USC Lets In The Trojan Horse

It takes a lot to really surprise me in sports these days. Well, who saw this coming. With Pete Carroll coming back to the NFL, USC need someone to take the downfall of the pending NCAA investigations and sanctions, er, a new head coach. And it looks like they found one in none other than that idiot Lane Kiffin. From ESPN.com

Tennessee's Lane Kiffin has agreed in principle to become the next head coach at Southern California, sources close to the situation told ESPN.com's Chris Low on Tuesday.

Kiffin would replace Pete Carroll, who jumped to the NFL as coach of the Seattle Seahawks.

Kiffin, the former Oakland Raiders coach, led the Volunteers for only one season.

Sources told ESPN Kiffin will bring his father and defensive coordinator, Monte Kiffin, and assistant head coach and recruiting coordinator Ed Orgeron to Southern Cal with him, and wide receivers coach Kippy Brown will be named interim head coach at Tennessee.

Well USC is going no place but down and with Lane Kiffin at the helm, they are going to get there a whole heck of a lot faster.

It is certainly safe to say that the dynasty that Pete Carroll built is over and that the Trojans will be trapped in a Horse for a good period of time. Lane Kiffin was nothing but a bumbling idiot in Tennessee constantly stepping on toes and crossing SEC and NCAA boundaries and now he has left there to go to the PAC 10 and USC.

Trojan fans want to know how to get their program back moving in the right direction? You can start by firing the idiot you just hired.

What Do Lee Corso And Ryan Seacrest Have In Common?

They both wanted someone who is blind to touch their hand!

No, seriously. Remember last year when Ryan Seacrest tried to high five a blind American Idol contestant who made it to Hollywood? Well Lee Corso tried to one-up that bit of idiocy.

If you have been following college football at all this year, then I'm you know the inspirational story of Jake Olson, the blind 12-year old USC fan that has gained internet notoriety (and rightfully so) for his story. Jake was the guest picker on New Year's Day for the remaining college bowl games. After Jake gave very intelligent picks that can be considered equal to what you will find in most professional analysts, Lee Corso reached out to shake his hand forgetting the one thing that made him so famous and inspirational: he was blind!



Awkward!

Chris Fowler did a good job of saving face there and not leaving Lee Corso totally hanging, but Lee's cluelessness, ignorance, and/or forgetfulness just cracked me up.

Let's see, Lee Corso tries to shake the hand of a blind kid, Big 10 football finally silenced their critics, and Fox Sports introduced Tebow cam to us all during the Sugar Bowl. 2010 is going to be an interesting year, isn't it?

Pete Carroll Is Not A Fan Of You Calling A Timeout When He Is Taking A Knee

With 50 seconds left and down by 14 points, UCLA failed to convert a 4th down thus sealing a 21-7 victory for USC. As Matt Barkley took his first knee, Rick Neuheisel called a timeout perhaps to fight to the last whistle for his kids or just to get under the skin of Pete Carroll. If the latter was the case, then mission accomplished. While the timeout is not on the video, Carroll's response to that timeout and the aftermath of it all is.



Simply classless. While I can see the justification for the timeout, Carroll had no business throwing that hail mary TD pass to rub it in or what not especially after he cried foul when Jim Harbaugh and Stanford did the exact same thing to him. What a classless hypocrite Carroll is.

And then UCLA took it far by marching out on the field like that and while my amygdala would have enjoyed a good SoCal brawl, it would have been a black mark on college football that never would have been forgotten and forever looked down upon.

Oh well. All I can tell USC, USC fans, and Pete Carroll is have a fun trip to the Emerald Bowl! May the Emerald Nuts be extra nutty for you guys. Or something.

The Drama That Was Week 3 In College Football

Washington upset USC, and Virginia Tech had one hell of a dramatic final drive to win the game for the Hokies. Thanks to the peoples at YouTube, here are those 2 incredible finishes. Enjoy!





Wow. Simply amazing. And a big congratulations to Washington, who went from 0-12 and being the undisputed winners (or losers, depending on how you look at it) of last year's Toilet Bowl come back this year to defeat USC and are off to a 2-1 start to their year. Steve Sarkisian definitley has that team going in the right direction and Jake Locker may very well be a star in the making.

And if you were ever curious as to why I love Sean McDonough, watch that Neb-VT game and listen to that call. He is the man.