My weekly look at things happening off the field that can and will affect things on the field in college football.
Pac-10 AD meeting – Pac-10 athletic directors are currently meeting in the San Francisco Bay Area to discuss divisional alignment and what to do with the championship game. At least for the divisions, they should go with the zipper model. It may make the divisions confusing, but it guarantees a road trip to either the Bay Area or r Los Angeles for each team every season and allows all the rivalries to stay intact with those being the protected crossover games (Utah and Colorado can start figuring out its new rivalry now). Don't go with a pod system where teams in the same division could miss each other and certainly don't put all four California teams and the Arizona schools in one division. Do that and eventually you will get the Big 12 all over again as far as competitive balance. The Divisions should be UCLA, Cal, Arizona, Oregon St., Washington St., and Colorado in one and USC, Stanford, Arizona St., Oregon, Washington and Utah in the other (I'm open to switching schools, but USC-Stanford, UCLA-Cal, and Washington-Oregon should not be separated).
More John Blake/North Carolina nonsense – Now word is coming out that Blake talked to Ndamakong Suh and tried to steer him towards agent friend Gary Wichard. While this didn't comprehend Suh's eligibility as the conversations happened after bowl season, it is just another black mark for Blake and the North Carolina program that employed him. When the head coach who you played with and coached with on many occasions for 30 years says he's sorry he trusted you, you have a big problem.
Scapegoat at BYU – BYU fired defensive coordinator Jaime Hill after losing to Utah St. last Friday. Hill didn't take his termination lying down saying he was made a scapegoat. Well duh. Of course you were the scapegoat. Coaches are an insecure bunch. At the first sign of real trouble, they jettison assistants and friends to keep their jobs. It is seemingly in their DNA to do these things. That said, maybe things would have been different if the run defense was ranked better than last in the nation.
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