Comments on: Hendrix in, Prater likely out

By: SEO

SEO — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:23:44 +0000

Good Article. I'm looking forward to your next piece

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:12:05 +0000

Dave:
Contact RobertG. He knows all that stuff.

By: seo

seo — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:29:50 +0000

Would anyone please recommend a good website to find accomodation in Spain. Should I be using the well known rental companies or is there an cheaper method to rent from the owners direct? Thankyou, Dave

By: ugetwutuask4

ugetwutuask4 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:23:35 +0000

Kyle I’m feeling your game but not your decision. Ask yourself do you see any of these SoCal receivers in the NFL contributing to their team’s success? Bush is a wide receiver playing running back and Keyshawn is retired! I’m looking at rosters across the league and I see Maurice Stovall, Arnez Battle, Jeff Samardjzia if he wanted to play. But I don’t know when was the last time I saw Mike Williams or even heard from him and Steve Smith can’t even hold Mike Floyd’s jock if he tried and Floyd’s still in college! Furthermore, make that 1 maybe 2 if they’re lucky, Heisman trophy winners bacause Bush will have to give his back.
P.S. ask Lame Wiffin if they’re still allowed to lease you or your girlfriend that Land Rover you’ve always dreamed of having?

By: StephenOfTroy

StephenOfTroy — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:49:32 +0000

Interesting article. I like the down-in-the-weeds details, and I agree that the high school coach is a good get (kudos for going the extra mile and even looking up the high school coach’s background, Mr. Arnold!).
Sounds like Prater is coming to LA, but I don’t count chicks until they hatch. I think Kiffin is a good recruiter and I expect USC’s recruiting dominance to continue; if it does not it won’t have anything to do with the head coach. It will have to do with the rising prominence of other schools in the PAC-10 and SEC.
It’s interesting to read on a slow Wednesday, but I don’t know how much the blow-by-blow of they-got-that-guy, we-got-this-guy matters in the final analysis. Sort of like the horserace coverage of national politics; the press is usually fixated on minor details and which candidate is up and which is down at a given moment, rather than tracing the arc of the entire campaign.
USC is loaded with talent, and many of their recruits are listed at Rivals and elsewhere as five-star, blue-chip, can’t-miss kids. But I think about Clay Matthews, who had an outstanding rookie year for the Packers, after being a walk-on at SC. I think Matthews is every bit as good as Cushing, who won the defensive Rookie of the Year. Matthews is the guy who will rip the ball out and take it the other way for 6 on national TV, or make a huge sack or tackle. He just flat-out plays. But he wasn’t a sought-after recruit, even though he comes from a famous football family.
USC (apparently) got Prater, and ND got Hendrix, but will either of those names matter in two years? Will it be someone no one is watching? There’s no way to know, which I guess is the reason for the blow-by-blow of who’s going where.
Both ND and USC now have young, energetic, offensive-minded coaches. I don’t think we really got to see what Jeremy Bates wanted to do with the USC offense, since it was his first year, he had a freshman signal-caller, and there were key injuries all year. But I would agree that Kiffin likes to air it out. I wouldn’t say he’s pass-happy, as he called quite a few plays for Reggie Bush and LenDale White, for obvious reasons. But either way, none of the on-paper comparisons will matter as much as what happens when November rolls around and the Irish come to Los Angeles.
And none of THAT matters at all compared to the news out of Haiti. God bless you all, and try to show your loved ones that they matter. Tomorrow is not promised.
FIGHT ON, and GO IRISH!