Hello Followers.  Hope you’re having a great week.

Well, tonight, our Cougies will try to build on last weekend’s sweep of the Bay Area schools as they take on the Arizona schools.

But, perhaps to your surprise, I’m not going to talk about that today.

In fact, I’m pretty much ready to bet the house that the best basketball coach west of the Mississippi River.....

...is going to take care of our boys with relative ease tonight.

Therefore, rather than talk about hoops, I’m going to talk some more about football.

So, if you want to check out why THE PAC-12 IS TRULY THE FOOTBALL CONFERENCE OF CHAMPIONS…..

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Good morning and Happy Hump Day, Cougs! We are now T-minus one week from Signing Day 2012, which means we are T-minus eight days away from once again becoming functional members of society. I know that recruiting is at the forefront of everyone's minds and being a man of the people that's exactly what I'll talk about today. The WSU Recruiting Class of 2012 is starting to look something like the finished product it will be so it's high time to take a good look at the group of commitments with the hard hitting analysis (read: none) that you can only find on This Here Blog (read: because I'm "special"). I am thrilled that today's post marks the debut of the Bridgeport Pumped-O-Meter to rate every one of our current verbal commitments. What is the Bridgeport Pumped-O-Meter, you ask? There's only one way to find out my friends. My saddle's waiting. Come on and jump on it...

Happy Tuesday Cougar Nation.

If you didn't see Longball's work yesterday about the near shake-up among the top of the Pac 12 North, than check this out. Additionally, I have been one of Ken Bone's harshest critics over the years and have gone so far as to stop watching this team play on TV or in-person. So it was nice for them to pull out the brooms against the Bay Area schools last week.

As I am sure many of you know, this marks the final week before National Letter of Intent Day, which is next Wednesday, February 1st. News broke yesterday, that Leach landed a pair of JC Linemen in OG Niu Sale and DT Ioane Gauta.

Before those fax machines, hopefully the coaching staff gets the remaining targets to sign on the line that's dotted, before they drink their coffee!

With the 2012 class filling up rapidly, I would imagine there is no more than three or four spots remaining. While all of that can change with Gray Shirts and attrition, I read somewhere recently that if we took 24 guys this year, nobody left this off season, then we would only have room for 15 guys in the 2013 cycle.

Anyways, click the jumparoo to take a deeper look at recruiting and some of the remaining prospects who are in The Crimson Orbit.

Did Chip Kelly just start a chain reaction that will destroy the football universe?

This was originally a post about the state of Pac-12 basketball, but then of course, this happened, and then this happened. And then, just to keep us all on our toes... this happened! The passing of Joe Paterno is a difficult thing for me to wrap my head around. His legacy, to say the least, is much more complicated than it was just a few months ago. But today is the day to focus on the all the good, lots and lots of good, that Joe Pa did. As far as Chip Kelly is concerned, wow, that was nearly a game changer in the Pac-12. In the coaching world, every departure leaves a vacancy that will usually be filled by yet another departure, like an endless line of tumbling dominoes. So who would have been the next to fall? Looks like people in Boise were getting kinda nervous. It turns out Chip really isn't pulling a "Pete Carroll" after all. Either way, I still can't see Petersen leaving a good thing in Boise. Also you gotta wonder, do the Ducks believe all their talk about not expecting to face any NCAA sanctions? Chip Kelly's actions would seem to indicate they do.  Now, where was I... oh yeah, Pac-12 hoops...

Another week, another massacre.

This week brought more carnage and chaos in Pac-12 Basketball. Of course, this time we got to play the role of the firing squad in this proverbial massacre as we dispatched both Stanford and Cal who came into the Palouse leading the conference. Meanwhile UCLA got swept on the Oregon Trail, Colorado was last seen Razing Arizona and Sparky suffered frostbite as Tempe froze over after the Utes beat ASU by… 21 points. Now that I’ve exceeded my quota of puns for the year, lets try and sort it all out. You know what you gotta do...

Happy Saturday Night to you, Followers.  Well, tonight, thanks to Eddie Johnson's 24 points--as well as some clutch shooting by Devonte Lacy--the Cougs achieved a sweep of the Bay Area schools by being CAL 77-75. And of course, we did so in front of Mike Leach and a host of WSU Football recruits.

So, consider this an open thread to talk about Hoops, Recruiting, or Newt Gingrich's win in South Carolina tonight.

In other words, WallaCoug, this thread is for you...