@ greggdoyelcbs
Congrats to Colorado, which will be as irrelevant in the Pac-10 as it was in the Big 12
As long as Slick is with UCLA they are the easy target. Although with Slick, by the time the new conference play starts in 2012, he will be out due to scandal.
My second choice is UofA. Tuscum sucks. I'll take Tempe/Phoenix over the truck stop on the highway any day.
The USC band
Scum!
I'm confused by all of the Oregon hate. Now, bear in mind that I grew up very near Eugene so I don't exactly have an outsider's perspective.
But in my observation the Oregon fans are friendly and engaging and don't have the whole "the college football world owes us something" attitude that I found prevalent among nebraska fans.
They ran a clean program. I know a bunch of guys got in trouble this last year, but we're kinda living in a glass house on that one. Historically they're clean.
Eugene and Boulder are similar towns in a lot of ways.
The Oregon uniforms are goofy, but I tend to feel sorry for them on that count, rather than resent them for it.
I acknowledge the financial benefit that Oregon as as a result of their affiliation with Phil Knight and Nike. But we'd pretty much kill for something like that, and they seem to handle it pretty gracefully.
Slick Rick fake punted near the end of a bowl game against Oregon in the late nineties when we were already dominating. They've got a lot more reason to hate us for that.
They flat out beat us in the Fiesta Bowl, and it hurt. But we've been beaten by other teams.
So why the hate? I'm just curious...
Wrong. Tucson is way better to live in and visit than Phoenix. I've lived in each for about three years a piece and the only thing Phoenix has on Tucson is professional sports and an exponentially higher crime rate.
I feel sorry for you
They also have ASU coeds. That alone makes Phoenix > Tucson.
I can tell you if Mac was here he'd make USC the red letter game, and try to drag them into a rivalry. In fact, the program is about as low today as it was when he did that to Nebraska, and at the time Nebraska was probably equivalent to USC two days ago.
Fixed that for you, Stampy.