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5-star Big Bear Alexander has make his college decision

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Big Bear Alexander has said exactly what he was looking for in regard to his future college decision.

“Whoever can develop their players and compete and just win on the field,” Alexander told DawgNation in November. “Just get the best out of their guys on and off the field and who cares about you in your life after football, too.”

The nation’s No. 2 DT and No. 5 overall prospect for Rivals.com has apparently found what he was looking for at Georgia. The 6-foot-3.5, 315-pound junior decided to make his college commitment on National Signing Day for the 2021 class.

He shared that decision across his social media accounts.

The impressive Texas prospect was just ready to get his process started. Alexander had just named a top 16 back in December and always felt he would be a last-minute commitment decision. He was thinking about a 2022 All-American Game to drop that news and then enroll early as a midyear graduate at his preferred school.

That all changed.

“With the window being so short literally 11 months [I] just decided to shut it down early and find a home,” Alexander told DawgNation this week.

RELATED: When you know the real story on 5-star Bear Alexander, you will be proud. 

Georgia was able to beat out intense recruiting from the likes of Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas and Texas A&M for his services, among others.

Alexander becomes the second elite DT prospect in the 2022 class at Georgia. His decision brings the tally of commitments in that cycle up to eight for the Bulldogs. He’s the first out-of-state prospect in the class.

With this decision, the Bulldogs rise from No. 3 to the No. 2 spot in the 247Sports Team Composite national recruiting rankings for 2022. Georgia’s score with its eight commitments (181.61) now only trails Ohio State. The Buckeyes have a trio of 5-star recruits among their 10 pledges and a score of 225.91.

“Big Bear” ranks as the nation’s No. 9 DT and the No. 140 overall recruit for 2022 on the 247Sports Composite but that slot is likely due for a significant rating bump after evaluation of Alexander’s dominating junior year for Class 5A Texas state champion Ryan High.

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Big Bear Alexander’s commitment pushed Georgia to the No. 2 recruiting class in the nation for the 2022 cycle on the 247Sports Team Composite rankings. (Bear Alexander/Instagram)

The first time Big Bear Alexander impressed Georgia 

The Georgia football program’s reputation has always stood out to Alexander. He was asked back in November what was the best thing he liked about UGA.

He said a lot of positive things about Dan Lanning, Tray Scott and Kirby Smart. Yet his strongest comments centered on the program as a whole.

“The defense,” he said back in November. “The consistency in going out there every week and getting after it and getting better. You can tell how well-coached they are on the field improving each week.”

Big Bear Alexander drove from Texas to Georgia for his first on-campus visit. That was back in the summer of 2019. While he worked out, he was quickly elevated to the top D-line group with the biggest 2020 prospects that Georgia was evaluating for that class.

Alexander had one of the top showings at that camp. That’s to be expected from a young man who was already 305 pounds and shaving when he was in middle school.

The fact that he was showing out as a 2022 prospect mixed in with other 2020 and 2021 high-level targets wasn’t the most impressive thing there.

It was what Google Maps tells us. It is an approximate 920-mile and 13-hour drive from Ryan High School in Denton Texas to the Butts-Mehre Building on the UGA campus.

Alexander wasn’t sure how long that drive actually was. All he knows is that he hopped out of the car and started to work out for the Bulldogs.

“I don’t remember the camp but I actually went to Georgia and worked out for those guys on the staff,” Alexander said. “They saw what I could do and they were impressed. We had to drive how many hours like? I don’t know. What’s Texas from Georgia? Maybe six hours maybe? We drove from Texas to Georgia.”

Go ahead and insert your favorite “Does a bear stretch in the woods before it chases down its prey?” thought bubble into your consumption of this story here.

“After sitting in the car for that long they were impressed with me getting out and working my butt off,” Alexander said. “They said I was one of the hardest workers at the camp. Georgia says that for me that’s always been a thing to remember for them.”

Check out some of that camp footage below.

The Bulldogs offered Alexander after that workout.

What are the Bulldogs getting in Big Bear Alexander?

