Big Ben has two chips. He came out of the shoot with a big-body and big arm, and an awesome defensive-minded , veteran team behind him. He managed the Pittsburgh offense to a Super Bowl [the youngest to do so at age 23]. Then he followed that up later with another championship and a more refined passing game.
Skip Holtz was hired on January 14th and the next three weeks proved that he will take USF even higher. He called it ‘Fire, Aim, Ready.’ While he made it sound like it was three weeks of unbridled chaos, this was an experienced hunter stalking its prey efficiently.
The landscape of football on the west coast has been dramatically altered from Pete Carroll’s move from USC to the Seahawks in both the Pac 10 Conference, as well as in the NFL.