By the way Ducks, I was up in Seattle for that last round of blizzards and white outs over the weekend and Monday. I thought of calling you up but I need some contact info. So email me at conan_rx@yahoo.com. I still use that same email addy for forum business since I was the mod here years ago.
The Edgewater Hotel was a class act. But the food prices are awful outside of happy hour.
I'm sure I will be back in Seattle within the next couple or 3 months. Oh and by the way, that town is CRAZY about their sports in some circles. Their sports talk radio is about as good as it gets. 950 AM.
I think Sark will be their answer but he won't have the players to pull it off for about 3 years. Sarkisian may not be my favorite AC but I think he learned a lot from PC at USC and he'll do pretty well as a HC... eventually.
The Edgewater Hotel was a class act. But the food prices are awful outside of happy hour.
I'm sure I will be back in Seattle within the next couple or 3 months. Oh and by the way, that town is CRAZY about their sports in some circles. Their sports talk radio is about as good as it gets. 950 AM. I think Sark will be their answer but he won't have the players to pull it off for about 3 years. Sarkisian may not be my favorite AC but I think he learned a lot from PC at USC and he'll do pretty well as a HC... eventually.
By the way Ducks, I was up in Seattle for that last round of blizzards and white outs over the weekend and Monday. I thought of calling you up but I need some contact info. So email me at conan_rx@yahoo.com. I still use that same email addy for forum business since I was the mod here years ago.
The Edgewater Hotel was a class act. But the food prices are awful outside of happy hour.
I think Sark will be their answer but he won't have the players to pull it off for about 3 years. Sarkisian may not be my favorite AC but I think he learned a lot from PC at USC and he'll do pretty well as a HC... eventually.
I can say this Conan. Lane Kiffin may not have shown it in the W/L column for 1 1/2 years as a head coach but I will say this. He won the respect and admiration of that lockroom even when they went through a 6 game slide. Anyother lockroom wouldve collapsed and started imploding on itself. Not Kiffin's. As Kiffin assembled this team and planted his philosophy, I could see Pete Carroll's handwriting all over it. And again even during his firing, 90% of those players sided with Kiffin over Al Davis. Many believe he could've been the answer.
With that said, I believe Sark is gonna do great things at Washington. He's gonna bring a winning attitude back to the Huskies. And if he's part of Carroll's and Norm Chow's lineage, he's gonna stress competition, competition, competition. At the start of every off season, 3 year starters as well as walk on's will be equals on the practice field. He'll drive the team to go 110% everyday at practice. That level of energy and excitment feeds on itself. And he's a great teacher which is something not really said about Sark. But again its a testiment of the "Leave No Doubt" and "Win Forever" attitude they have at USC.
Its funny, when the Raiders embraced a new slogan called "All In" which mean't buying into the system, jump in and swim attitude, I chuckled because I knew for years thats the sign the Trojans slapped in the lockroom everyday they hit the field.
Lol..lemme grab a file outta my Trojan archives for my RX bretheren. Here's a small example of Sark mic'd up at Trojan scrimmage. It's a taste of what he'll bring to the Huskies.
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Great season this year. I look forward to more of the same next year.
I think your analysis of next year is spot on. Particularly with Arizona. They had a dream schedule this year and were set up for success. They won't have that schedule next year and won't have Tui.
By way of clarification, Danny Sullivan is ASU's backup, not Arizona. And by the way, I would be shocked if Sullivan plays more than mop up duty next year. Rudy was hurt and hated by the team and the coaches. Yet, Sullivan didn't play a lick. What does that say about the guy?
I can't wait for Spring ball to start.
Thanks for all you do here.
Yeah thanks for fixing the Sullivan goof. At least I got the state right.
There's going to be a lot to keep up with over the winter. Spring practice through July is also a pretty busy time tracking down everything that went on in the spring and boning up on the new recruits that haven't reported. By itself that can be almost a life and death matter regarding a team's fortunes the following fall. I have to say that I am very impressed with both Oregon school's recruits coming on board next year. I'll be checking up on the rest soon.
Anyone that thinks that college football is done with needs to get a reality check. Next season has already started, but the games themselves won't happen for 8 months. I think the deadest time of the year is late July and into 1/2 of August before fall camps begin. The news all over the conference is some head turning stuff. I think a lot of what's happened just in the past week will drastically affect scores and sides next season.
