A collection of the best solar eclipse takes from college football coaches

Football coaches are noted hermits about major pop culture happenings. As intense creatures of routine, they aren’t folks who let things like a rare celestial event deter them from preparing for a football season. That means that when a total solar eclipse comes to America for the first time in decades, they’ll probably be sitting it out as prep for Week 1 begins in earnest. Alabama’s Nick Saban is, of course, not going to be watching it. Saban’s the guy who has a salad every day at lunch so he doesn’t have to think about meal choice. You best believe he’s not here for your little eclipse. We’ll set it up so if the players wanna go out there and look at it and get some sunglasses, I guess they

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Notre Dame Football: Brian Kelly Makes A Few Changes To The Staff

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish are now under two weeks until they open the season at home against the Temple Owls. You’d think that things would be set - right? Well, no... not exactly. The wheel turns my friend, and Notre Dame is changing its staff. Moving Spots Brian Polian takes over the Recruiting Coordinator duties from Mike Elston, while Elston is promoted to Assistant Head Coach. Both Polian and Elston retain their previous positions of special teams coordinator and defensive line coach. The title bump of “assistant head coach” is probably overdue for Mike Elston, who has been with Kelly at Notre Dame since the beginning. While Rob Ianello was the recruiting coordinator at Notre Dame when

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  Notre Dame August 20 Scrimmage: Notebook

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WSU Cougars get commitment from California WR Patrick Nunn

Washington State has had a penchant for stock piling tall, rangy receivers in the last couple years. And at appears that the 2018 recruiting cycle will continue in that trend. On Sunday, Patrick Nunn, a 6-foot-3, 206-pound receiver from Juniperro Serra (San Mateo, Calif.) High committed to the Cougars. Nunn is listed by Scout.com as an athlete. He played receiver and — surprisingly — defensive end at Juniperro Serra, but is ranked a three-star receiver by Scout.com Nunn committed to WSU over an offer list that included Nevada, Fresno State, Hawaii, Wyoming and UNLV. He announced his commitment to WSU via Twitter, thanking his mother and his coaches for helping support and guide him through the