Several well placed sources at tonight's A Night With Cougar Football say Jim Sterk has accepted the Athletic Director position at San Diego State.  More info to come.

Hopefully there have been some immediate conversations with this guy.  When one door closes, another opens.

Yeah, yeah, yeah... lets all say it together. Ready?

"We're young."

Sick of it yet? Yeah, me too. That excuse is getting pretty tired and I think it's time for a new revelation. We are underachieving. In two matchups against Stanford the Cougs built 20 and 18 point leads because they are actually that much better than Stanford. In both contests those leads evaporated because this team has failed to improve on its most glaring weakness... maintaining defensive intensity for a full 40 minutes. We first learned this lesson way, way, way back against Eastern Washington and continued to learn it through contests with Gonzaga, Oregon, Oregon State, Arizona, Stanford, Washington, and Stanford again. If I didn't live 6 miles away from the Idaho Vandals I would say that we are the biggest chokers in all of basketball. Quite frankly, no lead, against any opponent is safe for us, because for some reason our team continues to be too comfortable once they build a lead. Amazing, considering they've never held onto one against an opponent with a pulse.

So I invite you, dear readers, to vent. Let it all out. The comments are now open...

Hello Followers.

Well, tonight, our Cougies choked away an 18 point second half lead and lost yet again at Maples 60-58.

While all hope could be restored with a miraculous win on Saturday, you can put money in the bank that we will get swept this weekend.

Now, instead of being 6-6, we are 5-7--soon to be 5-8.

The season is all-but on life support now.

Only listened to parts on the radio, but in spite of our big lead, one has to question what the hell Bone was doing tonight.

Harthun got HUGE minutes in spite of doing nothing all year.

Motum, who played great in our last game, makes a token apperance at the 8:00 minute mark in the second half when the Trees were already in the midst of a 12-2 run (yeah, THAT'S a way of getting a freshman in the flow).

And Bone swithed out of the zone in the last ten minutes allowing Fields to get a TON of space (Stanford radio:  "I saw a lot of Ken Bone games while he was at Portland State and I've never seen him make such poor decisions regarding his defensive changes.")

Lots, lots, lots to feel bad about tonight.

Now, with a close loss and a CAL blowout win against Washington, all looks lost.

Bad, bad, BAD night.

Hope you all enjoy the three day weekend.  Remember, we'll have a football night recap for you on Saturday.

Happy Thursday Coug Fans!

It's the eve of the 2010 Winter Olympics, but who has time to care with all the news pouring out of Cougar Country. It's been a big week, what with a new D-tackle signing on to Paul Wulff's 2010 recruiting class, starting cornerback Brandon Jones being dismissed from the team after another run-in with Johnny Law, Pac-10 expansion rumors hitting a fever pitch and buried under all these headlines, the most important news of all... the Cougar men's hoopers face off against the Cardinal in Maples tonight.

Read on for plenty of random thoughts on that, walk-ons and the Winter Olympics...