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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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Jul
05
2019

Big Ten welcomes Kevin Warren to Conference of Pioneers

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To Kevin Warren: Welcome to the Big Ten Conference. Congratulations on being named the historic league’s next commissioner, succeeding Jim Delaney. Welcome to the Conference of Pioneers. Hey, if Bill Walton can call the Pac-12 the Conference of Champions, well, Big Ten fans certainly own the right to label the Big Ten the Conference of …

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Jun
24
2019

Army coach says ‘America’s University’ not interested in AAC

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Army West Point Coach Jeff Monken said Monday he has no interest in the Black Knights replacing Connecticut in the American Athlete Conference — or any other conference. Army’s recent success has resulted in the Black Knights speculated among possible candidates upon reports that UConn is exploring leave the AAC for the Big East. “Not …

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Jun
17
2019

44 facts on Duffy Daugherty’s Underground Railroad legacy

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Duffy Daugherty retired 47 seasons ago with 109 Michigan State career victories, a school record outlasting eight coaching changes. But the win total long identified with the College Football Hall of Famer is about to fall — as early as 2019’s third game. Mark Dantonio stands at 107-51 since taking over the Spartans, in 2007. …

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Jun
03
2019

There’s more to see from the two smartest guys returning to College Basketball

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The NBA early entry withdrawal deadline spawned a spate of stories projecting college teams as winners and losers. They were based on players staying in school and those gone to the NBA – actually, overseas or to the G-League for most of them. Those evaluations were a little late. The most important of these stories …

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May
26
2019

ACC plays up football joining basketball and baseball

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DURHAM, N.C. – The Atlantic Coast Conference likes to capitalize on its basketball and basketball tournaments as a time highlight national prominence in the sports. It’s also a subtle method to overlook football’s second-class stature. Not anymore. Throughout the 2019 ACC Baseball Tournament that finished with North Carolina (42-17) winning 10-2 over Georgia Tech (42-17) …

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May
21
2019

Jeanie Buss inherited and inflated Lakers dysfunction for her father

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Jerry West, more than any other Los Angeles Lakers player, defined the NBA franchise’s greatness on the court in the 1960s and 1970s and then as an executive in the 1980s and 1990s. Magic Johnson, more than Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy, Jamaal Wilkes and Coach Pat Riley, defined the “Showtime Lakers” of the 1980s. Now, …

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May
17
2019

Zion Williamson’s parents bring sanity to NBA draft

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Not all parents of elite athletes are nuts. We’re reminded of that with comments from Zion Williamson’s step-father, Lee Anderson. Following rapid speculation that Duke’s “Zeus of College Basketball” season will look for a way out of playing for the New Orleans Pelicans, the NBA team that won the lottery for the No. 1 draft …

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May
08
2019

Duffy Daugherty deserves campus statue at Michigan State for changing the face of game

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A uniquely American sport celebrates its sesquicentennial this season. College football’s growth over the next 150 years since Rutgers beat Princeton on Nov. 6, 1869, quickly spread sea to sea and halfway across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii. The game learned to adapt to the times, albeit sometimes slowly, but no transformation has been more …

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May
05
2019

East Carolina Pirates bulking up for a stronger running game

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GREENVILLE, N.C. — East Carolina football returns some promising young wideouts, but whether one enjoys a breakout season to extend the Pirates’ streak of seven consecutive seasons with a 1,000-yard receiver remains to be seen. Even in this pass-happy era that today’s relaxed defensive rules created, seven is an impressive stretch that leads the nation. …

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May
02
2019

Houston’s Dana Holgorsen on Power 5 move to the AAC

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Dana Holgorsen’s move to the University of Houston is an attempt to defy two realities in college football. One is the revolving door at Houston and the other proving a Group of 5 position can be better than one at a Power 5 school. To prove his point, he left West Virginia, a Big 12 …

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May
01
2019

Tom Izzo, college hoops and Inspector Renault’s lack of shock

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Sportswriters are both romantics and cynics. That’s why Inspector Renault, a cynical character in Casablanca, a romantic movie, so often appears in sports stories. The latest example of Inspector Renault declaring he’s “shocked, shocked,” results from Christian Dawkins testifying in the FBI’s college basketball federal corruption case. He was answering questions on Wednesday in New …

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Apr
25
2019

Giants picking Daniel Jones sixth no surprise to those seeing him play

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Duke Coach David Cutcliffe said this firmly two days before the NFL draft about Blue Devils quarterback Daniel Jones as a possible first-round pick: “If he doesn’t go the first day, I’ll go strongly enough out there and say somebody made a big mistake.” Well, the New York Giants not only took Jones in the …

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Apr
25
2019

Forget draft records tonight compared to Michigan State in 1967

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A half-century ago the NFL Draft was so low key and simple NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle stood at a chalkboard in a New York hotel ballroom. He scrawled names in chalk as they were called out. The overwhelming anticipation hovering over the draft was not who would go where. It was relief that players were …

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Apr
21
2019

Cassius Winston’s return boosts his Michigan State legacy stock

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Cassius Winston’s legacy stock is up. Way up. His NBA prospects determine future financial stocks, but his pro career can only enhance his Michigan State legacy. That was secured once he announced on Friday his senior year return for another NCAA title shot. He has a chance to join a pantheon of Magic, Mateen and …

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Apr
16
2019

Army throwing ball more may or may not come to pass

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Army’s next football season is a blank page until the season opener Aug. 31 at Rice, but last season sparked imaginations. What if the Black Knights expand their passing game within their grinding triple-option offense? The receivers and slot backs are excited about the possibilities. Fans and the media are intrigued. Opponents are fearful. About …

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Apr
11
2019

Virginia recruit knew more than national media condemning Bennett

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There are dozens of highly recruited high school basketball seniors and hundreds of ranked prospects overall, but only two watched March Madness unfold with the satisfaction of knowing they committed to the school that won the 2019 NCAA title. One of those Virginia-bound prospects is Kadin Shedrick, a 4-star center from Holly Springs High located …

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