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Perusing Phil Steele's Pac-10 Picks
Posted by Bob Condotta
Another day, another set of pre-season picks to pore over.
Today it's Phil Steele, though in this case all we have right now are his pre-season All-Pac-10 selections, which he released on his website today. The magazine with full previews hits newsstands in a few days.
Steele makes the ambitious effort of naming four all-conference teams, so each school ends up being pretty well represented.
He has eight Huskies on his teams, though none on the first team.
Huskies listed are: LB E.J. Savannah, second team; QB Jake Locker, OL Casey Bulyca and DE Daniel Te'o-Nesheim on the third team; and WR Chris Polk, OL Ryan Tolar, LB Donald Butler and P Jared Ballman on the fourth team.
I've always liked Steele because he packs a lot of into in his magazines and isn't afraid to make out-of-the-box picks. That said, not sure Polk is the UW receiver I would place on a fourth team. He has a lot of potential, but I think D'Andre Goodwin is the readiest to make that kind of a leap this season. The rest of the picks make some sense, though this is the lowest I've seen Locker, who is listed behind ASU's Rudy Carpenter and Arizona's Willie Tuitama. But no doubt Tuitama could put up huge numbers this season with that receiving corps and offensive game plan.
In total picks, the tally by school reads like this:
1, USC, 23
2, Arizona, 14
3, Oregon, 12
4, Arizona State, 11
5, Stanford, 10
6, Cal 9,
7, (tie) Washington, UCLA, Oregon State, 8
10, Washington State 7
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NewsvinePosted by IBC2991
4:05 PM, Jun 03, 2008
Three Oregon guys in the Secondary on 1st-team? NO CHANCE that happens.
Tolar should be 3rd-team, not Bulyca.
Mattingly and Trent (for WSU) as 4th-team guys is silly too, those two could start just about anywhere in the Pac-10 except USC.
Posted by Formerly Guest
4:23 PM, Jun 03, 2008
I don't see Trent as that great. Mattingly, yes.
Posted by smelly hippies
4:32 PM, Jun 03, 2008
I'm not sure why oregon is so high on these lists. new qb, new rb, not a great defense, road games at usc, cal, asu, osu. I'm posting this so the u of o hippies on the HUSKY blog will have something to read about in between bong hits and debating on bathing.
Posted by verlas
4:58 PM, Jun 03, 2008
anyone else notice where ucla is on this list? did they drop out of the pac-10 in the last 24 hours? interesting...
Posted by Red
5:01 PM, Jun 03, 2008
smelly, Did you read the list? Don't you see this isn't a breakdown of the schedule but of individual players???? Maybe you are on the bong.
Posted by GivingBobahardtime
5:16 PM, Jun 03, 2008
Bob, is "readiest" a word? Isn't this the professional equivalent of Locker tripping over his shoelaces?
Posted by naterob4q
6:50 PM, Jun 03, 2008
Carpeter/Tuitama?? ahead of Jake what a fool..Has Carpenter even found all his brain cells that were spread all over Sun Devil stadium after that hit on THanksgiving by Lo Jack, and Rey Maleuga? and Willie, i mean I love the uuso, but the only way that guy makes all pac-10 if he plays the HUskies 10 times a year, we made the guy look better than Tim Tebow last yea.
I ould have gone with Jake 1, then Marc Sanchez 2.
Posted by IBC2991
7:09 PM, Jun 03, 2008
Trent was 2nd-team All-Pac-10 in 2007.
Posted by Bob Condotta
7:19 PM, Jun 03, 2008
Really, you're going to jump on me for readiest? Here are 19 different accepted usages of the word
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Readiest?r=14
Posted by jh
5:05 PM, Jun 04, 2008
...everybody's and all-star in June...even Bobbi...
Posted by GivingBobahardtime
5:50 PM, Jun 04, 2008
I saw 19 different usages for "ready." As in "...I think D'Andre Goodwin is MOST READY to make that kind of a leap this season." Adding a suffix to a word doesn't necessarily make it a grammatilistically correctism.
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