Almost forgot.....

The big news of yesterday....we're playing USC, baby!! While the coming regular season series might be overshadowed a bit by our matchup with them in this year's national championship game, this is still amazing news. It also provides proof that the cupcake scheduling of the last few years was the work of Tom O'Brien, not Gene D. Nice job, Gene and Jags. Can anyone else smell a situation in LA similar to the Masshole invasion of San Francisco for the Diamond Walnut Bowl a few years ago??

Speaking of the Trojans, many BC fans have given up all hope on Jersey linebacker Brendan Beal, currently favoring USC and Florida, based on a recent Rivals article in which he named those teams as his lone top two. I for one have not. In the same article he made it clear that BC is his #3, well ahead of Ohio State and LSU. Really, is this anything we didn't know before?? I'm not particularly optimistic on Beal, but I'm no less optimistic than I was a few days ago. I think BC still has a small chance here, and to be honest, I think Florida's chances are closer to ours than they are to USC's. If I had to guess, I'd say 60% USC, 25% Florida, 15% BC. Beal will be coming to the Heights, and that means this staff will get the chance to close him. We're longshots here, don't get me wrong, but we're not out of the race yet--especially if Pete Carroll and Urban Meyer simply negative recruit each other into oblivion.