...It's extraordinary that a college team developed this celebrity cache, something like the Lakers'. It's more surprising that it did so without suffering any tangible damage, unless you can find a way to blame Jessica Simpson for the failure to pick up that first down against Texas in the Rose Bowl."The nature of the three guys we've had that have been Heisman (winners)," Carroll said, referring to Carson Palmer (2002), Leinart (2004) and Bush (2005), "is that they've been extraordinary team members. They've never put it in the face of teammates or tried to big-time them at all. I think the following and hype that goes along with it is part of being in Los Angeles and being a high-profile program that's done a lot of winning. I think those are beautiful things that come with it. That has not been a bad thing at all. In terms of it being a distraction, we've dealt with it quite well...
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