Other Sports Art Thiel Laura Vecsey Rec. The idea of this Pac-10 spring football preview was to stagger the 2001 conference race. Many like to use returning starters as their top barometer for future success. In the case of those teams, however, it might be argued the bad news is they have 16 starters returning. Then there's L.A., where future professional football players spend four years underachieving or on the injury dole.
Spring is a time of rebirth.
The prognostication ordeal will be reserved for the fall, when turning red and falling out of a tree is perfectly acceptable. Five offense, six defense, one specialist. QB Marques Tuiasosopo, OG Chad Ward, OT Elliot Silvers, FB Pat Conniff, FS Hakim Akbar, LB Derrell Daniels, OLB Jeremiah Pharms. TE Jerramy Stevens, C Kyle Benn, RB Rich Alexis, DT Larry Tripplett, DE Marcus Roberson, LB Ben Mahdavi, SS Greg Carothers. It typically doesn't bode well when you have to replace your quarterback and four offensive line starters and two top backups.