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UnderTheRadar
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Random tangent...
Has anyone else ever noticed how poorly Bill Plaschke writes? Seriously, he can't write. Take a look at the preceeding article. How many one-sentence paragraphs are there? Including one every now and again is nice for emphasis, but it's not how professional writers construct entire pieces. His writing is always choppy, rambling, full of cliches, and usually doesn't have a point.
Whew. I feel better now.
Has anyone else ever noticed how poorly Bill Plaschke writes? Seriously, he can't write. Take a look at the preceeding article. How many one-sentence paragraphs are there? Including one every now and again is nice for emphasis, but it's not how professional writers construct entire pieces. His writing is always choppy, rambling, full of cliches, and usually doesn't have a point.
Whew. I feel better now.
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Sam Baker "stopped by" his parents house at 3 a.m.?
First of all I'm surprised his parents were still up, secondly whats he doing out at 3 a.m.?
Evidently he doesn't know that nothing good ever happens after 10 p.m.!
First of all I'm surprised his parents were still up, secondly whats he doing out at 3 a.m.?
Evidently he doesn't know that nothing good ever happens after 10 p.m.!
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OSUBasketballJunkie
Never Forget 31-0
Dispatch
8/30/06
8/30/06
COLLEGE FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK
Rebuilt offense doesn’t worry Carroll
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
ASSOCIATED PRESS
</IMG> RIC FRANCIS ASSOCIATED PRESS John David Booty will direct a USC offense that lost all but four starters from last season’s team.
Reggie Bush and LenDale White ran, Matt Leinart passed, and Winston Justice and Deuce Lutui cleared the way up front as Southern California dominated opposing defenses last season.
They’re all gone, having been snapped up in the first 45 picks in the NFL draft four months ago. That doesn’t necessarily mean there’ll be a great drop-off from an offense that averaged more than 49 points playing one of the country’s most demanding schedules.
Nor does it mean USC will rely on a more experienced defense early this season.
"I can’t see it that way," Trojans coach Pete Carroll said yesterday. "I’m expecting both of our groups, offense and defense, to come out and function very well."
USC, ranked sixth in the Associated Press preseason poll, opens the season Saturday night at Arkansas, a team the Trojans crushed 70-17 last September in Los Angeles.
Carroll acknowledges his team has "new guys at critical spots." Most of those play offense, with only four starters back from last year.
"We’re well beyond it. I’m over it. It does feel different," Carroll said of the absence of those stars. "There’s not the national following. There’s not as much buzz. It isn’t better, it isn’t worse. We’ve always been a football team."
John David Booty succeeds Leinart, the 2004 Heisman Trophy winner. Leinart had minimal experience when he took over three years ago as the replacement for Carson Palmer. Booty has been in the program for three years, and completed 27 of 42 passes for 327 yards and two touchdowns last season. "John David’s always been committed to being here at USC. He’s stood strong, he’s never wavered on that," Carroll said. "Everything has come together very well for him right now, although he has had to be patient. It’s been a challenge for him. I’m thrilled for him."
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I'd be surprised if Carroll left USC, but I don't think he's going to be swayed by this article from the kneepad-wearing spunkbunker named Dennis Dodd:
sportsline
Open letter to Pete Carroll: Forget NFL and Arizona desert
LOS ANGELES -- Please don't go, Pete Carroll. We need you.
If the whispers are true that Saturday was your last regular-season game as USC's coach, then you're inhaling something other than L.A. smog.
Former Trojans QB Matt Leinart thinks Pete Carroll would do well in the NFL. (Getty Images) Aside from the final score against UCLA, Saturday was perfect. The climate matched his team's play for most of the last four years -- both were national championship caliber.
This is the first December since 2002 that Carroll and the Trojans are not preparing for a shot at No. 1. UCLA took back the city for a day with a 13-9 victory.
So is that enough to push Carroll out the door? Is USC's Camelot crumbling? Is this the sign Carroll needed to push him to the No Fun League?
