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According to the Sporting News, anyway.

http://www.sportingnews.com/college-foot...arterbacks

Vikings running backs coach long has coveted Toby Gerhart  (google web cache)

Boise State\'s Ian Johnson (last year\'s third-stringer behind AP and Chester Taylor) was optimistic before the draft: http://www.twincities.com/ci_14900879

Something tells me Johnson will be third-stringing it again...

It has been pointed out to me on a number of occasions that certain schools would be unwelcome into the Pac 10.  Specifically, most schools don\'t measure up to the exacting academic standards of the Pac 10.

Insofar as the quality of the institutions are concerned, I have no special insight.  But it is simple enough to gauge the quality of the incoming students based upon test scores and grades.

To that score, the top half of the pac 10 seems particularly selective.  Led by Stanford, Cal and UCLA and followed more or less closely by USC and Washington, these five schools appear to have somewhat more rigorous entrance requirements than the bottom five schools.

The rest of the Pac 10 has incoming academic requirements that do not appear to be appreciably different from that of San Jose State.  U of Oregon and Oregon State are very slightly ahead of Arizona, and Washington State which closely approximate San Jose State in terms of entrance requirements.  Arizona State is slightly behind the rest.

So the next time we worry about the academic reputation of the Pac 10 when considering TCU or BYU or SMU or the rest...well, perhaps we....shouldnt...

I don\'t remember seeing this posted:

Quote:STANFORD, Calif. - Chris Marinelli, who earned second team AP All-America honors as an offensive tackle last season, has signed a free agent contract with the Denver Broncos and will be participating in the team\'s mini-camp this weekend.

In addition, four other Stanford players off the 2009 roster - Ekom Udofia (New Orleans), Bo McNally (Washington), Tavita Pritchard (San Francisco) and Matt Kopa (San Francisco) - will also be taking part in minicamps this weekend with respective NFL teams.

The addition of these five players to NFL rosters, along with draftees Toby Gerhart (Minnesota; 2nd), Jim Dray (Arizona; 7th) and Erik Lorig (Tampa Bay) gives Stanford a total of eight players off the 2009 roster who are either on active rosters or participating in NFL camps.

Marinelli earned first All-Pac-10 Conference honors and second team AP All-America marks after anchoring an offensive line that allowed just seven sacks on the season while paving the way for the most productive rushing attack in school history that finished with 2,837 yards on the ground.

The Braintreee, Mass. native made 41 career starts over his four-year career.

Cardinal Clips: Wopamo Osaisai, a four-year letterwinner from 2005-08, has also been been invited to mini-camp with the Chicago Bears.

Stanford\'s spring football awards, announced by Harbaugh today:

Most improved offensive player -- Zach Ertz
Most improved defensive player -- Alex Debniak
Most improved special teams player -- Jarek Lancaster
Most valuable player in the spring game -- Nate Whitaker
Highest GPA in the fall quarter -- Andrew Luck and Chase Beeler
Highest GPA in the winter quarter -- David Green
Ralston Trophy to winning coach in spring game -- Tim Drevno

I think I remembered them all. Apologies if I left anything out.

In a nice payback for last year\'s early start at Wake Forest, the game at Stanford will begin at 8:15 PT.  Wake\'s internal clocks will be past 2:00 AM by the end of the game.
Other game times released by ABC (which will televise all four games) include 7:30 at UCLA, 8:15 at Oregon and 5:00 for USC.

Mainly because it\'s from the perspective OUTSIDE of the Pac-10 and not ginned up by the Pac\'s attendant, dependent cloud of bloggers and media types.  Finally, someone makes the case from the prospective joining teams\' perspective.    And it takes a swipe at  Texas having to travel to backwaters like Eugene and...Seattle. (snicker)  The author probably doesn\'t  even know there\'s a place called Pullman.

Anyway,  a better view of expansion than anything I\'ve seen from the Pac-10 hangers-on,  maybe because it\'s talking about bring BIG dawgs into the conference.  Most of the expansion opinions previous to this concentrated on squinting really hard to try to make adding Utah and BYU seem like it made sense.  

http://www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/burkablog/?p=6958

A shocker.

http://ncaabasketball.fanhouse.com/2010/...from-team/

Here\'s a few extra basketball tidbits.

Most importantly, from my Seattle-centric perspective, we may no longer have to suffer through dilettante UCLA/USC fans ruining the Pac-10 tournament with their inattentiveness:

Quote:They discussed possible changes to the men\'s and women\'s tournaments. The men\'s tournament is contractually obligated to stay at the Staples Center in Los Angeles through 2012, the end of the Fox Sports Net deal, though Scott said anything is possible after that.

In the past, coaches have lobbied for a tournament that rotates between semi-neutral sites in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle and the Bay area.

Scott said he expects to have more definitive talks about the tournament next spring, with final decision in the fall of 2011, giving plenty of time to arrange a new tournament starting in 2013.

The women\'s tournament can change sooner, since it has no contractual obligations to stay at its current home of USC\'s Galen Center. Scott said some of the later-round women\'s games could be moved to the Staples Center to be packaged with men\'s games, and that some could be played on home sites or the whole thing could be moved to another city, among other possibilities. Scott said he expected that issue would be settled at meetings next month.

For a year, it looks like, while they do stadium renovations. Anybody have any idea what the seating capacities of the Giants\' ballpark and Memorial are? And how this might impact attendence?

http://espn.go.com/blog/pac10/post/_/id/...rk-in-2011