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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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Sep
20
2018

Duke defensive backs stepping up through injuries

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DURHAM, N.C. — Duke prides itself on fulfilling a “next man up” mentality – one many programs strive to fulfill yet fall short of — but the Blue Devils’ defensive backs are testing the limits. Through an injury-plagued 3-0 start, this week marks the first time Duke has slotted the same five starters in the …

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Sep
19
2018

Army and throwback West Pointer Kenneth Brinson face Oklahoma

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  Army’s trip to face No. 5-ranked Oklahoma Saturday represents an interesting throwback game. The reasons are beyond simply that the schools last played in 1961, with the Sooners winning 14-8 in a marquee event at the old Yankee Stadium. In those days, the Black Knights routinely took on what are now called Power 5 …

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Sep
11
2018

Quentin Harris and others are ‘next man up’ for Duke

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Quentin Harris isn’t Duke’s lone “next man up” – the mantra its backups utilize to be ready – but he’s certainly the most important one. He’s the new quarterback filling in for injured starter Daniel Jones. Quarterback, of course, is the the most important position in the most intricate team game, and Duke’s players and …

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Sep
09
2018

Duke loses QB Daniel Jones indefinitely and CB Mark Gilbert for the season

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Duke’s quick start, one of the Blue Devils weren’t shy about anticipating in fall camp, suddenly struck three injury speed bumps following impressive season-opening victories over a pair of 10-win teams, Army and Northwestern. The school announced on Sunday that All-ACC cornerback Mark Gilbert is lost for the season with a hip injury and third-year …

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Sep
05
2018

Duke rivals Stanford and Northwestern on recruiting trail

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DURHAM, N.C. – Duke football’s upward mobility from the 2-33 train wreck that David Cutcliffe inherited has allowed the school to join an exclusive club with Stanford and Northwestern as academically elite institutions consistently competing among Power 5 schools. Cutcliffe, entering his 12th year as the Blue Devils’ head coach, needed four years of rebuilding, …

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Sep
01
2018

Duke protects Daniel Jones and stretches field to beat Army

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DURHAM, N.C. – For Duke to challenge Miami in the ACC Coastal Division during a year it also plays Atlantic Division member Clemson, the Blue Devils need to show they can defeat double-digit victory teams. That made Army a fitting test. The Black Knights’ 10-3 record a year ago wasn’t on the level of elite …

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Aug
31
2018

Daniel Jones knows Duke’s protection is more than O-line

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Duke quarterback Daniel Jones played himself out of NFL first-round draft projections last year, but the work before him to bounce back into the 2019 first-round discussions is about more than arm strength or mobility. The 6-foot-5, 220-pound redshirt junior has shown plenty of both since he was freshman leading the scout team against Duke’s …

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Aug
25
2018

Army fullback Darnell “Butch” Woolfolk on fulfilling dream in his words

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Prelude Four years ago Army senior fullback Darnell “Butch” Woolfolk had yet to pick up his nickname and had just about lost hope of fulfilling a dream to play Division I college football. The silence was deafening as the February 2014 signing date approached. Woolfolk was prepared to sign with an NCAA Division III school, …

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Aug
21
2018

Duke has R.J. Barrett and Zion Williamson, but what about a Quinn Cook?

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Duke basketball’s three-game Canada exhibition tour confirmed – to the surprise of no one – that R.J. Barrett and Zion Williamson are special. Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski even said so three months before the Kentucky opener. “Zion and R.J. are a cut above everyone who’s on the court,” Krzyzewski told the media after Sunday’s final …

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Aug
18
2018

Navy’s Jarvis Polu starts season on Polynesian Watch List and Hawaii opener

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Every January the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame enshrines a new class and names its pro and college players of the year. The weekend in Hawaii includes a Polynesian high school all-star game and a skills camp. What better place for Jarvis Polu to kick off any hopes to contend for the Polynesian College Player …

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Aug
14
2018

Football’s future is old school vs. new era debate regarding CTE subject.

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The football gap separating the old-school game and its new era adapting to the times was revealed as wide as the Grand Canyon at the Atlantic Coast Conference media days last month in Charlotte, N.C. The concussion subject of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) was teed up for North Carolina coach Larry Fedora, but he booted …

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Aug
12
2018

Cornerback play featured in Duke’s first scrimmage

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DURHAM — Quarterbacks facing Duke this year will step to the line looking to locate All-ACC cornerback Mark Gilbert. Then they’ll l search the other side for the corner that the scouting reports consider the weaker link. If they don’t, they may watch helplessly as Gilbert picks off a pass as he did in the …

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Aug
09
2018

Duke considers flipping Trevon McSwain to join Jack Wohlabaugh on O-line

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The status of Duke’s most important 2018 priority – improved offensive line play – was the same following spring drills as it was after the Quick Lanes Bowl. Back then, the win over Northern Illinois in Detroit was the first look ahead from a 7-6 record enhanced by a three-game winning streak. But in unusual …

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Aug
08
2018

Brian Lewerke and Ryan Finley are Arizona QBs Herm Edwards could use now

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Herm Edwards recently appeared on a Michigan State-based sports talk radio show. Always engaging, insightful and entertaining, Arizona State’s new football coach has been one of my favorites to deal with over the years. We all know him for his memorable lines, most notably this one from his time with the New York Jets: “YOU …

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Aug
03
2018

Air Force leads triple option changing its look at academies

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The service academies remain lumped together as triple-option offenses thanks to College Football Hall of Fame coach Fisher DeBerry. A generation ago he laid down the blueprint at Air Force on how to remain competitive with lightly recruited athletes. But take a closer look in recent seasons. Air Force lines up with a quarterback, fullback, …

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Aug
02
2018

Ben Humphreys part of leaving Duke a better program

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DURHAM, N.C. – Ben Humphreys, smiling and healthy after an injury-hampered junior season, stood brimming with optimism. On the first day of fall camp, he said something that stands out as more challenging for this year’s Duke seniors than Blue Devils have faced in past farewell seasons. “I want to finish with a good year …

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