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11 Jan 2013

Dri Archer makes the right call, will return to Kent State

Running back Dri Archer made it official on Friday, announcing that he will return to Kent State for his senior year.

“The decision has been made … I will be in a Kent State uniform for my senior season,” Archer announced on his Twitter feed. “I know this is a great choice. I am going to work and train harder than I ever have before to make this last go around the best time of my life.”

That’s excellent news for the Golden Flashes as Archer is the best offensive player in the MAC and one of the most exciting players in college football. As a junior, he led Kent State in rushing (1,482 yards, 16 touchdowns and 9.0 yards per carry), receptions (39 catches for 561 yards and four touchdowns) and averaged 36.9 yards per kickoff return with three touchdowns (before teams stopped kicking to him).

Archer’s decision will make coach Paul Haynes first year that much easier, especially as it features a schedule that calls for trips to Penn State and LSU.

(Photo by The Toledo Blade)

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10 Jan 2013

Welcome to Coaching Depot. How may we help you?

Hello Mr. Haslam and Mr. Banner and welcome to Coaching Depot. How may we help you?

Oh, you’re looking to decorate your recent purchase with a shiny new head coach? Let’s see what we can find for you. (Too bad you were not here a few months ago; we could have offered you a special two-for-one deal with a Mr. Dolan).

Let’s take a look at what we have at The Cleveland Fan.

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08 Jan 2013

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Another year at Kent not a bad idea for Dri Archer

With the best season in school history now in the books, it’s time for the Kent State football team to start focusing on the 2013 season and new coach Paul Haynes has a big challenge facing him right off the bat.

Namely, how to convince All-American running back Dri Archer that coming back for one more year at Kent is a good idea.

On the one hand, Archer’s stock will probably never be higher after leading the Golden Flashes in rushing (1,482 yards, 16 touchdowns and 9.0 yards per carry), receptions (39 catches for 561 yards and four touchdowns) and averaging 36.9 yards per kickoff return with three touchdowns (before teams stopped kicking to him).

Geography should not drive the Browns coaching search

One of the downsides to the Cleveland Browns missing on (or passing on, depending on your perspective) hiring Chip Kelly as their next coach is the rumor mill has cranked up again over who the team will eventually hire.

While the Browns may be looking at Lovie Smith, Ken Whisenhunt and Ray Horton, among others, the same tired names are once again being thrown out there: Bill Cowher (not happening) and Jon Gruden (holy crap, no), with some starting their annual bleating for Jim Tressel (holy crap, no, times two).

The main thing that bugs about Gruden and Tressel in particular, and Josh McDaniels before he said he was staying in New England, despite them not being good NFL coaches (or in Tressel’s case an NFL coach in any way), is one of geography.

Namely, the Browns shouldn’t look to hire a coach simply because they grew up in Ohio. Simply put, it’s not what real NFL teams do.

Haslam learning some hard truths about the NFL

A bottle of white, a bottle of red
Perhaps a bottle of rose instead
We’ll get a table near the street
In our old familiar place
You and I, face to face

After what reportedly turned into a lost weekend in Arizona, it looks like Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam is learning some hard truths about the NFL, mainly that a fat wallet is no guarantee of success and that this whole ownership thing may be harder than it looks.

And Browns fans, once again, are left to wonder why, exactly, it is going to be different this time.

Cleveland sports in 2012 – Fourth Quarter

So 2012 has come and gone without another championship from any of Cleveland’s teams.

While there were no titles to celebrate, there were still plenty of stories, from firings to trades, to too many losses and too few wins.

Our annual review of the year in Cleveland sports concludes with the fourth quarter of the year- from a historic run by Kent State’s football team, to the end of another disappointing Browns season and the start of a rebuild by the Cleveland Indians – and everything else that makes Cleveland sports such a joy to follow.

Full story at The Cleveland Fan. (In case you missed the First Quarter, click here. Second Quarter can be found here. Third Quarter? Right here).

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04 Jan 2013

Cleveland sports in 2012 – Third Quarter

So 2012 has come and gone without another championship from any of Cleveland’s teams.

While there were no titles to celebrate, there were still plenty of stories, from firings to trades, to too many losses and too few wins.

Our look at the year in Cleveland sports continues with the second quarter of the year – from the opening of the Indians season, to the NFL Draft and NBA Draft and everything else that makes Cleveland sports such a joy to follow.

Full story at The Cleveland Fan. (In case you missed part one, you can find it here; part two is available here).

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03 Jan 2013

Cleveland sports in 2012 – Second Quarter

So 2012 has come and gone without another championship from any of Cleveland’s teams.

While there were no titles to celebrate, there were still plenty of stories, from firings to trades, to too many losses and too few wins.

Full story at The Cleveland Fan. (In case you missed part one, you can find it here).

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02 Jan 2013

Chip Kelly is intriguing, but questions still remain

With Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and CEO Joe Banner reportedly in Arizona waiting for their turn to bend a knee and kiss the visor of Oregon coach Chip Kelly, it seems like a good time to look at what Browns fans are in store for if the team makes Kelly the franchise’s sixth head coach since 1999.

So what do we know about Kelly?

He’s 45-7 in four seasons at Oregon, where the Ducks play a highly entertaining brand of offensive football at a high pace, averaging more than 50 points a game. By spreading the field, Oregon forces opposing defenses to defend the entire field – not just the area between the tackles.

The Ducks averaged 84.4 offensive plays a game this season; the average NFL team is at 66.8.

Kelly’s frenetic approach also applies to practice, allowing the Ducks to get in more repetitions than other teams in the same amount of time.

Several NFL teams, most notably New England, have adopted parts of Kelly’s offensive system – not the whole system, but parts of it (that’s a key point).

There’s one more thing – Kelly has never spent a single minute, in any capacity, in the NFL.

And that should be reason enough to give Browns fans pause before they go all-in on Kelly as the next coach.

We start to sort out the Chip Kelly question at The Cleveland Fan.

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02 Jan 2013

Cleveland sports in 2012 – First Quarter

So 2012 has come and gone without another championship from any of Cleveland’s teams.

While there were no titles to celebrate, there were still plenty of stories, from firings to trades, to too many losses and too few wins.

Let’s take a look at the year in Cleveland sports, starting with the first quarter of the year – from the Browns failed pursuit of Robert Griffin III, to the moves made by the Indians and everything else that makes Cleveland sports such a joy to follow.

Review starts now at The Cleveland Fan.

(Photo by Cleveland Browns.com)

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