Smaller Football Programs Coming Away with Key Wins  A high-five to the NCAA Football Championship Series division for continuing to come away with big-time upsets against their larger counterparts in the FBS.  The list of unexpected wins grows larger each year and the apple cart may be flipped another time or two before the season ends.  … Read more

Florida Guard Already Has Received Six Verbal Offers Veteran NSR scout Dave Johnson has covered nearly a fourth of Florida in his eight years with National Scouting Report.  Over that time Dalton Barnes may be the best basketball prospect he has evaluated.  Last March a former NSR client approached Dave about a local prospect he … Read more

QB Leads Team Back from 18-0 Deficit Former NSR prospect Cody Kirby had yet another solid day last Saturday as the Missouri State Bears QB was 24-for-39 for 298 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions in a 35-25 come-from-behind wiin against perrennial power Youngstown State.  It was his 14th career 200-yard passing game.  In the … Read more

Tracking the former NSR prospect and Heisman candidate through the 2010 season.   Week 5:  Oklahoma 28 (5-0), Texas 20 Week 6:  OU has an open date this week, but will resume play on 10/16 against Iowa State in Norman.   Former NSR prospect and Oklahoma QB Landry Jones led the eighth-ranked Oklahoma Sooners (5-0) over Big 12 power and #16 Texas … Read more

Bears QB Named MVFC Player of the Week   Former NSR prospect, Cody Kirby, is following up where he left off last season as the starting quarterback for the Missouri State Bears football team.  The Missouri Valley Football Conference announced its weekly awards on Sunday (Sept. 12), and Cody, from Rogers, Arkansas, was named Offensive Player … Read more

The Odds Are in Your Favor with NSR As NSR scouts, we hear it far too often from well-intended parents, “We’re going to promote our kid on our own.”   Then when we see the same parents six months or a year later, inevitably nothing has changed and little, if anything, has been done to help their … Read more

Illinois Women’s Volleyball Team NSR‘s #1 Cool Award this week goes to then-9th-ranked Illinois women’s volleyball squad which took on the much taller and ballyhooed #2 Penn State Friday night and won 3-2.  Granted, they faced off in front of a packed house of 4,141 screaming Illini fans in Champaign, which certainly helped, but the Nittany Lions have practically … Read more

To Be Eligible to Play, You Must Register There’s no way around it, if you want to play sports in an NCAA Division I or II or NAIA institution, you are now required to register with their respective clearinghouses, or eligibility centers.    As college athletics continue to come under increased scrutiny, academics have taken on a more … Read more

Week 4:  Oklahoma 31, Cincinnati 29 Week 5:  OU vs. Texas (Saturday) in the Red River Rivalry   Former NSR prospect and Oklahoma QB Landry Jones led the Oklahoma Sooners (4-0) to another tightly contested win as OU downed the Cincinnati Bearcats 31 to 29 in Cincinnati at Paul Brown Stadium.  A late interception of Landry resulted in a Bearcats TD, but the … Read more

Cool,  Michigan State football coach Mark Dantonio gets a big hand for the gutsy call to fake a field goal in OT against Notre Dame.  The 29-yard TD pass gave the Spartans a 34-31 win in East Lansing against the Fighting Irish.  It must have taken a lot out of Dantonio, though, who suffered a mild heart attack … Read more