Once again, the end of the semester is here. I have just one more of this edition with my last semester coming up, but for now, I’m going to enjoy my ignorant bliss and type away to my heart’s content. While some might be fixating on what their Spotify Wrapped was for this past year, I know my dedicated readers — my grandma and Digital Managing Editor Nathan Elias — have been eagerly awaiting the signature edition of this column.

As is customary with the last edition of “The Great Debate” every semester, I have to spend some time looking back at my drawing board to see which opinions I didn’t give enough airtime for. Whether I was too busy hyper-fixating on New York sports or being out-sassed by Sports Editor Henry Mode, these ideas happened to slip my mind when it came time to write. So here are just a few of those opinions that just missed the cut.

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Robert López Duart is already a certified superstar

Arts & Entertainment Editor Fabián Gutiérrez and I have been attempting to write a feature on sophomore driver Robert López Duart, a standout transfer for Head Coach Marko Pintaric and the men’s water polo team, for quite a while now. Unfortunately, we’ll have to table that story until a later date, but that means I can give my full range of opinions on him.

Hailing all the way from Barcelona, López Duart has had no trouble at all transitioning to collegiate water polo. In his freshman season at Long Beach State, he scored 87 goals. That’s right — 87. USC’s leading goal scorer last season had 41 fewer goals.

López Duart is a goal-scoring machine who came to USC to win a national championship, but things were looking bleak for the Trojans heading into the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Conference Tournament. USC needed to win the whole thing to qualify for the upcoming NCAA Tournament.

The Trojans made it all the way to the final and were facing UCLA on Nov. 24 — who they’d lost to three times already this season — and López Duart showed up in a huge way. He tallied a hat trick in the final, including the final two goals in the fourth quarter to secure the victory for USC.

He’s leading the Trojans in goals scored this season so far as the team prepares for the NCAA Tournament. Don’t be surprised if men’s water polo runs the table and López Duart is the catalyst behind it.

The Jets will never be good, unless Woody Johnson sells the team

I’m fed up. I’ve had enough. But I’m really just tired — so damn tired of watching the New York Jets every single week. It’s gotten to the point where even my mom will kick me when I’m down and ask, “Have the Jets started losing yet?” when it’s just five minutes after kickoff. My girlfriend will even ask me why I waste so much time with this stupid team instead of watching infamous Australian YouTuber Mike’s Mic with her instead. I really can’t take it anymore.

And it’s all because of one man: Woody Johnson. There are certainly others at fault — cough, Aaron Rodgers, cough — but it all stems from Johnson. A bad owner constantly interferes with decisions that should be made by the people he hired to make them — the general manager and the head coach. Johnson consistently makes decisions for the organization, often letting emotion sway his choices. And his choices always stink.

Have an aging quarterback that’s not as good as he used to be? Bring all his other washed buddies to come join the team too. Have a failing offense that’s costing you games? Well, might as well fire your defensive-minded head coach after just five games. Johnson’s decision-making process has been awful, to say the least, and to make it worse, he won’t be returning to his post as ambassador to the United Kingdom for Donald Trump’s second presidential term, so he’s staying with the Jets for now.

The Jets won’t sniff a Super Bowl or even be a competitive team for the foreseeable future. I’m convinced I’ll never be happy as a Jets fan as long as Johnson is still calling the shots.

College basketball is so back

Back to a more positive mindset, college basketball is better than ever. It’s always exciting when collegiate hoops is back in our lives but it feels especially thrilling this year, with multiple marquee matchups and top-10 duels every single day. There’s been so much drama, and the season is barely a month old.

Take Wednesday and Thursday for example. On the men’s side, there are four top-25 matchups, with two being top-ten matchups, and on the women’s side, you have two top-10 matchups. And these are all midweek games in December.

Take even Nov. 23, for example, then-No. 3 USC took on then-No. 6 Notre Dame with neophyte sophomore guards Hanahh Hidalgo and JuJu Watkins battling it out. The very next day? Then-No. 5 UCLA broke then-No. 1 South Carolina’s 43-game winning streak and snagged the Gamecocks’ top spot in the AP Top 25.

The madness is coming early this year, and I love it. The parity is off the charts, and the scheduling has it so just about every single day there’s another marquee matchup to look out for. It’s almost sad to think about how many more months there are until I can fill out my bracket again, but I’m so excited to see where this season goes next. There’s just nothing better than college basketball.

That wraps it up with all the opinions I have left for this semester. Who knows, maybe in the spring, I’ll somehow find even more to say about USC football or stop including “ahhhhh” in all my columns. So until I sit down to write some of the final editions of my column, we’ll just have to see if my bold claims will stand up against the test of time — or however I usually end these columns.

Stefano Fendrich is a senior writing about his opinions on some of sports’ biggest debates in his column, “The Great Debate,” which runs every other Thursday. He is also the managing editor at the Daily Trojan.