I don't always plug my weekly column over at Fathead, but this week's article is college football related - sort of. I took a look at the biggest surprises from the recent NFL Draft.

Head over and take a look.

Shan Foster: NBA Draft Song (via ilananunn)

This week's song is actually a song about the NBA Draft, but it's draft related, so let's go with it. This is former NBA Draft pick Shan Foster singing about playing in the NBA. If you've never seen this video, take two minutes out of your day to absorb the pure cheesiness. I love the message and I'm willing to bet he can sing better than 95% of the players in the league. But, seriously - an NBA player that's 6'6" doesn't really work with a miniature-sized Casio keyboard.

I'm not sayin', just sayin'.

This week's Pitt links that we didn't get to this week after the jump.

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Van Morrison - The Way Young Lovers Do (via SpaceOdyssee0)

This week's music is courtesy of Van Morrison - The Way that Young Lovers do. Unfortunately, no video this week since the only one I could find was a past-his-prime Morrison doing a pretty mediocre rendition of it.

Great song - Pitt links after the jump.

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In case you hadn't heard, changes are a comin' in the NCAA regarding eligibility for student athletes. This sounds a bit confusing, so bear with me. In all, there are two huge changes.

The first involves the fact that there are two sets of eligibility requirements for a student athlete to be able to play in his or her first year. Beginning in the fall of 2015, they'll need to meet certain requirements to earn a scholarship and have the right to practice. If they want to play in games as a freshman, they'll need to meet even higher standards.

When it comes to being able to practice and being able to play, the GPA minimum is being raised to 2.30. If a freshman wants to play immediately, instead of a 900 SAT score, they'll need a 1080. What's this mean? As Panther Lair notes, certain one-and-done basketball players could skip college altogether if they're not eligible immediately. More players could head overseas for a year while waiting to get into the NBA. On the football side, fewer freshmen are likely going to be eligible to play right away.

So for the one-and-done basketball players, instead of getting one year of school (which, granted, is largely a hand wave for some), some may not get any. It's true that some of the players probably didn't take it all that seriously, anyway, if they knew they were leaving. But the flip side is that it also will eliminate having any connection at all to a college. If players turn pro and leave school early, many times they end up going back to college to get their degree. If they never go in the first place, they may not be inclined to ever go. Not the end of the world for athletes making a nice living in the pros, but for flameouts, they may not even be able to get into college if they shoot for a pro career right out of high school.

The thing to keep in mind, though, is that the number of one-and-done basketball players isn't all that high. It will affect some, (Kentucky, I'm looking at you), but in looking at the total number of players, it's an extremely small percentage that will be affected strictly from the one-and-done standpoint.

Looking back at the football side, as I said, it's almost a given that fewer freshmen will probably be eligible to play right away. As a result, programs will undoubtedly be trying to give those reps to players that will be suiting up in the fall, meaning development for incoming freshmen could be stunted at least a little.

But there's another huge change that affects all high school athletes coming to play in college.

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On Wednesday, Pitt handed out their annual senior student athlete awards. Among those honored were basketball players Ashton Gibbs and Nasir Robinson and football player Myles Caragein. Other athletes recognized were from the baseball, track and field, gymnastics, wrestling, swimming, and volleyball programs.

Here's the full list of athletes honored.

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MERLE HAGGARD - Folsom Prison Blues (via suttersmith66)

The weekly music selection is Folsom Prison. It's Johnny Cash's song, but Merle Haggard also covered it and put a bit more of a rock spin on it.

Weekly Pitt link dump of things we didn't get to this week after the jump.

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[HD] Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale (via higmadon)

This week's music courtesy of Procol Harum and one of the most famous songs of all time - A Whiter Shade of Pale. Gaggles of theories exist on its true meaning, but just as important, the music just sounds great.

Lots of Pitt links from last week after the jump, friends.

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WCW: Rap Is Crap music video (via chriscfgb)

Unless you're a wrestling fan, this one's going totally over your head. Sorry about that, but it's Wrestlemania week ... so live with it. This is an old song when WCW was still around when they gave Curt Hennig (Mr. Perfect for you 90s wrestling junkies) a country gimmick. He ended up playing a token role in a music video for an actual obscure country group, the West Texas Rednecks. The song? Rap is crap. The gimmick had racial overtones, sure, but it was great. And as a fan of rap and country music, proud to say I love this song.

Enjoy - loads of Pitt links from last week that we didn't get to after the jump.

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