Pros vs. Joes No. 7: If June Jones isn’t coaching in the XFL next year, start an investigation
June Sheldon Jones III may be 69, but his spirit is 39.
A new coaching adventure for Mike Riley: ‘I can’t wait to get started’
Mike Riley is preparing for another coaching adventure.
The long-time Oregon State football coach has been hired as head coach of the New Jersey Generals of the new United States Football League, which will begin play in the spring.
On the Pac-12 bowl picture, the Heisman, the Eagles’ curious two-point call and more …
A few football thoughts, along with a closing note about golf …
• The lineup of Pac-12 bowl affiliates has been slimmed considerably with the shut-down of the Sun, Holiday, Redbox and Las Vegas Bowls for this year due to COVID-19 complications.
That leaves the Rose Bowl — a CFP semifinal game this year, meaning that the Pac-12 will almost certainly not be a participant — the Alamo Bowl, the L.A. Bowl and the Independence Bowl. The Pac-12 requires a team to be .500 or better to be bowl eligible, so if a team is able to get in its scheduled seven games, it must go 4-3.
The conference has yet to announce a plan for the final weekend of regular-season play (Dec. 18-19).