ESPN's Ted Miller sez SuC football fans should worry

by UniversityofSecondChoice on Apr 9, 2009 12:15 PM PDT

Miller says on his ESPN's Pac-10 blog (I am bolding the fun parts):

If you're a bigger fan of USC football than basketball, it should feel worrisome.

The individuals who allegedly gave Bush cash and gifts and a rent-free home for his parents were anonymous outsiders, two men trying to become sports agents. Unless the NCAA is going to pull a rabbit out of its investigative hat, all reported connections or interactions with these men and the Trojans football program were scant and tenuous.

In other words, it didn't completely strain credulity that the coaching staff claimed ignorance.

The Mayo case had a different feel. Basketball coach Tim Floyd and his staff knew Rodney Guillory, a Los Angeles events promoter who allegedly was receiving monthly payments from the Northern California sports agency Bill Duffy Associates. They knew of the close relationship between Guillory and Mayo. They knew Mayo was a risky player to bring into the program.

By connecting the two cases, the NCAA appears to be now reviewing these investigations as systemic problems within USC's athletic department.

Yes, we're talking about the dreaded "lack of institutional control."

Or as ESPN's Pat Forde wrote in May when "Outside the Lines" broke the Mayo story: "So you take the Bush allegations, add a side of Mayo and ask the question: Has there ever been a more textbook definition of 'lack of institutional control'?'"

Which means potential penalties could include scholarship cuts, post-season bans, victories erased from the record book, etc., -- all the big ones.

As good as it feels to read all this I don't think NCAA (or the PAC) will have the gonads to do the right thing. They are going to find a way to sweep all of this stuff under the rug so that they can keep feeding the cashcow and ESPN's Mushberger and Herbstreet can keep blowing Pom Pom on national TV.

Although I have to wonder why exactly was Timmeh so anxious to get out of SuC? I don't believe it was Timmeh who turned down Arizona. I really think it was the other way around (just a hunch). I think Timmeh's desperation showed when his agent was also sniffing around the Memphis gig.

Now it looks like his players (who don't seem to be buying into his schtick) are ready to jump ship. May be something is going on?

I guess I will see it when I believe it.

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Bushmayogate Headlines!

Bushmayogate burst on the national news today via the Los Angeles Times’ extensive press coverage of this big story on the front page of the news section — oops, the seventh page of the sports section. (The front page needed to save space for an advertisement disguised as a news story, which is being criticized all over the Internet.)

Pete Carroll was said to be unavailable for comment, but off the record he made a referral. “The expert on how we conduct our program is this fellow Menelaus at Bruins Nation. He knows all about it.”

Tim Floyd did not return calls because he was washing his hair, but off the record he indicated that his policy is to encourage the highest-paid student-athletes to go pro after freshman year, “That way we they are out of here before the NCAA arrives.”

Mike Garrett declined to be interviewed, but someone close to the athletic department heard him murmur, “What me worry? We own the police! My old coach McKay cheated for years and they never took his titles away.”

Look for more coverage tomorrow tucked between the self-congratulatory pieces of the Times’ most prominent staff member, Donald T. Sterling.

by ucla7477 on Apr 9, 2009 8:52 PM PDT reply actions

Here's hoping for some follow through

I really think both the NCAA and the PAC-10 need to follow through on this, the mainstream media and bandwagon SuC fans be damned. The PAC-10 is not only one of the best sports conferences in the land, but one of the best academically as well (UCLA, Stanford, Cal, etc.). To have a university (you know which one) that has its sports program and its academic program completely divorced from one another as the PAC-10’s poster child does a disservice to the conference, its fans, and its alums—this is not the SEC after all.

This “renaissance” that the University of Compton has been experiencing over the past few years is completely due to its football program and its prominence in the national spotlight. It is still a mediocre, overpriced school, in a terrible part of town that happens to have a profession football team in the guise of a college team.

by LowerEastSideBruin on Apr 10, 2009 3:35 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

On the case...

The NCAA announced that Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden will be in charge of the Bushmayogate investigation. “Their success in prosecuting offenses by Trojans is known to all. We are confident that a similar result will be realized here.”

by ucla7477 on Apr 10, 2009 8:21 PM PDT up reply actions

ROFL!!!

sjh

by Class of 66 on Apr 11, 2009 4:09 AM PDT up reply actions

Boost Pressure on NCAA and PAC-10

Does anyone here know what snail mail or email addresses we should use to send our serious sentiments about SUC’s cheating? I think unless we put pressure on them, they will simply ignore it as they continue to do.

Is there a program that exemplifies “lack of control” than SUC? Arrests, steroids, shady figures with consistent contacts with athletes, mysterious high profile players signing on to mediocre program, violations, etc…

We need to encourage other pac-10 teams (fans) to write in as well. We want to see action…it affects all the pac-10 teams when they continually out recruits us and it seriously affects the pac-10 and in how we are always seen as a weak conference.

Send along the addresses and send it along to your friends and other boards.

by bruin_98 on Apr 11, 2009 4:40 AM PDT reply actions