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I read somewhere maybe here that at Georgia as soon as signing day is complete Kirby Smart and the staff moves from coddling players to focusing on the hard road ahead for all incoming players. Letting them know this ain't no picnic. I suspect DL will evaluate each player after the Spring game and then have a sit down with each to let them know where they stand in the pecking order. I'm sure some won't like what they hear and will decide to hit the transfer portal which will free up a few scholarships for potential players from other teams via the portal. Welcome to free agency!!

I was anticipating that the Pac-12 would step in and take at least 4 of the remaining Big 12 teams and form a super conference, when Texas and Oklahoma made their decision to move to the SEC. It's really mind numbing the lack of vision and business acumen that the leaders of our Pac-12 Universities have. Good grief most of the Pac-12 has highly thought of business schools you would think the Presidents would have at least talked to some of the leaders of these schools within their Universities to get a projection of revenues and eyeballs. Like Happy to Be a Duck said that might have saved the PAC-12 Network or at least made it sellable. Now I'm concerned that it maybe the PAC-12 that disappears in the future due to the lack foresight by these jokers. But I'm sure they all will keep their offices and jobs and get lots of kudos for what a good job they are doing!

We know Mario can recruit so I would expect him to have a top 15 class every year. That in itself is going to improve Miami as we know from how things turned out at Oregon. I expect him to be competing for Conference championships in a couple years. Not saying he is going to win them unless Clemson is having a down period. But even if he gets to the final four with his coaching he isn't going to be winning any CF championships. I think after 4-5 years the Miami fans are going to start realizing there is a ceiling with Mario. Competing for ACC championships yes winning national championships not happening.

Some good points made above. I guess I'm in the minority here. I would like USC to be good (not great) so when we beat them it counts for something and feels all that much better. If they are overrated like most years then us beating them just adds to our resume. The one thing that I really get tired of is all the hype for USC each year prior to the season. I'm already seeing prognosticators listing USC as a possible final 4 contender next year. I know they have a new godsent coach and a lot of incoming talent but let's get real here. Just makes me want to hurl.

I've been reading the posts haven't chimed in previously but I would agree that having a strong or reasonably strong USC in the conference is pretty important to the PAC 12 as a whole. There are so many kids right now that are leaving the PAC footprint to play in the Big 10 or the SEC. The SEC had 52 Top 100 recruits in the 2022 cycle, the Big 10, 17 and the Pac 12, 7. That's not good for our conference. Next year, USC will get theirs and we will get ours but need the rest of the conference to step up. If we can slow down that migration east the conference gets better and that leads us to more eyeballs on the PAC 12 which leads us to more money for TV rights etc. which then entices more kids to want to stay on the west coast. Its kind of circular.

I'm showing my age here. I rewatched that Johnny Carson dragnet skit. So nice to see good humor without the use of profanity every other word. Kind of miss that!