Nightly Roundup: January 22, 2019

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22Jan 2019
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Nightly Roundup: January 22, 2019

Johnny Hekker (image via MassLive)

SITE NEWS: In the wake of ridding the site of the nightly dose of good looking ladies, I have some (bad?) news to report. The effect on the blog has not been great, reducing my daily site traffic by approximately 20% to 30%. Not only were those posts visited frequently on a daily basis, but deleting the backlog of those posts takes away a huge chunk of material that used to show up on Google image and content searches. Naturally, 20% fewer visits means about 20% less in ad revenue. There’s not much that can be done – 80% of what I used to make is better than the 0% I would get from AdSense if they cut me out completely – but it’s still a hit to the bottom line.


Karan Higdon talked to the media about his decision to skip the Peach Bowl (LINK). This quote stuck out to me:

“They’ve known that I have given everything that I had to this program, and put everything I had into this past season,” Higdon said. “I’ve done everything they could ask of me, plus more.

I don’t agree with that at all. They literally asked him to play in the Peach Bowl – which he acknowledges – and he didn’t do it.

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21Jan 2019
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Nightly Roundup: January 21, 2019

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Florida State did a dumb thing and used Martin Luther King, Jr. wearing a Nike glove in their recruiting efforts (LINK).

Richard Deitsch talked to Tony Romo, who was the biggest winner of conference championship weekend, and who earned the gig of announcing the Super Bowl for CBS (LINK).

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21Jan 2019
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2020 Recruiting Update: January 21, 2019

Buford (GA) Lanier LB Phillip Webb (image via Hudl)

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ADDED TO THE BOARD: 2020

Xavion Alford – S – Pearland (TX) Shadow Creek: Alford is a 6’1″, 186 lb. prospect with offers from Arizona, LSU, Nebraska, and Oregon, among others. He’s a 3-star, the #21 safety, and #373 overall.

Peny Boone – RB – Detroit (MI) King: Boone is a 6’2″, 225 lb. prospect with offers from Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan State, and Purdue, among others. He’s a 4-star, the #29 running back, and #360 overall. Boone is the younger brother of the late Zurlon Tipton, a Central Michigan running back who went on to play for the Indianapolis Colts before dying from a gunshot wound. Boone is a thick running back with pretty nifty feet; he seems to play faster than his reported 4.81 forty time.

Jay Brunelle – WR – Worcester (MA) St. John’s: Brunelle is a 6’2″, 195 lb. prospect with offers from Boston College and UMass, among others. He’s a 3-star, the #159 wide receiver, and #1004 overall. He claims a 4.56 forty, and he caught 70 passes for 1,157 yards and 18 touchdowns as a junior in 2018.

Hit the jump for a bunch of other new offers.

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