USC off-field issues (merged)

[OCBucksFan]

This isn't just an USC issue, it an issue on the entire landscape of CFB.

I agree, there needs to be some severe punishment for this conduct. The reason people take so much notice of USC is because they see it on the national stage against a team they are going to destroy. If they did it and were losing this topic would be very different, something along the lines of "what are you celebrating for asshole, your team is down 21 points" instead, because of the circumstances people see it as showboating and rubbing it in.

What needs to happen is when someone does it, they are pulled from the game and possibly suspended a second game. That would change things real fast, but there's too much at stake for them to make the punishment that severe with coaches jobs on the line as well as AD's and tons of revenue.

 

[BuckeyeInTheBoro]

The whole team does that "You Can't see me" thing.

Is that what that meant? I thought they were all trying to call for a fair catch to avoid getting hit!

 

[jwinslow]

Can't really say anything. Dorsey does that damn Hacksaw Jim Duggan dance everytime he tackles someone. That and the stupid ass, hand in front of the face our secondary seems to think looks good.

Then you've got awkward LSU fans in the stands doing the same when the camera pans across them. Looks pretty ridiculous.

 

[buckeyesin07]

Yes, with OSU it appears the fireworks happen in the locker room.

Care to elaborate? Or would you rather just lob vague but apparently disparaging statements?

 

[GoodLifeSean]

I believe methomps is responding to this... I've been in a locker room when that happens, its not good.

DDN

 

[buckeyesin07]

I believe methomps is responding to this... I've been in a locker room when that happens, its not good.

DDN

In my opinion, there is a big difference between teammates arguing amongst themselves in the confines of the lockerroom and shoving your opponent's face in it by cartwheeling or flipping your way into the end zone. Maybe it's just me.

 

[GoodLifeSean]

No it's not just you, I agree infighting is different, but Neither is good. Just remember, everything is gold when everything is going well.

 

[buckeyesin07]

No it's not just you, I agree infighting is different,

Then we agree his bringing it up (and attempt to deflect) isn't very relevant.

 

[methomps]

Then we agree his bringing it up (and attempt to deflect) isn't very relevant.

I thought the whole purpose of this discussion, started January 8th, is deflection.

 

[sandgk]

I thought the whole purpose of this discussion, started January 8th, is deflection.

You mean we aren't talking about whether 'SC players should get 5.9 from the Russian Judge?

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

I thought the whole purpose of this discussion, started January 8th, is deflection.

Meet me in the Senior Mod locker room and say that. :tic:

 

[GoodLifeSean]

Meet me in the Senior Mod locker room and say that. :tic:

Fight!!! Fight!!! Fight!!! :box:

 

[buckeyesin07]

I thought the whole purpose of this discussion, started January 8th, is deflection.

Deflection? No. Lack of other things to talk about? Possibly. I would be interested in what you think of the previously-mentioned antics of USC players.

 

[Wingate1217]

I believe methomps is responding to this... I've been in a locker room when that happens, its not good.

DDN

Almost all the locker rooms I have been in has had some sort of discourse throughout the course of the season. Calling out a teammate in a locker room is totally different than doing so in public. On one level it shows that the guys care about the outcome. Really as long as names/individual actions are not being shared with the media I considered the "meltdown" as some in the media has called it a non-story.

 

[cincibuck]

I would readily admit to a bias against USC, but I think it's one that I see bourne out by the few Trojan games I see each year. In fact, I'm pretty sure that the original NCAA crack down on end zone behavior was directed at USC's return star, Anthony Davis, some time in the early 70s.

It just seems to me that USC coaches and Pac 10 officials have been very lax in enforcing the taunting and unsportsmanlike conduct penalties.

Perhaps they perceive(d) it as a difference in black/white behavior standards and didn't want to go there for obvious recruiting and retention reasons.