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Name: Tom Shanahan
Date registered: April 8, 2018
URL: http://shanahanreport.com

Latest posts

  1. Here is the unromantic Alabama Rose Bowl story the media won’t tell you — December 27, 2023
  2. My Michigan State history lesson for UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz — December 11, 2023
  3. Antonio Gates on his fatherly advice for his namesake and Nick Saban’s advice he ignored — September 22, 2023
  4. Another round of realignment brings up folly of adopting legends — September 7, 2023
  5. Air Coryell, the offense that changed football, lands in Canton — August 6, 2023

Most commented posts

  1. Pat Narduzzi rebuilt Pitt with model his old boss used to close in on Duffy — 3 comments
  2. Duke football isn’t one of Kirk Herbstreit’s white flag teams — 2 comments
  3. Brian Kelly says Notre Dame QB competition is closer but better — 2 comments
  4. Ian Book’s play answering questions why Notre Dame recruited him — 1 comment
  5. Don Coryell’s Hall-of-Fame case supported by Pro Bowl record — 1 comment

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Aug
14
2019

Polynesian ‘watch list’ recognizes what recruiters overlooked

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Mo Fifita is a 6-foot-1, 320-pounder who gets down in the trenches and slugs it out, brawn on brawn. If that means tying up two 300-pound offensive linemen to free up linebackers, so be it. In other words, he was born to play nose tackle. And it doesn’t hurt he has Polynesian bloodlines. Ever since …

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Aug
13
2019

Duke’s vastly improved program still has room for true freshmen

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DURHAM, N.C. – A dozen years ago David Cutcliffe took over a woeful Duke football program that was 2-33 the previous three seasons, including 0-12 in 2006. He needed fresh talent and he found some with three true freshmen. Jay Hollingsworth led the team in rushing, albeit with only 399 yards and one touchdown. Johnny …

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Aug
11
2019

No panic from Cutcliffe, even with Alabama Death Star looming

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DURHAM, N.C. – Fans panic with their lungs or twitter thumbs. The media jumps to conclusions. But Duke coach David Cutcliffe learned long ago to wait for the film to evaluate a football team’s first scrimmage a mere eight days into fall camp. “I promise you nothing is as good as you think it is …

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Aug
10
2019

Dennis Smith’s Fayetteville key to city colored a shameful green

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Times don’t always change for the better. Fifty-three years ago, when Jim Crow still plagued the old South, the city of Fayetteville, N.C., demonstrated it was ahead of the times down the slow, painful march to the new South. The segregated city gave a parade and key to the city to Jimmy Raye, an African-American. …

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Aug
09
2019

How a phone call home saved Army defender’s season

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Sometimes a football player — even a hard-nosed defensive end — needs gentle, reassuring words only his mother can provide. That includes accomplished athletes like this one: 1. A kid from Oceanside High, the school that turned out Pro Football Hall of Famer Junior Seau, a toughness model that has eternally cast his competitive spirit …

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Jul
28
2019

Dino Babers finds a Syracuse home despite Atlantic challenge

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. –Three years ago Dino Babers took the stage for the ACC Kickoff media days with some gallows humor. While introduced as Syracuse’s new coach, it was pointed out the conference has a foursome of newcomers. “You know, I’m one of the four new coaches in the ACC, but the other three went to …

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Jul
24
2019

Dave Clawson’s Wake Forest rebuilding effort negates transfer portal

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Wake Forest coach Dave Clawson initially feared the NCAA’s transfer portal’s impact on his rebuilding project, robbing him of fifth-year seniors. Turns out the new rule may have validated his progress. “We are still a developmental program,” Clawson said at the ACC Kickoff media days. “We feel we’re certainly recruiting better, but …

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Jul
23
2019

Payton Wilson Badgers-like recruit Dave Doeren landed for Wolfpack

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – N.C. State coach Dave Doeren is nine seasons removed from his Wisconsin assistant days, but the influence of two legendary Badgers coaches is more apparent each day Payton Wilson is closer to the playing field. Look at Doeren’s recruiting classes. He doesn’t just look for talent. He seeks multi-sport athletes for his …

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Jul
22
2019

Mack Brown looks part of CEO coach, but he learned to play another role

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Mack Brown, North Carolina’s new/old coach, showed up at the Westin Hotel last week for the ACC Kickoff media days with the look of a CEO. The Not surprising since the CEO coach approach has become a bit of a trend in college football. Let the head coach with a recognizable name …

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Jul
21
2019

Quentin Harris has more than quarterback in his future: Sen. Harris?

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Quentin Harris picked Duke for reasons beyond football. So when Daniel Jones, taken as the sixth pick of the NFL draft by the New York Giants, committed to the Blue Devils in the same Class of 2015 and quickly passed him on the depth chart, Harris didn’t think transfer. That has become …

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Jul
20
2019

ECU’s new coach explains Holton Ahlers and all Pirates must earn starting job

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CARY, N.C. — The five head coaches representing North Carolina’s schools in the National Football Foundation’s Bill Dooley chapter were seated on the dais for the annual Pigskin Preview at the Embassy Suites in suburban Raleigh. The first prompt from the moderator, WRAL’s Jeff Gravely, was for N.C. State’s Dave Doeren, North Carolina’s Mack Brown, …

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Jul
20
2019

Pat Narduzzi rebuilt Pitt with model his old boss used to close in on Duffy

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Mark Dantonio needs only three wins to break Duffy Daugherty’s Michigan State career record win total, but it’s safe to say, judging by Pat Narduzzi’s initial reaction, the Spartans’ coach doesn’t bring up the subject with friends and colleagues. Narduzzi, Dantonio’s defensive coordinator for 11 seasons at Cincinnati and Michigan State before …

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Jul
19
2019

More talent in North Carolina but also more schools chasing it

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – No need for Mack Brown to click on Internet college football recruiting sites or to study population growth figures. He only needed to drive from North Carolina’s Chapel Hill campus to Charlotte for ACC media days to understand the state of North Carolina’s growing talent level. More people cause traffic jams. The …

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Jul
19
2019

Boston College’s Eric Lewis and Underground Railroad’s second generation

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Boston College’s coaching staff list details more than names, experience and responsibilities. New defensive backs coach Eric Lewis reaffirms that his father Sherman Lewis and other passengers aboard Michigan State coach Duffy Daugherty’s Underground Railroad punched more than a one-way ticket. Sherm’s passage was round trip when he left segregated Louisville, Ky., …

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Jul
18
2019

Mark Richt on the triple option at Army and Georgia Tech without it

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Mark Richt spent the past 11 seasons squeezing in practice time any day possible to prepare for Georgia Tech’s triple-option offense – the past three at Miami and the previous eight at Georgia. So, now that’s he retired from coaching and has joined the fledgling ACC Network as a TV analyst, what …

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Jul
15
2019

A midsummer conversation with Herm Edwards on the ’60s

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Arizona State coach Herm Edwards offered an observation about young athletes, breaking into his familiar belly laugh that fills a room. They view the 1960s as ancient history, he says. “It’s amazing. They think the ’60s was a long time ago. It wasn’t that long ago. I lived in that era! I grew up in …

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