It's no secret that Southern Miss fans aren't happy about the start new head coach Ellis Johnson is off to. But is it so bad that after three games, the athletic director, baseball coach, and basketball coach have to make a video begging fans to attend Saturday's game vs. Louisville?

Need to make room for their seven ACC games a year. Michigan is the first casualty. Anyone wanna step up and fill the spot?

A great, and quiet, accomplishment

A great, and quiet, accomplishment

I thought Teddy Bridgewater would be good. In fact, I thought down the road he'd be really good. I didn't think he' be this good this quickly. But, here we are. The latest sign that his play is drawing eyeballs? Paul Myerberg lists Teddy Bridgewater at #9 in his Heisman Watch List after three weeks. With games against FIU and Southern Miss coming up, Bridgewater should have a chance to put up big numbers and gain even more momentum.

Good news, the Big East is keeping its name. Bad news, it wants to sign another contract with ESPN rather than another network. They're missing an opportunity to stand out on another sports network like Fox or NBC...

I traveled to Lexington to sit down with Brett Dawson and the guys with Cats Illustrated, the Kentucky site in the Rivals.com network. We talked about Sunday's game, areas where each matches up best against the other, misconceptions about both teams, and made some predictions.

WhatIfSports.com's 2012 Big East football predictions.

I was a guest of Chip Patterson (@cnpatterson3) of CBS Sports on his podcast. In the show, we preview the latest off the field happenings with the hiring of Chris Bevilacqua to negotiate the TV deal and Mike Aresco as commissioner. After that, we go through all 8 Big East teams and discuss each's team's strength and weakness as well as the under the radar players for each team you should know.

Jared Smith has this write up on SB Nation New York about Mike Aresco's opening press and teleconference today.