SB Nation User Blog: Koach Karl I

Happy New Year

Koach Karl I — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:35:50 -0000

Just wanted to say thanks again to Nestor and his crew for another well-done year doing God's work on this site. I travel quite a bit for work and no matter where I go, I always check the site first thing in the morning for the latest news. I know it must take up a crap load of time and energy to post often. I for one appreciate the efforts of Nestor, Ajax and all the regulers (even you, Fox).

You have come a long way from an off the radar fire-the-shitty-over-his-head-coach blog to a broader, more diverse UCLA-sports-community blog.

Thanks!

Marcia SCrooge

Koach Karl I — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:37:46 -0000

Marcia SCrooge

wrote a profile on young Ben Howland today. Not too bad, but tainted by her anti-UCLA bias.

Sanchez Disgusted by Beaver(s)

Koach Karl I — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:55:51 -0000

By Marcia SCmith, Special to BN

CORVALLIS, Ore. -- Not that there is anything wrong with that, though.

In each of the last 2 years Pete Carroll has all but promised national championships for USC's "storied" football program. Yet, despite those implicit assurances, Cal Southern suffered embarrassing losses to lower tier Pac 10 teams each year.

It happened again yesterday with a stunning defeat to the Oregon State Beavers. SC, a 25.5 point favorite on the road, was beaten in every conceivable fashion by the lowly Beavers.

Though he does not throw, run, kick or tackle in the game, Carroll is the one who's fumbling right now.

Since his second year on the job at SC Carroll brashly, if not blindly, raised the Trojan football program's expectations for winning, dominating in the Pac-10, contending for national championships and getting in the facemask of crosstown rival UCLA.

At the time, Carroll's words were a refreshing blast of enthusiastic, albeit hot, air from a program that had long gone stale. The Trojans' seemingly easy victory against a then-No. 5 Ohio State gave Carroll's early optimism some substance.

Down 21-0 at halftime to the Beavers on Thursday, the game was still undecided. Though a few hundred SC fans, including legendary Trojan Will Ferrell, departed shortly before the third quarter, a sizeable, supportive city of Trojan faithful remained to root for a team that hadn't scored an offensive touchdown the entire first half.

The Trojans lost again, convincingly again, but not as badly as in their nightmarish game against Stanford a year ago. And suddenly Carroll's Humanitarian-inspired victory of Game 2 seemed more distant, and the two defeats (Oregon State and Stanford), more pulsing with the kind of disappointment that messes with minds and toy with hearts.

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Sound familiar (at least from the fourth paragraph on)?

Winning is the only thing . . .

Koach Karl I — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:07:28 -0000

Great article in the L.A. Times today about how The Humanitarian is teaching his kids how to be better men. See, any objective person looking at the Shareece Wright situation would think that Cal Southern and its coaching staff are looking the other way to keep a talented football player on the field. After all, they are trying to win a national championship.

Not true. The Humanitarian is taking the contra view. Where others see yet another link in a long string of criminal behavior by his out of control football team, Uncle Pete sees opportunity.

"It's a tremendous challenge for everybody to stay in line, to keep track of what's going on and do the right thing." Carroll described Wright's situation as a "teachable moment" for his players. "Sometimes, when something happens like that, it helps a lot of people understand the reality," Carroll said.

Exactly, Pete. Tough love. I know it is the hard thing to do, but taking a hard line will only make these kids better men. It is time to finally put an end to this pattern of multiple felony arrests each and every year.

Asked if Wright would play against Oregon State, Carroll first pointed to the injury and Wright's inability to practice. In regard to any action he might take because of Wright's legal situation, Carroll said, "I don't have all the stuff that I need to make any decision."

Wait; what? No punishment? Stuff? What Stuff?

Call me crazy, but I would have thought the "teachable moment" in all of this would be to suspend the player to teach him and others on the team that behavior like this will not be tolerated.

No, turns out the "teachable moments" at Cal Southern are used to teach young thugs how to delay proceedings until after the season so that they can continue to play through the end of the year.

And thank God for the L.A. Times! Any objective paper would be writing stories about the disturbing nature of the win-at-all-costs attitude of the SC football program. Not the Times! To this insightful bunch [of SC alums], the spin on this story is how Carroll is using this sad, unforeseen and unfortunate situation as a teaching tool. Score one for hard hitting journalistic integrity!

Trojan Blotter, 842nd Edition

Koach Karl I — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:08:21 -0000

In what is a continuing theme during the Cheatie Peatie Era, a couple of Trojans made news for the wrong reasons this week. First, the judge in the Reggie Bush case took the first step toward doing the right thing by tentatively sanctioning Bush's lawyers:

A San Diego Superior Court judge tentatively has ruled that former sports marketing investor Lloyd Lake is entitled to $24,750 in attorneys' fees from former USC running back Reggie Bush and his parents.

The tentative ruling is subject to a hearing next week. Lake, who is suing Bush and his parents, sought attorneys' fees from Bush after winning a legal round against Bush on Aug. 1. In that round, Bush's attorneys sought to have the case decided in confidential arbitration out of court – a motion the judge denied.

That same motion ruling has been appealed by Bush's attorneys, which likely will delay the case for months.

Lake is seeking almost $300,000 in cash and goods he said was lent and spent on behalf of Bush and his family. The NCAA has been monitoring the case as it tries to determine whether Bush or his family accepted improper benefits while Bush was at USC.

Based on the facts as I understand them, there is a substantial likelihood the order becomes final.

Next, Shareece Wright was charged with felony resisting arrest just last week. Felony resisting arrest? Really? How much of a disrespectful jerk do you have to be to be charged with a felony for resisting arrest--a week after the incident happened? Not to worry though, I am sure Cheatie will give him the punishment that he "deserves". Does Ray Thuguluga own the police in Colton too?

