Former USC coach and now Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll told 710 ESPN Los Angeles his thoughts on the NCAA recently stripping the Trojans of their/his 2004 title...

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"Just watch the comments of the players. They know. They know who won and who didn't," he said. "You've heard from (Matt) Leinart and Lofa Tatupu and those kinds of guys, they all know. The whole thing is so unfortunate. It's just so far off-base, it's just too bad."

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LSUTANGERINE•155 months

:bow:

c on z•155 months

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It's just so far off-base, it's just too bad."

:wah:

LSUTANGERINE•155 months

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"Nothing that's happened has changed my thoughts," he said. "It's unfortunate that kids, years after, are punished for something the NCAA is dealing with from years and years before. Kids that were in junior high at the time, or in grade school, are paying the price for it."

With Ohio State now in the spotlight for similar allegations of improper player benefits, Carroll would not compare the two situations but said any decision by the NCAA would be tricky.

"I think this is a major challenge for the NCAA because of what they have done in the past here recently. I don't know how they're going to possibly make sense out of all this," he said. "It's going to be very challenging and it'll be very interesting to see what happens."

:bow:

dukke v•155 months

So It was OK for USC TO CHEAT??????????? Pete Carroll is a fraud and ALWAYS WILL BE. HE made the FUTURE OF USC SUFFER. frick HIM. HE IS A SCUMBAG BUCKET OF SNOT LOSER.

SPEEDY•155 months

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"It's unfortunate that kids, years after, are punished for something the NCAA is dealing with from years and years before. Kids that were in junior high at the time, or in grade school, are paying the price for it."

It's also unfortunate that you were able to hightail it out of town just before the hammer dropped, thereby avoiding the very punishment those poor junior high kids are now suffering

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xiv•155 months

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his thoughts

Irrelevant.

USC had an impressive 10-0 season in 2004. Then they failed to see that one of their players was ineligible. Gotta pay.

LSUTANGERINE•155 months

Gotta love Pete Carroll

xiv•155 months

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Gotta love Pete Carroll

I like him. I actually liked the way he stuck to his guns about the 2003 controversy years later. "Our goal every year is to go to the Rose Bowl; if someone else wants to invite us to some other type of game, we'll be happy to consider that."

There's something I admire about the defiant attitude and aversion to saying anything about hoping to go to the BCSCG, which no USC team has ever won.

c on z•155 months

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Our goal every year is to go to the Rose Bowl; if someone else wants to invite us to some other type of game, we'll be happy to consider that."

Well they have been doing just that almost every year. :lol:

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Kracka•155 months

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"Just watch the comments of the players. They know. They know who won and who didn't," he said. "You've heard from (Matt) Leinart and Lofa Tatupu and those kinds of guys, they all know.

This is the only thing I agree with. You can strip teams of titles, and whatever, but you can't change what happened on the field. But for him to say this is all way off base, and too bad? That is just delusional.

siliconvalleytiger•155 months

Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this. It reminds me of how arrogant USC was and vindicates what happened to them.

Dear USC - :rotflmao:

blzr•155 months