The ACC should challenge Notre Dame’s partnership following critical comments from its athletic director.
Notre Dame’s football team has a scheduling agreement with the ACC, while its other sports are full members.
Notre Dame would struggle to find a similarly favorable scheduling arrangement with another conference.

We can end this nonsense right now if you’d like, Notre Dame. This partnership that really isn’t. 

This cakewalk through half a football season, running 12 years strong.   

We can do it the easy way: apologize to the ACC because Irish athletic director Pete Bevacqua — upset by the way the College Football Playoff selection committee botched its one and only job — said things that didn’t reflect the university’s exact feelings. 

Or we can do it the hard way: find another place to house 5-6 football games annually. 

Because — and I’m just throwing this out there — the frolic through a sea of tranquility for the last 41 games of the “partnership” with the ACC since 2014 would probably, you know, be a raging storm in the SEC.

And, for the love of Rockne, would probably, you know, significantly minimize Notre Dame’s future CFP opportunity. With or without the clown show of a selection committee.

Notre Dame isn’t going 37-4 vs. the SEC over 41 games. Just sayin.

Now is the time for the ACC presidents to show some backbone. After getting pushed around by (take your pick) the SEC, the Big Ten, Greg Sankey, Tony Petitti, the CFP, Florida State (do I need to continue?), stand up and take a stand with Notre Dame. 

Call the Irish bluff. 

Good guy ACC commissioner Jim Phillips should publicly rebuke Notre Dame, and demand an apology. Or, better yet, state once again that the Irish are not a full member of the ACC. 

They are a scheduling “partnership” with football, and a full member with all other sports. Then state, in no uncertain terms, if Notre Dame would like to build a scheduling partnership with another power conference — and take its Olympic sports to that conference — they have the ACC’s blessing.

Or they can shut their cake hole, and enjoy what amounts to a free ride from one of four power conferences. 

Because Notre Dame isn’t Notre Dame anymore, everyone. It’s not the television behemoth it once was with the media saturation of the sport, not the prize the ACC thought it was getting when it agreed to the deal. 

Notre Dame is nowhere to be found in the Neilson top 14 college football teams for 2025 weekly average viewership. That’s after a CFP run to the national title game in 2024, and after it became the biggest story in the sport over the final month of this season.

You know what schools are in the Neilson top 14? A whole lot of SEC and Big Ten.

This is where the ACC — which invited Notre Dame into this partnership because it believed Notre Dame’s television tide would lift all ACC boats — takes a stand. This partnership began with the ACC asking for a pittance: an annual fee paid for the football games, and Olympic sports membership.

Meanwhile, Notre Dame keeps all revenue generated by football, including the lucrative media rights deal with NBC and any postseason revenue. Where, I ask you, will Notre Dame get that type of deal again? 

Certainly not the SEC and Big Ten, and more than likely not from the Big 12 — and that’s not even addressing the reality that Subway alums would be horrified with a connection to the Big 12.

So there’s no place to go. Either stick it out with the ACC, or find 5-6 football games every single season somewhere else — and find a conference home for the 25 other sports, who need conference affiliation to compete for championships.

And while you’re trying to find those 5-6 games annually, wait and see how many SEC, Big Ten and Big 12 teams politely decline at the behest of their conference presidents. You want to schedule our teams now that you’re free of the ACC? Join our conference.

While some teams in the power conferences currently schedule Notre Dame, that will change if the deal with the ACC ends and the Irish are looking for a scheduling partner. The rest of the power conferences aren’t in the business of keeping Notre Dame afloat — you know, the very thing the ACC did in the pandemic season of 2020 with a full 10-game schedule.   

Bevacqua and every Notre Dame athletic director before him — and every university president — have made it clear Notre Dame will never relinquish its independent status.

The ACC has never had more leverage. They can’t change the financial deal of the partnership, but they can gain some pride. 

Publicly reprimand Notre Dame, and declare if they don’t like the partnership, feel free to find another conference and another sweetheart deal. That, or apologize and enjoy your free ride. 

Either way, shut your cake hole already.

Sherrone Moore goes to jail. Ryan Day goes to playoff.
Michigan lost to Ohio State in final game of Sherrone Moore’s tenure.
Another scandal rocks Michigan. Fired coach Sherrone Moore gets arrested.

