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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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Oct
26
2021

A West Point bucket list weekend nearly as perfect as Sam Hartman’s performance

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WEST POINT — David Halberstam wrote a short yet under-appreciated book among his many bestsellers about a 60-year bond between four Boston Red Sox teammates soon to cross the river. The great Ted Williams’ health was first failing him in 2001 when Bobby Doerr, Dominic DiMaggio and Johnny Pesky planned a road trip to visit …

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Oct
24
2021

Sam Hartman pulls off a Kyler Murray day against Army

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WEST POINT – Wake Forest’s Sam Hartman haunted Army with a Kyler Murray-ish performance. Hartman had to play to that level if the16th-ranked Demon Deacons were to beat the Black Knights. Army controlled the ball for 42:43, but Hartman maximized the Demon Deacons’ limited possession time of 17:17 to outscore Army 70-56 in a shootout …

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Oct
22
2021

Army may rely on two quarterbacks in bid to upset Wake Forest

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There are many football axioms, but this one applies to the game’s most important position: “If you have two quarterbacks you have a none.” Unless your team runs the triple-option offense, says Army offensive coordinator Brent Davis. Army has been without starter Christian Anderson the last two games, but Davis hasn’t been burning added midnight …

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Oct
19
2021

Wake Forest provides Army with another chance for Top 25 upset

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Army football coach Jeff Monken can thank Wake Forest coach Dave Clausen — his old colleague as 25-year-old assistants in 1992 at the University of Buffalo — for another chance to knock off a ranked Power 5 school. Well, sort of. Preseason projections pegged Wisconsin as Army’s Top 25 upset opportunity in 2021, but the …

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Oct
15
2021

Coach K in midseason form for his final season

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We’ll learn more about Duke’s national title chances once the season tips off against Kentucky on Nov. 9 in the State Farm Classic in New York, but coach Mike Krzyzewski already is in mid-season form. He arrived at the ACC basketball media day on Tuesday in Charlotte swatting way all questions about his last season …

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Oct
12
2021

Duke’s David Cutcliffe learned how to “Bear” down from Bryant

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DURHAM – It’s not hard to scan the college football landscape and find a coach willing to throw his players under the bus following a loss. A recent example was three weeks ago in the Big Ten. Nebraska coach Scott Frost expressed disgust with his players after the Cornhuskers lost at Michigan State: “I’m sick …

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Oct
12
2021

Michael Savarino sacrificed playing time elsewhere for Duke family experience

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DURHAM –Michael Savarino possesses new stature on Duke’s basketball roster as he enters his junior season. Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski, AKA grandpa, granted him a scholarship. That raises questions surrounding the former walk-on guard from Durham Academy. How does his new status translate to Savarino’s grandmother, Mickie, and mother, Debbie? Are they lobbying Duke’s …

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Oct
09
2021

Duke leaves enough points on field for Georgia Tech’s comeback win

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DURHAM – Georgia Tech coach Geoff Collins grinned widely as he hurried off the field, but he stopped long enough to grant ACC Network sideline reporter Abby Labar a quick interview. “We have a chance to be a really good team,” he said of the second half of the season. The corners of Collins’ delighted …

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Oct
08
2021

Wendell Moore plans on matching on-court presence with off-court leadership

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DURHAM — This time a year ago Duke’s Wendell Moore Jr. was on a special list of college basketball players Bill Walton most admired. Walton, the Basketball Hall-of-Famer and ESPN analyst, saw more than his basketball profile. Moore stood out among college athletes participating and organizing Black Lives Matter protests that spread across the country …

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Oct
06
2021

Duke needs bounce back with return home against Georgia Tech

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DURHAM – Duke football’s season is counting on some home cooking as it reaches it midpoint. The Blue Devils (3-2, 0-1 ACC) play the sixth of their 12 regular-season games and fourth of seven home dates as they prepare to face Georgia Tech (2-3, 1-2 ACC) at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Wallace Wade Stadium. Duke’s …

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Oct
04
2021

Transfer portal spins from Davidson to Duke, Michigan State to Davidson

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DURHAM — Bates Jones left Davidson to play his graduate year at Duke, departing the Atlantic 10 campus just as Michigan State’s Foster Loyer arrived to renew his career at the mid-major school rich in college basketball tradition. Welcome to college basketball in the era of the transfer portal. It’s hard to keep track of …

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Oct
01
2021

There’s more to recruiting than signing 5-stars, there’s Army’s Andre Carter II

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Ask college football fans to name the best recruiter in the nation. You’ll hear the same answers — Alabama’s Nick Saban, Clemson’s Dabo Swinney or Ohio State’s Ryan Day. They annually bring in the top recruiting classes. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Those guys don’t have to work at finding talent. The schools that are regular participants …

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Sep
30
2021

Duke’s Three Amigos providing 300/100/100 balance

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“Three Amigos” was a 1986 movie with Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short that the Denver Broncos latched onto quicker than a John Elway pass. Wide receivers Vance Johnson, Mark Jackson and Ricky Nattiel formed a tough combo of options to slow down Elway. Three Amigos may be an old movie, but it’s a …

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Sep
30
2021

Did the Bear duck Biggie’s offer to play Duffy’s Spartans? It’s a fair question

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  Michigan State’s Phi Kappa Sigma brothers finished dinner on a typical 1966 autumn evening. As usual, they put off studying, lounging in the fraternity house living room. Naturally, they talked football. Michigan State, after all, was atop the college football world. At midseason, the defending national champion Spartans were ranked No. 1 and marching …

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Sep
28
2021

Coach K redefines use of banned L” word for his final season

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DURHAM – The “L” word is part of college basketball. Everybody loses games, even Duke in each of its five NCAA championship seasons. There hasn’t been an undefeated college basketball national champion since Indiana (32-0), 1976. But the “L” word is most definitely banned from Duke basketball this year. The “L” word as in “last.” …

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Sep
26
2021

Duke beats Kansas to improve to 3-1 entering ACC play

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DURHAM – Duke football’s record four games into the season is about what was expected. The difference in the 3-1 mark from preseason projections was the loss to Charlotte was supposed to be a win and the win to Northwestern expected to be a loss. The 52-33 victory over Kansas on Saturday at Wallace Wade …

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