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Sales of HDTV’s are up on the island of Oahu and that could only mean good things for Oceanic Time Warner Cable. Or does it? They actually ran out of HD converter boxes this week but expect to receive about 5,000 more later on. This will bode well for the fans who ordered HDTV from them in order to watch the Allstate Sugar Bowl featuring Hawai’i and Georgia on New Year’s Day.
Rich Rodriguez left West Virginia for greener pastures at Michigan and it wasn’t know whether or not Rodriguez would coach the Mountaineers in the Fiesta Bowl against Oklahoma. He won’t because he has been officially let go from his job at the university as of today. He won’t coach Michigan in the Capital One Bowl though as Lloyd Carr will be the coach in the game. Rodriguez will also contest the $4 million buyout on his contract.
Kansas head football coach Mark Mangino was named Coach of the Year by the Associated Press today. He has taken the Jayhawks to their first major bowl game in 38 years and also led them to a school-record 11 wins.
In wake of the academic scandal at Florida State, the Seminoles will play their Music City Bowl game against Kentucky on New Year’s Eve shorthanded. As many as 20 players will be suspended for the game. The suspended players may miss three games in 2008 as well.
“Naturally we’re having to make a lot of adjustments,” Bowden said. “We’ve got some guys who will be playing positions they haven’t played before.”
Now that he has hired a new head coach at Nebraska, former coach Tom Osbourne had the interim label shed from his title of athletic director. He has agreed to remain on as the AD for the Cornhuskers until June 2010. While his focus has been rebuilding the football program to the high levels he took it to while coach, he will also work on other athletic programs as well, hoping to bring national titles in all sports.
Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz announced that three of his players are leaving the Hawkeyes program. Dominique Douglas, Cedric Everson and Abe Satterfield will not return to the school when classes start back up in January.
Louisville’s top running back, Anthony Allen, has decided to transfer from the Cardinals. Due to Big East rules, he cannot transfer to any school in the conference or anyone on Louisville’s schedule in the next three years. He will also not be allowed to transfer to Arkansas where former coach Bobby Petrino is now coaching.
The beleaguered Duke Blue Devils football program made a major coup when they hired David Cutcliffe away from the Tennessee Volunteers. Cutcliffe is a mentor to the Manning quarterbacks, Eli and Peyton. He has reputation for making quarterbacks good.
