Mule
"USC doesn't suck and they are over rated. Because of the size of their market they get every benefit of the doubt. Sportswriters tend to be based either on the west coast or the northeast, neither region very friendly to the south. Remember, the NCAA Championship is decided by votes, not a contest."

benefit of the doubt? Maybe you missed the call when USC played Texas, really bad call there.
As for "Coach Miles" who cares what he says, where is he from?

Vince Young whipped USC's ass and you're still crying almost two years later?

What about 2003? USC beats a lame Mich team and gets voted 1/2 the nat championship? See if you can go look at their half of the trophy!

You might want to check into who Les Miles is. He is the guy that will make you cry this year should the condoms make it that far.

Mule,
do schools in Oklahoma, Tennessee and Florida have a GPA requierment for football players, how many graduate?
It seems when they announce pro players from USC, UCLA, CAL, Stanford, they say "graduated from" and when they announce players from your group, they just say "out of"
Why is that?

Last I saw, the 2003 National Championship trophy has not been cut in half!

http://images.dawgsports.com/images/...l_football.jpg

Dean, don't start talking about SC's graduation to felony conviction ratio

UCLA, Cal and Stanford, I get your point.

But good gawd, you can't be trying to put USC into that category?!? If UCLA, Cal and Stanford had the sad "admissions" requirements of USC, the PAC 10 would be much more competitive. Actually, given the recruiting disadvantage that schools like UCLA, Cal and Stanford have, it's amazing they do as well as they do. UCLA, Cal and Stanford are simply in a different academic and admissions league than USC.

USC graduates a lot of players because there is basically no requirements for them to graduate, if they just show up, they graduate.

How's trOJan doing?

OJ hasn't been convicted of anything yet. I don't know why.

Mule


"Vince Young whipped USC's ass and you're still crying almost two years later?

What about 2003? USC beats a lame Mich team and gets voted 1/2 the nat championship? See if you can go look at their half of the trophy!"

Still crying about that, that was four years ago.

Ya mean like this guy?
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1190045265.jpg

With such distinguished alumnus I can understand your arrogance.

I see the ranking as this... the preseason #1 USC is 10-2 last year, they win the rose bowl by 14 points. They just happened to beat a Michigan team in that game that has many returning starters for 2007. We all know how good Michigan is. How does that constitute being #1? It doesn't. They are overrated, plain and simple. Why isn't Florida at the top of the rankings prior to season play, the last I checked, they won the title last year.

Mule, you are opening a whole new line when you want to talk about football players and police problems, might not be that good for you.

I see, you could have shown me all the multiple murderers let off by his fans from LSU but you wanted to be kind, right?

I don't want to put words into anyones mouth, but maybe he's trying to insinuate that if USC had to play in the SEC they'd become the whipping boy. If so, I completely agree. The PAC 10 just doesn't have a leg to stand on when you talk about strength of schedule.

1) LSU football coach Les Miles has suspended DL Chase Pittman indefinitely following his arrest for assault earlier this week.

2) Detectives with Baton Rouge police arrested an LSU football player on campus Thursday afternoon. Derrick Odom, III is now facing some serious charges. Coach Les Miles has suspended Odom from the team, but he is still gathering information and trying to figure out what happened.

3) Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Two LSU football players are accused of breaking into a campus apartment, stealing a backpack that held money and credit cards, and using a stolen credit card to buy more than $200 worth of items online.
Offensive lineman Zhamal Thomas, 20, of New Iberia, and defensive back Troy Giddens, 19, of Hammond were suspended from the team after their arrests Monday, LSU sports information director Michael Bonnette said Thursday.


4) BATON ROUGE, La. -- Former LSU football player Troy Giddens, who was removed from the roster after an arrest several weeks ago, has been arrested again after allegedly punching a current member of the team.
Giddens, 19, was arrested early Monday and booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on one count of second degree battery and one count of simple battery after he allegedly hit freshman defensive tackle Joseph Barksdale of Detroit, LSU Police Chief Ricky Adams said.

5) Another LSU Football player arrested last night...
OL Kyle Anderson was arrested for 2nd Degree Battery last night stemming from a fight in Tigerland which resulted in the victim being hospitalized. He was booked into the the East baton Rouge Parish Prison this morning, around 3am.


