Trojans Lack Institutional Control
USC has pulled it off once again. Despite an already ridiculously loaded roster, the Trojans reeled in another amazing recruiting class. And is it any wonder? USC continues to bend and break the rules armed with a free pass from the NCAA.
Not surprising to anyone following recruiting, USC has popped up not once, but twice this week for potential recruiting violations:
The first accusation stems from a phone call 5-star RB recruit Joe McKnight received from Pete Carroll with Reggie Bush on the line. This is the same Reggie Bush the NCAA is supposedly investigating for taking money and gifts from shady agents who also happened to be very connected with the USC program.
The second accusation stems from the recruitment of Brian Price. USC sent a limo to pick him up at his high school. A clear no-no in recruiting.
Add these to the long line of questionable practices at USC and it is no wonder Pete Carroll has locked up another stellar recruiting class. For those who want to keep track at home here is a brief list of the events that have occurred at USC over the last few years:
- DA drops all charges in Wright rape case
- DA drops all charges in Wright/Reed ecstacy pill case
- DA drops all charges in Sanchez rape case
- DA drops all charges in Hershel Dennis sexual assault case
- Reggie Bush cheats in ND/USC game
- Rey Maualuga arrested for battery
- Dwayne Jarret receives free rent and utilities
- Reggie Bush and his family receive thousands of dollars from agents close to the USC program
- Trojans publish homoerotic poster
- Pete Carroll throws Lendale White off a building
- USC players busted for taking ridiculously easy Spanish classes
- McKnight/Carroll/Bush phone call
- Recruit Brian Price sent a limo
- Ting Brothers quit team over steroids
- Allegations swirl regarding Brian Cushing’s use of steroids
- Matt Leinart shot down by Scarlett Johansson
- USC Players form racist Facebook group
- Reggie Bush banned from Playboy Mansion for a conduct violation
- USC safety Josh Pinkard was arrested on driving under the influence
- USC Linebacker Kulaka Maiava beats up 17 year old girl
- USC recruit Maurice Simmons arrested for robbery, after he pointed a handgun at a man and demanded his belongings.
- USC DT Fili Moala arrested after bar fight
- Pro Coaches scrutinize USC players due to a string of recent busts claiming they prefer the SoCal lifestyle to playng pro ball
- USC Basketball phenom OJ Mayo pulls a Reggie Bush. Basically getting paid to play at USC.
- Trojans CB Wright charged with felony resisting an officer.
- USC LB’s Brian Cushing & Clay Matthews tested positive for steroids at the NFL Scouting Combine, according to various sources, including one NFL team.
- Everson Griffen and Jordan Campbell were cited and released by Nantucket police for being loud at Fourth of July party.
- USC football Coach Pete Carroll employed a former NFL tactician last season to help with the team’s punting and kicking game, an arrangement that may have violated NCAA rules that prohibit consultants from coaching
- USC’s Blake Ayles Gives the Double Bird to ND Fans in ND Stadium
- Thug Taylor Mays Cheap Shot against Oregon State a week after picking up 2 personal fouls for illegal hits against Notre Dame
- Sidelines clear after USC’s 48-yard touchdown play against UCLA
- USC’s Joe McKnight under investigation for receiving illegal benefits
- Three USC players ruled academically ineligible for the Emerald Bowl.
Again, is it any wonder USC continues to do so well on the recruiting trail?
KICK ASS UPDATE: Her Loyal Sons breaks open the case against USC regarding the McKnight/Carroll/Bush phone conference. The video doesn’t lie, People.
I can understand one or two issues popping up a year. It’s hard to police everything, but the constant barrage of bad things coming from USC is very suspect to say the least. Even the USC fan base is growing weary of the lack of institutional control and is calling for The Poodle to finally reign in the run away program.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
“Hysteria Surrounding Notre Dame Football” is indeed an apt description of this site, particularly this post, which displays your hysterical jealousy of USC.
Have fun competing with Illinios for recruits in Chicagoland, that hotbed of national-class football talent.
Fight On!
February 14th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Nothing to do with the song girls?
February 14th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
We competed with USC head-to-head for the number one recruit in the country. And we won.
ND nabbed Jimmy Clausen right from USC’s backyard.
In regards to the state of USC football, I would respect USC more if they played by the rules. Congratulations on another stellar recruiting class but, as I said in the post, is it any wonder why recruits are lining up to go there?
February 14th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Displaced Trojan – listing facts and drawing a conclusion hardly displays jealousy.
So we are clear, I wouldn’t mess with Chicagoland/Illinois football talent for it is indeed a hotbed.
February 14th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Guys,
Jimmy Clausen didn’t come to USC because he didn’t want to compete with John David Booty, Mark Sanchez and the kid who turned out to be the No. 1 QB in California, Aaron Corp. Why work for a starting job when you can win it by default because ND has no two-deep roster at QB, right?
Clausen and the ND coaching staff couldn’t even convince Clausen’s live-in teammate Mark Tyler to join him at ND. His best friend for crying out loud!
