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  <updated-at type="datetime">2009-09-08T11:19:57-04:00</updated-at>
  <intro>&lt;div class=&quot;photo_container image_right&quot;&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;photo&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.fannation.com/upload/si_blog_post_images/pat-hill.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Pat-hill&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;photo_attributes&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;Pat Hill has been Fresno State's head coach since 1997.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;photo_attributes&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;Kevin Reece/Icon/SMI&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jay Christensen&lt;/strong&gt; produces &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thewizofodds.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0000ff;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wiz Of Odds&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fresno Bee&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Fresno State's &lt;strong&gt;Pat Hill&lt;/strong&gt; has two years remaining on his deal, but after a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fresnobee.com/sports/bulldogs/story/&quot;&gt;disappointing 7-6 season&lt;/a&gt;, it doesn't appear that an extension is in the works.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Columbia State&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; South Carolina fans are expressing their displeasure &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thestate.com/gogamecocks/story/646376.html?RSS=gogamecocks&quot;&gt;with &lt;strong&gt;Steve Spurrier&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and the Gamecocks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brian Dohn, &lt;em&gt;Los Angeles Daily News&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; UCLA's Slick &lt;strong&gt;Rick Neuheisel&lt;/strong&gt; is at it again. He just got commitments from four players. Three of the players &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailynews.com/sports/ci_11426755&quot;&gt;had previously committed&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to other teams.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Adam Rittenberg, &lt;em&gt;ESPN&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Iowa junior quarterback &lt;strong&gt;Jake Christensen&lt;/strong&gt;, who lost his starting job to sophomore Ricky Stanzi, &lt;a href=&quot;http://myespn.go.com/blogs/bigten/0-2-1083/Iowa-QB-Christensen-to-transfer.html&quot;&gt;has decided to transfer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;San Jose Mercury News&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Stanford athletic director &lt;strong&gt;Bob Bowlsby&lt;/strong&gt; said that &quot;the [New York] Jets &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mercurynews.com/stanford/ci_11426778?source=rss&quot;&gt;have not contacted me&lt;/a&gt; and I am not aware that &lt;strong&gt;Jim [Harbaugh]&lt;/strong&gt; has interviewed with them.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;</intro>
  <title>Reporters' Notebooks</title>
  <published-at type="datetime">2009-01-11T17:57:14-05:00</published-at>
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  <created-at type="datetime">2009-01-11T17:57:14-05:00</created-at>
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        <created-at>2009-01-21T11:14:11-05:00</created-at>
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          <display-name>Georgia Tech Ramblin' Wreck</display-name>
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        <body>No more college football news? This is depressing...</body>
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        <quotable>
          <created-at>2009-01-13T19:06:18-05:00</created-at>
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            <state>CA</state>
            <display-name>Bruinfan</display-name>
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          <body>UCLA got a verbal from a QB early last fall. He is a top 5 QB. SC is going to have more problems than just coaches leaving pretty soon.</body>
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        </quotable>
        <created-at>2009-01-13T22:02:39-05:00</created-at>
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          <display-name>Sandy Underpants</display-name>
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        <quoted-text>UCLA got a verbal from a QB early last fall. He is a top 5 QB. SC is going to have more problems than just coaches leaving pretty soon.</quoted-text>
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        <body>Top 5 QB? Seems like somebody would be talking about him. As far as USC having problems-- Once UCLA gets back to Karl Dorrell's level of winning (6 wins per season), then we'll start to worry. Until then, good luck chumps. Notre Dame has 4 straight years of #1 recruiting classes and they only won 10 games in the last 2 years (including flunky bowl games)</body>
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          <body>UCLA got a verbal from a QB early last fall. He is a top 5 QB. SC is going to have more problems than just coaches leaving pretty soon.</body>
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        <created-at>2009-01-13T20:32:07-05:00</created-at>
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          <display-name>Jamesbt</display-name>
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        <quoted-text>UCLA got a verbal from a QB early last fall. He is a top 5 QB. SC is going to have more problems than just coaches leaving pretty soon.</quoted-text>
