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If we win out, we sure won’t be sharing a Natty with Miami like they did. That will for sure muzzle the mutts.

I will always maintain that Saban quit because everyone can now do what he’d been doing for years.

May well be the post of the year.

Well, whadda ya know.

Living in Texas, I’ve watched a fair amount of Tech. They are impressive, and the only loss was when their QB1 was out against ASU. Their linebacker group may be the best in CFB. My observation is that they are built similarly to OBD; I feel like it will be us playing against another version of us. Duck fandom aside, I think this is the most interesting of the next round of games. It has the potential to be a classic. Can’t wait.

Maybe people are confusing Whittingham with Dillingham?

I can’t be too specific, but in my career I met (and dealt with) many kids and families in high-level athletics. There were all kinds, as you can imagine. But there were also the hangers-on lurking around. Big talk, big promises. The legitimate scouts and coaches were almost always good to deal with. The others were trouble, and too often I witnessed the dissension they brought with them. I’m sure NIL would now complicate it now even more. All of that to say, stories like this are just the tip of the iceberg.

I noticed a definite Beaver vibe with those helmets. Their “M” helmets look like an upside down fusky “W” so what are you going to do.

I have two “what if’s” that may have changed the trajectory of the Pac-12. One is that OSU wins the Natty in 2001. The other is that Dennis Dixon doesn’t get hurt and we win the Natty a few years later. I believe that if either or both happen, the conference grows in strength in the early 2000’s and stays together.

That 2001 team that throttled Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl was really good. They came on strong as the season progressed. If the 12 team playoff existed then, they may well have run the table.

Fisch has done everything except park a uhaul outside his office at UW. Where he lands I have no idea. Even though UCLA seems like a step down, he (and his family) may not see it that way. That would open the door for Smith. That said, I’m still leaning toward Smith going to UCLA.

I remember when Bill Musgrave led us to six wins and we went to the Weedeater Bowl in Shreveport. We hadn’t been to a bowl game in decades. It felt like a big deal to us. There may have been some field-storming on our part. I hope we never get so used to being good that we forget what being bottom tier felt like.

Chip was staring down the barrel of a Show Cause. He needed to be away from college football for a while.

He’s a Pasadena native. UCLA may be his next stop.

Saban stepped away when everyone could do legally what he had been doing under the table for years.