Even though Penix is a great fit for UW's system, I tend to agree as a college QB. Nix is a distant 3rd. Both can throw the long ball very well and fit it into tight windows, but CW is just so different when things break down. It will be interesting to see how both futures pan out going forward.
I was at sc in the 80s - certainly a mixed bag. 84 Ohio st rose bowl win. Glad to hear your dad had an open mind and I hope you had a great time in Westwood. I ended up at ucsb for 1.5 yrs then transferred to SC. Paid my own way and felt it was worth every penny. Still do.
Yeah, UCLA worked out well for me. I'm sure I would have been very happy at USC as well. I was going to pay for it either way (with more scholarships at USC, of course, which were more available than a state university), so there wasn't much my dad could do about it even if he wanted to, but he wasn't that kind of guy.
As for football, UCLA did very well in the '80s. Of course, at the time I had no idea that was pretty much going to be the last time (with a few years in between then and now) that they were going to be a real solid program. But I didn't go to UCLA for sports, I just thought it was icing on the cake at the time and took it for granted.
It's pretty absurd how much the UC doesn't recognize the value that sports add to the overall university in terms of notoriety and financial gain, especially since -- contrary to popular belief -- the taxpayers don't pay for it. I mean, Jimbo Fisher's fired at AtM after going 45 and 25 and yet Chip will probably be canonized for going 33 and 33 in the same amount of time. And yet UCLA probably won't recognize just how financially disastrous it's going to be to the overall big picture, probably worrying about his meager $8 million buyout, which is about what they paid Karl Dorrell. It's crazy.
I'm taking a glass is half full approach on this one Java. The seasons lost so I'm trying to get the best out of it. This is not the Vista or UCLA approach of football. I'll take it in for and hope for more next year and the year after that until we are ready to compete for national championships. But I'm looking at all the other teams in college football and other than Georgia there's really nobody else that's great in The Georgia Team reminds me of Pete Carroll's 2006 team which shows me for my years of covering this game and watching this game how hard it is to build champions
I'm sorry your father is gone. Mines been gone since I was in high school. Since both of our fathers were Trojans, that's what I was joking about was has he ever forgiven you for becoming a Bruin? My father was in the hospital when I had a chance to play tennis for UCLA. He was dying at the time he looked at me and smiled and said over my dead body, you become a Bruin and he smiled.
He really wanted me to go to USC, but I think he understood that UCLA was a better fit for me once I explained why I thought it was. He and I never had problems with it, and most of our extended family were either Bruins, Domers, or Trojans, so it was all in good fun. He died in 2007, so I'm glad he got to see Pete Carroll's best years; he'd suffered enough through the 80s and 90s, particularly with Robofat II and Can't Hackett.
How about this? A team of:
Oregon's OL
USC's QB
UW's WRs
Unstoppable. lol
Even though Penix is a great fit for UW's system, I tend to agree as a college QB. Nix is a distant 3rd. Both can throw the long ball very well and fit it into tight windows, but CW is just so different when things break down. It will be interesting to see how both futures pan out going forward.
I was at sc in the 80s - certainly a mixed bag. 84 Ohio st rose bowl win. Glad to hear your dad had an open mind and I hope you had a great time in Westwood. I ended up at ucsb for 1.5 yrs then transferred to SC. Paid my own way and felt it was worth every penny. Still do.
I think Oregon took it easy on Riley frankly. USC had no answers for their offense.
ahhh. moral victories. the path to becoming ucal football.
the standards need to be a lot higher. Riley isn't up to this job. Not remotely.
So in that respect Using art or vista logic. They basically won
Caleb is phenomenal no doubt.
How is beating UCLA and going to a shitass bowl going to be any different than what Clay Helton did? Okay, take it and like it!
Well, Gomer did back into a Rose Bowl, so there's that. And they won. That's something UCLA hasn't been able to say for decades.
Congrats on a gutty loss.