Making the morning rounds.
? Song of Seantrel. Citing two anonymous sources "close to the team," a Miami television station has confirmed last week's report that starting left tackle/ex-mega recruit/350-pound man-mountain Seantrel Henderson has been suspended for Miami's Sept. 3 opener at Maryland, and adds that five other Hurricanes will be joining him on the bench for an undisclosed violation of team rules. (Previous reports speculated Henderson's issue was in the classroom.) Henderson followed his overheated recruitment last year by starting 10 games and earning freshman All-America nods, but only two of the other five —�running back Storm Johnson and cornerback Keion Payne —�were listed on the 'Canes' initial spring depth chart, both as backups. (Henderson was also listed a backup, which seemed primarily motivational at the time.)
Coach Al Golden is on vacation this week for spring break, along with the rest of the team, but was conspicuously silent on Henderson's status for the Maryland game when stridently denying the big man had any plans to transfer last week. [NBC Miami, via South Florida Sun-Sentinel]
? I can take it or leave it. Penn State opens its spring session Saturday with a three-man quarterback battle — and with one of those men, sophomore-to-be Robert Bolden, still threatening to transfer after losing the starting job to Mike McGloin last October. Bolden has already had to be coaxed back into the fold once, after watching the entirety of McGloin's five-interception debacle in the Capital One Bowl from the bench, and is obviously not interested in another year as an observer. "I'm just here to see how it goes, to see what I can learn, see how I feel about my coaches," Bolden said Wednesday. "Obviously, the bond between me and my teammates, that's not going to change during the spring. I'm just here to see how the spring goes, see what I can learn from these guys and see if I stay or if I decide to go." Translation: I'm the starter, or I'm outta here. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
? RIP. Ancient Minneapolis Star-Tribune columnist Sid Hartman fondly remembers former Minnesota coach Murray Warmath, who died Wednesday night at age 98, as "the coach nobody wanted" when Warmath was hired in 1954. That's ironic, because the Gophers have never had it better in the postwar era: Warmath led Minnesota to the last of its four national championships in 1960 and to its last Rose Bowl in 1961. He was fired a decade later on the heels of back-to-back losing seasons, but the Gophers' Rose Bowl drought now stretches to 50 years, the longest in the Big Ten. [Minneapolis Star-Tribune]
? But we had such a great thing going here. Memphis quarterback Ryan Williams, a returning starter, has left the team, apparently in response to coach Larry Porter's decision to install a more spread-oriented attack in place of the pro-style scheme that finished at the bottom of Conference USA in total and scoring offense last year. Williams passed for 13 touchdowns and 10 interceptions in his first season as a starter, and the Tigers failed to reach 20 points in any of their nine consecutive losses to close the year. [Memphis Commercial Appeal]
Quickly… Rivals' week-long countdown of the first five-star prospects of 2012 continues with the next D'Brickashaw Ferguson and the next Darren Sharper. … John Brantley calls Charlie Weis "a genius." … Nebraska may consider a few players from Nebraska-Omaha's recently defunct program as walk-ons. … For now, Bo Pelini is more interested in his players not getting fat over spring break. ... And Urban Meyer goes back to Utah.
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