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BuckEyeDr
Rotunda Psycho
Jarrett is only a true Soph. He has been on campus for two years, one of which he lived in an apartment with a rent payment >$3,500.
Here is why this is a problem (not saying this is what happened)....
Matt to Dwayne...."Pick USC, my dad will set us up in a sweet apartment next year..."
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Bingo. This probably didn't happen.....but what if it does down the road with another school?BuckEyeDr said:
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The Jarrett situation is not a major deal nor would it be viewed in such a light if the rest of the problems were not happening.
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buckeyeboy
Still fortitudinous
Carroll: 'We needed to see this coming'
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LOS ANGELES -- In the midst of multiple investigations of the USC football program, coach Pete Carroll told the Los Angeles Times that the program needs to work harder to control outside influences on its players.
"We needed to see this coming, and we didn't," Carroll was quoted saying in a column about the recent spate of trouble facing some of the team's current and former players. "It's gone beyond all the heads up, all the alerts, all the education we give these kids. We need to do more."
In the past week, questions have been raised about housing arrangements for the family of Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush, taken No. 2 overall by the New Orleans Saints in this weekend's NFL draft, and about whether an upscale apartment that wide receiver Dwayne Jarrett shared with former teammate Matt Leinart violated NCAA rules. Also, the unversity has indefinitely suspended backup quarterback Mark Sanchez, who is under investigation on allegations he sexually assualted a female student.
Speaking generally about the recent problems, Carroll told the Times he needs to better educate his players about outside influences, especially now that USC has become a college football powerhouse -- and a target.
"Our guys are marked guys, they have had success and there's people trying to get in on that, and we need to do a better job of making them understand the problems there," he told the Times. "We have moved into very different territory now, all the hype, all the distractions, all the people who want to influence us, and we will be more aware of that. We will work harder to control that."
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Leinart's father, Bob, put the duo on the lease at the secured apartment complex downtown after Leinart moved out of his former residence near campus because he was constantly hounded by fans.
Leinart -- the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback picked 10th by the Arizona Cardinals in Saturday's NFL draft -- and Jarrett each paid $650 a month for the apartment that cost $3,866 a month, according to the Times. Leinart's father paid the difference and said he's been told Jarrett might have to repay him about $10,000, the newspaper reported.
University compliance officials are looking into whether the football program received an unfair advantage. While Bob Leinart would have been allowed to make up the difference for his son, he might not have been allowed to do so for another player.
Tim Tessalone, USC's director of sports information, confirmed Sunday that an investigation involving Jarrett's living arrangement was under way.
"At this point, we're still gathering information," Tessalone told The Associated Press, declining further comment.
Meanwhile, the Pacific-10 Conference is looking into the living arrangement of Bush's family, who lived in a house owned by a man who reportedly sought to market him while he played for USC last season. NCAA rules prohibit student-athletes and their families from receiving extra benefits from agents or their representatives. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2428059
The thing that amuses me about this article is that Carroll acts like he's surprised by what happens. For some reason, I'm not at all.
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LOS ANGELES -- In the midst of multiple investigations of the USC football program, coach Pete Carroll told the Los Angeles Times that the program needs to work harder to control outside influences on its players.
"We needed to see this coming, and we didn't," Carroll was quoted saying in a column about the recent spate of trouble facing some of the team's current and former players. "It's gone beyond all the heads up, all the alerts, all the education we give these kids. We need to do more."
In the past week, questions have been raised about housing arrangements for the family of Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush, taken No. 2 overall by the New Orleans Saints in this weekend's NFL draft, and about whether an upscale apartment that wide receiver Dwayne Jarrett shared with former teammate Matt Leinart violated NCAA rules. Also, the unversity has indefinitely suspended backup quarterback Mark Sanchez, who is under investigation on allegations he sexually assualted a female student.
Speaking generally about the recent problems, Carroll told the Times he needs to better educate his players about outside influences, especially now that USC has become a college football powerhouse -- and a target.
"Our guys are marked guys, they have had success and there's people trying to get in on that, and we need to do a better job of making them understand the problems there," he told the Times. "We have moved into very different territory now, all the hype, all the distractions, all the people who want to influence us, and we will be more aware of that. We will work harder to control that."
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Leinart's father, Bob, put the duo on the lease at the secured apartment complex downtown after Leinart moved out of his former residence near campus because he was constantly hounded by fans.
Leinart -- the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback picked 10th by the Arizona Cardinals in Saturday's NFL draft -- and Jarrett each paid $650 a month for the apartment that cost $3,866 a month, according to the Times. Leinart's father paid the difference and said he's been told Jarrett might have to repay him about $10,000, the newspaper reported.
University compliance officials are looking into whether the football program received an unfair advantage. While Bob Leinart would have been allowed to make up the difference for his son, he might not have been allowed to do so for another player.
Tim Tessalone, USC's director of sports information, confirmed Sunday that an investigation involving Jarrett's living arrangement was under way.
"At this point, we're still gathering information," Tessalone told The Associated Press, declining further comment.
Meanwhile, the Pacific-10 Conference is looking into the living arrangement of Bush's family, who lived in a house owned by a man who reportedly sought to market him while he played for USC last season. NCAA rules prohibit student-athletes and their families from receiving extra benefits from agents or their representatives. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2428059
The thing that amuses me about this article is that Carroll acts like he's surprised by what happens. For some reason, I'm not at all.
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Ya think??? Convenient that ESPN isn't blasting USC the way it butchered OSU the day (and years following) the Maurice Clarett story surfaced.
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tsteele316
Mr. Such and Such
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crazybuckfan40
Head Coach
This is complete BS. He helped out the hype by bringing in all those hollywood ppl and letting the players just live it up in the hollywood lifestyle, that is even the way that he does when he recruits them, he takes them to that fancy restuarant feeds them the high class stuff, that alot of these players havent even seen in their life and flys his private jet to impress these players. There is no hiding the fact that he didnt think these teenage kids coming from lower income families werent going to want to take advantage of some of that type stuff.
I do not wish this on any program, but it is stuff like this where the coach plays completely dumb and acts like he didnt have any idea or think that any of this could happen. Hell he was probably joinging in on the fun.
I am so glad that we have Jim Tressel as our coach.
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Folanator
Brawndo's got electrolytes...
Every one feels picked on when they are under the microscope. The USC boards are full of fans saying that they are being picked on because of who they are. This is being handled no differently than they did with us.
You don't think that if this was FB season that every game that USC was a part of would not have "The troubled USC program that is currently under investigation by the NCAA.... played rotten crotch state today...". You bet your ass you would hear that.
Main difference here is that CFB is not in the news as much as when our transgressions came to light.
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Don't speak condescendingly to me because you're rich.
In all seriousness, you're probably right. It just felt like they (ESPn) laid it on nice and thick(er) throughout our process compared to others. For instance, Mark "the human dingleberry" May still hates us. The only reason Trev Alberts shut up is because rabid Buckeye fans were threatening his life. Mark May should root for tOSU, western PA is part of the Midwest too! Hell, they put that douche bag Nick Lachey and a trader Ohio weasel on top of our stadium to sing our bitter rival's fight song. What's more of a spit in the face than that? I felt ESPn loved tOSU before all of that went down. It could be my scarlet colored glasses, but I think I'm fairly reasonable most of the time.
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Excellent points especially regarding the timing of all of this. Many of our issues came out during bowl season and the prime recruiting "season." It gave the talking heads something to fill dead time with. Right now, the average sports fan is into baseball and the NBA playoffs so the intensity of the reporting hasn't been as great. Of course, if you're a USC fan, you probably feel like the media is piling on.
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