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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

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  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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Apr
08
2019

Glen Coates’ success reward for high school coach that is Will Grier’s father

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Army wide receiver Glen Coates tells an education story more Americans need to hear to understand the impactful work high school coaches and teachers provide. Their rewards are satisfying and fulfilling but certainly not financial. Instead, we live in American society that directs dollars to the likes of New England’s Bill Belichick for winning Super …

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Apr
07
2019

Michigan State’s Tom Izzo validated with or without second NCAA title

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Tom Izzo’s opinion that he needed a second NCAA title to “validate” his career sparked myriad responses. Mostly, the Michigan State basketball coach’s innermost thoughts were met with rebuttals he has already proven himself. Let me tell you a story from the Heart of Tobacco Road, where I live, that illustrates that common belief. A …

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Apr
06
2019

Gus patch honors man that added Magic to Michigan State

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If you wondered about the “Gus” patch adorning Michigan State’s basketball jerseys, they represent the indomitable character of Gus Ganakas. The team has stitched the spirit of the late Spartans coach to their Final Four run. The patch’s story is one that the CBS TV crews have failed to properly tell the nation during the …

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Apr
05
2019

Kenny Goins plays with green-and-white passion of Magic

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Tom Izzo enriches the Michigan State basketball program’s history with season awards named for former players and coaches. It is one way the Basketball Hall of Fame coach connects the past to the present and into the future. Johnny Green, who led the Spartans to their first Final Four in 1957 while averaging 13.2 points …

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Apr
03
2019

NIT: Lipscomb revives Tobacco Road and New York in reverse

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Tobacco is no longer North Carolina’s economic engine, Tobacco Road as an old label for college basketball in the state and Lipscomp University is located in Nashville, Tenn. But there is still a reverse Tobacco Road trip for the Bison to complete. Lipscomb, which won three NIT rounds at North Carolina opponents to earn the …

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Apr
01
2019

The good guys took down the Duke and Kentucky one-and-done dragons

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A Michigan State fifth-year senior and an Auburn junior slew a pair of NBA Combine team dragons, leaving Duke and Kentucky short of an NCAA title – not to mention a Final Four – a fourth straight year. Experience still matters most in college basketball. Michigan State’s Kenny Goins and Auburn’s Jared Harper along with …

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Mar
30
2019

Comparing America between Zion Williamson and another South Carolina giant of his sport

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Excerpts taken from Raye of Light, Chapter 10: The Missing Heisman. By Tom Shanahan Michigan State football legend George Webster was Zion Williamson before Zion Williamson was Duke’s basketball wunderkind. Their stories are a comparison of two South Carolina giants and how America has changed between their generations. What better time to highlight the late …

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Mar
29
2019

Tom Izzo overcame Michigan’s shadow where Nick Saban moved on

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  Anytime Michigan State crosses paths with LSU or Alabama, Nick Saban’s name comes up. That’s true even when the subject is basketball as it was this week in Washington, D.C.. Michigan State’s second-seeded team faces No. 3-seed LSU in an NCAA Tournament’s Sweet Sixteen game tonight at the Capital One Center, Spartans’ basketball coach …

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Mar
27
2019

Big Ten hunt for next Tom Izzo is 49 coaches and counting

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49 and counting. I wondered about a number representing Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo’s success and stability spanning 24 seasons. A total besides his 22 straight NCAA trips in 24 seasons, seven Final Fours, nine Elite Eights, 14 Sweet Sixteens, nine Big Ten regular-season championships, six conference tournament titles and 604 career victories with …

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Mar
22
2019

L’Affaire Izzo has Michigan State history with Pete Newell and Jud Heathcote

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L’Affaire Izzo erupted in the French-named city of Des Moines, but only casual fans tuning into the flashpoint moment of Thursday’s NCAA Tournament victory over Bradley viewed it as abnormal. Tom Izzo often snarls his teeth and strains blood vessels from neck to forehead. Not only that, there is precedent linking Izzo and two other …

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Mar
18
2019

Chris Clemons can trace Pistol Pete’s steps on career scoring ladder to the Garden

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Chris Clemons’ last shot at NCAA Tournament exposure fell short when the Big South co-champions lost in the semifinals of their conference tournament, but one historic stage remains within reach. Fittingly, the nation’s leading scorer can retrace Pete Maravich’s final college steps to a basketball mecca. If Clemons helps Campbell University to an NIT first-round …

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Mar
17
2019

Zion puts down the dunks, Tre Jones applies Duke’s glue

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The headlines, TV replays and talking head superlatives feature Zion Williamson, but it all overlooks a dose of Jones Family PG Glue that has held together Duke’s ups-and-downs this season. Duke’s losses can all be traced to how much glue freshman point guard Tre Jones was able to apply. There were swabs in Duke’s staggering …

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Mar
15
2019

Riley and Army’s seniors living new West Point football era

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A mere three years ago Army cornerback Elijah Riley graduated from high school and arrived at West Point, but the consecutive winning seasons his senior class has put together feels like a a three-decade accomplishment. That much time has passed since Army last strung together a winning streak spanning three seasons. Jim Young arrived from …

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Mar
11
2019

Ky Bowman’s switch from football paying off with NBA opportunity

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The smart NFL teams — ones that find prospects in college basketball dating to Dallas Cowboys scout Gil Brandt converting Pete Gent and Cornell Green in the early 1960s from the hard-court to the gridiron — safely tucked away their file on Ky Bowman. That meant once Bowman began his Boston College basketball career three …

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Mar
09
2019

Luke Maye confident picking North Carolina wasn’t a gamble

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Luke Maye grew up a North Carolina fan. Both his parents are UNC graduates, including his father Mark having played quarterback for the Tar Heels’ football team from 1984 to 1987. But when he grew into a 6-foot-8, 225-pound power forward at Cornelius Hough High near Charlotte and developed into an …

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Mar
07
2019

Chris Clemons standing taller than one-and-dones on NCAA scoring ladder

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BUIES CREEK, N.C. – Chris Clemons arrived at Campbell University in this Mayberry-like North Carolina town as a little-known recruit that major conference coaches overlooked, fearing his 5-foot-9 height didn’t measure up. Now, four prolific scoring seasons later at the Big South Conference member school, he continues to leave footprints on the NCAA career scoring …

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