Gamecock Nation Shines During a Wild Week of Bewildering Wins Last week no sooner had we honored the seven big football upsets by FCS schools over FBS schools this fall when a whole passel of underdogs rose up to get theirs. Were they jealous? Makes sense to us. Who wouldn’t want to be named to the T*W*I*S growing … Read more
Sixteen Years Ago, Rule Change Finally Offering the Have-nots a Chance to Compete The changes actually began to take shape thirty-two years ago in 1978. That’s when the NCAA decided that bullying in big-time football would no longer be allowed. Bullying might be a bit harsh, but it is true that smaller DI programs were being left … Read more
NSR Scouts Determined to Find the Best Prospects for College Coaches NSR scouts evaluate talent every day. When we enroll a prospect, it’s true that we have an idea about where he or she might fit in as a college recruit, but because every college coach sees different attributes and faults in each candidate, the accuracy of predicting where … Read more
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
