tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36272302024-02-07T02:45:17.388-08:00Fight On, Forever!ALL THINGS RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, ESPECIALLY FOOTBALLELShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14380122294075167143noreply@blogger.comBlogger1997125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627230.post-92198449331992438912012-01-02T01:39:00.000-08:002012-01-02T01:39:19.823-08:00<a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ssf/2012/01/oregon_ducks_wrestle_with_fans.html"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Oregon Ducks wrestle with fans' changing views of success - The Oregonian</span></a><br>Entering Monday's Rose Bowl, <span style="font-weight:bold;">the Ducks' evolving fan base has cast a been-there, done-that attitude</span> around a program that <span style="font-weight:bold;">historically has done neither...</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr>
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<img src="http://usc.ocregister.com/files/2011/12/barkley_go-300x225.jpg" alt="" height="200" align=left>A few moments after 1 p.m. Thursday, <span style="font-weight:bold;">USC became the team to beat for the 2012 BCS national championship.</span>Trojan quarterback<a href="http://www.ocregister.com/sports/barkley-332827-usc-year.html"> <strong>Matt Barkley’s</strong> decision</a> on Tuesday to return to USC for his senior season guaranteed that <span style="font-weight:bold;">the road to next year’s national title game in South Florida will start at 3911 South Figueroa Street.</span> Barkley’s return is <span style="font-weight:bold;">the final piece to Trojan formula</span> that has all the ingredients for a run at <span style="font-weight:bold;">another national title</span>, scholarship reductions and all...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr>
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<img src="http://thematadorsports.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/tressel.jpg" height="200" align=left>Really, guys? I’m <span style="font-weight:bold;">tired of the media and the NCAA trying to explain how USC’s penalties and OSU’s are apples to oranges...</span> ...Today, the NCAA ruled that Ohio State would serve a one-year bowl ban and add 4 scholarships to the 5 they “self sanctioned”. And they <span style="font-weight:bold;">hit Jim Tressel in the nuts</span> with the NCAA equivalent of the scarlet letter (how appropriate...).<br />
So, <span style="font-weight:bold;">for USC’s crimes:</span> 30 schollies, 2 year bowl ban.<br />
For <span style="font-weight:bold;">Ohio State’s crimes:</span> 27 schollies, 1 year bowl ban.<br />
This is just the latest in <span style="font-weight:bold;">the NCAA’s final stand to claim any sort of control over their business</span> that they still won’t admit is a business...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr>
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<img title="Ohio State Jim Tressel" src="http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/sports_college/files/2011/05/PX00213_9-300x219.jpg" alt="" height="190" align=right><span style="font-weight:bold;">The NCAA has reportedly hit the Ohio State football program</span> with a postseason ban for the 2012 season that <span style="font-weight:bold;">according to <a href="http://www.buckeyextra.com/content/stories/2011/12/20/ncaa-report.html">The Columbus Dispatch</a>.</span> The move means the Buckeyes are <span style="font-weight:bold;">automatically out of the running for any postseason bowl game next season...</span>...A postseason ban would be a <span style="font-weight:bold;">huge blow</span> for a program that is trying to rebuild under <span style="font-weight:bold;">new head coach Urban Meyer.</span> The former Florida coach was hired earlier this month and is already making recruiting waves...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr>
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<span style="font-weight:bold;">Bo Pelini will likely continue to find himself in the thick of Twitterverse coaching speculation</span>, as he did Monday. [From The Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot-News:] “Nebraska’s Bo Pelini talked to people at Penn State but is not in the mix, I’ve heard from two highly placed sources.” Pelini told me after practice Monday that nobody from Penn State has approached him or his agent about the head coaching vacancy. <b>“You hear rumors</b>, but … no, there’s been nothing,” he said. Said Osborne: “I’ve not heard anything from anybody at Penn State. And Bo has not mentioned anything about Penn State to me.” So, case closed? Well. … <span style="font-weight:bold;">A gut feeling — OK, an informed gut feeling — tells me to keep an eye on this thing.</span><br />
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Penn State coaching vacancy is <span style="font-weight:bold;">‘toxic situation’</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight:bold;">Sporting News picked the 10 best bowl games of the BCS era.<br />
1. 2006 Rose Bowl<br />
Texas 41, USC 38<br />
The background:</span> USC (12-0), led by<span style="font-weight:bold;"> two Heisman winners, quarterback Matt Leinart and running back Reggie Bush</span>, entered the Rose Bowl on a 34-game winning streak...<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">...The game:</span> OK, so all Young had done was rush for 192 yards and pass for 267 more when the Longhorns faced fourth-and-5 at the USC 8 with under a half-minute to play. Which guy are you going to focus on? Which guy can you absolutely … not … let … beat you? Yet it's <span style="font-weight:bold;">more a tribute to Young than an indictment of the Trojans' defense</span> that he bounced on his toes, momentarily looking for an open receiver, before scrambling untouched along the right sideline for an 8-yard touchdown run with 19 seconds remaining...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr>
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New coaches <span style="font-weight:bold;">must win right away</span><br />
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<b>Norm Chow</b> could be emerging as the favorite for the <b>Hawaii job...</b><br />
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