2008 National Champ

Cowing being helped off doesn’t help. He’s their best deep threat and Fifita hasn’t shown that he can throw the deep ball yet.

we need to choose one thread instead of going back and forth.

Losing Fano is going to hurt against both. Him and Ellis were the best shot to slow either of these offenses down. Hopefully O’Toole plays as advertised but I’m not going to count on it after missing 5 weeks and part of camp.

Right now I can’t decide if the Arizona game scares me at least as much as SC. Those kids are getting better every week.

Even worse, the AD who hired Firm for Herm still has his job so that he can keep making bad decisions.

And then forgot to play prevent on the next play.

ASU went 3-9 last year and has the potential for 1-11 this year. That feels worse than losing a couple of scholarships down the road.

SC gets Notre Dame next week so 2 of the 3 could get a loss. I guess I’m hoping that win or lose, SC gets roughed up enough in that game that it evens out the injury factor for the Utah game the following week.

There is one big thing missing whenever anyone brings up the 30MM offer from ESPN. Because of their agreement from the previous media deal they had an exclusive bidding window (I believe 30 days). So it’s easy to see how some might have felt that was a lower than market value offer, especially with the amount ESPN gave the SEC and what Fox was…[Read more]

Man, what a great game between 2 top 10ish teams.

Blaming Kliavkoff for not being capable of doing the job would be like blaming Jo.,, nope, not gonna open that can of worms again.

I operate in my work world on one thing: I am responsible for my subordinates work product. If they are incapable or unwilling to do the job(s) assigned them, that is on me. I’m the one who made the evaluation that…[Read more]

We’ve all made decisions that in retrospect, we may not have even considered if we had to do it again. The good thing is ours aren’t witnessed by an entire sporting audience. Whitt isn’t infallible and he’ll make more before he’s done but it doesn’t lessen his accomplishments in any way.

I think that’s the rub on here. Whitt can be a great…[Read more]

50MM (million) not 50k (thousand). I’ve heard rumors that it was the WSU president, who was on the executive committee, who initially pushed the 50 mil and the others joined in. The article didn’t clear up for me who came up with the valuation, just that Randal was one of the 4 who pushed for it.

The best line I saw in that was for the UW…[Read more]

Everything since Rising went down in the Rose Bowl has been so strange that I really can’t pinpoint what the plan was, is, or will be.

– Rising gets hurt in the game, Barnes has been the clear #2 all season so he comes in. That is the last time I thought I had a clear picture of what was going on.
– Rising is out for spring ball so the staff…[Read more]

Which is completely debunked with a quick glance at the recruiting sites. The most talented recruits go to the top schools, no matter how many talented QB’s are already on the roster or what the existing QB situation is.

Established starters at G5’s move up to P5’s. P5 QB’s, if they can, go to other P5’s with nothing more than a promise to…[Read more]

Mitchell against the parochial school 1988. Shotgun snap, good protection, Carl Harry streaking (running fast, not without clothes hee-hee), Mitchell uncorking a pass that had roughly the same trajectory as a Ray Guy punt and lands just past Harry’s reach. Not to be undone, Utah comes back to the same play later in the game and this time a…[Read more]

How do you know how many on here have coached besides you? Or have relevant experience in medicine, either as the injured or the medical professional side? How many have played high level sports?

It is pretty disingenuous to claim on an anonymous message board that your experience allows insight others do not and thus your opinion is the only…[Read more]

I think you forgot to put the last 4 bowls in Whitt’s loss column. He’s 10-5 on his own, 11-5 if you include 2004.