http://www.realfootball365.com Cincinnati Bearcats Football News, scores, analysis and discussion. College Football News. en-us info@realfootball365.com Copyright (C) 2005-2008 www.realfootball365.com http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/14038 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/14038 We tend to think of defensive and offensive players on a football team as apples and oranges. At the University of Cincinnati, though, they're more like mixed fruit. After winning the Big East title last year, Bearcat coach Brian Kelly found himself with a surplus of good players on offense and a shortfall on defense. The solution was simple: Changing places. Thus, third-string quarterback... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Cincinnati Bearcats 2009-06-15T05:22:33-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/13663 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/13663 This would have been a good year for Brian Kelly to bolt. His Cincinnati Bearcats won the Big East championship and a spot in a BCS matchup (losing 20-7 to Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl). UC persevered through a season in which it used five different quarterbacks, with Ben Mauk on hold. The Bearcats dropped only one game in conference, a 40-18 aberration against Connecticut, and hung around... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Cincinnati Bearcats 2009-02-23T05:07:18-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/12462 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/12462 The University of Cincinnati quarterback job belongs to Dustin Grutza -- for now, anyway. "Dustin has proved the right to start," said UC coach Brian Kelly prior to the Bearcats' opener with Eastern Kentucky on Thursday night, "but Tony's had a good couple of weeks, and I'd like to see him get some work, too." Tony? Didn't he mean "Demetrius'? Actually, no. Notre Dame transfer and former... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Cincinnati Bearcats 2008-08-25T16:26:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/12369 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/12369 There is a scene in the campus classic movie "Animal House" where the Faber College dean of students tosses the entire dysfunctional Delta fraternity out of school. "Oh, my God!" cries out one member, flinging himself on the floor. "Seven years of college down the drain!" It would perhaps be a bit overstated to draw an analogy between that and former (or is it present?) University of Cincinnati... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Cincinnati Bearcats 2008-08-15T16:19:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/12346 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/12346 The Ben Mauk era is officially over at the University of Cincinnati. Bring on the Dustin Grutza era -- or, maybe, the Demetrius Jones era. At any rate, Mauk -- who threw for 3,121 yards and 31 touchdowns as a Bearcat last season -- won't be playing college football anymore. After several appeals, his request for a sixth year of eligibility was finally turned down by the NCAA last week. Mauk... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Cincinnati Bearcats 2008-08-13T12:17:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/12218 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/12218 The similarities are startling. While the national media commit overkill with the Brett Favre-Aaron Rodgers debacle, the University of Cincinnati wrestles with almost a mirror-image situation. In the role of Brett Favre, Ben Mauk. Playing Aaron Rodgers, Dustin Grutza. And like the Green Bay Packers' recurring nightmare, this may remain unresolved for a while. Mauk had a great year for the... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Cincinnati Bearcats 2008-07-30T05:25:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/11964 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/11964 In a football league as apparently even as the Big East, the addition of a single weapon by one of the contending teams could be enough to tip the balance. The University of Cincinnati might have done that with the recent addition of Alex Daniels, kicked off the University of Minnesota team after a sexual incident involving an 18-year-old female student. Or not. At this point, the pros and cons... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Cincinnati Bearcats 2008-07-11T05:26:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/11652 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/11652 How good is the University of Cincinnati's football team going to be this season? If you believe the folks who put out the Athlon Football Annual, the Bearcats will at least be tough to score on. And Cincinnati just might be the capital of the football universe (the Bengals notwithstanding). Athlon has named three Bearcats -- defensive end Terrill Byrd, cornerback Mike Mickens and punter Kevin... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Cincinnati Bearcats 2008-06-17T05:24:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/11298 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/11298 Apparently, the University of Cincinnati football program can now stand on its own. The school announced this week that it had broken the record for football season-ticket sales with 9,426, snapping the previous record of 9,151 and accounting for roughly one quarter of the seats in Nippert Stadium (35,097 capacity). This comes two years after UC removed a requirement that basketball... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Cincinnati Bearcats 2008-05-22T11:39:01-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/11227 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/11227 Remember seeing all your friends when you arrived at summer camp? It was kind of like that at the Cincinnati Bengals' minicamp for five former members of the crosstown University of Cincinnati football squad. Running backs Greg Moore and Bradley Glatthaar were there, invited as free agents. So were defensive end Anthony Hoke and defensive back Anthony Williams. And on hand to greet them were... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Cincinnati Bearcats 2008-05-16T04:04:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/11098 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/11098 It's now third down for University of Cincinnati quarterback -- or ex-University of Cincinnati quarterback -- Ben Mauk. Earlier this week, Mauk had his second request for an extra year of eligibility denied on appeal by the NCAA. But, said Bearcats coach Brian Kelly, "This is just another step through the NCAA process and is nothing out of the ordinary." Mauk sat out his first year at Wake... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Cincinnati Bearcats 2008-05-01T18:07:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/11058 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/11058 Who cares about spring football games? Obviously, in Cincinnati, a lot of people do -- the annual University of Cincinnati Bearcat Bowl drew over 10,000 last Saturday. They left entertained (the Black team beat the Red, 23-14, in a lively contest), but no more informed about the Bearcats' quarterback competition than before. In the end, all three main contenders -- senior Dustin Grutza, redshirt... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Cincinnati Bearcats 2008-04-29T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/10784 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/10784 The main reason football coaches schedule lesser teams to open a season is to give their own squad a warmup. But it also comes in handy in cases like the one involving All-America defensive tackle Terrill Byrd of the University of Cincinnati. Byrd was given a citation for pot smoking in early March after a telltale odor wafting from his off-campus apartment was noticed by the wrong people (from... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Cincinnati Bearcats 2008-03-31T15:43:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/10651 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/10651 For University of Cincinnati seniors Haruki Nakamura and Bradley Glatthaar, their school's Pro Day on the UC campus last week was a big deal -- literally. Knowing all too well how much size matters in the NFL, both safety Nakamura and fullback prospect Glatthaar managed to pack on a few extra pounds for pro scouts from around a dozen teams, and they did it without losing any speed. Nakamura,... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Cincinnati Bearcats 2008-03-15T01:54:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/10471 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/cincinnati/10471 (Fourth in a series on Big East football recruiting.) The University of Cincinnati played football like an up-and-coming program last season, finishing 10-3 and hanging a 31-21 defeat on Southern Mississippi in the PapaJohns.com Bowl. Based on the list of 2008 prep signees, however, recruiting seems to be lagging behind the on-field product. If you're into Rivals recruiting stars, the Bearcats... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Cincinnati Bearcats 2008-02-29T04:38:01-05:00