As Ryan Day prepared for the College Football Playoff, Sherrone Moore sat in jail, fired and disgraced, on a cold night in Michigan. Before the Michigan coach wound up defrocked, he lost to Ohio State in his final game.

There’s never been a better time to be a Buckeye fan.

Assault allegations are no laughing matter, but, rivalries being what they are, Bucknuts must be howling at this latest scandal to rock the rival Wolverines. Jail to the cheaters.

The next time Ohio State’s lunatic fringe wants to hit the warpath because Day hasn’t delivered an undefeated season, chill for minute. Appreciate that the only drama surrounding Day this season was a doctored photo that surfaced online and briefly made us wonder whether Day had pierced his chest. (Nope, just the internet being the internet.)

A little thing like losing a close one to undefeated Indiana in the Big Ten championship game must seem like small potatoes after you watch your archrival fire its coach, publicly allege he’d had “an inappropriate relationship with a staff member,” and then Moore got arrested and headed to jail.

College football, I tell ya. It’s wilder than science-fiction.

Moore blew right past Bobby Petrino’s motorcycle, and you can bet the schadenfreude could be felt in East Lansing, Michigan, too. Moore looked at how Mel Tucker ruined his coaching career at Michigan State and said, “I raise you.”

Ninety-nine percent of the time, the wild rumors you read on social media and message boards are untrue or at least wildly exaggerated.

Michigan served the other 1%, all in one day.

This scandal skipped past Connor Stalions’ fake mustache and the NCAA probes and the fines and the probation and sped toward a trifecta crescendo of a firing for moral turpitude, an arrest and a jailing.

In a span of several hours, Michigan fired Moore with a statement that condemned his conduct, and the Pittsfield, Michigan, police followed with a statement announcing Moore was in jail and the subject of an investigation.

We haven’t heard from Moore. Perhaps, he’ll tell a different version of this story. In the meantime, the Block M endures another stain.

It was just two years ago that Moore looked into Fox’s television camera, leaked out some tears, thanked the Lord and saluted suspended coach Jim Harbaugh after a defeat of Penn State.

Life comes at you fast. Moore is forever a meme now.

Meanwhile, the Buckeyes are the playoff’s No. 2 seed, trying to repeat as national champions.

The uninitiated might wonder, what’s that got to do with the price of bail in Michigan?

Well, there are rivalries, and then there’s Ohio State-Michigan. Everything about Ohio State is viewed through the lens of what’s happening with The Team Up North. Some even affixed a mental asterisk to Ohio State’s national championship last season because it came after a loss to Michigan.

Well, Day beat Michigan this season. And, he’s not in jail. Ohio State isn’t scrambling to find a coach in mid-December. Its big problem is figuring out how it came away with only 10 points on four red-zone trips against Indiana.

Fine points, these OSU problems.

Since Day’s promotion to the big chair in Columbus in 2018, after Ohio State’s own scandal on the tail end of the Urban Meyer era …

∎ Penn State fired James Franklin, who never beat Day a single time.

∎ Michigan State endured a series of blowout losses to the Buckeyes. Mark Dantonio retired, his successor Tucker got himself fired for cause amid a scandal of his own, and Jonathan Smith got fired at warp speed for poor performance in two years.

∎ Harbaugh owned Day for a few years, and Michigan cheated its way to glory, before Harbaugh vamoosed to the NFL, where the NCAA’s suits couldn’t reach him, Stalions starred in a bad Netflix doc, and Moore went to jail.

All’s well in Cbus, by comparison.

Now, if only Ohio State can figure out a solve for this Cignetti guy by January.

Blake Toppmeyer is the USA TODAY Network’s senior national college football columnist. Email him at BToppmeyer@gannett.com and follow him on X @btoppmeyer.

NWSL star Trinity Rodman has gained massive commercial success in recent years. Between her team, the Washington Spirit, losing the NWSL championship the last two years in a row, and winning a championship in 2021, as well as Rodman being named a finalist for league MVP in 2024, Rodman has established herself was one of the best soccer players in the world. Unsurprisingly, she wants to get paid as such.

After the NWSL vetoed her contract extension with the Spirit, an extension that would’ve earned her $1 million per year, speculation started floating around that Rodman would leave the NWSL for a European league, just as players like Naomi Girma, Crystal Dunn, Alyssa Thompson and Emily Fox have done.