Carroll kind of played footsie last week with the idea, wondering out loud about the NFL's advantages. His former quarterback Matt Leinart caught a whiff and said, sure, Pete would be perfect for the Arizona Cardinals.
Pete Carroll might be perfect for a lot of things, including the NFL, but someone needs to check. Are the Cardinals still in the NFL? Arizona is the home of the most stupefying, achingly mediocre franchise in pro sports. Relocating it from St. Louis to the desert in 1988 only provided a lower humidity reading when the team stunk.
Forgive Leinart. He's just a kid. He doesn't know what horrors await him.
The Bidwill family has owned the Cardinals for 74 years. There have been six playoff appearances since 1947, none since 1998.
The franchise left St. Louis because Billy Bidwill said fans weren't supporting the team. False and false. The Cardinals played to 87 percent capacity at old Busch Stadium their last lame-duck year.
Those people were either ignorant to the situation or bored. The Bidwills didn't give fans a reason to come out. This was a franchise that drafted a kicker (John Lee) in the second round. This was a franchise that once fired coach Jim Hanifan, who found out at halftime of the season finale in 1985.
The locks had been changed per Bidwill's orders.
This is a franchise that came to the desert for an attendance boost and then saw crowds shrink to 25,000 or so -- unless the Cowboys or Bears were in town.
Apparently, snowbirds don't like losing either.
Pete, if you're aching for a new challenge, the Cardinals ain't it. The smart money says, if you ever go, it will be if/when the NFL moves a team to Southern California. That makes sense.
But you're throwing your career away if you go to Arizona. Ego trumps all at times. Carroll has a huge one, which makes him no different than a lot of his peers. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell wants to add some sizzle to the franchise. The Super Bowl comes to Phoenix in 2008. What if the Cardinals played the first home game in Super Bowl history?
A snowstorm hitting the Valley of the Sun is more likely.
Turning around the Trojans was like changing the oil in the car. Turning around the Cardinals would be like planning the first manned flight to Mars.
Pete, we know your days might be numbered at Troy. We've been told that you are concerned about the NCAA. Not so much in the Reggie Bush case, but because of the temptations that are around every corner in La-La Land.
You can recruit your behind off, but maybe you're thinking that sooner or later a scandal is going to bring everything down.
But did you gaze up at the San Gabriels for a moment during that loss to UCLA? Only the Song Girls were more beautiful.
How many coaches can get a sunburn in the first week of December? While the rest of the country was digging out of snow, it somehow stayed below 80 degrees on one of L.A.'s great sports Saturdays.
USC-UCLA.
Lakers-Clippers.
Ducks-Kings.
Out at Santa Monica Beach, Eric Gagne was building sandcastles. We don't make this up. It was some kind of promotional thing with the Lakers' Jordan Farmar.
Pete, did you feel the love? This is your team, your time, your town. A return trip to the Rose Bowl in less than a month isn't a bad consolation prize.
And this was a rebuilding year.
Do you really want to leave all of it behind?
Please don't go, Pete. I buried the lead, but this is a selfish column. We, the sporting press, need you. The best reason: You helped simplify the BCS. With USC playing in championship games, that eliminated one half of a headache.
You're colorful, you're cooperative. You get it. You realize football isn't some dark, mystical science, it's our national obsession. You're one of us, a fan, one of the guys.
You're the anti-Nick Saban.
There are better things to do to than coaching 13-10 snorefests on Sunday afternoons.
Better things like blowing out UCLA on Saturday afternoons.
Just wait until next year.
sportsline
Open letter to Pete Carroll: Forget NFL and Arizona desert
LOS ANGELES -- Please don't go, Pete Carroll. We need you.
If the whispers are true that Saturday was your last regular-season game as USC's coach, then you're inhaling something other than L.A. smog.
This is the first December since 2002 that Carroll and the Trojans are not preparing for a shot at No. 1. UCLA took back the city for a day with a 13-9 victory.
