Here’s the audio of coaches in the Pac-12 North …. quick note, WSU head coach Mike Leach could not make the call because he was traveling. Defensive coordinator Mike Breske took his place instead. Here’s the audio and transcript of Steve Sarkisian’s portion from yesterday.
Cal head coach Jeff Tedford
Oregon head coach Chip Kelly
Oregon State
…Here’s the audio from the Pac-12 coaches conference call yesterday … this is the South division
Arizona head coach Rich Rodriguez
ASU head coach Todd Graham
Colorado head coach Jon Embree
USC head coach Lane Kiffin
(Thanks to Bob Condotta for the transcription).
On what they accomplished this spring …
I think from an accomplishment standpoint we obviously, when you implement five new coaches, four of which are on the defensive side of the football and one of which is on offense, it’s first developing the continuity of the staff, and I thought that developed all spring.
Second is the implementation of the defensive scheme which I thought our guys did a great job of that. I thought our four defensive coaches worked hard and communicated really well and ultimately motivated really well on the defensive side of the ball to get the scheme implemented. Now there is still a lot of work to be done there but to get it implemented during those 15 practices was a good accomplishment.
Offensively, a lot of individual accomplishments. Really tried to focus on the individual development of players. Guys like Austin Seferian-Jenkins and developing him into a complete tight end. Michael Hartvigson at the tight end position and developing him whether it was in the pass game or the run game or pass protection.
What we were able to do at the running back spot — I thought Bishop Sankey had a nice spring that way developing individually. Kasen Williams the second half of spring really understood the value of doing things right consistently and utilizing the details of things to his advantage.
Here’s a few notes from Steve Sarkisian’s portion of today’s post spring football Pac-12 conference call. I will try and get the audio of him and other coaches posted this afternoon when the league posts it.
Perhaps the biggest news from the call was that running back Johri Fogerson will graduate from Washington this spring and transfer to another school to play his senior season. This is not a complete surprise. Rumors of Fogerson leaving were persistent all spring.
Per NCAA rules, Fogerson is allowed to transfer any school immediately if he has graduated from school. Washington will have to …
Head coach Steve Sarkisian talked with Softy Mahler and wrapped up spring football.
The Husky hoops team is going global this summer. On Thursday, head coach Lorenzo Romar announced that the team will taking 15-day trip overseas with stops on two continents and seven scheduled games to in preparation for the upcoming season.
Washington will have stops in Spain, France, Monaco and Senegal on the trip, which will last roughly two weeks.
“Foreign tours are fantastic for the overall well-being of the student athlete,” Romar said. “It’s always a great cultural experience.”
This will be the second time Washington has taken a trip out of the country with Romar as the head coach. …
And so it begins. Thankfully, I don’t have an AP Top 25 vote for football (that belongs to Condotta). Why? Because it’s a huge pain and usually leads to second guessing and criticism by fans of schools that are in it (never ranked high enough, or my rival team is ranked higher and shouldn’t be), or those teams’ fans that aren’t (how are we not in there, but that team is).
But we are fast approaching the time where preseason Top 25 rankings will start to appear.
Sports Illustrated’s excellent college football writer Andy Staples offers up his post-spring …
Head coach Steve Sarkisian talks with ESPN’s Ted Miller at the Pac-12 coaches meetings.