Now, the league is backtracking. According to ESPN, the NWSL’s Board of Governors is discussing a potential change in how rosters are constructed that would allow teams to pay star players significant salaries that would normally surpass the current salary cap.

What would this new rule entail?

The NWSL’s proposed roster ‘mechanism’ would enable each team to set aside a specified amount of money to pay star players, determined by certain statistical figures.

Nothing is set in stone regarding this mechanism. In fact, ESPN reports that other similar proposals have been brought to the board and discussed nearly daily with increased urgency as the year has progressed. The items still up for discussion reportedly include which players should qualify for the extra money, how much extra money can be set aside, and whether or not this will keep Rodman in the league. Her contract is set to expire at the end of December.

Why was Rodman’s initial contract vetoed?

Rodman’s initial contract, which would have set records within the NWSL, was vetoed due to commissioner Jessica Berman believing it would have violated league rules, most notably the salary cap. The NWSL Players’ Association promptly filed a grievance against the league.

The league’s grievance, filed on Dec. 3, claimed that the league had violated Rodman’s free agency rights and at least five sections of the current CBA.

Will Rodman play in Europe?

Rodman has long expressed a desire to play in Europe, even telling ESPN that it is not a matter of if, but ‘when.’ Rodman has reportedly received numerous offers from European clubs already, deals that would exceed what the NWSL could offer under current salary cap restrictions. That said, it appears a new, appropriate deal from the Washington Spirit could keep Rodman in the United States for now.

The league’s current CBA does not define a maximum salary for any individual player. Furthermore, the current CBA says that the league salary cap will increase every year through 2030, which could make paying Rodman more feasible for several teams. Obviously, that is still several years away though.

A clinical psychologist termed Tyler Skaggs a ‘high-functioning’ addict in the years prior to his 2019 overdose death, tracing a pattern of use that preceded the Los Angeles Angels pitcher’s fatal ingestion of an oxycodone pill laced with fentanyl.

Elie Anoun, an assistant professor at Columbia, testified on behalf of the Angels that Skaggs failed to address the totality of his opioid addiction when he decided to quit using Percocet without seeking clinical assistance in 2013.

Skaggs was traded from the Arizona Diamondbacks to the Angels in December 2013, and witnesses for the ballclub have aimed to paint a consistent pattern of Skaggs’ drug abuse. The family of the late pitcher is seeking $118 million in lost earnings and punitive damages from the team, arguing that the club knew or should have known that former communications director Eric Kay was providing opioids to Skaggs.

‘Not everyone with an addiction is going to be a homeless person under a bridge shooting heroin,’ Aoun said in court Wednesday, Dec. 10, according to the Orange County Register. ‘Many people with addictions are under the radar.’

Aoun termed Skaggs an ‘advanced drug user’ and that he depended on opioids to perform properly on the field, based on text messages and other evidence that has emerged in the criminal and civil trials. After Skaggs stopped using Percocet in 2013, Aoun testified that his loved ones did not sufficiently consider the gravity of his addiction.

‘Families are usually taking these things very seriously,’ Aoun testified, according to the Register.

The criminal and civil trials painted a culture of pill-sharing in the Angels clubhouse during Skaggs’ tenure, with multiple players testifying about their usage and conversations with Skaggs about how to acquire opioids – including through Kay.

‘He is bringing them into the drug-using world alongside him,’ Aoun said of Skaggs.

The Angels are scheduled to conclude their defense this week, with closing arguments and deliberations commencing Dec. 15.

A loss to the Bolts would be just about fatal to the defending AFC champs.
Three teams can clinch playoff berths Sunday.
A potential Super Bowl preview features the Packers and Broncos, both vying for a No. 1 playoff seed.
Colts QB Philip Rivers could potentially return to the field after a five-year absence.

All hands on deck.

The NFL’s bye weeks have been exhausted as the 2025 season rolls into Week 15 − which is chock full of gripping matchups … even if Thursday night’s NFC South pairing of the Atlanta Falcons and Tampa Bay Buccaneers isn’t one of them.

Sunday gets started with the New England Patriots attempting to sweep the Buffalo Bills, which would clinch the Pats’ first AFC East title in six years. Conversely, as they host the Los Angeles Chargers, the Kansas City Chiefs will not only be fighting for their playoff lives but trying to avoid elimination this weekend − though losing to the Bolts wouldn’t finish them outright.

