Around the Dog Park: Coaches talking about coaches

Q&A with Off Tackle empire about C-USA vs B1G... UMass gets some cash from Aubie... Season previews!

By Cyrus Smith@CoolCyWrites Aug 11, 2017, 12:50pm EDT

CUSA Football Championship - Louisiana Tech v Marshall

General G5

Football Study Hall has a neat article on the evolution of fullbacks and tight ends in today’s spread offense.

American

A look at the recruiting classes in the AAC before the season starts.
Houston Cougars season preview. Got a feeling eight wins isn’t what Houston fans are expecting this season.

Conference USA

Jarred Craft and Boston Scott expect to be featured heavily in Tech’s offense this season.
Expect Southern Miss to play a lot of freshmen on the offensive line this year.
Uncle Luke has joined the Lane train.
SB Nation’s Big Ten football blog Off Tackle Empire chatted with us about the upcoming matchups between C-USA and the B1G.
C-USA coaches threw a good amount of shade at each other this week.
Top five players UTSA should redshirt this year.

Independents

UMass will receive $1.9 million to play Auburn in 2020.

Sun Belt

Sun Belt coaches talked about each program anonymously and the quote about the Aggies’ defensive line really caught my attention.
Our first team preview is up! Coastal Carolina could be in for a very long year.