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Bumping this post from June. Just in case anyone was living in a cave last few years before reading today's "news", here is another refresher. GO BRUINS. -N

bruinbabe2000 already fanshotted Michael Rosenberg's column on FoxSpots.com which gets to the heart of the ongong freakshow across town. It is so spot on that it's worth highlighting in a stand alone post on our home page. Rosenberg points right at Mike Garrett, Pete Carroll and U$C* football (emphasis added throughout):

The Trojans' football and basketball programs are under siege. Both programs have been accused of major violations. USC has shown pretty clearly that it has no interest in, you know, actually finding out what happened. The Los Angeles Times recently reported that USC has done comically little to investigate the allegations.

But even USC athletic director Mike Garrett knows he can't escape major accusations in the two biggest sports. Somebody had to pay here. And asking USC to choose between football and basketball is like asking Saudi Arabia to choose between its oil and its racehorses. One is a fun diversion; the other one pays all the bills.

Rosenberg then speculates in terms of what led to Floyd's not so shocking departure from U$C*:

Garrett wanted Floyd gone, and Floyd knew it. So Garrett and USC pulled one of the top recruits in the country away from him.

Does anybody think USC would have done the same to Pete Carroll? Make no mistake: Tim Floyd made his own professional deathbed. If Floyd was truly innocent, of course he would speak up for himself. He wouldn't just resign.

Instead, Floyd leaves because USC had to sacrifice somebody. More than three years have passed since Yahoo Sports reported that an agent paid Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush well into six figures while Bush played for the Trojans. That case is still pending. It has become quite obvious that USC would like that case to pend for another few centuries.

USC can try a divide-and-survive strategy with the NCAA:

1. Admit that the basketball program has been naughty.

2. Say the school is offended and will punish itself thoroughly for those transgressions.

3. Say, "hey, we're obviously tough on crime around here — look at what we did to our basketball program. But we discovered our football program is clean. Jeez Louise, what a relief!"

Tim Floyd dove into hot water. He deserved what he got. But as you list his sins, please include this one: He didn't coach football.

Take in rest of the must read column here.

GO BRUINS.

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The links do not lead to the Michael Rosenberg analysis...

Just the AP whitewash. Has Fox purged it? Or am I blowing it? Thanks in advance for the help.

by waters96 on Jan 3, 2010 2:53 PM PST reply actions  

Ha, you are right

The column was pulled. Oh well we have the key grafs excerpted here now.

by Nestor on Jan 3, 2010 2:55 PM PST up reply actions  

must have struck a nerve

for Fox to pull the column so quickly. Why not fire off an email to Rosenberg just to ask, you know, how it felt to have a column pulled for speaking the truth.

The best thing you can do for your children is to love their mother. John Wooden

by MexiBruin on Jan 3, 2010 5:08 PM PST up reply actions  

Wow!

That’s amazing. Yes, and thank you for pulling they key graphs.

I thought a commenter over there raised a good point. Not that I really care about the current players or coach, but why punish the current players and coach alone for acts committed by a former player and a former coach. Why don’t they go after Floyd and Mayo criminally and/or in civil court. And also, why hasn’t the NCAA gone after them.

by waters96 on Jan 3, 2010 2:59 PM PST reply actions  

the article was pulled??

what kind of conspiracy is this! This is good stuff though, the Saudi Arabia line was a classic.

William Doolittle at your service, a.k.a. will do.

by Ollie on Jan 3, 2010 3:24 PM PST reply actions  

This almost makes me more pissed off

because I can see the NCAA backing off (whatever they had going) and saying the $cumbags have suffered enough. I won’t be satisfied until they forfeit every game Bush and McKnight played in and remove scholarships and impose a couple year postseason ban on football. (I know there are many more shady players in the program, but the NCAA doesn’t seem to care about the rapists, robbers, and assaults, just these two guys among many who were payed to play) The death penalty would be nice too, but that will NEVER happen with the pansies from the NCAA.

by sponkey21 on Jan 3, 2010 3:38 PM PST reply actions  

Quote of the year

""When we’ve done something wrong, we have an obligation to do something about it and that is exactly what we are doing here," athletic director Mike Garrett said in a statement. "

by apbruin on Jan 3, 2010 3:56 PM PST via mobile reply actions  

LMAO!

"The entire world that bleeds blue and gold ... they have been dying for this." - Coach Rick Neuheisel

by uclafan11 on Jan 3, 2010 4:07 PM PST up reply actions  

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