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I remember one year when Nebraska's Tom Osborne (well known for running up the score) poured it on in a game with Arizona State. I thought at the time he'd live to regret it and the next year, at Tempe, his team was ambushed in the desert.
 

i love what USC did!
i think it was classless of UCLA to call a timeout when USC was trying to kneel the ball and kill the clock.
 

the u said:
i love what USC did!
i think it was classless of UCLA to call a timeout when USC was trying to kneel the ball and kill the clock.
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I agree. If UCLA is going to call timeouts after USC kneels the ball down then USC can do whatever it pleases. Of course they will have to face them next year so they'd better make sure their team is prepared.
 

How bout both Neuheisel and Carroll are pompous jackasses? It seems like neither are aware there's a high road as an option.
 


I'm in the same camp....if USC had done it straight up before any of it happened, not cool. But since UCLA called a timeout after the kneel, I loved what USC did.
 

I think that that play was all Barkley. Did you see the reaction on the face of Carrol? It looked like "What the hell is going on here!"

I think Matt Barkley just might replace Clausen as the next detestable college quarterback.
 

We are still in California for the BB tourney. The news stations tried to make a big deal out of it. The sports guy for that station said, UCLA took the time out, the game is still on. Interviewed several players after the game and they all said the right things. That it was no big deal. It's a rivalry game. It doesn't matter what happened last year thet will always hate each other.
 

coolhandgopher said:
How bout both Neuheisel and Carroll are pompous jackasses? It seems like neither are aware there's a high road as an option.
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Exactly, I don't think it looks good for either one of them. Stupid move by Neuheisel, and then after crying about Stanford a few weeks ago, Carroll does the same thing.

Maybe Kip Smith will change his mind again. If a mascot can influence him to go to UCLA, maybe this will make him change back. And maybe Henderson will see how big of a jerk Carroll is and decide to sign with the Gophers. I can dream, can't I? :)
 




achiever said:
I think that that play was all Barkley. Did you see the reaction on the face of Carrol? It looked like "What the hell is going on here!"

I think Matt Barkley just might replace Clausen as the next detestable college quarterback.
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Carroll commented in post game interviews that he liked the playcall when then O-Coordinator made it. This wasn't an on the fly decision by Barkley. This was USC sticking it to their rival. I liked it. I would have liked it even if UCLA hadn't called the TD. It's your blood rival. Pour it on if you want. That said, you should be prepared to back it up the next season and you should forget trying to pretend you're a saint.
 

GophersInIowa said:
Exactly, I don't think it looks good for either one of them. Stupid move by Neuheisel, and then after crying about Stanford a few weeks ago, Carroll does the same thing.
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Pete playing the victim after Stanford was silly enough given the fact that he has a history of running it up on Pac-10 foes (not just rivals). This wasn't his first time twisting the knife home at the end of a game and given the fact that they had previously tried to kneel it down this was also probably his least egregious "pour it on" moment.
 

Great Plains Gopher said:
I remember one year when Nebraska's Tom Osborne (well known for running up the score) poured it on in a game with Arizona State. I thought at the time he'd live to regret it and the next year, at Tempe, his team was ambushed in the desert.
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Meh, I was at that game. Nebraska scored two touchdowns in the second half.
 



The bomb didn't seem that significant to me at all. If only they had acted cool about it afterward.

But the way the USC players reacted to it was significant. Dancing, jumping around, taunting. Pete running up and down the sideline cheering seemed to be what incited his players to react that way. (what is he, mentally ill or something? The game is over- who cheers like that?)

Likewise, the fact that half of UCLA's team appraoched midfield was interesting.
 

i wonder what kip smith thinks about the UCLA players trying to start a brawl. do we know the whereabouts of the bruin mascot?!
 

Goldmember said:
The bomb didn't seem that significant to me at all. If only they had acted cool about it afterward.

But the way the USC players reacted to it was significant. Dancing, jumping around, taunting. Pete running up and down the sideline cheering seemed to be what incited his players to react that way. (what is he, mentally ill or something? The game is over- who cheers like that?)

Likewise, the fact that half of UCLA's team appraoched midfield was interesting.
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That's what makes USC just as guilty in my opinion. Throwing the pass was one thing, but then taunting and acting like idiots afterwards is another.
 

Didn't see it, but from the description, I think USC just should have done the "better part of valor" thing. Of course, I'm old and football was a much more genteel sport before the BCS and scoring margins and all that stuff seemingly poisoned the well. The game wasn't lily-white back in the 1960s and 1970s, but throwing late in games when you were waaaaaaay up was very much discouraged. But again, I'm ancient compared to most in here.
 

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