Football

BLUM: Enough was Enough

Forty-eight hours after the Jamie Pollard press-conference and controversy continues to boil. The Des Moines Register reported on Monday afternoon that Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby informed Jamie Pollard that the replay official on duty for the Iowa State-Oklahoma State was in fact correct in overturning the goal-line stand decision. What followed was a public …
Football

Blum: Rhoad Dogs

Life on the road in power conference college football is hard. I’m not talking about brutal, cramped 12 hour bus trips capped by accommodations in run-down off-the-highway motels like the old days. In 2014, Power five schools travel with presidential comfort: chartered planes, catered meals, police escorts and top of the line hotels. But the …