Coach Bronco Mendenhall has asked the team to strive for perfection this year.  Perfection in their assignments, perfection in their effort, perfection in their focus.  The national media has taken this quest and imposed a destination, a BCS bowl game.

Taking a few weeks (months) off to regroup, Cougar Legion is putting its best foot forward to cover what could be a special year and what is already a unique program.  Anyone mentioning the Cruiser episode gets slapped with a wet tuna.  End of story.

Since there is no easy way to catch up, I’ll hit on some things I’ve found interesting in the off-season thus far and we’ll take it a bit at a time, because..well..who are we kidding, we still have about 60 days of summer doldrums until LES rocks again (no… Stadium of Fire doesn’t count.) Let’s get going.

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Fjords, the last template I was using, just wasn’t working for a sports site. The text column was too narrow to insert pictures, plus I just got sick of the light green on the site. Keep your eyes open in July or August for the brand new site with a completely custom template!

As for the NFL draft, I just don’t have the umph to do the research and write a detailed column that is distinct from what’s already out there. I’ve got a new baby at home, after all. I’ll just say this: anybody who thinks Drew Stanton, Trent Edwards, or Kevin Kolb is a better pro prospect than John Beck has estranged themselves from reality. I can’t believe some of the stuff that I’ve read the past few days about the QB draft situation! John Beck has a low release? He’s had a lot of passes batted down?! He’s a system quarterback?!?! Who the heck dreams this stuff up?!?!

I’m most interested to see if Eddie Keele gets drafted or if teams pass him up because of his injury. He’ll probably go on the second day, and the team that takes him will get a steal of a deal.