Spring is in the air! The rains have come to wash anew and you can just smell the fresh cut grass, roasted peanuts and the vendor calling out that he indeed has every guilty pleasure that you could need. He can even airmail it 25 rows directly into your waiting hand!

The pleasures of Spring have arrived, but I'm not here to talk about baseball. We still have 2 weeks before we have to fill our lives with talk of popping leather, the crack of a bat or an incredible leap up the outfield wall to make an out.

This article is directed at Spring Football ladies and gentlemen! Can you hear it? Smell it? Taste it? In a world immersed in March Madness at the moment, there is a whole different ballgame going on behind the scenes. We haven't quite made it to the watercooler discussions yet or maybe just a word or two here and there, but there are questions of depth charts, walk-ons and starting QB's to be answered.

In the UW circles the talk is of who will be the best starting quarterback for the Dawgs. Bonnell or Locker? Savior vs. Senior! What will the O-Line shape up like and who will come out of the wash as the playmaking WR's?

In the WSU camp the questions are abound on if Bill Doba really is the man to take the Cougs back to a Bowl game and what effect will Akey's departure have on the Defense? Who is going to play on that defense and where? The Coug D-line resembled a walking M*A*S*H unit last year and there are serious hole to fill with the departure of Mkristo Bruce as a defensive leader.

How about USC? The demon of the PAC-10! How many 5 star recruits do you really need on one team? I have to give them credit though. When you establish a program that gets players that hardly got a snap in collegiate ball drafted into the NFL, you're doing one helluva job!

Hey! What about team NIKE? They do after all have the finest facilities in the PAC-10 if not the country. As a matter of fact, their facilities might even put some NFL teams to shame!

So many questions abound and as of today they won't be answered, but that flickering image in the mud puddle at midfield will become clearer in just two weeks. Ah,,, yes. We still have 15 more days to talk, dream and live football before the crack of oak on leather consumes us. Let us have our time and let the discussion fly!

Authored by 2*2*2

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