The Regular Season Is Over Now, For USC, It’s A Question Of Coaching

The 2017 Pac-12 regular season is over, so what have we learned? Well, some of the most compelling stuff was revealed about its coaches. We learned that, in Gary Anderson, Oregon State made one of the worst hires in recent memory. The state of Arizona has two overrated coaches who will dazzle in September, pretty much suck in Autumn and would have been fired if the desert programs had any tradition or aspirations for greatness. Jim Mora was a chap ass who failed wonderfully despite having two of the very best quarterbacks in the program’s history. Colorado’s a stranger in a strange land and any recent success was a fluke. The Mike Leach experiment is mostly over even though I appreciate a fat, sloppily-dressed coach as much as the next guy. And there’s reason for hope at Cal … not really, I just wanted to see who was paying attention.

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A Toast To Tipsy Tech

Football players can’t get their own drinks. It’s odd. They appear coordinated but they can’t seem to master the intricate interplay between helmet, drinking device and mouth so universities have to hire dozens of waiters and waitresses to mingle with the players with the sole duty of squeezing streams of liquid through facemasks and into parched little throats.

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