview with federal authorities over an ongoing criminal investigation.
It’s unclear if/why the Bears, who employ an individual with federal ties to conduct all player personnel background checks, were unaware of the investigation.
The Chicago Bears released this statement today: “We are aware of Sam’s arrest and are continuing to gather details surrounding it. We are disa
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ATLANTA — Nearly half of America’s public schools didn’t meet federal achievement standards this year, marking the largest failure rate since the much-criticized No Child Left Behind Law took effect a decade ago, according to a national report released Thursday.
The Center on Education Policy report shows more than 43,000 schools — or 48 percent — did not make “adequate yearly progress” this year. The failure rates range from a low of 11 percent in Wisconsin to a high of 89 percent in Florida.
The findings are far below the 82 percent failure rate that Education Secretary Arne Duncan predicted earlier this year but still indicate an alarming trend that Duncan hopes to address by granting states relief from the federal law. The law requires states to have every student performing at grade level in math and reading by 2014, which most educators agree is an impossible goal.
“Whether it’s 50 percent, 80 percent or 100 percent of schools being incorrectly labeled as failing, one thing is clear: No Child Left Behind is broken,” Duncan said in a statement Wednesday. “That
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