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TrOJan crime spree hits New England. Not clear what these goons were arrested for. May be the LA...

UniversityofSecondChoice — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:44:12 -0000

TrOJan crime spree hits New England. Not clear what these goons were arrested for. May be the LA Times will get to the bottom of it!

SuC recruit James Boyd already acting like a Trojie, going crazy in some all star game. Not sure...

UniversityofSecondChoice — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:56:10 -0000

SuC recruit James Boyd already acting like a Trojie, going crazy in some all star game. Not sure what set him off.

are the Trojies starting to warm up the bus to run over Timmeh?

UniversityofSecondChoice — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:52:29 -0000

Wolfie reports:

Hail To The Chief! By Scott Wolf on June 5, 2009 10:57 AM | Permalink | Comments (12) | ShareThis
We hear USC president Steve Sample is not hiding his displeasure around campus over the fact the basketball program finds itself under NCAA investigation.

Sample is displeased about the basketball team?

Does that mean he is totally cool with the football team which is also under investigation by the NCAA?

He is not happy with the allegations that OJ might have gotten $30,000 in improper benefits but he is cool with the allegation that Reggie Bush and his peeps might have gotten hundreds of thousands of dollars in improper benefits?

Is SuC* buying out Timmeh?

UniversityofSecondChoice — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:01:56 -0000

Is SuC* buying out Timmeh?

According to ThunderRoad in Bruinzone,com "LA Sentinel's Kenny Miller who appeared on The Sports Lodge with Roger Lodge and Dave Smith this morning" says
"buy out talks has been going on all week according to Miller's sources." Has anyone heard anything else?

Ahnold must love morally corrupt SCumbags.

UniversityofSecondChoice — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:01:18 -0000

Ahnold must love morally corrupt SCumbags.

Tip of the iceberg?

UniversityofSecondChoice — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:03:00 -0000

Two revealing details

This from the Daily News:

"There was an ongoing relationship between Rodney Guillory and Tim Floyd," said Johnson's attorney, Anthony Salerno. "He was going to steer Mayo where to go. Floyd knew he had to kowtow to Guillory to get (Mayo) to USC. Floyd knew he had to butter up Guillory."

David Murphy, another attorney for Johnson, said the NCAA became aware of the Floyd allegation last week and contacted Johnson on Friday.

"They knew about it before we told him," Murphy said.

Murphy added Johnson originally told federal investigators about the incident last May but did not tell the NCAA during a meeting last June.

And this from yahoo sports about the list of 17 people who have talked to the NCAA:

These individuals are believed to represent only a small fraction of the interviews that have taken place during the course of the probe.

Tip of the iceberg?

Tim Floyd is a door mat of a coach. The "hit it and quit it" tenure as a Southern Cal basketball...

UniversityofSecondChoice — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:24:07 -0000

Tim Floyd is a door mat of a coach. The "hit it and quit it" tenure as a Southern Cal basketball player has become the norm. A week after Floyd announced his decision to remain the Head Coach of the USC Trojans rather than take the suspect Arizona Wildcats opening, three of his own mignons have decided his display of loyalty was not enough to keep them in the land of palm trees and pretty girls.

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Maybe Lil' Romeo will now see some court action after all.

SuC is also going to be really bad next season

ESPN's Ted Miller sez SuC football fans should worry

UniversityofSecondChoice — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:11:02 -0000

Miller says on his ESPN's Pac-10 blog (I am bolding the fun parts):

If you're a bigger fan of USC football than basketball, it should feel worrisome.

The individuals who allegedly gave Bush cash and gifts and a rent-free home for his parents were anonymous outsiders, two men trying to become sports agents. Unless the NCAA is going to pull a rabbit out of its investigative hat, all reported connections or interactions with these men and the Trojans football program were scant and tenuous.

In other words, it didn't completely strain credulity that the coaching staff claimed ignorance.

The Mayo case had a different feel. Basketball coach Tim Floyd and his staff knew Rodney Guillory, a Los Angeles events promoter who allegedly was receiving monthly payments from the Northern California sports agency Bill Duffy Associates. They knew of the close relationship between Guillory and Mayo. They knew Mayo was a risky player to bring into the program.

By connecting the two cases, the NCAA appears to be now reviewing these investigations as systemic problems within USC's athletic department.

Yes, we're talking about the dreaded "lack of institutional control."

Or as ESPN's Pat Forde wrote in May when "Outside the Lines" broke the Mayo story: "So you take the Bush allegations, add a side of Mayo and ask the question: Has there ever been a more textbook definition of 'lack of institutional control'?'"

Which means potential penalties could include scholarship cuts, post-season bans, victories erased from the record book, etc., -- all the big ones.

As good as it feels to read all this I don't think NCAA (or the PAC) will have the gonads to do the right thing. They are going to find a way to sweep all of this stuff under the rug so that they can keep feeding the cashcow and ESPN's Mushberger and Herbstreet can keep blowing Pom Pom on national TV.

Although I have to wonder why exactly was Timmeh so anxious to get out of SuC? I don't believe it was Timmeh who turned down Arizona. I really think it was the other way around (just a hunch). I think Timmeh's desperation showed when his agent was also sniffing around the Memphis gig.

Now it looks like his players (who don't seem to be buying into his schtick) are ready to jump ship. May be something is going on?

I guess I will see it when I believe it.

Trojie education: a picture is worth a thousand words.

UniversityofSecondChoice — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:33:43 -0000

Trojie education: a picture is worth a thousand words.

SuC about to lose its DC to Udub, will Petey promote Kenny?

UniversityofSecondChoice — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:50:23 -0000

This is going to be a lot of fun.

Petey is about to lose Nick Holt, his DC to Steve Sarkasian:

Goodbye Nick Holt By Scott Wolf on January 5, 2009 9:32 AM
Washington announced a press conference for 3 p.m. to announce its new defensive coordinator.

Sark and Nick have been talking.

Now Petey along with Nehueisel will be on the market for a new DC.

The easy question then is if Kenny is so good will Petey promote his poodle to become his next DC?

Will Petey reward Kenny for his poodle like loyalty or expose him for what he is: a fingertaper who is not ready to be a DC?