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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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Jan
29
2019

John Madden, Dan Fouts and others on Don Coryell and Hall of Fame

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John Madden, Joe Gibbs and Dan Fouts sat together as Don Coryell disciples for their mentor’s 2010 memorial on San Diego State’s campus. They shared the same thoughts delivering eulogies, but Fouts admits Madden said it best. “All three of us are in all Hall of the Fame because of Don Coryell,” said Madden, chocking …

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Jan
27
2019

NC State’s silver lining to Dennis Smith’s misdeeds is Kevin Keatts

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Not since the disgraced Reggie “Kardashian” Bush, the only Heisman Trophy winner stripped of the award, and the shamed Marion “BALCO” Jones, forced to return Olympic track medals, have I felt so conned by a high school athlete. Dennis “Shoe Money” Smith Jr. earned his way into my hall of shame. Smith’s one-and-done basketball season …

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Jan
25
2019

Shane Battier answered Jeff Capel recruiting question long before Vernon Carey and Coach K

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Duke’s first game against Pitt and former Blue Devils assistant Jeff Capel on Tuesday brought up a touchy subject with Mike Krzyzewski. Capel’s surprise move to Pitt had generated speculation that Duke recruiting might suffer. Try telling Michigan State coach Tom Izzo that Coach K is suddenly struggling to land one-and-done prospects. Michigan State was …

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Jan
24
2019

Don Coryell’s Hall-of-Fame case supported by Pro Bowl record

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The Pro Bowl no longer is the coveted invitation with a bonus check it once was to NFL players prior to the 21st century’s salary escalations. With the watered down Pro Bowl on Sunday in Orlando and the Pro Football Hall of Fame vote on Feb. 2, the day before Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta, …

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Jan
22
2019

Jeff Capel faces his mentor after leaving Duke for Pitt

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Jim Boeheim, Syracuse’s 73-year-old coach, said something that helps explain Jeff Capel coaching Pitt basketball tonight against Duke rather than seated next to Mike Krzyzewski, 71, for another year as his associate head coach. Boeheim responded to a question about retirement before the season began at the ACC media day in Charlotte. His answer seems …

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Jan
18
2019

ACC games have Roy Williams remembering Muggsy Bogues and Spud Webb

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Virginia and ESPN’s College GameDay crew are at Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium Saturday for an ACC first-place showdown. The unbeaten Cavaliers (16-0) are 4-0 in conference play and the Blue Devils 14-2 and 3-1. But what about the other 3-1 teams in range of a first-place tie if Duke wins? After all, there are four …

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Jan
16
2019

Duke needs Tre Jones just as it needed his big brother

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For all Cameron Indoor Stadium’s charm on television, it’s not a modern grandiose palace with plush accommodations tucked away from the masses. The hallway to the locker room is a few steps down the door from the very modest media room. I happened to be standing in the doorway after the second of Duke’s two …

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Jan
15
2019

How would Shakespeare have told MSU’s Magic story of Gus Ganakas?

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Shakespeare’s happy endings were his romance plays. The storylines moved with comedic and tragic turns, but an uplifting denouement separated those works from others. So what would Shakespeare write about the life of Gus Ganakas? The former Michigan State coach, who passed away last week at age 92, overcame basketball tragic turns that make for …

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Jan
04
2019

North Carolina and Virginia vets needed to stop Duke Basketball Team.

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Can anybody beat Duke? On paper, the answers appears to be no. We already know that Kentucky, the only school that can keep pace with Duke’s ability to recruit NBA lottery picks, isn’t a likely candidate. The Blue Devils’ NBA combine roster beat the Wildcats’ NBA combine roster by 34 points to start the season, …

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Jan
03
2019

Some overlooked thoughts on ECU Football looking back and ahead

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Flipping the calendar to 2019 seems a good time to empty my East Carolina football notebook. Here is a look back at the chaotic dismissal of Scottie Montgomery followed by the ironically efficient hiring of Mike Houston four days later. Talk about turning the tables. In the aftermath of ECU’s embarrassing 58-3 loss to N.C. …

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Dec
31
2018

Daniel Jones leaving for NFL may mean more Duke QB talent

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Duke’s Daniel Jones is leaving for the NFL Draft, but his announcement on Monday may have a long-term benefit. It may mean future elite quarterback talent will take a longer look at the Blue Devils. The third-year starter that arrived from Charlotte Latin lightly recruited – he had been committed to Princeton before he flipped …

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Dec
28
2018

Army players on what North Carolina can expect from new DC

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Numbers aplenty explain Mack Brown luring Jay Bateman to leave Army for his newly assembled staff at North Carolina staff. But in college football, statistics are only half of story to grading a coach’s value. What about developing talent? What about recruiting? Those are parts to the full package, too, that define Bateman’s five seasons …

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Dec
26
2018

Duke’s NFL draft eligible players focused on Independence game

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For a couple of redshirt juniors that NFL scouts have bird-dogged the past two seasons, Duke’s Daniel Jones and Joe Gilles-Harris don’t sound like guys looking ahead to 2019 NFL Draft at the expense of their teammates’ bowl experience.. Jones, a third-year starting quarterback, and Giles-Harris, a third-year starting inside linebacker, both have endured enough …

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Dec
22
2018

Kelvin Hopkins transcends Army offense and Jim Rome’s audience

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The sports world’s biggest names routinely enter “The Jungle” on the Jim Rome Show, but the host still presents a change of pace for his audience craving irreverent smack- talk with a guest representing an ultra-conventional background. Army quarterback Kelvin Hopkins Jr., MVP of the 119th Army-Navy Game, appeared last week while preparing to lead …

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Dec
21
2018

Tired of players skipping bowls? You’ll find Army’s Kenneth Brinson refreshing

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If college football mic’d players for games, Army senior outside linebacker Kenneth Brinson made a play for the ideal mic drop. Navy rallied after trailing the Black Knights all afternoon in the 119th Army-Navy Game until Brinson strip-sacked the Midshipmen’s quarterback. He recovered the loose ball to essentially clinch the 17-10 victory on Dec. 8 …

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Dec
15
2018

Winner of Harlon Hill Award, DII’s Heisman, is redemption story

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One Ferris State offensive star overcame a troubled past, including legal transgressions that landed him in jail and cost him his football scholarship to Michigan State. Now Jayru Campbell is a Bulldogs’ phoenix. The junior quarterback won the Harlon Hill Award — the Heisman Trophy for NCAA Division II was announced on Friday — while …

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