That was all on the first page of a google search and all occured this year. 6 arrests and 4 suspensions. In one season!
Should I see what's on page two?
Still wanna see which school produces more criminals from their footbal teams? Does LSU have any football players left that aren't in jail or suspended?

I missed the double murders Sammy.

that was 10 years ago...and its one guy

And he only killed 2 people. look guys, ALL division 1 football is crooked. Think I'm lying? Go to practice. See what kind of cars they drive. Kid from the ghetto, Lexus suv. Reggie Bush was getting paid. What a shock. Word in Baton Rouge was that when Kevin Faulk went to the league, he took a pay cut. This got started because "the" stated that only west coast players graduate. Everybody else does whatever? Tennesse has one of the highest graduation rates in div 1 and everybody in div 1 graadutes dumb asses. If you can run & catch, we'll read & write for ya! All that said, "the," the PAC 10 ain't called the ******* Athletic Conference for nothing.

I never said that only west coast players graduate, you must be thinking of someone else. I also agree that the PAC 10 is an overall weak football conference. Again, you must be thinking of someone else.

My appologies, I should have said BeyGon. Sorry.

Even now you are mixed up, you need to go back and read the post.
Not a problem, I understand, and no matter what you say, the guy wasn't convicted of anything. You need to find another example. Sorry you guys are so prejudiced against California, I mean we did invent the BOWL GAME. On New Years Day. But the east coast can't handle it and all the votes are there so they just made it a nothing game. Even though it was just a PAC 10-Big 10 game, it just had toooo much coverage.

The least you could do is be creative........we don't grow much corn in KS.

Woo freakin who. So the Rose Bowl is the sole property of USC? Hey, they can have it. If the PAC 10 commissioner has his way, he'll drop out of the BCS if they institute a 5th national championship game. PAC 10, afraid of playing the best teams in the nation from OUTSIDE their conference? Big shock there.............

I wouldn't go bragging too much about inventing bowl games. If ya'll (southern colloquialism, translates to you guys) hadn't screwed up the works, we'd already have a playoff system. And USC STILL doesn't play anybody.

I think that USC should have beat us by more than they did and I think they should go down in the rankings. Callahan is on his way out he has 2 years left.. then we can get back to Midwest football instead of playing like west coast limp wristed pansy's.

Did you notice the 3rd/4th string players for USC in the second half, they must have played everyone that suited up. So Nebraska scored a couple times, it gave the USC backups some practice. I don't think Pete is into running up the score like some other coaches. He doesn't need that to feel good.
I guess if some of the limp wristed teams like Nebraska and Teneesseee declined to play USC they would have to play the big guys.
There is always next week. Are they scheduled to play a good team next week?
Or will it be another "over rated" bunch of limp wrist pansies?

I do get sick of hearing "Nebraska has an easy schedule" LOL you Kalifornians are weird. What big guys are you talking about? What if Nebraska told you ******* limp wristed west coasters to **** off? Then you would have to play "hard" teams and we would all have to hear you cry and moan.

Did you read my post?

Yes. again, LOL you Kalifornians are weird. Rankings don't mean too much anyways.

I land at LAX in a few hours.

I find it amusing that fans of the loosing team are calling the winning team wimpy because the winning team didn't run up the score on them.
The USC running backs were getting 15 or 20 yards a carry so regularly that it had me laughing out loud. I would be embarrased if I was on the other team. If USC wanted to run up the score they could have just kept running the ball with their starters and rushed for 10 touchdowns.

Don't hate the player... hate da game! :D:p:D

Yeah...calm down guys, it'll all work out come January. After all, the B(c)S runs things well, right? :rolleyes:

Don't beat around the bush. Go ahead & spit it out. List the hitters on the USC condom's schedule. And leave out the crap about people being scared to play 'em. Gimme the list & we'll talk some more.