He didn’t have a dream school growing up. It wasn’t like one of those Texas schools had a clear built-in edge here.

When he returned to the field last November after waiting on his eligibility after a school transfer case, he showed what he was all about.

“It was great just getting back out there and having that fire lit underneath me,” he said back then. “I’ll be ready to come out there and wreck shop. I don’t care if it is one play. It is going to be a play to remember.”

A lot of folks in the recruiting industry see Alexander as another Jordan Davis type. He can certainly do that, but that’s not his preference at the position. He described his mindset of the way he plays the game.

“Just me coming off the ball and just being very violent and being able to chase the ball down from east to west,” he said.

He studies a lot of game tape and is a highly-intelligent young man in the classroom. Alexander prioritizes his academics. That carries over to the field.

“Just knowing my Xs and Os,” Alexander said. “I think that’s what separates me a lot. I’m able to chase down a lot and pursue to get to the football. That’s what separates me from a lot of these other defensive linemen and then my quickness.”

Most of the schools that talk to him feel he can play up and down the line. Not just a Jordan Davis-type role. That’s probably not his preference. He’s probably wired more in former 5-star Derrick Brown mode who excelled at Auburn before being drafted in the first round by Carolina.

Most schools see Alexander as a “3” technique or a “4i” along their fronts. Big Bear prefers to line up in an odd front.

“I don’t want to two-gap,” he said. “I don’t want to be a pure run stopper. I just want to go. I want to be released.”

What is Georgia getting here? What does he have to say about that?

“The best player and the best young man,” he said.

Look for him to wear No. 0 as a senior at Ryan High and as a freshman in college. That’s his hope, but it might have something to do with Darnell Washington choosing a new number for the Bulldogs.

Check out a clip of Alexander’s highlights from the third round of the Texas high school playoffs below.

That’s impressive considering what he was already doing as a freshmen prospect at Terrell High School in Texas.

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Highlightsville: The Big Bear Alexander clips to see today

Check out some key tweets and evaluations of his play here. It is impressive watching him take up residence in the backfield against some very well-coached teams. Most schools simply had no answers.

(the recent reads on DawgNation.com)



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Skull Session: Buckeyes’ National Title Odds Somehow Fall, College Football’s Roster Size Problem, and Ohio State’s Graphics Team Wastes No Time

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One day, I’m going to tell my kids about when players actually signed their LOIs on national signing day.

Word of the Day: Haptic.

 TOUGH CROWD. Here’s a head-scratcher – last week, Ohio State beat Penn State and smacked Michigan State to extend its hot streak to six wins in seven games, earning the Buckeye a No. 7 ranking in the AP Poll.

… and their national title odds somehow went down.

Yes, last week the sportsbook BetOnline.ag gave Ohio State 33/1 odds to win the 2021 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. As of yesterday, that number is 40/1.

Now, to be fair, pretty much everyone else’s odds dropped too. Only the top-four teams and Alabama (which lost its last game by five?) saw their odds increase. So basically, bettors are just increasingly convinced that one of those teams will win the natty.

That’s fine. Keep doubting Zed Key and the Buckeyes. Before you know it, they’ll be cutting down the nets.

 GOTTA DO SOMETHING. You could pretty easily make a solid top-10 list of the wildest and most completely unprecedented things to happen in college football in 2020.

But my personal favorite is when the NCAA gave every single player an extra season of eligibility without seeming to even remotely consider the long-term roster, recruiting and financial ramifications.

But now, almost six months later, they’re realizing there are going to be some problems in the coming years.

The transfer surge is expected to continue well into next year’s cycle, not only because of the one-time transfer exception but as a result of a COVID-19-inspired rule granting each athlete an extra year of eligibility. While the seniors who return for next season do not count against a team’s 85 scholarship limit, players from all future classes do.

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For instance, players who were juniors in the fall of 2020 and would normally have graduated by the 2022 season will now have the option to return as fifth- or even sixth-year seniors. They’d count against the 85. Meanwhile, some freshman classes in 2021 will be giant: 25 incoming freshmen will be coupled with roughly 25 “COVID-shirted” freshmen (true sophomores who were freshmen during 2020) for a 50-person rookie class. That leaves 35 scholarship spots for three classes.

