January 1st, 2009 at 5:47 PM ^
I hate Penn St. more.
January 1st, 2009 at 5:51 PM ^
As long as I've watched college ball, I've always hated USC
January 1st, 2009 at 5:53 PM ^
I like USC, and wanted to go there more than Michigan. Then again I wanted to major in film at the time.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:21 PM ^
classmates with Brent and Trent!
January 1st, 2009 at 9:01 PM ^
You're missing the downside, he could've taken the place of Brent and/or Trent.
January 1st, 2009 at 5:54 PM ^
Can't stand USC...or their fans
January 1st, 2009 at 10:36 PM ^
I know what you mean. I was driving around newport today and the amount of sc flags hanging from houses sickened me
January 1st, 2009 at 10:43 PM ^
Yeah! Cheer for non local teams!
January 1st, 2009 at 5:57 PM ^
Did you guys her Herbie say this may be the greatest defense ever. How does the Greatest Defense Ever lose to Oregon State?
January 1st, 2009 at 6:23 PM ^
I almost fell off my chair when I heard that. It is amazing what a defense can do when it plays WSU, UW, UCLA, and Stanford in a season.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:46 PM ^
ESPN excels in overuse of hyperbole. Recall the 2005 USC team that was the "best in college football history" until it lost to Texas. You can't take much the announcers say all that seriously. Next year, Florida will have the "best defense in college football history."
January 1st, 2009 at 6:13 PM ^
He get's a headset, but who does he speak too? No way is he calling plays. Could it be just for show, or am I ignorant about this?
January 1st, 2009 at 6:20 PM ^
Here's an example of what he says into the mic (direct quote):
"We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell them stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I took the fairy to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe so I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. 'Give me five bees for a quarter' you'd say.
Now where were we? Oh ya. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones..."
You can see why the staff keeps the headset unplugged.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:55 PM ^
Is Penn State's only hope to crawl out of their dickety seven point deficit.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:18 PM ^
hahaha
January 1st, 2009 at 9:06 PM ^
yaaaaaa more Simpson quotes!
I heard Jo Pa also said this into his unplugged headset:
"I leave these: a box of mint-condition 1918 liberty-head silver dollars. You see, back in those days, rich men would ride around in Zeppelins, dropping coins on people, and one day I seen J. D. Rockefeller flying by. So I run of the house with a big washtub and, where are you going? Anyway, about my washtub. I just used it that morning to wash my turkey, which in those days was known as a walking bird. We'd always have walking bird on Thanksgiving with all the trimmings: cranberries, injun eyes, and yams stuffed with gunpowder. Then we'd all watch football, which in those days was called baseball."
January 1st, 2009 at 9:32 PM ^
"Tom Bradley is not a communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a communist, but he is not a porn star."
January 1st, 2009 at 6:23 PM ^
I hate USC more than everyone but OSU. I hate them more than ND, PSU, or State. I despise everything about them. I become enraged when watching them play.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:25 PM ^
I hate the fact that everyone seems to gloss over the fact that USC never, EVER plays a bowl game anywhere other than southern California. I know they are a big draw, and I know it is tradition, but when you get to play a home game in bowl season, I don't really care how badly you beat a team that just traveled 2k+ miles. That's honestly when I am looking forward to USC playing tOSU next year - at least they have to leave California for once.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:34 PM ^
It'd be fun to see O$U play U$C in November and not August next year.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:06 PM ^
12th??
January 1st, 2009 at 9:55 PM ^
my bad.. but you get the point
January 1st, 2009 at 6:40 PM ^
They did play in the 2003 and 2005 Orange Bowls, and won both in huge blowouts.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:45 PM ^
They also opened this year at Virginia with a blowout. Granted it was Virginia.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:50 PM ^
Didn't they also demolish Arkansas at Arkansas last year or the year before?
As for them playing in the Rose every year, look at the flip side: shouldn't they be bored and unmotivated by now?
January 1st, 2009 at 6:50 PM ^
The game or listening to Brent and Herbie licking Pete's Ball sack since the opening kick off. Herbie that band-wagon jumping ass muncher will change to Urban's sack before the game is done.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:53 PM ^
well thusfar, usc has earned all of the dick-sucking they have been given today. on penn state's scoring drive, i really thought they were gonna keep this one close (the td run by clark was one of the best 11-man plays across the board i have ever seen). then i dozed off for a little while and it was 17-7 and getting worse.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:57 PM ^
Musberger is noting, with a lot of slobber, that the Pac-10 is about to go 5-0 in bowl games. With the exception of the Sun Bowl in El Paso (with Oregon State's "thrilling" 3-0 victory over Pitt), every bowl game the Pac-10 played in was in the Pacific time zone. They could have all rode their bicycles to their games. While it is often mentioned that USC always has a built-in advantage playing in nearby Pasadena, no one ever mentions the conference's overall advantage in having to travel very little in relation to whomever they are playing.
