We’re terribly late to this, but we had to share former Southern Cal basketball coach Tim Floyd breaking up a fight at what’s being called a Southern California “casino.” Really? That looks more like the food court at the Mall of America, especially with all those fatties running around. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing but love for the HOLY CRAP COACH LOOK OUT FOR THAT CHAIR! –Herm’s Perm, via SB Nation.
Southern Cal head football coach Pete Carroll has taken a look at the first 2009 BCS poll that came out earlier this week and, no sir, he doesn’t like it. As his team sits at 5-1 and fourth in the human polls, the BCS computers currently have the Dudes of Troy occupying the 11-hole. Supwiddat?!
My take is there is a big discrepancy with the computer polls (and the human polls),” Carroll said. “It’s a huge discrepancy. I would think that gives you reason to question the end result. Why would there be a big discrepancy?”
BCS expert Jerry Palm said USC’s computer ranking is lower because the Trojans played San Jose State and Washington State, who are each 1-5. –Palm Springs Desert Sun.
Hey, I didn’t think San Jose State was in the Pac-10 because OH RIGHT, THEY’RE JUST ANOTHER DIVISION SUCK NON-CONFERENCE TEAM! You know what the computers would say to you right now, Carroll? GREAT JOB AGAINST WASHINGTON, DUDE! Heaven forbid there be some component to the BCS that you find yourself completely unable to manipulate. Let’s face it, if the BCS was a 20-year-old girl, Southern Cal would win the national championship every year.
Arrogant play-calling? Misuse of talent? Unqualified coaching staff? Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? No, these weren’t the barbs directed at Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel. They’re talking about Southern Cal dude-in-chief Pete Carroll. The man who brought 1.5 national championships to LA is now under fire on the internets for dropping his team’s Pac-10 opener to Washington.
The old Pete Carroll is back…Not the guy that put together the best coaching staff in college football. It’s the guy that was run out of town on a rail at New England. He took a team that had gone to the Super Bowl and did nothing with them and drove all the fans crazy.
Now, he has the most talent of any team in the country, and he keeps dropping games to UCLA, Oregon State, Stanford, and now Washington. I can see this team losing 4 games this year. The old Pete is back. via, via.
At the center of the discussion was a late-first-half call by Pete Carroll to run for a first down on 3rd-and-1 with his team in field goal range and the clock winding down. They didn’t get the first and, with no timeouts, couldn’t get the field goal unit onto the field before the first half expired. But hey, look at him play the piano! Now if he could only get his black players to sit with his white players. Oh, and stop losing those easy conference games. That would be nice, too. vid.
While everyone in Bristol lines up to suck off a true freshman that went 3-for-5 on the team’s only true scoring drive of the night, Joe McKnight is getting snubbed out of his props for bailing out his team by earning half of his total yards during Southern Cal’s fourth-quarter rally against Ohio State in Columbus Saturday. The junior running back had two disappointing seasons as the heir apparent to another overrated Man of Troy–Reggie Bush–and yet nobody seemed to be paying attention when McKnight finally delivered in the clutch.
McKnight’s numbers were modest against Ohio State, 105 yards from scrimmage on 18 touches. But here are the numbers that count: On USC’s 14-play, 86-yard, game-winning drive, McKnight touched the ball six times and gained 53 yards, then caught a pass and scored a 2-point conversion.
“We knew from the start they’d get the ball to McKnight,” Ohio State linebacker Austin Spitler said. “We did a good job the whole game on him but we just didn’t get it done at the end.” via.
I don’t know when a 100-yard game became “modest” but be that as it may, if you will, so to speak. Everyone seemed so pleased that the game wasn’t a total blowout, but the truth is that if Jim Tressel wasn’t so hell-bent on playing Tressel-ball and Terrelle Pryor wasn’t so busy mastering the “fade-away incompletion,” Ohio State would have won that game. Now we have to hear about Matt Barkley being compared to Joe Montana…at least until they soil the bed against Washington next week.
Busted Coverage has some of the highlights of Southern Cal’s big recruiting weekend, Swim With Mike, and I can only hope that “Mike” is the brunette in the inner tube with jugs to spare. I don’t know how effective a recruiting tool it is to throw your prized recruits into a pool with the most storied cheerleading squad in all of college football. It can’t hurt. Unless some of the recruits in question are on the ‘roids. But who am I kidding, that would never happen on Pete Carroll’s watch. They run such a clean program!
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