While teams can have 85 players on scholarship each year, they can sign only 25 new players a year. The 100 signees over four years leaves a 15-player wiggle room for natural attrition. New transfer legislation and the impending COVID-shirter wave is causing unnatural attrition.

In the 2022 and 2023 recruiting cycles, coaches have one of two choices: retain their scholarship players and add fewer signees, or push out scholarship players and sign a normal class.

“The biggest challenge are these juniors who are going to be seniors [in 2022],” says Coastal Carolina coach Jamey Chadwell. “Those are going to be hard discussions.”

The entire piece does a great job of highlighting how there already aren’t anywhere near enough roster spots available for kids thinking they’re going to transfers, and that’s before you give every player for at least four classes an extra season of eligibility and allow a free one-time transfer for all players.

Unless the NCAA does something about the 85 scholarship limit, this is going to be a complete disaster in a couple of years and is almost certainly going to cost some kids college degrees they otherwise would have received.

I’m all for giving players extra eligibility – that’s fine. But doing it without adjusting roster size limits at all is going to leave countless kids hung out to dry.

 OBEY YOUR ELDERS. Aaron Craft hasn’t put on a Buckeye uniform in almost seven years and didn’t even play under Chris Holtmann, but you’d be mistaken if you thought he didn’t still have some clout in that locker room.

 Aaron Craft needs to return to the program as a team manager. I’m sure medical school and being a father is hard and stuff, but priorities are priorities.

 THAT WAS QUICK. Yesterday, EA Sports announced it will once again be making a college football video game. And Ohio State’s graphics team wasted absolutely no time turning that into a recruiting opportunity.

The ABCs of Ohio State football – Always Be ‘Crootin.

 SONG OF THE DAY. “Honeysuckle Rose” by Fats Waller.

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Hall of Famers Will Shields, Joe Taylor among five new College Football Playoff committee members

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Former Kansas City Chiefs offensive lineman and Pro Football Hall of Famer Will Shields, who also won the Outland Trophy while at Nebraska, and Virginia Union athletic director Joe Taylor, one of the winningest coaches in HBCU history, headline five new College Football Playoff selection committee members announced Tuesday.

Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart, NC State athletic director Boo Corrigan and Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte, along with Shields and Taylor, will begin their three-year terms this spring on the 13-member committee.

They will replace Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione, former coach Ken Hatfield, former USC All-American Ronnie Lott, Georgia Tech athletic director Todd Stansbury, and Florida athletic director Scott Stricklin, whose terms have expired.

“Mitch, Boo, Chris, Will and Joe will continue the integrity that has been the committee’s hallmark through our seven seasons,” CFP executive director Bill Hancock said in a prepared statement. “Their knowledge, experience and character, along with their love of the sport of college football, will make the transition seamless.”

The CFP management committee, which comprises the 10 FBS commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick, also extended the term of Iowa athletic director Gary Barta as selection committee chair for a second season. Barta, who has been Iowa AD since 2006, joined the committee in January 2019 and was appointed its chair a year later.

“We are pleased that Gary will return as chair,” Hancock said. “He was a valuable leader as the committee navigated a unique and challenging year. We look forward to him working with the other 12 members in what we hope will be a more traditional season in 2021.”

Shields, a former consensus All-America guard at Nebraska, played for the Cornhuskers from 1989 to ’92 and is one of only 16 players in school history to have had his jersey retired. In 2011, Shields was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

He was a third-round pick of the Chiefs in the 1993 NFL draft, and he never missed a game in 14 seasons, starting 231 consecutive games at right guard and earning a team-record 12 Pro Bowl appearances from 1995 to 2000. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2015.

Taylor, who has worked at Virginia Union since 2013, had a 41-year career in coaching, including 30 as a head coach. During his administrative tenure in Richmond, the school has won 15 divisional, conference and regional championships.

