Lane Kiffin on Arizona QB Nick Foles: “They’re throwing as well as anybody in the country.”
Foles had 10 touchdown passes and zero interceptions.
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Hostile Environment
A lot of pre-game and post-game comments focused on the hostile atmosphere of Sun Devil Stadium. For the record, a crowd of 61,495 was announced at the 71,706-seat stadium.
Yes, it was loud. But it was hardly an SEC environment. I would guess Utah will probably be louder next season.
Kiffin Quote Of The Day
“A lot of teams in the country would like to be 3-1.”
Around The Pac
Washington State is going to allow fans to choose its uniforms for its homecoming game against Stanford next month. In that spirit, maybe USC will let fans call plays for its homecoming game.
BCS Scrutiny
Here’s today’s first installment of the Arizona Republic’s seven-part series on the BCS. Among the findings: Pay for the highest executives at BCS bowls more than doubled since the four games united in the late 1990s, with average annual executive compensation exceeding $500,000.
Upstairs, Downstairs
It is time to revisit the issue of whether USC would be better off with an offensive coordinator calling plays from the pressbox with Lane Kiffin managing the game from the sidelines.
So few programs have the head coach call plays these days and USC’s most successful period occured when Norm Chow was upstairs and Pete Carroll downstairs with the right to change plays.
Even Kiffin admitted a couple weeks ago that it is a “burden” to call plays and be the head coach at the same time. I can’t imagine USC would be worse off with an arrangement that included a coordinator calling plays while Kiffin directed from the sideline.
Open Forum
I’m going to start this week’s forum early before I finish last week’s because of the restlessness out there. One question per person please.
Picture Of The Day
It was a great Pac-12 atmosphere inside Sun Devil Stadium for the USC-Arizona State game.
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USC-ASU Report Card
Here are the grades for the Arizona State game.
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Morning Buzz
When Lane Kiffin said the Arizona State game was “close to being a win,” he was right and wrong as I wrote here