Looks like a top ranked and highly sought after recruit, Earnest Thomas, a safety from Michigan has picked UCLA over Michigan, Illinois, Penn State, and 13 other offers including Stanford. Since Stanford offered, you can be sure he is a great student. He has nice size and looks like a good get. With some added weight and size, he could conceivably even play linebacker or be a monster at Safety. Looks like CRN pulled a rabbit out of a hat with this one. I certainly didn't see this coming as our next commit.

http://recruiting.scout.com/2/876500.html

Think about it, given Troy Aikman's recent comments regarding his distance from UCLA, his desire to be a larger part of it's FB program, his comments about the recruting class, considering how fond CRN is of Troy and the fact that he just got his BA. Do you think there is a plan or he is setting himself up to be a coach? Maybe QB coach? We sure need one.

You do have to have a degree to coach at UCLA. Was there an ulterior motive to Troy finally getting his degree? Think about it. Hmmmmm.

Just in. Jill Painter from the Daily News is reporting that J'mison Morgan's brother has confirmed his inetent to transfer to UCLA, pending his release from his LSU LOI. He also says that they fully expect the LSU administration to grant his release. Did Ben Howland know something we didn't when he released Chace Stanback? Meaning, did he already have a good idea of who will be coming back, who he is still going after that will come to UCLA, etc. and therefore lead Chace in the direction of transfering? This would certainly be a huge coup for Howland and for UCLA. This would cement our stellar class and make us extremely formidable next year no matter who comes back. Getting Shipp, Aboya, and Mbah Moute would certainly help.

Very interesting indeed. Here is the post on DN's blog:

Posted by Jill Painter at 10:46 AM
I just spoke with Ronnie Morgan, J'Mison Morgan's brother, and he said ``he's planning for sure to attend UCLA next year.''
Morgan also said he believes LSU will let J'Mison Morgan out of his letter-of-intent, paving the way for Morgan to play for the Bruins this season.
``They haven't made an (official) decision yet, but they say they're going to (grant the release),'' Ronnie Morgan said."

I'm sorry guys. I know this story is a week old story, but I don't remember anybody posting about it on here. In any event, I just couldn't resist.

It seems that PUSC has just released it's grades for Basketball and Football for last semester. Let's just say they weren't exactly stellar. They were more like cellar and not as in a good vintage either. Academically, it was certainly another bad year for their sports teams. Are you ready for this? The Football team came in at a whopping 2.36 GPA. HAHAHAHA. You heard right. Timmeh's crew took time off from watching free Laker games and put the full court press on the Football team by crushing them with a 2.37 GPA. I guess this is what Brian Dohn wants for our teams. If we do what he recommends and drop our entrance standards, this is very well where we might be.

This of course comes from TrOJie Scotty's blog. Here is the link.

http://www.insidesocal.com/usc/archives/2008/01/grade-check-4.html

LMFAO, at one of the posters on the Grade check, II entry.

"Oldestundergrad said:
as someone who started going this year, i have heard from faculty and alums alike that things have really stepped up across the school.

i just broke a 3.0 in the business school, and i know i don't have the unpaid full time job of being an athlete. "

WOW! HAHAHAHA. Imagine if things hadn't been stepping up on campus. HAHAHAHA. UMMMMM, maybe he should check with Mr. Bush about the unpaid part.

Anyway, this whole thing brought back fond memories of the GREATEST college movie of all time, thus the Faber College reference. There's plenty of Mr. Blutowski's on SUC's teams. HAHAHAHA. I imagine this is what SUC's athletic department meetings with their student athletes are like. Please enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3gNl7M6CR8

We knew from the beginning this would be a longshot and an uphill battle for this kid. Considering he goes to Mater Dei, with their long history of filtering players to SUC, and his whole family being a SUC school. His father even played Water Polo at SUC. Although this is bad news, it is still very very early and anything can change. Sunshine can turn our program around. PUSC might be placed under probation. He might not like his playing time situation there with all the QB's they already have. Anything can happen. Seems like his decision was also based on staying close to home, so UCLA fits that bill and I'm sure Sunshine has not given up on bringing him to Westwood. We just need to worry about us now and we will be fine. Sunshine has thankfully been shoring up our recruits and we have every faith that he has the program moving in the right direction.