It's great to be a criminal at Cal Southern!

It is funny that everyone at SC got mad when Ray Small observed:

"[It's] a class thing. Here at Ohio State, they teach you to be a better man. There, it's just all about football."

With stories like these a regular occurrence, is there any doubt that football is indeed all they care about at Cal Southern? In the end, none of this matters--AS LONG AS THEY BEAT OHIO STATE.

Cheatipedia

Koach Karl I — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:24:11 -0000

From Cheatipedia, the free guide to how to cheat and get away with murder

BRENNAN

Brennan is a word derived from Latin. The modern meaning and form dates to the 1970s.

History

"Brennan" is derived from a combination of the Latin words "bravant" (to be crooked, bad, vicious, evil, corrupt) and "blennus" (blockhead, dolt, simpleton, imbecile, driveling idiot). It was originally created to refer to a person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning. Over time, the term "Brennan" shifted away from its original connotation of selfishness and came to refer to individuals with overall bad judgment-individuals who are "stupid". In modern English usage, it describes someone who has no talent but is handed a desirable position due to family connections or personal relationships. Also refers to one who achieves nothing; a spendthrift; one who rests on his father's accomplishments. The term has more recently been used to describe offspring who do not quite measure up to their fathers. Sons who are best described as "slow" or "dimwitted." In psychology, it is a historical term for the state or condition now called profound mental retardation.

See also

Tool
Jackass
Moron
Daddy's boy
Idiot
No Talent Douchebag
Cheatie Jr.

Physical Attributes of a Brennan

A Brennan can be identified by loud and seemingly pointless yelling. Spit flys from the Brennan's mouth freely and recklessly. A Brennan thinks he is funny (he is not) and interprets people looking at him with blank looks or facial expressions indicating embarrassment for the speaker as indicators that others want him to continue with his idiotic behavior (they do not). A Brennan views manic behavior and intense screaming as analagous to virtue and intelligence.

External Links

uscrapesit.com

Stepheson to SC per Scott Wolf

Koach Karl I — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:43:32 -0000

Stepheson to SC per Scott Wolf

BoBo Circus

Koach Karl I — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:59:29 -0000

The continuing saga of BoBo (the basketball player, not the clown) is getting slightly more interesting. As everyone knows, Trent Johnson is making a push to keep BoBo at LSU by dragging his feet on processing the release request. Not much more to add here, except this quote from Johnson in The Shreveport Times (link):

"He's a very good young man, but is he by any means Shaquille O'Neal? No, he's not," Johnson said. "It's going to take it's time. I've never been in a situation where I'm going to beg."

Jill Painter also linked to it.

I am no genius when it comes to recruiting or dealing on a day-to-day basis with the psyche of "student" athletes, but it seems more than a little damaging to LSU's chances with der BoBo to come out with quotes like this one, no?

By the way, awesome new format for the site. When an old guy like me can block quote and insert links, you know it is easy. Reminds of the old days with word processing apps going from inserting formatting in the text to WYSIWYG.

WHISTLE! (as Cheatie Peetie, Jr. likes to say)

Hansen is killing us

Koach Karl I — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:38:11 -0000

I just watched College Gameday on ESPN and came away pissed off. There was barely a mention of UCLA-USC (maybe 20 seconds near the end), and there was no discussion of any other Pac 10 game. The more I watched, the more angry I became. Not at ESPN for not covering the Pac 10, but at Hansen and the rest of the Pac 10 brain trust for continuing to renew the Pac 10 TV contract with Fox instead of ESPN.

Even though Fox may have offered more cash, we all know that over time an ESPN deal would pay higher dividends in the form of more national exposure for our conference. With the time difference and the natural east coast bias, we are already behind the ball. But the TV contract is something within our control. The Fox contract only serves to place our conference, which at the end of the day will probably be THE premiere conference in the country this year (and definitely in the top 3), in a dark spot on the spectrum where virtually no one East of the Rockies will see us.

Now the intangible penalties are hurting. It's hard to blame ESPN, though. What incentive does ESPN have to hype any team in our conference when they do not broadcast any (or very few) of our conference games? We get the shaft all over that network; not because we are not good, but because ESPN receives no financial benefit for advertising a team or a conference that it does not have the broadcast rights to. At least in football, ABC broadcasts a good number of games which is one reason why ESPN is also referred to as the Trojan Broadcast Network.

I know this is a frequent topic on this board, and I am not the first person to bring this up (not by a long shot), but watching Gameday this morning really brought it home for me and I found myself stewing, looking for an outlet to vent.

I hope we stuff Killa2 and beat the crap out of Timmeh and his traveling band of diploma mill grads today. No mercy. I want every Trojan bandwagoner talking about their football team after the game. As we all know, their first knee-jerk reaction after getting dominated on the basketball court is to talk about Cheatie Peatey. "Eeerrrrrrr, we will kill you guys in football next year!!"

Mayo killing It!

Koach Karl I — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:25:37 -0000

Everybody's favorite program of degenerates and criminals is off to an auspicious start. The USC basketball team, with Juice Deuce, lost on the road to the powerhouse that is Mercer. In what looks to be a pattern this year, OJ Mayo had 32 points (game high) but his team lost 96-81.

There is no "I" in team; and there ain't no "OJ" either. Mayo will likely be the leading scorer every night for Southern Cal as he focuses on being a high draft pick in next year's draft. Who cares about how the team does if you average over 30 a night? All that matters is that Killer 2 got his!

Well, just goes to show Timmeh that if you recruit players from diploma mills and players who care more about personal stats than wins, this is what you get.

Nice work Timmeh! Nice work Killa!

Fight on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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