Bob Hille's Starting Five

Sporting News, The, Dec 18, 2000 by Bob Hille

1 The University of Georgia. It will have three head football coaches on its payroll as it pays off Jim Donnan's and Ray Goff's contracts. Meanwhile, the school announced a new university post: dean of the college of driver's ed.

2 Mike Riley. Here's all you need to know: He can leave the Chargers for USC's football program and, in doing so, improve both.

3 College basketball recruiting. Purdue got oral commitments from two ninth-graders who hadn't played their first high school game. Gene Keady's next trip: looking for ballhandling wizards on the set of the Harry Potter movie.

4 Paul Coffey. The Bruins were looking for a different version of Ray Bourque, and that's what they got: the slower, washed-up one.

5 Meddlesome owners. They're rich. They're obnoxious. They're unable to relate to us. They're ... just like their players.