So is that enough to push Carroll out the door? Is USC's Camelot crumbling? Is this the sign Carroll needed to push him to the No Fun League?
Carroll kind of played footsie last week with the idea, wondering out loud about the NFL's advantages. His former quarterback Matt Leinart caught a whiff and said, sure, Pete would be perfect for the Arizona Cardinals.
Pete Carroll might be perfect for a lot of things, including the NFL, but someone needs to check. Are the Cardinals still in the NFL? Arizona is the home of the most stupefying, achingly mediocre franchise in pro sports. Relocating it from St. Louis to the desert in 1988 only provided a lower humidity reading when the team stunk.
Forgive Leinart. He's just a kid. He doesn't know what horrors await him.
The Bidwill family has owned the Cardinals for 74 years. There have been six playoff appearances since 1947, none since 1998.
The franchise left St. Louis because Billy Bidwill said fans weren't supporting the team. False and false. The Cardinals played to 87 percent capacity at old Busch Stadium their last lame-duck year.
Those people were either ignorant to the situation or bored. The Bidwills didn't give fans a reason to come out. This was a franchise that drafted a kicker (John Lee) in the second round. This was a franchise that once fired coach Jim Hanifan, who found out at halftime of the season finale in 1985.
The locks had been changed per Bidwill's orders.
This is a franchise that came to the desert for an attendance boost and then saw crowds shrink to 25,000 or so -- unless the Cowboys or Bears were in town.
Apparently, snowbirds don't like losing either.
Pete, if you're aching for a new challenge, the Cardinals ain't it. The smart money says, if you ever go, it will be if/when the NFL moves a team to Southern California. That makes sense.
But you're throwing your career away if you go to Arizona. Ego trumps all at times. Carroll has a huge one, which makes him no different than a lot of his peers. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell wants to add some sizzle to the franchise. The Super Bowl comes to Phoenix in 2008. What if the Cardinals played the first home game in Super Bowl history?
A snowstorm hitting the Valley of the Sun is more likely.
Turning around the Trojans was like changing the oil in the car. Turning around the Cardinals would be like planning the first manned flight to Mars.
Pete, we know your days might be numbered at Troy. We've been told that you are concerned about the NCAA. Not so much in the Reggie Bush case, but because of the temptations that are around every corner in La-La Land.
You can recruit your behind off, but maybe you're thinking that sooner or later a scandal is going to bring everything down.
But did you gaze up at the San Gabriels for a moment during that loss to UCLA? Only the Song Girls were more beautiful.
How many coaches can get a sunburn in the first week of December? While the rest of the country was digging out of snow, it somehow stayed below 80 degrees on one of L.A.'s great sports Saturdays.
USC-UCLA.
Lakers-Clippers.
Ducks-Kings.
Out at Santa Monica Beach, Eric Gagne was building sandcastles. We don't make this up. It was some kind of promotional thing with the Lakers' Jordan Farmar.
Pete, did you feel the love? This is your team, your time, your town. A return trip to the Rose Bowl in less than a month isn't a bad consolation prize.
And this was a rebuilding year.
Do you really want to leave all of it behind?
Please don't go, Pete. I buried the lead, but this is a selfish column. We, the sporting press, need you. The best reason: You helped simplify the BCS. With USC playing in championship games, that eliminated one half of a headache.
You're colorful, you're cooperative. You get it. You realize football isn't some dark, mystical science, it's our national obsession. You're one of us, a fan, one of the guys.
You're the anti-Nick Saban.
There are better things to do to than coaching 13-10 snorefests on Sunday afternoons.
Better things like blowing out UCLA on Saturday afternoons.
Just wait until next year.
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OCBucksFan
I won a math debate
I don't think Petey would ever leave USC, he already failed once in the NFL, why try again? It's funny thought, I live here in SoCal in the heart of USC hell, people are already acting like he's a failure as a coach because all he did was get to the rose bowl :)
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duke_shoot
BB hound
A football coach that doesn't meet expectations falls faster than gravity can pull him down. :(
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