College football Week 3 thread

Has to be the first post in Internet history where East Lansing = Los Angeles in lifestyle.

 

A USC wife of a coach will only see downtown LA going to and from the games from her house in Manhattan Beach.

 

Not saying it did, neither in lifestyle nor program
I’m just saying don’t be so sure he’ll drop everything for USC

 

Can we stop this please? Aside from Peter the Cheater’s 10-year run, this program has been above average at best, winning the Pac-12 in recent years only because Oregon was down and the rest of the conference was terrible. From 2010 to present, USC has averaged 4.1 losses a season compared to the 1.9 they averaged under Carroll — and 10 of those were in his first and last seasons. From 1990-2000 they averaged 5.2 losses a season. The Carroll years were the exception and not the rule.

 

The Carroll years were cheating.

The post-Carroll mediocrity was in part caused by penalties from cheating.

 

Magic Johnson has come back two or three times a year for 40 years now.

Not.too often in January and February.

 

Between John Robinson 1.0 and now- excluding the NCAA redacted Carrol era - they've lost 131 games and tied six times - that's averaging about four losses a year. and 9-11 in bowl games.

 

Or we could include USC's record under Carroll: 97-19, 6 BCS bowl wins.

 

Exactly. When Mike Riley coached at USC he lived in Seal Beach. Fickell's wife can compare that to Cincinnati in January. When Rocky Long coached at UCLA he lived in Thousand Oaks. Reasonable commutes, and they were generally driving at off-hours. The USC head coach is not gonna live in Compton or Santa Ana or Pacoima.

And Carroll didn't cheat to get Reggie Bush. He was a USC guy all the way. The benefits to his family didn't start until Bush was already on campus. USC definitely broke rules, but from what I have read by in stories by very smart people, it was penalized far more harshly than other schools with similar infractions because Garrett was an idiot and didn't at least pretend to cooperate with the investigators, like other ADs. Chris Long probably knows more.

 

Do they insert some sort of chip in L.A. people at birth giving them Alexa-like capabilities at rattling off highway numbers and beach town names? You folks are encyclopedic. You're like farmers discussing the weather, but with knowing every town within a 25 mile radius of the city. It fascinates me.

 

Yes. California birthright includes knowing the freeways -- the 405 to the 605 to the 91 to the 10 -- and beach towns.

Few things in life more satisfying than driving up and down the coast.