The Trojans brought O.J. Mayo in to their basketball program in the most publicly illegal way possible. Their best football player of the last decade, Reggie Bush, reportedly took hundreds of thousands of dollars from a wannabe sports marketer while in school. Their best running back last season, Joe McKnight, reportedly drove a Land Rover registered to another marketer.
For years, USC has stonewalled all investigations. USC thinks the "N" in NCAA stands for "nuisance" and the other three letters aren't worth learning.Now, with the NCAA finally dragging its USC investigation(s) to the finish line, USC athletic director Mike Garrett just hired ... Lane Kiffin. [...]
USC doesn't care about any of it. I think Garrett saw the recent ESPN documentary on Miami's football program and thought it was an instructional video. [...]
Most schools in this position do what they can to convince the NCAA they are sorry. They scrounge up evidence that they have changed their ways. Sorry, but you can't trot Lane Kiffin in front of the NCAA and say things have changed. USC must know that. USC just doesn't care.
USC is just confirming what people already suspected about it. And Kiffin is confirming what people suspected about him.
USC is asking for trouble (SI.com) (emphasis ours)
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I think Garrett saw the recent ESPN documentary on Miami’s football program and thought it was an instructional video.
That’s a great line.
Go Bruins!
ha
i just fanshotted that line while this was going up. Feel free to delete that N.
Has there ever been a player better than Detlef Schrempf?
by bucknellbruin on Jan 13, 2010 10:59 AM PST up reply actions
Not news
but a key ingredient in fostering the $c environment.
If USC were a public university, with elected trustees, subject to Freedom of Information Act requests, the Trojans probably couldn’t get away with this.
Great article, but you know it got me thinking
If the NCAA has already sent a letter to USC outlining their violations, and USC has responded, yet USC has the balls to go out and hire another troublemaker in Kiffen, to me that means:
1. The violations that the NCAA will report back are minor, USC knows this, so they just don’t care since they are not going to get hit hard.
2. They are going to get hit hard, but neither the coaches or administration cares.
3. They’re the biggest bunch of idiots.
Now I wouldn’t put #3 past them, but I can’t believe they’re that dumb. As for #2, if I was Ed O, or Monty Kiffen, why would I want to come to $C, makes no sense. Lane Kiffen’s an idiot so we know why he came. This makes me believe maybe it’s #1? Someone convince me I’m wrong!
you underestimate
Lame and Ogre’s burning desire to replicate their “good years”.
They’ve each tried now, on their own and together, and failed miserably.
The only environment in which they think they can succeed is at U$C*. And they’re welcoming them with open arms (while flipping the bird to the NCAA with each hand).
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
plus $c's compliance department
doesn’t really exist in reality like the one at UT
"If you don't take out his battery, he's going to keep going all day."
by S Jay Bruin on Jan 13, 2010 11:38 AM PST up reply actions
4 compliance officers
for 19 sports.
That sounds exactly like the wall street banks, and we all know where they ended up.
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
"Sacrificial Coach"
I’ve been thinking that the Kitten might be SUC’s “sacrificial coach” that they hire to get through the impending sanctions, only to hire a good coach when the position is more appealing/less toxic. Either that or they really want the Ogre and his “recruiting prowess” because they know they’re gonna lose schollies so they need to recruit very well to still be able to compete (always).
This writer gets it
Great article. Nailed SC’s ethos to the wall. My favorite quote:
“Lane Kiffin, Mike?
Really?
What happened?
Did Barry Switzer say no?"
UCLA's most famous athlete: Jackie Robinson
U$C's most famous athlete: OJ Simpson
'Nuff said
Why Are We So Concerned about blasting LK?
Pete is gone. That is great news. He was a great recruiter (by whatever means) and built a mini-dynasty. CRN had an uphill battle against him. Now, LK, Petey Jr., is in. CRN will have at least a level playing field against him. Its all good news. If SUC is sanctioned, deservedly so, and all the better. If we can’t win now, its because we can’t compete. I say we can. I love my team. Go Bruins.
Not blasting LK because we're scared of him
but because he’s a despicable human being that will take the classiness away from a great rivalry.
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
I'll admit, and I've said it before
that if SC is let off clean and Kiffin is able to recruit the same way he did at tennessee and the same way Petey did while he was here, I’ll be a bit scared, and will have lost my faith in the integrity of sport.
William Doolittle at your service, a.k.a. will do.
Don't you think
that every single college coach would be in uproar if this happened? It would make the Pac-10 and the NCAA look like complete buffoons.
Leave it to U$C to completely destroy college football.
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
To answer the question:
I love my team as well. Why blast LK? The same reason we blasted Cheatey, Timmeh, Robinson, O’Neill, Bibby, Hackett, etc. They’re Trojans. ’Nuff said.
NCAA's fault?
At some point don’t we have to ask the question of this being the NCAA’s fault? They are the ones that allowed SC to run wild for years and foster this kind of behavior to the point that there is no respect for the NCAA’s “authority”.
Absoloutely
Even in Cheatey’s remarks regarding the sanctions, the Bush investigation has been going on for years. Why would they worry about breaking rules when no one has so much as even taken a single scolarship, win, or recruiting day from these guys since all of this stuff had come out. They are worthless enablers at best and co-conspiritors at worst.
"If you don't take out his battery, he's going to keep going all day."
by S Jay Bruin on Jan 13, 2010 12:03 PM PST up reply actions
It's not the ncaa's fault
To be blunt, that’s trOJie thinking. If a person cheats, then the fault lies in the person who cheats. A person’s character flaws can’t be blamed on someone else.
difficult to say
It’s hard to assign “fault” in the situation they and the NCAA are in— as mentioned above, at the very least the NCAA is enabling the misbehavior. It may not be the NCAA’s fault that SUC is a bunch of cheaters, but it most certainly is their fault that SUC is getting away with it for four years and counting (at least on the bush issue).
Does that put them at fault for the current situation? Who knows. If the NCAA had come down hard on them in 2006, would we have the Joe McSUV scandal? Who knows. There’s no sense in blaming the NCAA for anything other than letting the Trojies get away with whatever they please.
To underscore your point,
and to see what trOJie thinking is like, you have only to take Mark McGwire’s “coming clean” performance. Sorry he played in the “steroid era.” Wished it had never happened. But, in any case, no performance enhancement was obtained. It was all for health issues.
Not one gram of personal responsibility. Not one nod to the core truth of it all—OF COURSE it enhanced performance.
trOJies have the uncommon ability to create an idiotic version of “truth,” no matter how ridiculous, and to think you an idiot for not buying it. In this way, they really do not care how stupid they look.
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