Saturday Night 11-Pack

With so much sports to cover today, a 5-pack isn't going to cut it. To get a good sports buzz going, you're going to need an 11-pack of topics to digest.

First, 5 thoughts on UW's 32-31 win over USC:

• Today's win is a great result. An amazing result. Especially after how poorly the whole team played against Nebraska two weeks earlier. With that being said, USC handed the game to them. UW did everything to lose that game. They gave up 1500 yads rushing. They dropped wide open catches. They gave up tons of yards. Besides Jake, no one played especially well. They deserved to lose. Maybe, just maybe we have finally exercised the demons of the past 4 years
  
• Locker has been much maligned the past two weeks, causing most experts to drop him in their QB rankings. After tonight's performance he has to be back towards the top again. He accounted for 422 total yards and let the team down field for the win (something we all expected him to do against BYU a month earlier).
• For how good Locker looked tonight, I am a big worried about his pro prospects. Make no doubt about it, the guy has raw athleticism, but he still is lacking consistency and accuracy. I was trouble by all the talk about simplifying the playbook and letting Jake do what he is comfortable with. Getting him out of the pocket and allowing him to throw on the run is certainly no a pro-style offense. And the playbook is only going to get more complicated on Sundays. If he goes into a situation like that in Buffalo, he could be a huge bust. He needs to go to a team where he can develop for a few years under a good QB coach.
• I thought Mike Belotti and Brock Huard both did a great job in the booth. Good to see a Husky and a Duck getting along.
• I have never had a problem with USC in the past, partly because I thought carroll was a good guy. But they are totally unlikable now thanks to Lane Kiffin. Can't stand the guy.
  

And an additional 6-pack of random musings:

• Watch the end of the LSU-Tennessee game. What a painful way to lose.
• Sebastian LeToux continues his amazing MLS run. I have been a Seba fan for 4 years now and never would have expected 13 goals and 10 assists in MLS. If he was on a better team, he would be the MVP. The Wife asked what the problem was last year and I think it simply was that he was playing out of position. To be fair to Sigi though, even if he had played forward, I still think he would have had a problem because Montero was clearly the alpha-male (well, when the other Freddie wasn't around). In Philly, he was handed the reigns to the ship and has been the unquestioned leader.
• Recently I said the end of the Mets season was about two things: finding which young guys should be part of the future and getting Wright to 100 RBI and a .300 average. It has been successful on both counts, as we affirmed Thole as our everyday catcher and we found that Dillon Gee should be our 5th starter next year. Thanks to recent hot streak, Wright is at 29 homers and 103 RBI.
• I can only think of one person in America (Chris Folwer who does College Gameday, Wimbledon, the World Cup) who has a better job than Todd Grisham. During the week, Grisham is an announcer for WWE and on the weekends he hosts the MLS studio show on Fox Soccer Channel.
• Alabama has the toughest schedule in America (top 25 matchups against Arkansas, Florida, South Carolina, LSU, Auburn) and they are not going to lose at all. Hate to say it but freaking Saban again has the best team.
• I'm watching Rocky IV for the 78th time right now. I always feel bad for the Soviets when Rocky's trainer beats the Soviet in chess. It's bad enough that they are portrayed as dopers; that Drago loses and that the crowd turns on their own countryman. But to have him lose at chess - blasphamous.