Even Student Managers Cheat at USC!

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Always something with USC. A manager wouldn't make a choice like this without being instructed by the head equipment manager who would not do something like this without being instructed by someone on the coaching staff.
 

MNVCGUY said:
Always something with USC. A manager wouldn't make a choice like this without being instructed by the head equipment manager who would not do something like this without being instructed by someone on the coaching staff.
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There is no way for you to know this. The student manager could have easily taken it upon himself to try to give his team an advantage, thinking he wouldn't get caught. I'm probably the biggest SC and Kiffen hater on this board (The Ducks are my second favorite team), but assuming that the coaching staff was involved isn't really fair.
 

It's a Pig Man! said:
....... but assuming that the coaching staff was involved isn't really fair.
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Actually, assuming the coaching staff wasn't involved seems naive to me. Surely the Pac 12 fined USC for a reason.

Read further down in this story and you will read about their jersey number scam against Colorado earlier this season.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameo...s+(Sports+-+Top+Stories)&utm_content=My+Yahoo

Clearly USC still has a cheating culture. I would like to hear what the NCAA has to say about all this.
 

It's a Pig Man! said:
There is no way for you to know this. The student manager could have easily taken it upon himself to try to give his team an advantage, thinking he wouldn't get caught. I'm probably the biggest SC and Kiffen hater on this board (The Ducks are my second favorite team), but assuming that the coaching staff was involved isn't really fair.
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This is the same team/coach that were caught recently having players change numbers during the game illegally. I would say that they have definitely have established a pattern and culture of cheating and it starts at he top.
 


Killjoy said:
This is the same team/coach that were caught recently having players change numbers during the game illegally. I would say that they have definitely have established a pattern and culture of cheating and it starts at he top.
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In fairness this could be an over zealous student trying to help out his team. Given what I know of college athletics and how things really work...yeah I am going to stick with this came from above and the student is just taking the fall. And like Killjoy says above this is clearly not a team that spends a lot of time worrying about playing by the rules.
 

MNVCGUY said:
In fairness this could be an over zealous student trying to help out his team. Given what I know of college athletics and how things really work...yeah I am going to stick with this came from above and the student is just taking the fall. And like Killjoy says above this is clearly not a team that spends a lot of time worrying about playing by the rules.
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I liked one commentor somewhere when he said:

Lane Kiffin:

1. I don't know what the rules are, and
2. I don't care.
 

Dr.Don said:
I liked one commentor somewhere when he said:

Lane Kiffin:

1. I KNOW what the rules are, and
2. I don't care.
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I like that quote too but I think my modification is probably closer to the truth.
 

That certainly reinforces the well known phrase "taking the air out of the football". :clap::clap::clap:
 



BREAKING NEWS:

Fired USC student equipment manager seen driving 2012 Corvette through campus. Personalized plates on car read LANES VETTE. Story at 10.:cool02::clap::cool:
 

I think everyone is misunderstanding me a little bit. I'm not saying that I believe that the coaching staff had nothing to do with this, as they have clearly shown a pattern of cheating. I'm just saying that assuming that they had something to do with it isn't really fair when there is no information that would necessarily suggest that.
 


QB's hate over inflated footballs and brand new balls too. If over inflated they can be hard as a rock and are a bitch to throw. I had no idea that it was illegal to under inflate them. A non-QB obviously made that rule.
 



I don't know who directed the kid to deflate the footballs but I'm 99.99999% certain it wasn't his own idea. However, since you can't pinpoint who game him the direction, the kid becomes the fall guy. The Code of Silence can be powerful.

Think a student manager would purposefully change the composition of the football Matt Barkley uses in the biggest game of the year against Oregon without direction? Haha.
 

From Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times:

On the field, this team with unbeaten talent is 6-3 while gaining national recognition mostly for reckless penalties and questionable play-calling.

Off the field, Kiffin has dragged the team through an array of distractions and ethics dilemmas that have tarnished the athletic department’s sterling post-probation image cultivated by Athletic Director Pat Haden.

Kiffin was not hired by Haden, and there is now real doubt about his ability to keep his job beyond this season as the department sinks deeper into embarrassment. Kiffin was a Mike Garrett guy, and there are indications that Haden is ready to rid the program of the last traces of that legacy. As always, winning solves everything, and it appears Kiffin is going to have to do plenty of it in these final three regular-season games.

Like, maybe, win all of them?
 

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