NFL Offseason - Welcome to the 11th Annual NFL Alumni Awards! Once again I use the NFL's no-longer-pretending-to-be-amateurs collegiate pipeline to gauge major conference program strength, assess who is up and who is down at the ever-volatile pro level, and start arguments, because one thing lacking in today's sports media environment is contrived conflict!
We wrap up Alumni Award Week by highlighting the best of the west, the pros from the Pac-12. Southern Cal is back, baby! Historical Trojan Trophy winners such as Anthony Munoz, Marcus Allen, Ronnie Lott, and Frank Gifford (OK, O.J. too…) are so agog with joy they have temporarily forgotten the forthcoming idiocy of jumping (along with UCLA) to the Big Ten… (For 2012-to-2016 winners, click here.