0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/18/2015
We start this story with a general point about the way in which teams lose. Many fans would rather see their teams lose big than lose by one point in the final seconds. Some fans would have it the other way. I have my own view, and you have yours, and where you stand is […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/24/2015
See the cover image for this story, above? It’s a bus. Two years ago, USC athletic director Pat Haden pulled a man named Lane Kiffin — whom you heard absolutely NOTHING about on Thursday (wink, wink) — off a bus at Los Angeles International Airport and fired him before he got to the school’s campus. […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/20/2015
Precisely because the Stanford Cardinal struggled so profoundly in their week-one loss to Northwestern, Saturday night’s game against the USC Trojans did not acquire the centrality it figured to own before the season began. The fact that Stanford got knocked off by Northwestern was not overwhelmingly surprising; the shock value in that game flowed from […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/31/2015
Fans, bloggers, pundits — all of us — easily recognize head coaches. On a national level — beyond the realm of the local beat writer or the team-specific specialist — the people who cover college football from a distance will more immediately identify the face of a head coach than the face of an assistant. […]
