January 2008 - Posts
Panther Field, where Ohio Dominican University plays its football games, is less than eight miles away from the Horseshoe, but they might as well be light-years apart. That’s the relative distance between the Panthers and the Ohio State Buckeyes.
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When Pete Carroll was hired at USC in December of 2000, DeWayne Walker and Norm Chow were the first “recruits” he went after.
Walker was still the New England Patriots’ secondary coach, having stayed on as a member of Bill Belichick’s staff after Carroll was fired following the 1999 season.
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Due to the way the most recent season ended, talk of establishing a playoff has shifted into high gear.
An eight-team playoff bracket like the one proposed by University of Georgia president Michael Adams is too much of a leap and too harmful to the significance of the bowl system. But it’s not out of the question down the road. It’s more likely that a “plus one” scenario will serve as an intermediate step, following the 2010 regular season.
With that in mind, it makes sense to look at how such a scenario would have applied itself to the recently completed season. Would it have helped to clean things up? Judge for yourself and let me know.
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I grew up on University of Hawaii football. Names such as Falaniko Noga, Gary Allen, David Toloumu, Nuu Faaola, Raphel Cherry and Walter Murray are completely foreign to most, but they mean a lot to me. Some of my fondest childhood memories involve watching them play on Saturday night at Aloha Stadium.
In 1981, when Hawaii went 9-2, I got hooked on college football. Coach Dick Tomey had established a solid program that consistently flirted with the idea of making it big someday. There was no harming in dreaming.
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