The late afternoon window looks even better. The Green Bay Packers and Denver Broncos will face off in a potential Super Bowl 60 preview, both teams currently scrapping for their respective conference’s No. 1 seed. As they attempt to break back into the projected playoff field, the Detroit Lions will attempt to knock off the NFC-leading Los Angeles Rams on the road. (The Rams and Broncos can both clinch postseason spots with wins.) And while the Seattle Seahawks will be prohibitive favorites to beat the Indianapolis Colts, their game could mark the return of newly signed Colts QB Philip Rivers after a five-year hiatus.

The final two prime-time games feature national brands, even if they don’t project as great games. The Dallas Cowboys, trying to remain postseason-relevant, will host the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday night, while the Pittsburgh Steelers will hold first place in the AFC North on Monday if they can knock off the surging Miami Dolphins.

How does the 16-game lineup shake out? Here are the picks from USA TODAY Sports’ panel of NFL experts:

(Odds provided by BetMGM)

Week 15 picks, predictions, odds

Falcons at Buccaneers
Chargers at Chiefs
Jets at Jaguars
Bills at Patriots
Cardinals at Texans
Ravens at Bengals
Browns at Bears
Raiders at Eagles
Commanders at Giants
Lions at Rams
Panthers at Saints
Packers at Broncos
Titans at 49ers
Colts at Seahawks
Vikings at Cowboys
Dolphins at Steelers

The non-playoff bowl season kicks off Saturday, Dec. 13 at SoFi Stadium, and runs all the way through the second day of the new year. As we’ve done throughout the regular season, our panel of staff experts will weigh in once again on who might emerge victorious in all the bowls, as well as the first-round playoff games that will be staged on campus sites late next week.

We encourage you to check back here often to see how we’re doing as the holiday season progresses.

College football bowl game picks

Sherrone Moore lost one of college football’s most coveted head coaching jobs when Michigan football fired him on Wednesday, Dec. 10 over an inappropriate relationship with a staff member, and the circumstances surrounding his abrupt dismissal have led to even more questions about his life off the field.

Moore was taken into custody and booked into Washtenaw County Jail in Michigan, according to online courts records, and he remains there as of 1 p.m. ET on Thursday, Dec. 11. Police in Pittsfield Township, located just south of Ann Arbor where the University of Michigan is located, said in a statement that they responded to a location at 4:10 p.m. local time ‘for the purposes of investigating an alleged assault.’

The incident occurred approximately 30 minutes before Michigan announced it had dismissed Moore for cause.

Here’s more on former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore, including more background information from his playing and coaching career, as well as his role in the Wolverines’ sign-stealing scandal:

Sherrone Moore arrest

The Pittsfield Police Department said Wednesday a suspect was taken into custody as part of an ongoing investigation, but did not name the suspect at the time.

‘This incident does not appear to be random in nature, and there appears to be no ongoing threat to the community,’ the Pittsfield Police Department said in its statement. ‘The suspect was lodged at the Washtenaw County Jail pending review of charges by the Washtenaw County Prosecutor. At this time, the investigation is ongoing.’

The Washtenaw County Court said in a Dec. 11 statement obtained by the Detroit Fress Press that no paperwork had been filed in regards to Moore’s booking but it acknowledged the court is aware of a ‘pending investigation regarding Sherrone Moore.’ No charges had been filed against Moore as of 1 p.m. ET on Thursday, Dec. 11.

‘The matter involving Mr. Moore remains under active investigation by law enforcement, and as a result, we do not expect charging decisions or an arraignment (Thursday). Mr. Moore remains in custody at the Washtenaw County Jail,’ Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit said in a statement.

Sherrone Moore charges

Moore is not expected to be charged on Dec. 11, per statements from Savit and the Washtenaw County Court. No charges have been filed against Moore as of Thursday morning and the investigation is ongoing.

Sherrone Moore’s role in Michigan sign stealing scandal

Moore was suspended for two games this season and was slated to serve another one-game suspension during the 2026 season due to deleting text messages sent to former Michigan analyst Connor Stalions during the NCAA’s investigation into the Michigan sign stealing scandal.

Sherrone Moore coaching record, Jim Harbaugh ties

Moore, 39, had just finished his second full season leading Michigan football after taking over the program from former coach Jim Harbaugh, who left to return to the NFL as the Los Angeles Chargers coach. Harbaugh publicly supported Moore’s promotion within the program. Moore finished his tenure at Michigan with a 18-8 overall record.

