And It All Comes To An End...

Well, with the Gators finally winning the long awaited national championship game, the football season comes to a close. USC ends the season #4, Cal at #14, and Oregon State at #21. Oregon and ASU were huge disappointments, OSU was a big surprise and USC and Cal finished just a little lower than expected. Now it's prepare for the draft season for all the graduating players, as well as underclassmen Marshawn Lynch, Dwayne Jarrett, Zach Miller and Chris Henry, who have all declared their intent to play in the NFL next season.

In addition to losing Jarrett, USC could potentially lose Pete Carroll as well. While on vacation in Costa Rica, Carroll met with Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga. He didn't take the job, which says something because Huizenga is willing to "do anything" to make the Dolphins win. He says he's not leaving now, but we have already heard that from Bobby Petrino and Nick Saban in the last couple of weeks. Huizenga is one of the few owners who would give Carroll total control over the team, but what has Carroll done to deserve that? He proved before that he's a mediocre NFL head coach and now he's suddenly qualified to draft players and work within the salary cap? Don't go pro yet Pete. You can still win a couple more national titles and go back to the NFL later to prove you weren't that bad. Besides, all the teams with head coaching vacancies aren't as close to a title as your Trojans.

In other news, Dirk Koetter has moved on. Now he's planning on continuing his run of mediocrity with a mediocre NFL team, as the offensive coordinator of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Koetter takes over for former USC coach, Carl Smith. Koetter could have filled the same position at the University of Miami, but evidently the lure of the NFL is too strong, even for an unremarkable coach like Dirk.