Dec 23, 2011

Fiesta Bowl News & Hype

News and stuff leading up to Monday's game.

Andrew Luck declared that he will take the winter quarter off from school to get organized and focusedon the NFL draft. Choose an agent, work out, etc. He will retur to The Farm for the spring quarter and take his final 2 classes to graduate. Pretty awesome that he played football for 3.3 years and was able to take enough classes to graduate in 1 quarter less than 4 years.

Brandon Weeden (OSU QB) and Jordan Pratt (Stanford wide receiver) played pro baseball together in 2005. Straight from high school into thr farm system, then when it didnt work out, they entered college and started playing football. Weeden is "Grandpa", 28 yr old SR. Pratt is a 26 yr old freshmanthey call "The Professor". Original article.

The Cardinal Channel (stanfordathletics) on YouTube has a bunch of cool videos about the days leading up to the game, starting with travel and planning logistics getting the team out to Phoenix.