ONEPEAT STRIKES FIRST

Did they alreayd get the truck? Looks photoshopped to me, although your right, its impossible to tell anymore.

the truck is photoshopped. i’m sure they’ll have real pics when it actually happens.

the billboard is definitely real though. and as someone who lived in LA (and watched my irish get humbled in that stadium in horrific fashion) i have to say that the location is perfect. figueroa is a major road that runs right next to the coliseum.

god bless those guys.

As a Texas fan, I’d like to point out that most Texas fans think the onepeat.com nonsense is just that. USC had a great team for a couple of years and I’m all for anything that pushes the loathsome memories of some other “dynastic” teams (ie OUsucks) out of the collective memory.

Anyway, just want to point out that while we Longhorns were really irritated with the pro-USC hoopla before the Rose Bowl, we realized that it only served our interests afterwards when we slayed the dragon. If you want to get historical about it, I like to think of USC as the Jin Dynasty and Texas as the Mongol Horde with Vince Young and Genghis Khan. Unfortunately, this comparison peters out when one realizes that once Genghis was gone, his successors couldn’t really keep up the momentum and eventually the Mongols faded away (or were absorbed by those they conquered). Dang, never mind.

Seriously, this is pretty sad. LSU fans need to realize that no one was trying to slight them by mentioning USC’s two-peat. Everyone considers their ‘03 team to be national champions too. It’s the way a SPLIT championship works. When there is a split title like in ’03, it means that two teams can claim to have won the same championship. For those corndogs who have trouble understanding this, 2 = more than 1.

For the record, this type of situation has happened before most recently in ‘97 with Michigan and Nebraska, and you don’t see their fan bases raising a stink and putting up billboards.

I’ve got a solution for you. Go out and win an undisputed title this year and shut up about your split title in ’03.

I know the government in Louisiana that’s modeled after French law (no wonder Cajuns are so strange) makes it tough for you to comprehend things going on outside of your state’s borders, but believe it or not, a lot of very reputable people recognize both USC and LSU as having won the national title in 2003.

USC is the closest thing to a dynasty currently in college football. They’ve lose 3 games in 4 years, so they deserve the attention they’re getting. Get over it, and go take a shower. You smell like a corndog.

typo above should be lost not lose

Nice historical comparison, Kahuna. (The Jin certainly didn’t know what they were dealing with in the Mongols.) Young was certainly a Genghis in his own right, though hopefully he won’t follow Genghis’s lead in the humping department: a genetic study a few years ago estimated that 1 percent of the world’s people were direct male line descendants of Genghis Khan. If Vince sets half that pace, he’ll be in Shawn Kemp territory.

Have him take this test

Make sure he knows its easier then the Wonderlic test

Mr. Rebel84. Get your facts straight. The current BCS alignment did not come into being until ’98 when the Big 10 joined the BSC Alliance. That is why you had a split NC between Neb & Mich in ’97 (The Big 10 was not part of the BSC at that time). All conferences (including the Pac 10) agreed to the current alignment in 1998 that the BCS formula would produce a national champion, which is what occurred in 2003. USC, as a member of the Pac 10, is a partner in that agreement and should be held to it.

I see you already got this one, Orson my love, but here’s a blurb on the original study.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0214_030214_genghis.html

Oh, and it’s only half a percent of the world’s men that are direct male line descendants, but I bet if you add in the ladies it’s a full percent.

All I’m saying is that Genghis had 4 separate harems in 4 cities throughout his empire. The man never does anything halfway does he?

Thanks for the clarification. NOW BACK TO THE SALT MINES WITH YOU! [mmmwwah!]

The Genghis Khan “Cribs” would have kicked ass.

it shoudl also be noted that the guys putting up the sign are ucla fans, so the rebel “corndog” rant is quite misdirected. but hey, the guy’s from mississippi, we’re just happy he can use a dang ole comp-yoo-ter.

Funny spelling, tjf.

i just channeled my inner bowden.

LSU lost (at home) to the Zooker and still claims the 2003 National Title? Looking more and more dubious as the years pass. Can the NCAA or IOC or UN strip them of the half title retroactively?

Those jokers down at the bayou (LSU), “steers and _ land” (TX) or FUCLA never learn, all press, even bad press is better than none.

One of my best friends goes to USC. I’ll have to ask her about it and report back.

Please do not allow this thread to get hijacked into yet another “Dude, USC totally won a title in 03” “No way dude” argument.