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        <body>As a Trojan fan, I say DAMN GOOD that the Bruins are improving. On a purely pragmatic note, we Trojans need the competition to be--well, competitive--so that we can get to a NC game. On a more aesthetic note...it's always satisfying to beat UCLA, but it's more so when they're good. Thus...go Neuheisel, improve that team, get those recruits, see you next December--</body>
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        <created-at>2009-01-13T19:07:29-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>UCLA received a verbal from a top 5 QB early last fall. SC is going to have more problems than their new UW coach stealing staff pretty soon.</body>
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        <created-at>2009-01-13T19:06:18-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>UCLA got a verbal from a QB early last fall. He is a top 5 QB. SC is going to have more problems than just coaches leaving pretty soon.</body>
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        <created-at>2009-01-11T22:53:03-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>How is Neuweasel, &amp;quot;at it again&amp;quot;? I mean it's odd that he has players over to his house for a little get together, but what's wrong with going after recruits who haven't put anything in writing? But more importantly, why hasn't UCLA gone after a QB?</body>
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  <body>&lt;div class=&quot;photo_container image_right&quot;&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;photo&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.fannation.com/upload/si_blog_post_images/pat-hill.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Pat-hill&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;photo_attributes&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;Pat Hill has been Fresno State's head coach since 1997.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;photo_attributes&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;Kevin Reece/Icon/SMI&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jay Christensen&lt;/strong&gt; produces &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thewizofodds.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0000ff;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wiz Of Odds&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fresno Bee&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Fresno State's &lt;strong&gt;Pat Hill&lt;/strong&gt; has two years remaining on his deal, but after a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fresnobee.com/sports/bulldogs/story/&quot;&gt;disappointing 7-6 season&lt;/a&gt;, it doesn't appear that an extension is in the works.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Columbia State&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; South Carolina fans are expressing their displeasure &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thestate.com/gogamecocks/story/646376.html?RSS=gogamecocks&quot;&gt;with &lt;strong&gt;Steve Spurrier&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and the Gamecocks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brian Dohn, &lt;em&gt;Los Angeles Daily News&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; UCLA's Slick &lt;strong&gt;Rick Neuheisel&lt;/strong&gt; is at it again. He just got commitments from four players. Three of the players &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailynews.com/sports/ci_11426755&quot;&gt;had previously committed&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to other teams.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Adam Rittenberg, &lt;em&gt;ESPN&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Iowa junior quarterback &lt;strong&gt;Jake Christensen&lt;/strong&gt;, who lost his starting job to sophomore Ricky Stanzi, &lt;a href=&quot;http://myespn.go.com/blogs/bigten/0-2-1083/Iowa-QB-Christensen-to-transfer.html&quot;&gt;has decided to transfer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;San Jose Mercury News&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Stanford athletic director &lt;strong&gt;Bob Bowlsby&lt;/strong&gt; said that &quot;the [New York] Jets &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mercurynews.com/stanford/ci_11426778?source=rss&quot;&gt;have not contacted me&lt;/a&gt; and I am not aware that &lt;strong&gt;Jim [Harbaugh]&lt;/strong&gt; has interviewed with them.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brad Rock, &lt;em&gt;Deseret News&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; He'd like to see Utah attorney general &lt;strong&gt;Mark Shurtleff&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705276746,00.html&quot;&gt;sue the pants&lt;/a&gt; off the BCS, just as soon as he takes care of a few other things.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jerry Brewer, &lt;em&gt;Seattle Times&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Washington and new coach &lt;strong&gt;Steve Sarkisian&lt;/strong&gt; need to find an identity other than as &lt;a href=&quot;http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/jerrybrewer/2008614242_brewer11.html&quot;&gt;USC Light&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seth Emerson, &lt;em&gt;Columbia State&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; This season's bowl &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thestate.com/gogamecocks/story/646383.html?RSS=gogamecocks&quot;&gt;winners and losers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Steven M. Sipple, &lt;em&gt;Lincoln Journal Star&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Bad agents are the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huskerextra.com/articles/2009/01/11/football/doc496945034fbf2490656814.txt?orss=1&quot;&gt;bane of college football&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</body>
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