PETER CARROLL TO SCHEDULE BC, UVA, TEAM OF ARMED NAVY SEALS.
Pete Carroll really will schedule anyone. We fully wanted to begin this post by saying that USC does schedule aggressively out of conference, then undercut the whole thing with a “you only play the Arkansases of the world” bit of snark + gag or two=bloggalicious content w00t!” Unfortunately memory got in the way, as USC has played Nebraska, Auburn, Virginia Tech and pretty much anyone else they could stack on their plate over the span of the Pete Carroll era.
The trend continues. Bill’s got a piece over at the Fanhouse about USC’s ongoing peeps into the ACC. Ever on the mack for more recruiting lebensraum and national profile, Carroll’s got USC already playing UVA in 2008, and plans to double up his Atlantic Coast Conferenceness with a proposed date with Boston College in 2011, a year in which Carroll plans to all but rubber-stamp his express ticket to hell by potentially beating both prominent Catholic college football schools in a single season.
Go ahead and start selling the “Highway to Hell: Trojans 2011″ t-shirts. They’ll pay for your retirement home in Oriental Mindoro in no time flat.












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#33 - There is no excuse for losing to Florida the way we did, they put it on us and really whipped our asses, my hats off to them. The did the exact same thing USC did to OU when they beat the 55-14 or whatever it was. I have my theories on why those two games went down the way they did, but that’s a whole other conversation. I don’t believe there is a single coach or player who likes the long layoff after the regular season. It does not exist in any other sport on the planet; no one waits 6-8 after the regular season to play the NCG. Could you imagine if the NCAA BBall tournament went all the way down to the semi-finals and then took 8 weeks off before playing the NCG? Or what about the NFL playoffs? Just the extra week or two off is enough to have every journalist, coach, and prognosticator buzzing over the “long layoff.” I think if for nothing else but the integrity of the NC they should find a way to do away with the long layoff.
And I would still be saying this if Ohio State was on the winning side of the NCG. It’s not an excuse - there are no excuses - we had our asses handed to us good.
Comment by tOSUBuckeyes — May 9, 2007 @ 7:44 pm
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And what would have an Ohio State vs. Wisconsin championship settled had Wisconsin won? Michigan beat Wisconsin pretty soundly and lost to Ohio State. The conference championships are a joke. Many considered LSU the most talented team, playing its best ball at the end of the season, and were they in the conference championship game? No. As I have said all along, CCGs are a waste of time and only exist to provide additional $$ for the conferences that have them. My argument has been for the SEC, Big 12, and ACC (only 1 or 2 years into their conference championship games) to drop their CCG, quit scheduling pussy 1AA schools and Sunbelt conference teams and pick up more big time OOC games.
Making the Big Ten add a team and have a conference championship solves nothing in terms of determining a true national champion, or who should play for it.
Comment by tOSUBuckeyes — May 9, 2007 @ 7:36 pm
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tOSUBuckeyes - You know, if you had a championship game this past season, then you wouldn’t have the excuse that you were off for 50+ days as the reason you lost. Then again, maybe a Big 10 CG game would have pitted you against Wisky if you were in different conf divisions. So, I think we all feel your pain when you speak against conference championship games.
Comment by Out of Conference — May 9, 2007 @ 12:00 pm
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And not to mention I have to shell out $130 to see the Mighty Penguins because of my ticket lottery. Bastards.
Comment by tOSU_radar — May 9, 2007 @ 11:32 am
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FWIW, I have my own version of Fight On, which goes:
I hate the ol’ SC
I hate the band, I hate the horse.
I hate the guy in drag
Who’s sitting on that fuckin’ horse.
I’ll add other bits as alcohol provides, such as the following:
I wish the SC band
Would learn another tune.
Someday, the ol’ SC
Will slide into the sea.
I guess this proves that I really do hate SC more than ND and duhOSU; thanks to SKLM, for leading me to yesterday’s moment of clarity.
Comment by PJ from NU in SF — May 9, 2007 @ 11:25 am