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Lunch links: Mike Leach's recruiting boost

February, 13, 2013

Feb 13

2:30

PM ET

By Ted Miller | ESPN.com

Truly a sight to behold. A man beaten. The once great champ, now, a study in moppishness. No longer the victory hungry stallion we've raced so many times before, but a pathetic, washed up, aged ex-champion.

Former Arizona TE Rob Gronkowski likes to party, and the Pac-12 blog seconds the perspective here. It also would add a "hush" to Gronk's disingenuous, self-righteous and boring critics.
Remembering a former Arizona State football player, the late Tyrice Thompson.
A California recruiting roundtable. Question: Do they eat ham and jam and spam a lot?
A look at the Nebraska point of view on renewing a rivalry series with Colorado.
Reconsidering Oregon's projected two-deep, which looks pretty salty to me.
Another evaluation of Oregon State's best recruiting classes.
Even more perspective on what the return of running back Tyler Gaffney means for Stanford.
UCLA announces spring football dates.
Based on the Twitter response from USC players, firing Kennedy Polamalu wasn't terribly popular in the locker room.
Some more thoughts on Dennis Erickson joining the Utah staff.
It appears Washington will play its spring game on April 20.
An interesting look at how Mike Leach bolstered Washington State recruiting in a measurable way.

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Miller has been covering college football since 1997, starting with Auburn and then heading West to Washington and the Pac-12. His columns for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer won first place in the 2007 APSE Best Writing contest. The Atlanta native and University of Richmond graduate presently lives with his wife in Scottsdale, Ariz.

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