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It’s been more than a year since Michael Dyer carried a football for a college team.

The once promising young running back had back-to-back 1,000-yard rushing seasons with Auburn in 2010 and 2011 and won a national championship with the Tigers in 2010.

During that time, however, trouble seemed to follow him wherever he went and it ultimately got him somewhat blackballed from the FBS ranks.

But now he says he wants back in. Dyer has spent the past year at Arkansas Baptist College getting his grades and his mind right. He’s been working out, not playing football, and on Wednesday he joined THV 11’s Mark Edwards to discuss a possible return to the FBS.

“I was asked to sit out a year,” Dyer said on the broadcast. “I was asked to do a lot of changing and maturing to become a better person and a better football player. I spent this whole year doing exactly what I was asked to so that I could reach some of the goals that I knew later that I wanted to do.”

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UMass football is doing its part to honor the victims from the Boston Marathon bombings with helmet stickers for this weekend’s spring game, but coach Charley Molnar, an avid runner, wanted to go the extra mile.

So, at halftime of the spring game, he’s asking people who were not able to finish the Marathon to come out and take a lap around UMass’ McGuirk Alumni Stadium and celebrate their accomplishment by crossing a special finish line set up at the 50-yard line.

Last January, we shared an ambiguous trailer for a documentary about former Arkansas and USC quarterback Mitch Mustain.

The documentary, "The Identity Theft of Mitch Mustain,” was supposed to debut at last year’s Little Rock Film Festival. Instead, filmmaker Matthew Wolfe went back to the film room and made what looks like a better product than his initial pitch.

The film chronicles Mustain’s beginnings as the first-ever consensus Gatorade, Parade, and USA Today Player of the Year in high school and the epic collapses that followed. He was the No. 1 quarterback coming out of high school, started 8-0 at Arkansas before being replaced by Casey Dick. He transferred to USC and could never get out of the backup role. He tried his hand at minor league baseball and is now a backup quarterback for the San Jose Sabercats Arena Football team.

It’s a strange story to say the least, but one that will probably pique the interest of college football fans and non-fans alike.

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Florida State’s quarterbacking situation just got a little clearer.

Quarterback Clint Trickett has opted to transfer just days after Jameis Winston received rave reviews for his efforts in the Seminoles’ spring game.

Trickett, who had been E.J. Manuel’s backup for what seemed like an eternity, started two games and was vying for the coveted job of replacing Manuel who's off to the NFL. Even though Trickett was the most experienced in the quarterbacking group, he wasn’t the most talented. That honor belonged to five-star prospect Winston, who has taken hold of the starting quarterback position. Jacob Coker, who is also competing for the starting spot, is close, but it will be tough for him to overtake Winston unless something drastically changes in the fall.

There is a silver lining for Trickett. He graduates in May and can transfer for grad school and play with an FBS program immediately. Even though he wasn’t the right fit at Florida State, it doesn’t mean he couldn’t be a gem for another program. Trickett started two games, played in 17, and threw for 675 yards and seven touchdowns in 2011 while Manuel was dealing with injuries. He threw for another 272 yards in spot time last season.

Hey, if Danny O’Brien and Jordan Webb can attempt to revive their careers with new teams (notice I said attempt) then there’s no reason some team with an uncertain quarterback situation wouldn’t take a chance on a veteran. Bret Bielema should be calling Trickett any time now.

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Southern Miss, the only winless team in the FBS last year, got a new coach in the offseason and now its getting new uniforms, and dumping Nike (or it might be the other way around) as part of the cleansing process.

Southern Miss announced a new 5-year partnership with Russell Athletic, which has outfitted the football and basketball teams with new threads.

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With the final Toomer’s Trees rolling slated for Saturday following Auburn’s spring scrimmage, some folks are getting a little nostalgic for the iconic trees that were poisoned and subsequently need to be removed.

Auburn graduate Giancarlo Guida is one of those people.

Guida, a 2002 graduate and former rugby player, wasn’t ready to part with the trees, so he decided to tattoo their image across his back.

No, really.

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Former LSU defensive back and Heisman Trophy finalist Tyrann Mathieu just can’t quite seem to keep his foot out of his mouth.

After Monday’s horrific bombing at the Boston Marathon, Mathieu thought this now-deleted, but highly retweeted, tweet would be an appropriate way to express his feelings about the events.

He was wrong.

“@mathieu_era: America... Only thing its good for is making money other than that this a wicked & cruel place to reside... #pray4boston”

— Corey Bartlett (@cbeezyxo) April 16, 2013

Last Friday, Georgia released an autotune rap video for the annual G-Day game.

While many people apparently missed the initial video release, it has made the rounds Tuesday much to the embarrassment of Bulldog fans and the delight of pretty much everyone else.

The video features David Richt, coach Mark Richt’s son, who is an aspiring musician. Unfortunately, the autotune masks any talent he might actually have. But we were able to track down some actual footage of David Richt in musical action. Not bad.