College Conference Realignment?

[Jim Richards]

I like that move.

[legion]

Eh. The whole conference thing has evolved from making sure schools had other schools to play (100 years ago), to making sure the athletic powerhouses stay athletic powerhouses and the other schools stay shut out.

College athletes haven't been student athletes in my lifetime. They are simply draft showcases as some athletes only stay in college for a year.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

SammyG is going to s h i t himself - SC ain't gonna be the cock of the walk in the Pac 10 anymore.

I wonder if they'll let Boise State in.

SC aint going to be at the top for a while, because all their talent is basically gone and they're going to get stripped of bowl eligibility because of the (alleged) actions of one ghetto thug POS. no wonder he's so popular in N.O.

Funny how just a few years ago USC was finishing above those "other" teams in the BCS standings. There was that one year when texas finished first all the best the pitiful old USC team could do was finish second in the nation, oh the shame.

BTW Boise state has already been whipping up on California teams like fresno state, harding jr. high school, jefferson elementary, etc.

Seriously, I'm a Boise st. fan and I follow them fairly closely.
There's a wide reciever on that team that could be 1st team all-american and go first round into the pros if he were 6'4".
He's listed as 6'3" but that's a bit of a "stretch" (get it?).
Unless he's grown recently he's prolly under 6'2".
He definately has the talent tho.
His name is Austin Pettis and I've been watching him play almost every game since he was a sophomore in high school at Orange Lutheran.

[Scuba Steve]

As an A&M grad it wouldn't exactly bother me if we ended up in the SEC. Especially because I'm trying to move to South Carolina and it'd be great to be able to pick up a few games on TV.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by McLovin

LOL, that's already over. Now the real reason for Cheat Carroll fleeing town has been exposed. Wow, all those years of cheating in recruiting, to get all those illiterate thug future NFL'ers, and only ONE BCS National Championship to show for it. That's some "dynasty."

Once again, you completely fail to mention any actual true facts yet you point fingers and throw around inuendo and falsehoods as if you cornered the market.

REGGIE BUSH is the one that got the school in trouble for allegedly asking for and recieving gifts that were inviolation of the NCAA policy.

THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CARROLL OR RECRUITING.

USC has 17 national championships in football. That's more than Texas and LSU combined.
Here's a few of their complishments in this decade:

Two BCS Championship Game appearances (win over Oklahoma, and a loss to Texas)
Two national championships, including the Associated Press 2003 national championship and 2004 national championship.
Seven consecutive Associated Press Top-4 finishes
A record six BCS bowl victories
A record seven consecutive BCS bowl appearances
A record seven consecutive years as Pac-10 Champions or Co-Champions
A national-record 33 consecutive weeks as the Associated Press's No. 1-ranked team
A winning record of 97–19 (85.6%)
A winning record of 16–2 against traditional rivals Notre Dame and UCLA
A NCAA record of 63 straight 20-point games
Twenty-five 1st team All-American
53 players selected in the NFL Draft, including 14 in the first round.[50]
Three Heisman Trophy winners (Carson Palmer, 2002; Matt Leinart, 2004; Reggie low-life, 2005)
Four Top-5 recruiting classes
Win streaks for home games (34) and Pac-10 home games (22).
In 2007, USC became the first NCAA FBS team to achieve six consecutive 11-win seasons[51]
In 2008, USC added an unprecedented seventh consecutive 11-win season
A 28–1 record in the month of November
Only team in history to win three consecutive Rose Bowl Games

In July 2007, ESPN.com named USC its #1 team of the decade for the period between 1996 and 2006, primarily citing the Trojans' renaissance and dominance under Carroll.[52][53] In 2007, his effect on the college football landscape was named one of the biggest developments over the past decade in ESPN the Magazine.[54] In May 2008, Carroll was named the coach who did the most to define the first 10 years of the BCS Era.[55]

I find it amusing that one POS gheto thug can bring down a high quality program by having his hand out, yet 1/4 of the starting football team at LSU can get arrested for felonies and that's perfectly OK.
Then you can have tutors and professors at a certain florida college saying that their football players could not read at a second grade level and the school administers covered it up, but USC gets hammered because of one person who would be probably be in prison if it weren't for the NFL.

Over-heard in a remedial english class at LSU:
Teacher: "Class, today we are going to learn about punctuation. Can anyone tell me what comes at the end of the sentence?"
LSU football player raises his hand and the teacher calls on him, "what comes after the sentence? That would be the appeal!"

[Jim Richards]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's always Bush's fault.

[McLovin]

Well, I guess the Carroll years now got USC exactly ZERO BCS National Championships.

Maybe they'll send in Sniper to repossess the glass football.



And, do you see what it says on the trophy? THE NATIONAL CHAMPION. There's only 1 per year, sorry. In 2003 it was LSU. In 2004 it is now going to be Oklahoma.

USC has cheated in recruiting extensively in the past decade, total lack of institutional control, with agents running amok at the place and in their locker rooms, envelopes with $1000 handed out, etc. Do you think players like OJ Mayo went to USC because of their great BB program? LOL. They do it for the "benefits," funneled to them by agents, etc. with USC turning a blind eye.

I'm surprised that such a "law and order" "do the right thing" guy like you would support such a sleazy program.

[McLovin]

"In July 2007, ESPN.com named USC its #1 team of the decade for the period between 1996 and 2006, primarily citing the Trojans' renaissance and dominance under Carroll."

Maybe ESPN.com will also strip that. I can't see how anyone can say a college football team was the "#1 team of the decade" when they won ZERO BSC National Championships in that decade. That's a joke.

At least now it is clear why Carroll fled L.A. He was smart to do it.

[McLovin]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Once again, you completely fail to mention any actual true facts yet you point fingers and throw around inuendo and falsehoods as if you cornered the market.

REGGIE BUSH is the one that got the school in trouble for allegedly asking for and recieving gifts that were inviolation of the NCAA policy.

THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CARROLL OR RECRUITING.


I find it amusing that one POS gheto thug can bring down a high quality program by having his hand out,

C'mon, you know that's not true. The NCAA isn't going to issue a major sanction like that against a university based one one player's conduct, and nothing to do with recruiting or the school's compliance with the rules. That's absurd.

The investigation involved 2 players specifically (Bush and OJ Mayo), AND the university in general. The NCAA imposed the sanctions because of what they found with those 2 players specifically, but also because of their express finding of "lack of institutional control" and "lack of commitment to compliance with the rules" by usc. They also found "serious failures of the university" and that usc is a "repeat violator." (Yes, those are quotes directly out of the NCAA's ruling).

To try to blame this all on "one POS gheto thug" is a joke.

Face it, they've run a dirty program for years. Tim Floyd knew it, that's why he resigned the head BB coaching position in disgrace. Carroll knew it, that's why he fled town. Thankfully, they've now been busted, and some measure of justice done.