Years in the making, the Lamar University football team makes its triumphant return this weekend. Texas’ James Brown, Lamar’s running backs coach, talks about the feeling of players and coaches heading into opening weekend of the program’s football team (5:19, transcript below the jump).
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Northwestern’s Damien Anderson talks about the epic 2000 Michigan-Northwestern game, his thoughts on the current team and the job Pat Fitzgerald has done with the program (run time is 5:10; transcript below the jump).
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Michigan’s Marcus Ray, a member of the 1997 national championship team, talks about the Wolverines heading into the 2010 season, how they have to improve all facets of the game, a win goal for Rich Rodriguez and what Ray would do if he was the athletic director at Michigan (run time is 9:32).
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Northwestern’s Damien Anderson talks about his website, planetgridiron.com, a social media site geared toward the football player, coach or fan, why he created the site and his other duties as a radio host in Phoenix (run time is 5:34).
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Ohio State’s Bobby Olive talks about the difference between his game-winning catches against LSU during his sophomore season and against Iowa his senior year, and how his mindset was different for each catch (running time is 4:35: transcript below the jump).
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Ohio State’s Bobby Olive talks about the benefits of living in Columbus, what fans remember him most for and what it’s like years later when fans approach him to talk about the Buckeyes. (run time is 4:46: transcript below the jump).
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Michigan’s Chris Hutchinson talks about what he’s doing in the medical field today, why he chose to become a doctor and the ease with which he transitioned from football life to normal life in Ann Arbor having never played in the NFL (run time is 6:55; transcript below the jump).
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BYU’s Robbie Bosco talks about the unfair advantage for BCS schools in the race for a national title and why he wants to see TCU and Boise State, non-BCS rivals of BYU, succeed and challenge the BCS structure (run time is 2:37; transcript below the jump).
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Minnesota’s Karl Mecklenburg talks about the rowdiness of Denver fans, his great teammates/mentors when he first arrived in the NFL and explains how he overcame long odds to become a regular on the team simply by taking advantage of his moment (run time is 4:20; transcript below the jump).
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Washington State’s Jason Gesser talks about how the Cougars have fallen on hard times and why he’s encouraged by coach Paul Wulff despite Washington State coming off the two worst seasons in school history (run time is 4:10; transcript below the jump).
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Providence’s God Shammgod talks about the Friars’ magical run through the 1997 NCAA Tournament, his basketball-playing son, his future beyond playing basketball and what his basketball celebrity is like (run time is 5:15; transcript below the jump).
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Providence’s God Shammgod talks about what he’s been up to recently, his plans to play in China next season and how things in the Far East have changed for the better since the 2008 Beijing Olympics (run time is 5:15; transcript below the jump).
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