Moore was also an assistant coach at Michigan under Harbaugh beginning in 2018 and served as interim head coach when Harbaugh was suspended for four games during Michigan’s 2023 national championship season. Moore previously worked as an assistant coach at Central Michigan and Louisville.

Sherrone Moore playing career

Moore was an offensive lineman who played two seasons for Butler Community College in Kansas before transferring to Oklahoma for his final two seasons of eligibility. He appeared in 14 games for the Sooners during the 2006 and 2007 seasons.

Sherrone Moore age

Moore is 39 years old and turns 40 in February.

Sherrone Moore wife, family

Moore has been married to Kelli Moore since 2015 and they have three kids together, daughters Shiloh, Solei and Sadie.

Penn State fired former coach James Franklin midseason following a three-game losing streak and disagreements over NIL funding.
Athletics director Pat Kraft’s search saw multiple candidates, including Matt Rhule and Curt Cignetti, use Penn State’s interest to secure extensions at their current schools.
The tumultuous 54-day process included a leaked team meeting audio and former coach James Franklin flipping recruits to his new job at Virginia Tech.

After making the decision to fire former coach James Franklin at the midseason point, with the Nittany Lions on a three-game losing streak and the year slipping away, athletics director Pat Kraft reportedly reached out to an individual believed to have the ear of the Iowa State coach.

But Kraft, who ran the search without an outside firm or committee, apparently failed to reach the right person, and the attempt at making contact never reached Campbell.

Months later, after one of the most scrutinized coaching searches in recent Power Four history, Kraft made a second run at Campbell, this time reaching the right intermediary, and found a candidate receptive to the Nittany Lions’ interest.

“It’s a dream come true for me,” Campbell said at his introductory press conference.

“Matt Campbell is one of the most respected coaches in the country and he has earned that,” said Kraft. “Matt Campbell is Penn State: Hard-nosed, humble, relentless, a developer of young men, and he’s built for championships.”

Penn State was under pressure to make the right hire

Before reaching this point — hiring one of college football’s most well-regarded figures, one who rebuffed countless opportunities over the years to remain at Iowa State — Penn State faced the public embarrassment of seeing multiple established Power Four head coaches parlay the opening into lucrative contract extensions.

For Kraft, there was also a leaked audio recording of a team meeting called at the players’ request that included potshots at Oregon, Michigan and the way the previous staff had used NIL.

At the same time, the school watched as Franklin landed at Virginia Tech and quickly flipped verbal commitments from the Nittany Lions’ depleted recruiting class, which included just two signees during the early period.

If able to look past the 54-day period between Franklin’s dismissal and Campbell’s hiring, Penn State did achieve the end goal of hiring a proven Power Four commodity who won at an unmatched rate with the Cyclones and could be even more effective with his new school’s deeper resources.

But it’s impossible to ignore the winding path from the end of one coaching tenure to the start of another — one that Kraft said at Campbell’s press conference could “be a Netflix documentary at some point.”

In part because of the dramatic search, Campbell will face immediate pressure to reverse the Nittany Lions’ one-year swoon and bring the program back into Big Ten and College Football Playoff contention.

Failing to do so would almost assuredly cost Kraft his job. “If I don’t get this right, my career is over,” he said in audio from the leaked team meeting. “Understand that. If I don’t hire the right person, my career is over. So it’s very serious to me.”

Penn State coaching search got off to slow start

The decision to fire Franklin came down to mismatched personalities, stubbornness and a significant difference of opinion over how the Nittany Lions should allocate NIL funding Kraft ranked in the top four nationally.

Unlike many programs, Penn State had chosen a “spread the wealth” tack in NIL, with most players receiving a relatively equal share, instead of the typical top-down funding that pays an established starter more than, say, a freshman backup.

There was a sense from the start of Penn State’s search that personality would matter nearly as much as proven production as a college coach. That’s why one of the Nittany Lions’ initial targets was third-year Nebraska coach Matt Rhule, who played linebacker for Joe Paterno from 1994-97, worked under Kraft as the head coach at Temple and is such good friends with Kraft that the two and their families have vacationed together in the offseason.

But less than three weeks after Franklin’s dismissal, Rhule recommitted to Nebraska with a two-year extension that bumped up his buyout to $15 million, effectively taking him off the market. This same scene would be repeated over and again for well over a month.

