Ranking Pac-10 coaches: No. 1 spot is easy
Ranking the Pac-10 football coach is difficult, except when it comes to the No. 1 spot.
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The USC List: OK, Flag Us for Piling on
USC is sort of the Lindsay Lohan of college football. It just can’t stay out of the news, and usually it’s not the kind of publicity a marketing firm recommends. It’s easy to pile on the Trojans these days, and because we always follow the path of least resistance, we will jump on top. Besides, ...
USC penalties: Reactions we will hear
The Top 10 reactions to the news that USC is banned from postseason play for two years and will be docked 30 scholarships over the next three year: 10. “Nya, nya” – a provincial response heard primarily in the state of Tennessee but pervasive throughout the southeastern part of the country. 9. “Well, now I can ...
Pac-16: How football schedule would look
The Super 16 Football Conference. Hmmm. Creates goosebumps, doesn’t it? The news that the Pac-10 plans to invite six members of the Big 12 to join the conference did not come completely out of left field – more like left-center field, just to the right of the 385-sign. Hints that the Pac-10 would try to expand ...
Recruiting race in June: Stanford leads, sort of
The only college football question being asked in June is, “Well, how’s that recruiting going?” To which every diehard alumnus will respond, “Great, just great. I think we’re gonna get this kid from Cut Bank, Montana, who they say can throw the ball on a line through a moving tire from 150 yards away — from his knees ...
Picking the Pac-10 — QBs will decide it
The rule of thumb for predicting order of finish in the Pac-10 is simple: Rank the quarterbacks. Period. A team’s Pac-10 finish almost always parallels the success of its quarterback. Stanford’s unexpected gains last season were no so much a product of Toby Gerhart’s well-publicized running as it was the surprisingly efficient play of ...
Five straight national TV games for Stanford
Stanford seems to be more attractive to the television networks than Cal when it comes to the 2010 football season. The Cardinal is on national television five consecutive weeks early in the season, all on ESPN, ESPN2, NBC or ABC, while the Bears are on just three times in the first half of the season, with two ...
Cal will play 2011 home games at AT&T Park
So Cal has decided to play its 2011 home football games at AT&T Park. It was first reported by the reliable Jonathan Okanes of the Contra Costa Times, but Cal removed the guesswork by saying it will make an annoucement Monday at AT&T Park. That’s about a 15-mile trip for the Cal team, which will make ...
Ex-Stanford coach hired by Cal — What?
We call this the “This and That Plus The Thing Over There Too” column for JakesTakeOnSports, giving a brief thought or two (for our short attention-span audience) on some items of note. Walt Harris — Photo Post Gazette Item — Saw this headline: Harris, former Pitt coach, to join Cal football staff. Our immediate reaction ...
Draft Shocker: Alualu No. 10 pick overall
Tyson Alualu of Cal was the subject of the biggest surprise of Thursday’s first round of the NFL Draft by being the 10th overall pick, taken by the Jacksonville Jaguars. And no one was more surprised than Alualu, who did not expect to be taken that soon. “Oh, no, not at all, Man,” he said from ...