creepycoug
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Even though Oregon is backing into the title game I have to think that Mario is wondering about the future of Pac 12 football. You gotta go if they offer. Hell Jimmy would.
The Pac 12 is first timers[/b] like Jimmy and Rolo (NOGA about WSU), the recycled like Dorrell, the semi retired like Shaw, and a bunch of dreck like Clay and Bad Chippy.
And Jonathon Smith!
You know, it seriously bothers me that this is true. There are a lot of great things about the Pac 12. It's just that football isn't one of them.
So funny back in 2004-2008 the Pac had Pete Carroll, Chip Kelly (at his peak), and Jim Harbaugh (at his peak). It was a great conference with great teams and coaches. In fact the coaches were so good that they got hired in the NFL and a couple of them got to the Super Bowl.
No fucking SEC coach is going to coach in the NFL, nor have they in the past with any success.
Stuff is cyclical, but just 10 years ago the Pac had the most innovative offenses and coaches in the game.
The Pac 12 was the premier conference in the land starting when Jim Owens invented west coast football
John McKay went on to Tampa Bay and built an expansion team into a NFC title game loser
Vermeil went to the Eagles and lost a Super Bowl then won one with the Rams
The NFL wanted James
John Robinson went to the Rams
The Pac 12 secret was the quarterbacks and the innovation. Bill Walsh coached Stanford twice.
The SEC turned the tied in 92 with the conference title game and by the end og the 90's the SEC was winning titles while WSU, UCLA, and Stanford were losing the Rose Bowl
I wanted to argue about SEC coaches not going to the NFL with success but I can't think of any that did. Its still a league where you want to be the 20 year legend if you can
Spurrior and Saban failed in the NFL
I've had a few people give me odd looks when I say this, but when I was a kid, the Rose Bowl seemed to me to belong to the Pac. So much so that I remember me and some others thinking that it was a hinderance to the conference to be tied to a bowl that was committed to the big, strong and fucking slow af Backwards Big 10. The old people loved the pageantry and tradition of Michigan and all that shit, but it was a killer for NC hopes unless things really worked out, which they rarely did.
That is all to say that I always fully expected whatever P10 team showed up to win the RB. It felt automatic and birthright. Of course, now I know that was just an era, and eras change.
The other thing was that the P10 did well when they played good teams OOC. USC especially always represented well, other than that 14 year losing streak to the Irish, which I honestly can't explain because it wasn't that ND was good or SC bad all those years.
And QBs. There was a tim when NFL QBs more often than not came out of this conference.
