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The 2010 College Football Season kicks off on September 2nd, but un-officially today is the day for me. I always give myself a few weeks post-draft to wrap things up, and get a plan of attack for the upcoming season. Well that’s done and it’s time to do work. I am kicking off the 2010 season with the best of the best. My Pre-Season All American teams. Expect lots and lots of college football here this season so keep an eye out for lots and lots of updates. You can follow me on Twitter at www.twitter.com/nfldraftboard, or you can search for me, Curt Popejoy on Facebook for my page or the link to the DBI page. What I discovered last season is, if I put out the option for requests, people spoke, so that is the same this season. Tell me what you want to add to the site to make it great.
In the coming weeks you can expect to see my early looks at the top 10 teams in the country, the top players for the Heisman Trophy, along with breakdowns of each conference and the top positional units in college football. And whatever other rambling my head opens throws out. Oh, and don’t be shocked if you see my ugly mug doing some video pod casts on either ustream or you tube, so you can look away if you must, but it should be entertaining. So, make sure to check back often and see what we’ve got cooking for the upcoming season.
Some things to look for this Summer/Fall
Pre-Season All American teams
My thoughts on Performance Enhancement in football
Heisman Trophy frontrunners along with my ongoing season updates
Pre-Season Top 10ish poll and National Championship Predicition
Conference breakdowns for all the major conferences as well as draft prospects for each
Some underrated guys who are going to go nuclear this season
Best of the Bunch for every positional group in college football
Weekly "Games to Watch" and "Players to Watch"
A weekly video podcast on all things football and sports related(and some other ramblings as well)
And this is just the beginning. So stay tuned for everything we've got going down this Fall!
About Us
Draft Board Insider came about courtesy of 3 likeminded guys dotted all over the US, united by a love of Football. The website was founded by John Clifford, Mark Mitchell and Curtis Popejoy with a little help from a couple of other guys who seem to have vanished off the face of the earth. After the best part of year being reduced to blog status we came to a hurried decision to get something going before the April 2009 draft. This is the result. We've added one foreigner to help us out with the technical side and chip in with the odd article but for the most part it's back to "normal".
The Founding Fathers
Curtis Popejoy - is the co-founder and scouting director of Draftboardinsider.com. He has been
breaking down games and analyzing draft prospects for nearly 20 years with his
work being online since 2000.
Curt has been featured in print
and on radio on various media outlets across the country including ESPNradio.
Curt devotes Hundreds of hours a year evaluating prospects for website. He
looks at prospects with a critical but realistic eye choosing to give readers an
understanding of the player without boring them with cliche'. There is no
offseason and the work done goes 12 months a year.
This amount of time
commitment and dedication has allowed Curt to publish one of the more accurate
mock drafts available, and particularly his top 100 prospects is among the very
top of all published. Curt is a proud member of the Football Writers
Association of America, and pushes himself every year to provide the most
informative, accurate and entertaining product he can.
Curt Popejoy is available for
interviews and scouting reports and can be reached via email at curt@draftboardinsider.com
Mark Mitchell - Mark remains a man of mystery. A New Mexico resident, Mark has lived happily since 1947 on a small ranch just outside Roswell. He lists amongst his likes, Sci-Fi, experimental flight, cattle mutilation and the collected works of Burt Bacharach. Dislikes? David Duchovny, tourists and smokers. Where does stalking NFL Cheerleaders fit on this list? We're not quite sure... Mark Mitchell is available for interviews and can be reached via email at mark@draftboardinsider.com
John Clifford - John is a self-proclaimed genius. Among his accomplishments too many to name,
becoming a Steelers fan the morning of Super Bowl X. Later, ignoring his teacher's
instructions, he solved the Rubik's Cube during his 7th grade math class in
1:14 (that's minutes and seconds by the way); shortly thereafter he began selling a self-published solution guide in the
fall of 1980 - well ahead of that mania's curve.
Likewise, motivated
mostly by a desire to vacation in the south in the dead of winter, catch
some college football, eat a grotesque amount of wings, and support a few
of Mobile's finest entertainment hot spots, John hatched the cockamamy
of this website and coverage of the Senior Bowl as a central part of it
years before NFL Network and Under Armour would jump on the bandwagon with
week long televised practices (think - ahead of the curve). Speaking of which... Didn't vote Obama. 'Nuff said.
John can be contacted via email at jc@draftboardinsider.com
The Others
Ben Morgan - A welshman exiled to New Zealand. Ah New Zealand, it lies in the South Pacific 16 hours in the future yet 20 years in the past. Think "Lost" then add Rugby and sheep. There is no truth to the rumour that Ben is a Hobbit, despite the hairy feet. He did however, stunt double for King Kong. He's never going near a tall building again. Ben mostly provides technical knowhow (read nerdiness) and developed the various scripts which run DBI. You might also see his name crop up on the odd article or 12. You'll be able to spot them, they're the ones that go into far too much detail. You may also notice they never use 'izes' but only 'ises' and there's far too many u's in words. Don't give him a hard time, he's British and is likely to remind you "what's the name of the language again?"
Ben can be contacted via email on ben@draftboardinsider.com