Rhule was one of two primary candidates right off the bat. The other was Indiana’s Curt Cignetti, a miracle worker who transformed the Hoosiers into a powerhouse and is seen by some coaches as the closest thing the sport currently has to the next Nick Saban.

Amid this interest, Indiana handed Cignetti an eight-year, $93 million extension that made him one of the highest-paid coaches in the country with an annual average salary of approximately $11.6 million.

At least seven other sitting college coaches fielded interest from Penn State and were either extended by their current program, like Rhule and Cignetti, or opted instead for a different Power Four opening.

There was Georgia Tech coach Brent Key, who agreed last week to a five-year extension with the Yellow Jackets. Former James Madison coach Bob Chesney was another trendy contender amid the Dukes’ unexpected march to the playoff, but the Pennsylvania native accepted the position at UCLA, taking him off the Nittany Lions’ board.

Also signing new extensions during this stretch were Vanderbilt’s Clark Lea — hiring another Vanderbilt coach after Franklin might’ve been a non-starter anyway — and Missouri’s Eli Drinkwitz.

Another option was interim coach Terry Smith, who, like many interim promotions, was said to be the favorite of current and ex-Penn State players. But while Smith did an admirable job getting the Nittany Lions into the postseason and nearly pulled off a mammoth upset of Indiana, he was always seen as a last-resort option.

Penn State takes PR hit with some swings and misses

Three other denials made Kraft and this search a national story, especially as other midseason openings such as LSU and Florida hired current playoff coaches in Lane Kiffin and Tulane’s Jon Sumrall, respectively.

The school had zeroed in on second-year Texas A&M coach Mike Elko, who was born in New Jersey, played at the University of Pennsylvania and spent the first decade of his career working on the East Coast. Elko’s focus on toughness, his perennially strong defenses and his 35-15 mark over four years as a college coach seemed to make him a dream candidate.

With the Aggies unbeaten and making a run at the SEC crown, however, Elko removed himself from consideration. That led Kraft and Penn State into an awkward dance with two final Power Four coaches who seemed poised to accept the offer before backing out — all while details of the previously leak-free search began to burst onto national headlines.

Late last month, discussions with Brigham Young coach Kalani Sitake had advanced to the point where Sitake seemed highly likely to be the Nittany Lions’ hire. He had even spoken with potential assistants and planned how Penn State’s roster would look in his first year, according to reporting by the Centre Daily Times.

This mutual interest unraveled yet again, with a major BYU booster, Crumbl co-founder and CEO Jason McGowan, spearheading an increased financial commitment to Sitake and more funding for NIL and his coaching and support staffs.

It was time to “quit all the drama,” Sitake said in early December.

Penn State’s search then turned to Louisville’s Jeff Brohm, who previously worked at Purdue and is known for his coaching chops on offense and development of quarterbacks. For one last time, an established coach rejected the Nittany Lions’ attention: Brohm told Louisville last week that he would be staying with the program.

Kraft shifted to assistants or unemployed former coaches. One was fired New York Giants coach Brian Daboll, though those discussions gained little traction. Penn State also evaluated Ohio State defensive coordinator Matt Patricia, another former NFL head coach, and former Notre Dame offensive coordinator Tommy Rees, who currently holds the same position with the Cleveland Browns.

Matt Campbell and Penn State finally connect

Campbell still loomed as a candidate. After failing to reach him in the wake of Franklin’s firing, Penn State was able to begin conversations with Campbell in early December, according to ESPN. Less than a week later, he was introduced as Penn State’s fifth full-time coach since 1950.

All’s well that ends well, maybe, and all will be forgiven if the Kraft and Campbell partnership results in Penn State’s first national championship since 1986. And those will be the expectations: Every game Campbell coaches, especially early in his tenure, could feel like a referendum on his tenure, Kraft’s future as athletics director and the state of a program dinged by a tumultuous and often chaotic search.

“I know this: It’s my responsibility to each and every one of you, every single step of the way to link arms with you, to unify us, and to continue to push this program to the greatest heights it’s ever seen,” Campbell said.

“I know what I’m inheriting and what my responsibility is. To be honest with you, to link arms with every one of our lettermen, former players, and to unify this football program into the greatest football power in the country, I can’t wait for that opportunity.”