Morning links: Sarkisian out at USC

The big news yesterday was that USC has fired Steve Sarkisian just one day after placing the coach on a leave of absence. Many analysts are placing blame for Sarkisian’s rapid fall on school administrators. Dan Wolken has a list of 10 possible replacements . Ted Miller says that athletic director Pat Haden shouldn’t make the hire . Clay Helton is going to be USC’s coach for the time being . It will be interesting to hear what he has to say on today’s Pac-12 coaches’ teleconference.

In WSU news the Cougars had their weekly press conference yesterday. That means we have our weekly notebook , first look at Oregon State and a transcription of Mike Leach’s remarks. We also transcribed some of the highlights from our player interviews.

Jeff Nusser at CougCenter’s Monday post was bit cheerier this week. … Stefanie Loh looks at how the Cougars stack up against OSU. … The WSU Football Blog wrote about managing expectations . … Luke Falk tops the Pac-12 Blog’s QB Power Rankings this week. … The Evergreen State has a lot of football momentum right now.

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