Legitimacy

Alabama just hired Fresno State's Offensive Coordinator.

This is good in terms of visibility but sucks in terms of continuity.
Isn't Kelly Skipper still over there. He should be the new OC.

Chow-time in Westwood

Norm Chow is headed to UCLA to be their Offensive Coordinator. This is a stunning development in the PAC 10. USC is still reaping the benefits of Norm. He personally trained Sarkisian and Lane Kiffin.


He is the Yoda of college offense. Putting him at UCLA with star coach in the making DeWayne Walker gives UCLA the best coordination in their league. Norm and DeWayne are two decade long friends, so that lends to even more chemistry. Ricky did a solid job with the Huskies a few years back and should be able to do better at UCLA with better recruits and the best coordinators in college.


UCLA will win the PAC 10 within 3 years. This may force Pete to the ATL.


WEESSSSSIIIIIIDDDDDEEEEEE!

The Bulldogs

Fresno state is definitely on the upswing. I think in the next 10 years they will either expand the PAC 10 or create a California based conference. FSU will slide right in. I think they stopped dealing with the non qualifiers recently and are up to par with the academic standards. Nice work with the link and photo. You're in the game now. I made another effort at a large audience. We'll see tomorrow if the experiment worked. They can be any of the bottom half BCS conference teams and should be competitive with Wisconsin.

Pete in Hotlanta

Pete said he would return to the league as a coach if he would also be able to pick the players. There are probably less than 5 teams that have that situation. The Raiders won't even give a coach that. So to get full control of even a sorry team is rare air. USC is about to get Bushed anyway and Sarkisian stayed for a reason.
He is supposedly interested.
ESPN

The Cleveland Quandry

Northwestern runs the spread option. They don't have the athletes that Michigan will have though. I think Zook does some of it to. Can't you see him telling a recruit that Illinois is going to run the coolest and tightest offense out which is the spread option right now. I think it will be neat to see Michigan's version of it. Michigan is like East Coast style business. They need that modern upgrade that Nebraska needs. The small school coaching styles are starting to have in impact especially in the spread.

What would you do if you were Cleveland's GM?
I would sign Derek to a two or three year deal and let Brady marinate like A Rogers.

How is college stealing pro coaches

I think the NFL has now become too corporate. That is the best way to describe the current trend happening right now. Big money college programs have decided to up the ante and will pay more than professional teams. It looks like there an official supply vs demand scenario here.



The NFL life is not quite as glamorous to coaches anymore and there is too much non football responsibilities that they have to deal with. In reality, NFL coaches stop teaching a few years ago and the real football teachers have not business in the league anymore. If the teacher is not of a certain type, they will fail in the league. As a result, college coaches are using the NFL as leverage to get better jobs and more money but they really aren't interested in coaching at that level like in the past.