Tyler said he was put off by all the hullabaloo ND made over Clausen’s commitment … you know, the limo ride to the presser at the College Football Hall of Fame and all. Come to mention it, do you guys know who paid for all that?
If you think Chicagoland is indeed a hotbed of football talent, have at it. Like I said, you can compete with Illinois there … and after you lose out to Zook you can accuse him of cheating. Do that all you want. Fine with us.
We R ND, it’s not about the stating of facts. I’m tired of hearing and reading about the crap at SC myself, and I’ve said as much on my blog. But, it’s the way the facts are presented here and the biased, non-factual conclusions JVH draws from those facts that I enjoy debating with you. The way I look at it, it’s all ND’s sour grapes, baby.
February 14th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Jimmy Clausen will have to beat out Evan Sharpley, Zach Frazer, and Demetrious Jones. Hardly no competition. Also Corp is the most overrated recruit in California this year. He was a 3star nobody until USC flinched and offer him after losing Clausen and Paulus. After the USC commitment the heavily USC-biased Rivals proclaimed Corp awesome and jumped him to a 4star.
Maybe Mark Tyler saw everything USC players get for free and decided that USC was the place for him. Maybe.
We’ll continue to compete around the country with USC, Florida, Texas, Ohio St. We’ll go up against anybody and everybody.
As for the sour grapes. I don’t make the stories up. I just present them. A lot of shady activity around the USC program. I think Trojan fans want to use the excuse that LA media, lacking a pro football team, focuses in on the USC football team. That is something Pete Carroll and the University need to address then. Last time I checked Notre Dame had a more national following and a bigger fan base. Weis has done a great job keeping the team out of the courts and NCAA investigators offices.
February 14th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Aw, N.D. quit wining, own your recruiting base like the Longhorns and Trojans and you can compete. If that Clausen boy is as good as his brothers, ya all will stay in the top 20 throughout his career there, something you will be proud of I’m sure.
February 15th, 2007 at 6:24 am
The Ting brothers and old b*tch t*ts Cushing are missing from this list.
February 15th, 2007 at 6:41 am
Thank you, Sir. I added the Ting Brothers and Cushing.
February 15th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Great article. I was having the discussion with a fellow Notre Dame fan yesterday about how USC is beginning to resemble Bill Clinton in the way everything rolls off their backs like water on a duck. If similiar things occurred at ND, the media (Especially ESPN) would pounce like wolves because as we know, the press loves to try to tarnish the squeaky clean image of the Irish.
With that said, I disagree that Reggie Bush cheated VS. ND. He did what winners do. He tried to make a play, and it worked.
The officials were too gutless to make the call and “Decide” the game. By their non-call, they were the ones who cheated. (Besides, we should have stopped them on fourth and nine.)
I am on board with everything else though.
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. It’s amazing the way the way the NCAA seems to turn a blind eye towards certain programs.
February 15th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
The “hullabaloo” surrounding the Clausen announcement at the Hall of Fame was, by his own words, exactly what he wanted it to be. And, his parents paid for the limo. Still, it was definitely over the top.
Also, I doubt that either Booty or Sanchez figured into his decision to choose ND over USC. Booty won’t be around too much longer, and how’s that whole “Sexual Assault Sanchez” story playing out? Oh… he got away with it. Yikes! USC should have washed their hands of him.
That being said, while it is true that I am not a fan of USC and I love and support the Irish, I’m tired of ND fans whining over losing recruits to USC, Illinois, Florida, etc… There is no recruiting base in Indiana, so trying to recruit from a national pool means that we’re going to lose a lot of marquee players to other programs. When we change coordinators, we can’t be upset when good recruits decommit or change their minds to play for a program they feel would be a better fit for their talents.
ND fans are looking for someone to blame for these incidents. Even though USC has been in the headlines for some hits to their program, I’d take that to be in the title hunt like they have been for the past four or five years.
The fact remains that the last two classes ND has put together have been phenomenal, and Charlie is “righting the ship.” In a few years, ND will have the best of both worlds: a CLASSY program that is annually in the thick of it.
February 16th, 2007 at 5:27 am
“Even though USC has been in the headlines for some hits to their program, I’d take that to be in the title hunt like they have been for the past four or five years”
I, most certainly, would not take that. There is a right way and wrong way of doing things. And there is no reason why ND cannot win with high character guys.
February 16th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
http://www.dopesonsports.com/2007/02/14/oh-boy-is-this-great-slimy-college-recruiting-edition/
February 17th, 2007 at 2:11 am
ShakeDown – I agree, there is no reason ND cannot win with high character players. That wasn’t my point, and I should have stated it more clearly. When a team like USC is in the national title chase year after year, they are put in a position where everyone is looking to point out every flaw/problem/possible violation, significant or otherwise, of that team. I have no issue with THAT.
USC has had their share of issues, but because they are in the spotlight it’s more difficult for them to be swept under the carpet and not look like a pack of deviants. I doubt they have had any more issues than the majority of teams in the NCAA, and the fact that the NCAA hasn’t come down on them with sanctions is evidence to the point.
Sorry for the misunderstanding, the way you took that comment was not my intent.
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