Snoop, poll have no love for West Coast

The college football season is less than a month away, and the first worthwhile poll of the season was released over the weekend with little West Coast representation.
USC was ranked second behind top-ranked Georgia in the USA Today college football coaches preseason poll. Both teams went 11-2 last season with the Bulldogs finishing ranked third and Trojans ranked second.
Last year’s No. 1, LSU, dropped to sixth in the coaches poll despite a big plug from big Snoop.
The only other teams in the poll out West were No. 16 Arizona State, No. 17 BYU, No. 20 Oregon and No. 25 Fresno State. (Don’t tell me I’m going to have to cheer on the Wonderdogs this fall, too.)
Cal was down at 32 and UCLA was at 47 or something, receiving a whopping “3” in the “others receiving votes” category.
The AP poll will be released on Aug. 16.
USC, a heavy favorite to win the Pac-10 (shocker), opens the season at Virginia on Aug. 30 before hosting Ohio State after its bye week on Sept. 13.

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Speaking of USC, what’s up with Snoop? I thought he was a Trojans fan who was ready to bust a cap on Les Miles, now they’re homies.
I guess Snoop's smoking again.

WAC, Mountain West be stupidest

Not sure why EastCoastSPN hasn’t picked up on this yet, but report cards are out and the NCAA has slapped 218 teams at 123 schools with sanctions stemming from poor academic performance as defined by Academic Progress Rates.

Teams had to meet an APR of 925, which equates to graduating about 60 percent of a team’s scholarship players.

While the numbers are getting better overall, a number of programs are still looking dumb and are losing scholarships in the process. And the WAC and Mountain West are looking really stupid (6 of the 7 football teams on notice out West).

The best West Coast teams in both football (USC) and men’s basketball (UCLA) made the cut, but there are some big names on there, including Hawaii in football and USC in men’s basketball. Also, GSnides and BG have been served notice down there at UCSB. Quit ditchin’ class to write your blogs fools.

Here are the West Region dummies in football along with the number of scholarships they’ll be limited to (out of 85) for at least another year:

Hawaii: 84
Idaho: 77
New Mexico State: 82
San Diego State: 79
San Jose State: 67
UNLV: 84
Washington State: 77

Here are the West Region dummies in men’s basketball with the number of scholarships they’ll be limited to (out of 13):
Cal State Northridge: Public notice
Cal State Sacramento: Limit of 12 next year
Colorado: Public notice
Colorado State: 11
Fresno State: 10
Hawaii: 11
Idaho: 12
New Mexico: 12
New Mexico State: 12
Portland State: Public notice
San Francisco: 12
San Jose State: 11
Southern Utah: 12
Texas State: Public notice
UC Santa Barbara: Public notice
USC: 11
Wyoming: 12