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Monday, June 25, 2012 at 11:48PM Joe Simmons 
When you think about football over the past few years, the AFC East has dominated the AFC like no other division. Since 2002 the AFC East has had at least one representative in the game every year except for
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at 12:00AM Joe Simmons 
The beginning of the season had you thinking that the teams in Florida were ready to make that turn to greatness or at least contention once again. The Jaguars were a surprise last year as they contended
Monday, June 20, 2011 at 12:03AM Joe Simmons 
The University of Southern California has gone from Powerhouse to Doghouse. They have been given a two-year bowl ban, as well as a reduction of scholarships and a forfeiture of wins as the result of violations in the football, men's basketball and women's tennis programs.
The NCAA announced its punishment for USC after a four-year investigation into allegations stemming from ex-Trojan football player Reggie Bush and basketball star O.J. Mayo.
Wins were vacated for three sports, but in football, the forfeited victories start in December 2004, and includes USC's national championship game win over Oklahoma in the 2005 Orange Bowl. All wins during the entire 2005 football season were also forfeited, but there was no word on what the ruling means for the Heisman Trophy that Bush won in 2005. I honestly think that they should let him keep it. He earned it, being the best player in football that year.
The football program also lost a total of 30 scholarships -- 10 each for three seasons -- while the athletics program was also put on probation for four years, lasting through June 9, 2014. This could be a serious problem with possible expansion of the PAC 10 to 16 teams.
Friday, February 4, 2011 at 9:23AM Joe Simmons 
The other night I was looking through a police blotter (well not really) and I noticed that there were a few people (athletes) that were missing. Organizations spend a lot of time evaluating athletes and there is no exact science to determining if they are going to be great, but for the most part they usually get 85% of their picks correct. It’s the 15% that go missing in action.
One must ask the question of how a person can be so great in college and high school and it not translate to the next level. Some kids appear to be “can’t miss” or a “sure thing” only to watch them fall by the wayside and be delegated to a life of mediocrity as an athlete.
Today on Bull City State of Mind we feel like we must do our part to help find these Milk Carton All Stars. We will search through the lows and the highs to see if we can find out what happened to these guys.
Thursday, January 6, 2011 at 9:26AM Joe Simmons 
I was just talking the other day about the best college football game that meant anything that I have ever seen. I know its been a few years now, but doesn’t that 2005-2006 National Title Game between college football’s USC Trojans and the Texas Longhorns on January 4, 2006 seem like yesterday?
By the end of that wonderful game in which Texas had comeback from 12 points down with 6:42 left in the game, Vince Young had become a part of college football folklore, Matt Leinart capped what was one of the best quarterbacking careers ever at the college football level, and Reggie Bush outstanding Heisman Trophy campaign had come to an official end.
Those three guys were heroes, not because of that game along, but for everything they had done for college football up until that point. The fact that they all had been in the national spotlight for multiple years, faced all kinds of pressure, and delivered performances the way they did made them instant college football legends. And at the very point when everyone knew their college football careers had come to an end, it seemed inevitable that each of them would become NFL superstars early on in their NFL careers.