According to Scout.com:

His father, Les, is a former USC water polo and since he was a kid, Barkley dreamed of playing for the Trojans.

"I've always loved the schools and loved the color," said Barkley. "It's always been in me. It's real evident."

Here's the link:

http://recruiting.scout.com/2/722832.html

According to Scott Wolfe over at Inside USC, how deep I wonder, Sunshine is now going after former PUSC Thorpe Award winner Mark Carrier as Secondary Coach. As you can imagine, they are not happy at all and have resorted to their usual Bruin hating and name calling. Look at the interesting post, as well as my comical point of view. HAHAHAHAHA. Enjoy!!!!

http://www.insidesocal.com/usc/archives/2008/01/more-to-come.html

Here is what I posted over there. HAHAHAHA:

Jealously and cheating will get you nowhere. You guys are hilarious. Clearly RN has done his job and gotten under all of your skin. I love it. Instead why not give credit to RN for doing something in less than a month that nobody thought possible. The funny thing is, like typical whinny TrOJies, you think you own everything and everybody, including past assistants. The fact is, these assistants worked at other places before PUSC, are not PUSC alums, and therefore have no allegiance to you. You guys sound like UCLA just stole your GF's. HAHAHAHAHA. These assistants obviously know where the NEW power in the Pac-10 will be and have decided wisely. I don't know if Carrier is any good, but if RN is after him he must be. With regard to Petros, you guys can keep Schmiegal. When nobody else wants to work for A-hole Chetey Petey, he can lick his bootstrap for an assistant's job. Schmiegal no lie Petey, Schmiegal love you. HAHAHAHA. This proves the only TrOJans that stick together are used ones. HAHAHAHA. BTW, after we are done taking all your coaches, we will take your players too. How sweet will it be when we beat you with all your coaches. HAHAHAHA. "I love the smell of used TrOJans in the morning, Smells like used TrOJans." HAHAHAHA.

CHEAT ON!!!!

Whew!!!! Does this guy have energy or what? After chasing Norton and Chow. Rick waited for the contact period to come and according to Brian Dohn he flew to Texas to meet with none other than Aundre Dean, UCLA's highest and most prized non commited recruit left on the board. According to Dohn, the meeting went well, Dean is warming up to UCLA, and he will have an official visit on Jan. 25. Just recently it was highly speculated that Aundre was done with UCLA and leaning elswhere. I've got a new nickname for Neuheisal, SUNSHINE, and he has sure brought a whole lot of it to the Bruin Faithful. He sure looks a lot like the character from Remember the Titans and has the same moxie. Watch out TrOJies, here comes the PAIN!!!!

On a side note, anybody hear about Coach Walker's son now being a Soft Verbal to UCLA? Apparently he wants to explore his options now that he isn't sure his position coach E Scott will be returning. WTF, I thought we had offered this kid as a favor to Walker in the first place. Now he slaps us in the face with this? So much for Walker's recruiting and retention abilities. How much do you suck if you can't even get your own kid to stay commited? You think maybe he KNOWS his dear old Dad won't be in Westwood too long? Interesting. This and Neuheisal has to go out and clean your mess by re-recruting every kid you and your family swore you had a lock on? Unbelievable.

http://www.insidesocal.com/ucla/

GO SUNSHINE!!!!

GO BRUINS!!!!

This is such freaken BS. On this Lousiana NBC affiliate news piece, Joe Mcknight clearly admitted being called by Cheetey Petey and Bu$h and making his decision to go to USC based on that conversation.

It's not bad enough that Reggie Bush is a scumbag and has put his current program in jeopardy while at USC, now he has resorted to put future classes and athletes in jeopardy. The classless bum lies to Joe McKnight about his NCAA violations, probably at the insistence of Chetey Petey, to get him to come to USC. What more evidence does the NCAA need? Yet the NCAA has the balls to mess with somebody with the character and moral standards of John Wooden? The kid clearly admitted the violation on TV.

I like how the sleezy attorney tries to put a gag order on McKnight after he spills the beans. I'm tired of these freaken TrOJies getting away with this crap. This time they went TOO far by shamelessly putting the Greatest Coach EVER in such a position. You know it was them that called the NCAA. We need to force a new movement here to get the message across to the NCAA and do some reporting of their transgressions ourselves. Can somebody get some information on where we can report $C's violations? CHEAT ON!!!!

Here is the video.