glduck

texas tech, the #7 team in the county, is going to narrowly defeat oklahoma, the #23 team, at home. the tech crowd is chanting “overrated” at a team they squeaked by, and is ranked lower than they are. thats not how that chant is supposed to work, is it?

the only weird thing there is st. john's -- they lost their first 11 big east games, then knocked off duke saturday and went into nova and beat them last night. quite the mid-season turnaround.

players are totally going to run into that.

my old high school competes in the highest classification in the state. it's not the biggest school in oregon, but it's in that 90th percentile. our stadium holds 900 people.

the gays.

i take the south's rise more as a byproduct of their coaching haul of late. sparky likes to hit that LA factor hard each time we talk about divisional strength, but really, ucla/ua/asu all hit slam dunks and reaped immediate rewards with their hires. the north has retained it's top-heavy status since the inception of the pac-12, we'll see what more recent hires like peterson and anderson can do to shore up the underbelly. dykes' arrival at cal may be going for a slow burn journey to success, but he seems to at least be going in the right direction.

i support in-state fcs scheduling, but that's about it. i would love to see see oregon and oregon state trading off games against portland state, to help fund the in-state kids. of course, that's not going to happen, but that's as far as i support fcs scheduling. that said, until we have away to enforce these ooc home/home agreements, it's going to continue unabated. when one school backs out on you a year or two prior to playing, you have to scramble to fill that hole. sometimes there's nothing left. if/when we break from the ncaa, I'd like to see two schools sign a contractual agreement if they're going to schedule one another ten years out so that a new coach/ AD doesn't get cold feet five years later.

i want 11 conference games because i really don't give a damn about having it easier or tougher than other conferences, i love a full round robin, there seems something criminal in missing usc and arizona state in order to play south dakota state and wyoming, and we're a fucking conference, not a loosely affiliated group of schools who ocassionally play one another. i admit i'm in the extreme minority and what i propose would never happen in a million years.

and that's not going to happen, because as you've been told before, oregon and washington don't need to play in la every year to recruit.

who doesn't have amazing facilities these days?

as a casual follower of recruiting, i would contend ucla recruiting has been bordering on the elite the last several years.

sometimes I'm surprised oregon's field doesn't have strobe lights and a swimming pool