Just sayin'.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:01 PM ^
...to say the same thing. The Pac-10 almost never has to travel out of their own time zone. And yeah, it's not like it's a huge advantage or anything, but it's still an advantage. Cross-country travel and adjusting to time zones isn't just a bunch of bull. It's not the end-all, but it's still something.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:24 PM ^
research shows that traveling 2+ time zones significantly impacts winning percentage of baseball teams. generic home field is ~3 pts in the NFL. i'm sure it's more in college and i'm sure it's more when you're traveling as far as PSU.
January 1st, 2009 at 10:12 PM ^
Well, since we're being myopic - Arizona is in the mountain time zone and played in Vegas (Pacific) - so including them and Oregon State, 2/5ths of the Pac-10 teams played in bowl games outside their own time zone.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:59 PM ^
...that Brent Musberger has sex with a Pete Carroll blow-up doll every nite. The man simply cannot get enough of ol' Pete's nutjuice. Carroll's a great guy and all, but the lack of objectivity with Musberger at times is just ridiculous. He is to the Pac-10 and USC what Gary Danielson is to the SEC and Florida.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:03 PM ^
...not get flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct after the TD grab by RoJo (who I am sad to say is from my hometown; Skeetown rep)? I swear I saw the flag icon on the screen for a while. And it certainly looked like enough excessive celebration. The entire SC team spent about 5 minutes hip-bumping in the end zone.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:07 PM ^
Not in Southern California. There, it is called "fashionable exuberance". Therefore, the flag is picked up.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:06 PM ^
haters.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:09 PM ^
...until 2006 when Dwayne Jarrett starting handing the ball to Willis Barringer after every reception even though SC was already up by about 20 at the time.
However, I've always hated the media infatuation. It's nice that the dynasty talk has died down the past few years.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:20 PM ^
If there was a playoff, I wouldn't doubt they'd have an actual dynasty (instead of a near-dynasty). They generally always play lights out at the end of the season. Face it, they just have the talent and coaching to get shit done...can't hate em for it unless they're doing something wrong (which has never really been proven).
January 1st, 2009 at 7:23 PM ^
...it was just nice to see Vince Young come along when he did.
If you give Pete Carroll a month (or more) to prepare for anyone USC will likely roll. That's why they are good at the beginning of the year in non conference play as well IMO.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:14 PM ^
...to have the USC cheerleaders be forced to perform in temperatures lower than their cup sizes.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:17 PM ^
Cup sizes are measured in letters, just fyi.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:00 PM ^
it's like WW degrees in cali now.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:41 PM ^
i hate USC's band. they don't seem to play anything other than their fight song which is all of 15 seconds long.
also, i hate their fans. i'm willing to bet they have an insane amount of bandwagoneers
and i hate that the rose bowl is a home game for USC
January 1st, 2009 at 8:49 PM ^
Any good team is bound to have bandwagoneers. The current Red Sox, the 90's Bulls, 90's Cowboys, etc.
To be fair, at least their marching band plays their fight song because USC is scoring, getting first downs, turnovers and generally playing well. Our band plays the Victors when we're down by 20.
January 1st, 2009 at 11:25 PM ^
do they play anything else though? we have temptation for 3rd down stops, some song we play on 2nd downs, bullwinkle, etc. USC just plays their fight song during any situation
January 1st, 2009 at 11:30 PM ^
They also have that Trojan war chant or whatever it's called.
But anyway, the program that takes the cake for all this is Oklahoma. Their fight song is the most annoying and repetitive of all, and they play it ALL game. They played it way more than WVU played theirs last year, even though WVU won in a blowout.
January 1st, 2009 at 9:10 PM ^
I like their fight song just b/c it was the same fight song my high school used so hearing it makes me nostalgic.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:50 PM ^
Why does Pete Carroll keep saying he doesn't think anybody could beat USC this year? Does he forget that a mediocre Oregon State team DID beat them? I mean, I know USC is good, but it's arrogant to think another national championship-caliber team couldn't do what the Beavers did.
He might be a good guy, but he's kind of a douche, too.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:54 PM ^
I was thinking the same thing Magnus. That bothered me a lot, more than it should have.
January 1st, 2009 at 9:16 PM ^
I think 99% of the "hate" out there towards USC is simply envy.
Pete Carroll is a very positive, classy guy. I like him.
Taylor Mays' cheap shot to the head of Norwood when USC was up 31-7 was despicable. If I was the PSU staff, I would've run a play specifically to lay a crack-back block on Mays and take his head off. An eye for an eye, motherfucker.
What I do find very bullshit about USC is that when they play ND in South Bend (or ANY other non-con game in the Midwest) they INSIST that it be no later than mid-October. However, when they play ND in the Coliseum, they play at the end of November. PLAY A GAME IN THE COLD WEATHER, YOU PUSSIES!
January 1st, 2009 at 9:53 PM ^
I didn't see anything wrong with the Mays hit. It looked to me like he hit Norwood with his shoulder, and I think when you're traveling 200 mph, it's hard to know whether you're going to hit a guy in the chest/shoulder pads or the face.
I am jealous of USC. Absolutely. A handful of contributors tonight were guys on Michigan's radar (Mays, Cushing, Griffin, RoJo).
Luckily, I'm a level-headed, objective person, and I still think Carroll's insistence that USC couldn't be beaten is ignorant and arrogant.