As a head coach, Taylor’s teams won five Black college national championships, 10 conference titles and made 10 playoff appearances. Taylor posted a lifetime win-loss record of 233-96-4, and ranks third in career victories in HBCU history. Taylor was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2019 and the Black College Football Hall of Fame in 2020. He also has served as president of the American Football Coaches Association.

Barnhart, who has been Kentucky’s athletic director since 2002, is the longest-tenured athletic director in the SEC and was named chair of the SEC athletic directors in 2017. He was also a member of the NCAA Division I basketball and baseball committees.

Corrigan, who spent eight years as athletic director at Army, has held the same position at NC State since April 2019. He was named a 2017 Athletic Director of the Year by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics. While at West Point, Army won 20 Patriot League regular-season or tournament championships and sent 14 teams to the NCAA postseason.

Del Conte was hired as Texas athletic director in December 2017 after making a name for himself during his eight-year tenure as AD at TCU, where he oversaw the school’s entrance into the Big 12 Conference. He was also athletic director at Rice from 2006 to 2009.

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College basketball picks, schedule: Predictions, odds for Duke vs. Louisville and other key games Saturday

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Last week’s college basketball action was as wild as we’ve seen this season. Six teams ranked in the AP Top 25 went down last Saturday — including five in the top-15 — all while the likes of North Carolina and Kentucky took hits as their respective seasons continued to slip away from preseason expectations. Now this Saturday sets up to potentially be just as consequential.

A total of 19 ranked teams are scheduled to play Saturday in a day that will be busy from noon until midnight, nine of which are on the road in potential trap spots.

Our panel of experts is on the case to break down every major game with picks straight up and against the spread, so if you want to scratch that gambling itch, let us give you the edge with some analysis and thoughts below.

Jonathan Coachman is joined by Mike McClure to dissect the best bets & props in hoops for Saturday on The Early Edge. Download and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.  

When: 12 p.m. | Where: Fertitta Center in Houston
TV: CBS | Live stream:  CBSSports.com, CBS Sports App (Free)
OTT: CBS Sports App (Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV, Chromecast)

This Houston team is on an absolute tear and already has a 26-point victory over Temple on the resume. The Owls should be more competitive this time as they play on their home court on the heels of consecutive league victories. Still, the Cougars are an elite defensive squad poised to capitalize on Temple’s offensive struggles. Prediction: Houston 74, Temple 59 — David Cobb

Latest Odds:

Baylor Bears
-9

When: 2 p.m. | Where: Gallagher-Iba Arena in Stillwater, Oklahoma
TV: CBS | Live stream:  CBSSports.com, CBS Sports App (Free)
OTT: CBS Sports App (Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV, Chromecast) 

Oklahoma State has not been blown out or overwhelmed by anyone this season and is good enough to give Baylor the same type of challenge the Bears faced in games against Texas Tech and Kansas. But the Cowboys probably aren’t quite good enough to pull the upset Prediction: Baylor 86, Oklahoma State 79 — David Cobb

No. 15 Ohio State at No. 10 Wisconsin

Latest Odds:

Wisconsin Badgers
-5

When: 4 p.m. | Where: Kohl Center in Madison, Wisconsin
TV: CBS | Live stream:  CBSSports.com, CBS Sports App (Free)
OTT: CBS Sports App (Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV, Chromecast) 

The Big Ten is brutal and unpredictable, as was demonstrated again Thursday night when Indiana upset Iowa on the road and held the high-powered Hawkeyes without a field goal for 11 minutes in the second half. So while Wisconsin appears to be trending in the right direction and Ohio State is coming off a close loss, there’s really no sense into trying to read the meaning of recent results. This has the makings of another brutally contested conference game, and the Badgers get a slight edge only because of their defense, which should be able to manage an Ohio State team getting increasingly 3-point happy. Prediction: Wisconsin 68, Ohio State 66 — David Cobb  

When: 4 p.m. | Where: KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky
TV: ESPN | Live stream: fuboTV (Try for free)