USC Schedule:

Sat. Sep. 1 10:15 PM p.m. ET Idaho 38-10 W Recap | Box
Sat. Sep. 15 8:00 PM p.m. ET at Nebraska 49-31 W Recap | Box
Sat. Sep. 22 8:00 PM p.m. ET Washington State - - -
Sat. Sep. 29 8:00 PM p.m. ET at Washington - - -
Sat. Oct. 6 7:00 PM p.m. ET Stanford - - -
Sat. Oct. 13 2:00 PM p.m. ET Arizona - - -
Sat. Oct. 20 3:30 PM p.m. ET at Notre Dame - - -
Sat. Oct. 27 3:00 PM p.m. ET at Oregon - - -
Sat. Nov. 3 8:00 PM p.m. ET Oregon State - - -
Sat. Nov. 10 8:00 PM p.m. ET at California - - -
Thu. Nov. 22 8:00 PM p.m. ET at Arizona State - - -
Sat. Dec. 1 4:30 PM p.m. ET UCLA - - -

Some real juggernauts there.:rolleyes:

Considering that LSU plays FL and OU plays UT in the next couple of weeks, I'd say that USC has it pretty damn easy.

Let's see, 3 ranked teams and at least 5 nobodys. No wonder the mascot wears a skirt.

Get past Cal and Oregon, and your second string can play out the rest. Counting NU, only three ranked teams.

LSU schedule:
Thu. Aug. 30 8:00 PM p.m. ET at Mississippi State 45-0 W Recap | Box
Sat. Sep. 8 9:15 PM p.m. ET Virginia Tech 48-7 W Recap | Box
Sat. Sep. 15 8:00 PM p.m. ET Middle Tennessee 44-0 W Recap | Box
Sat. Sep. 22 3:30 PM p.m. ET South Carolina - - -
Sat. Sep. 29 1:00 PM p.m. ET at Tulane - - -
Sat. Oct. 6 8:00 PM p.m. ET Florida - - -
Sat. Oct. 13 11:00 AM a.m. ET at Kentucky - - -
Sat. Oct. 20 8:00 PM p.m. ET Auburn - - -
Sat. Nov. 3 5:00 PM p.m. ET at Alabama - - -
Sat. Nov. 10 8:00 PM p.m. ET Louisiana Tech - - -
Sat. Nov. 17 12:00 PM p.m. ET at Mississippi - - -
Fri. Nov. 23 3:30 PM p.m. ET Arkansas - - -

FL schedule:
Sat. Sep. 1 12:30 PM p.m. ET Western Kentucky 49-3 W Recap | Box
Sat. Sep. 8 6:00 PM p.m. ET Troy 59-31 W Recap | Box
Sat. Sep. 15 3:30 PM p.m. ET Tennessee 59-20 W Recap | Box
Sat. Sep. 22 12:30 PM p.m. ET at Mississippi - - -
Sat. Sep. 29 11:00 AM a.m. ET Auburn - - -
Sat. Oct. 6 8:00 PM p.m. ET at LSU - - -
Sat. Oct. 20 11:00 AM a.m. ET at Kentucky - - -
Sat. Oct. 27 3:30 PM p.m. ET at Georgia - - -
Sat. Nov. 3 11:00 AM a.m. ET Vanderbilt - - -
Sat. Nov. 10 11:00 AM a.m. ET at South Carolina - - -
Sat. Nov. 17 11:00 AM a.m. ET Florida Atlantic - - -
Sat. Nov. 24 5:00 PM p.m. ET Florida State - - -

OU schedule:
Sat. Sep. 1 7:00 PM p.m. ET North Texas 79-10 W Recap | Box
Sat. Sep. 8 12:00 PM p.m. ET Miami (FL) 51-13 W Recap | Box
Sat. Sep. 15 3:30 PM p.m. ET Utah State 54-3 W Recap | Box
Fri. Sep. 21 8:00 PM p.m. ET at Tulsa - - Preview
Sat. Sep. 29 12:00 AM a.m. ET at Colorado - - -
Sat. Oct. 6 12:00 PM p.m. ET at Texas - - -
Sat. Oct. 13 12:00 AM a.m. ET Missouri - - -
Sat. Oct. 20 12:00 PM p.m. ET at Iowa State - - -
Sat. Nov. 3 12:00 PM p.m. ET Texas A&M - - -
Sat. Nov. 10 12:00 AM a.m. ET Baylor - - -
Sat. Nov. 17 2:00 PM p.m. ET at Texas Tech - - -
Sat. Nov. 24 12:00 PM p.m. ET Oklahoma State - - -

LSU: 5 ranked, several highly, as well as a couple of fringe teams.

FL: 5 ranked.

OU: 3 ranked, the weakest of these three. But, many of the other Big 12 teams are still quite good.

They don't call it the ******* Athletic Conference for nothing. Hike when the energy's right dude!