slick-rick Stories - Conquest Chronicles
Rocky Seto Takes the High Road...
It is hard not to feel bad for Rocky Seto. After being brought to Seattle by Pete Carroll as a throw in as director of "quality control" for the Seahawks, Seto jumped at the chance to be the defensive coordinator at UCLA. We can dispute whether or not Seto was effective as Pete Carroll's DC in his...
Lane Kiffin is interviewed by the OCR
Lane Kiffin sat down for a three-part interview with Michael Lev of the Orange County Register. Kiffin offers up some interesting thoughts on a number of subjects. Kiffin comes across as measured, yet honest to me. I didn't expect him to get into too much detail and because he has been burned in...
Kiffin Can Close...
So says Doc Saturday... This is not a surprise to any of us. We knew Kiffin could recruit when he was at USC his first time around. And we saw what he did at UT with two months to work with and we saw what he did over the past three weeks... With just two months to salvage a mediocre class at...
Neuheisel attempts to fire the first shot...misses badly
You gotta give Slick Rick credit, he an opportunist to the core. If there is an opportunity to get some attention he does everything he can to take advantage of it. Here is his latest gem... "I guarantee, if you paid any kind of attention to what's going on in college football this last week, you...
Matt Hayes - Master of the Obvious
You gotta love Matt Hayes. I mean heck if it is this easy to write a piece I wonder if I could get a job writing the Sporting News... Five reasons why USC won't recover from losing Pete Carroll 2. Recruiting won't be the same Somehow, year after year, Carroll was able to convince five-star...
Expectations vs. Results
First, let me say Happy New Year to all of you! I hope you all enjoy the long weekend... From the L.A.Times I got a kick out of Desmond Howard this morning picking USC as his top underachiever for the 2009 season. I had College GameDay on in the background as I was working on project when I...
There are no "Time Outs" in Monopoly!
Just some final thoughts on all the action in the final minute of Saturday's game and the aftermath... After all is said and done who is really affected by the events of last Saturday night? Fans on both sides will either cheer or decry what happened...But usually those battle lines are drawn...
Clueless...
I often wonder if those in the traditional media really put the effort into their stories that they should for being supposed professionals of their trade. It appears at times that they don't do basic due diligence and it is always perplexing. If they do their due diligence its either on...
When the only direction you can go is up...
...it's easy to make a splash. There is an interesting article in today's L.A. Times about the "resurgence" of ucla on the recruiting trail. There's an intriguing new dynamic surfacing in the USC-UCLA football recruiting rivalry. It's called competition. For much of this decade, USC Coach...
Neuheisel Responds…Norton holds his ground
You would have to be walking around blind without a cane to not see how something like this was bound to happen. Slick Rick has a lot of expectations to live up to, even if those expectations have been dumbed down by the clowns from across town to protect the prodigal son.Neuheisel has always been...
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