Tag Archives: Ranks

The Oregon Ducks will look to defend their back-to-back Pac-12 conference titles in 2021 and one media outlet expects Oregon to be a top ten team when the season rolls around. Yahoo released its “way-too-early” top 25 for the 2021 college football season this week with Oregon checking in as the No. 10 team in their rankings.  The Ducks are the highest-ranked Pac-12 team in Yahoo’s top 25 with USC at No. 14, Arizona State at No. 19, and Washington at No. 24.  In placing the Ducks… Source link

One major topic of discussion in NFL circles this year is the relative desirability of every head coaching and general manager opening across the NFL. The openings run the gamut from the Jets and Jaguars (cap space, no franchise quarterback, shaky ownership) to the Chargers (well-respected GM in place, promising young quarterback, crummy owner) to the Lions, Texans and Falcons (majorly disappointing teams with established quarterbacks and either cap problems, draft pick problems, or a… Source link

Quarterback play largely dictates NFL games. As such, teams are looking for people who can build and sustain a positive culture, especially at that position. That’s why there has been such a recent rush to hire offensive coordinators and assistants for head coaching jobs. Since 2016, 32 men have been hired as head coaches. Of those 32, 24 were offensive coordinators at some point in their careers. And of those 24, 19 were once quarterbacks coaches. The NFL’s failure to successfully… Source link

Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google LLC have hired a pair of public policy experts to expand their antitrust and energy capabilities. Sean Pugh and James “Jamey” Goldin left Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath and Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, respectively, this month for in-house legal roles at the technology giants. Pugh, a former Senate Judiciary Committee staffer who served as antitrust counsel to Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), confirmed in an email that he joined Amazon’s public… Source link