| With eye toward '09, Gators prove they're ahead of game
According to a Miami Herald survey, Rutgers (44), North Carolina State (31) and Western Michigan (29) signed the most players.
And there were good reasons for their success --- head coaches Greg Schiano, Chuck Amato and Bill Cubit all had South Florida ties.
Schiano , of course, was Miami's defensive coordinator before moving to Rutgers. Amato recruited South Florida for two decades at Florida State; he returned to FSU as the linebackers coach after he was fired by N.C. State after the 2006 season. Cubit was a high school coach in South Florida and also recruited the region as a college coach.
Talking about Florida connections, few have as many as Purdue's coach-in-waiting, Danny Hope, who will take over when Joe Tiller retires at East Lafayette.
Real Estate Matters: Call lender before it starts foreclosing
Ireceived a call to my radio show just before the end of the year. It was from a woman who had just opened her mail to find a letter from the bank stating that it was starting foreclosure proceedings
She told me how she had lost her job and used up all her savings to keep making her mortgage, home equity line of credit, and credit card payments each month. After a while, it was too much to manage, even after she got a new job.
What she wanted to know was where she could go to get help that would stop the foreclosure proceedings.
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Northern Rock Shares Take A Tumble
But some experts now predict that an announcement confirming the banks' nationalisation could be made within days. The recruitment of Mr Sandler, who was approached by the Treasury in November, indicates contingency plans for Northern Rock are well advanced. He said that his role would be "to get things stabilised, to make sure the bank has proper plans in place". The troubleshooter added that he would also be responsible for ensuring that a management team was in place at the bank. .
Auction reveals market's struggle for footing
The first local foreclosures auction in several years left dozens of buyers clucking happily, but it also revealed a lot about the depth and speed of the real estate market's tumble, buyers and agents said.A Texas-based auctioneer made a two-week run through California this month, starting in a packed ballroom at the Temecula Creek Inn Nov. 6 and continuing through last week with dates in the Central Valley. For buyers who arrived at the auction here with cash or with lender approval, it was a field day. Several houses went for just half the price they fetched in their most recent sales in 2005 or 2006. .
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