In a classic move, I forgot my e-mail password. My repeated (failed) attempts to guess it resulted in the system locking me out and kept me from my e-mail yesterday. Therefore, I’m a day late on these, but hey… it’s still news.
Cincinnati coach Brian Kelly is one of three finalists for the George Munger Award as the Maxwell Club’s coach of the year. The other two finalists are Temple’s Al Golden and TCU’s Gary Patterson (two other names being bandied about as Charlie Weis’ replacement at Notre Dame) and the voting starts today. It’ll close a week from Sunday, a day after Cincinnati plays Pittsburgh for the league title – and the league’s BCS berth.
While we’re talking Pitt, Panthers tight end Dorin Dickerson is one of three finalists too, for the Mackey Award as the nation’s top tight end. Dickerson’s a heckuva story – his dad was a basketball player at K-State and he came to Pitt having been a receiver, running back, quarterback, defensive back and kick returner in high school. He played at wideout his first year at Pitt, he moved to strongside linebacker his second year and then tight end his third. Now in this, his fourth year, he has 43 catches for 496 yards and a school record-tying 10 TDs. Florida junior Aaron Hernandex (whose big brother DJ was a quarterback at UConn) and BYU senior Dennis Pitta are his fellow finalists.
Aditi Kinkhabwala has written a regular column for SI.com and been published in Sports Illustrated.