And at that, I believe I was promised naked Lindsay Jacobellis photos? [/Homer “and I believe I was promised pie”]

Patrick,

All the BCS does is determines who wins the coaches’ poll, nothing more nothing less. It’s the same old UPI poll we have always had, except now their is a formula for who wins the coaches poll. The BCS (who is just “renting” the AFCA trophy) is merely some media fairy dust sprinkled on the coaches poll. That’s all.

Normally it works out such that the AFCA and Bear Bryant Trophies go to the same team, but it didn’t in 2003. The BCS even acknowledges the co-champinship on its website.

In the end, it all comes down to how you value integrity.

If you believe the coaches should have to vote agaisnt their honest assessment of teams to honor a contractual obligation, then LSU gets a co-championship in 2003. If you believe the coaches should vote honestly, without influence, then it’s very likely USC is the unanimous #1 in 2003, as they were in the polls immediately prior to the bowls.

See, and all this time I thought the BCS formula determined who played in the BCS title game.

Get out of town! You meaning the polls in college football are political?!?! Next you’ll be telling me that Fulmer loves them jelly donuts.

The bottom line is that until there is a playoff (a 2 team playoff doesn’t count), there will always be the possibility of a split championship. By the way, LSU is the only team since the inception of the BCS to have won the ADT trophy but not win the AP’s trophy. That in and of itself makes it different from the titles that Tennessee, Florida State, Oklahoma, Miami, Ohio State, USC ‘04, and Texas won since ’98. It doesn’t make it any less valuable, just different.

As a Dawg, I like to believe that LSU won the title in ’03. It makes that asspounding in the Dome seem a little be better. Thus, I also give my NC to Auburn for their ’04 effort. Go ahead and hang that flag, too.

I second LD: I can guarantee you I won’t weigh in on this if you come through with the Jacobellis pictures.

Mmmm, pie.

USC didn’t make the Sugar Bowl because of a bad formula that was based too much on schedule strength that the BCS was smart enough to change the next year. Saying that LSU was the only National Champion that year is saying that computers should be the primary factor in deciding the champion.

In 2003, the AP Poll was still used as part of the BCS formula. Therefore, to recognize a separate AP national champion from the BCS national champion was complete BS.

Since 2003, the AP has pulled its poll from the BCS formula, so if they want to award a national champion and have it considered legitimate, that’s at least understandable. But prior to the AP pulling its poll from the BCS, a “split” NC is nonsense — USC’s supposed NC in ’03 is pure fiction.

I’m going to step outside the College Football Box for a second.

Isn’t this going a little too far? Isn’t this moving billboard a bit much? Why not use the excess money and donate it to those in Louisiana who are getting kicked out of their neighborhoods because they have no where to live?

When you are spending 11k+ on billboards over a game and only 2k on people who have nowhere to live and much more important things to worry about then how many NC’s USC has won i think your priorities are a bit mixed up.

I’m not saying onepeat.com shouldnt spend their money how ever they want, i just think it could be put to better use.

Free Logan Young, close, but not quite.

The AP pulled out of the BCS after the 04 season, claiming the BCS was “illegally” using it poll. They’d only been reporting on it for, oh, a decade, and then they suddenly “discovered” that the BCS was using it. This was a poor effort to separate themselves from the mess that was the 04 season – 5 teams finished undefeated regular seasons, 3 from BCS conferences, and 3 finished the bowls undefeated.

The AP lost all integrity, IMHO, when they suddenly dropped out after the 04 season claiming the BCS was “illegally” using their poll. Perhaps the AP writers shouldn’t vote and push for college football to be less like ice dancing where opinions rule and more like a real man’s sport where head to head competition trumps opinions made by potential advertising revenue.

Well said, PLACT Irish. Besides, why did they put up the billboard in Los Angeles? You mean to tell me LSU wouldn’t claim an AP national title? Yeah right.

The AP wouldn’t give a separate title to the likes of LSU. That honor is reserved for the likes of ND and USC.

Assuming that they would, FLY, wouldn’t LSU claim it? Of course they would.

Whether they would claim it or not doesn’t speak to the merits of the argument: that an AP title in 2003 is purely mythical (as opposed to the semi-mythical title handed out by the BCS).

Genghis and the Horde had a crushing ground game, but no air attack. Not balanced enough to win a NC and don’t get me started on the effects of servicing 4 harems.