Neither Duke nor Louisville has a ton of momentum at its sails right now — Duke has lost its last two in close road contests and Louisville has also lost its last two. But the Cardinals have been better on the whole this season, they’re more experienced, and they’ve got the benefit of playing this one at home. I’ll lay the points with them here primarily as a show of faith in Carlik Jones, Louisville’s senior who is playing at an All-ACC level right now. Duke is just 1-2 on the season against the spread in a road environment, and Louisville is 5-5-1 against the number as a favorite. Prediction: Louisville 73, Duke 70 — Kyle Boone    

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Tennessee Volunteers
-8.5

When: 8:30 p.m. | Where: Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, Tennessee
TV: SEC Network | Live stream: fuboTV (Try for free)

Tennessee had a wake-up call earlier this week when it got shellacked — by 26 points — on the road against a shorthanded Florida team. But that outcome is aberrational in nature given how UT has played this season. It has been one of the SEC’s best and most consistent forces. As it returns home seeking a bounceback, I expect it gets exactly that — in impressive fashion to boot as it reasserts itself as one of the SEC’s true contenders. The Vols are 8-4 against the spread as a favorite and get it done here with a double-digit dub. Prediction: Tennessee 72, Missouri 61 — Kyle Boone    

No. 23 UConn at No. 11 Creighton

When: 12 p.m. | Where: CHI Health Center Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska
TV: Fox | Live stream: fuboTV (Try for free)

UConn remains without star James Bouknight, one of the best scorers in all of college basketball. So without him, I can’t pick the Huskies on the road — at least not straight up. Their only quality outing in his absence came against Butler two weeks ago, and since, they’ve lost to St. John’s at home and narrowly squeaked a win over DePaul. Good spot here for the Bluejays to establish some much-needed confidence after dropping their second straight earlier this week. Going to meet in the middle and take UConn against the number but Creighton to win comfortably. Prediction: Creighton 76, UConn 70 — Kyle Boone    

So who wins every college basketball game today? And which underdogs pull off stunning upsets? Visit SportsLine now to get picks for every game, all from the unbiased model that simulates every game 10,000 times, and find out.  

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Olivia Jade returns to YouTube in first video since college admissions scandal

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Olivia Jade Giannulli is attempting a YouTube career comeback.

The 21-year-old daughter — whose parents Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli pleaded guilty for their involvement in the college admissions scandal — returned to the video content platform with a new message to her followers on Thursday.  

“This is so crazy! Welcome back to my YouTube channel,” Jade began. “I am really excited because obviously I haven’t filmed in a really long time and I’m just grateful to be back on YouTube and I’m really excited for you guys to watch this video.”

“I wanted to film this little intro part just because I didn’t want it to, like, just start the vlog and me not address anything,” she explained. “Obviously did my ‘Red Table Talk’ interview and I think if you have any questions for me or you have anything to say or you’re like, ‘Why are you back?’ you can go watch that interview. I think I kind of disclosed what I felt I needed to say on there.”

OLIVIA JADE BREAKS SILENCE ON PARENTS’ INVOLVEMENT IN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS SCANDAL

Jade was known on YouTube for creating makeup tutorials and is trying to restart her career with new daily vlogs about life in her new Los Angeles apartment.

WARNING: VIDEO BELOW MAY CONTAIN GRAPHIC LANGUAGE

A few minutes into the vlog, Jade made an editor’s note to clarify something she said. 

US ATTORNEYS OPPOSE MOSSIMO GIANNULLI’S REQUEST TO SERVE PRISON SENTENCE AT HOME AS HE AWAITS COURT VERDICT

“I didn’t want this to come across the wrong way, and I’d just rather say something and make the video look a little weird,” she said. “I don’t mean to say [what I said] in a dismissive way or a pretentious way. I think what I was trying to get across was that the thing I wanted to do the most was apologize for so long and I felt like I got to do that at ‘Red Table [Talk].’ So although I can’t change the past, I can change how I act and what I do going forward.” 

LORI LOUGHLIN HAD EMOTIONAL REUNION WITH DAUGHTERS OLIVIA JADE AND ISABELLA AFTER RELEASED FROM PRISON

Jade added that she doesn’t want anybody to think that her “name’s cleared” just because she sat down for an interview with Jada Pinkett Smith and her family. 

Actress Lori Loughlin (R) and daughter Olivia Jade (L) have reunited after Loughlin was released from prison on Dec. 28. 
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“I just want to move on and do better and move forward and come back, and do what I love, which is YouTube,” she said.

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In December, the former University of Southern California student, said, “I’m not trying to victimize myself. I don’t want pity. I don’t deserve pity. We messed up. I just want a second chance to be like I recognize I messed up. And for so long I wasn’t able to talk about this because of the legalities behind it. I never got to say I’m really sorry that this happened or I really own that this was a big mess-up on everybody’s part. But I think everybody feels that way in my family right now.”

She claimed that her parents’ actions just came from a place of love. Jade said she confronted them but “they didn’t really have much to say except like, ‘I’m so sorry. I really messed up trying to give the best to you and your sister…’ I’ve seen them day in and day out and how they’ve received all of this. And I know that they’ve struggled.”

Olivia Jade returned to YouTube with a new message to her followers on Thursday. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Meanwhile, Loughlin, 56, was released from Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, Calif., on Dec. 28, while Giannulli, 57, is currently serving five months at a facility in Lompoc, Calif. 

Back in August, Loughlin and Giannulli pleaded guilty to charges stemming from $500,000 payments to scam mastermind William “Rick” Singer to get their daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella Giannulli, recruited onto the University of Southern California’s crew team. The two had never participated in the sport.

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In their plea agreement, Loughlin, agreed to serve two months and pay a $150,000 fine along with two years of supervised release and 100 hours of community service. Giannulli, meanwhile, was ordered to pay a $250,000 fine with two years of supervised release and 250 hours of community service in addition to a five-month prison sentence.

Fox News’ Melissa Roberto contributed to this report

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Detroit Lions’ Dan Campbell apologizes for anti-gay remark in college

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Dave Birkett and Carlos Monarrez break down the Detroit Lions hiring Dan Campbell as their new head coach on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021.

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Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell said he regretted the anti-gay remark he made when he was a college student during his introductory news conference Thursday and apologized for the comments.

Campbell was a 22-year-old senior at Texas A&M when he spoke at a pep rally for about 40,000 fans before a game against rival Texas in 1998. After expressing hatred for the Longhorns, Campbell said he was proud to attend a university where “men like women and women like men.”

A local newspaper published an apology from Campbell in the days after the event.

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“I offended some people, and I’m sorry for that,” Campbell told the paper, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. “It was heat of the moment. It’s not necessarily that I directed it at anyone.”

Campbell, 44, said Thursday that he quickly regretted making the comments.

“Yeah, look it was a bonfire comment,” Campbell said during a conference call. “Texas was — I went to Texas A&M but it was a rivalry game for us. And so you’re in front of the student body. I was 22 years old and I made a comment about, you know — well, I made a comment I shouldn’t have made is exactly what it was. And at the time I was, ‘Oh, man, this is, you know’ — I thought it was something exciting.

“And I remember I got home and who is now my wife, my fiancée at the time, was like, ‘Oh, my God. What have you done?’ But she was right. It slapped me right in the face after I had talked to her. And look, I’ve apologized for it and it was something — I was young and I wish I wouldn’t have said it. If I could go back, I wouldn’t have. But, you know, here we are and it’s out there and all I can do is apologize for it.”

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING: What Campbell’s playing days say about his Lions future: He’s ‘tough as nails’

As the Lions began their search for a general manager and head coach, team president Rod Wood outlined some criteria and said the organization would look for candidates who would instill a culture that is open and inclusive.

“I won’t share all of them with you,” Wood told reporters Jan. 5, “but I would say they focus on leadership, culture, teamwork, awareness of each other’s strengths and weaknesses. And what we’re really looking for is a culture that is open, inclusive, where everybody is pulling together as a team and, in one word, communication is paramount and everybody is doing the right thing for the Detroit Lions.”

Contact Carlos Monarrez at cmonarrez@freepress.com and follow him on Twitter @cmonarrez.

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