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Answer is easy.
USC is a football school that succeeded through sanctions, a bowl ban, and being virtually ignored by ESPN until they were forced to recognize that SC was “back” at the end of this year.
UCLA is a basketball school that even when appearing in 3 CONSECUTIVE Final Fours did not win even one. And before that.. when did they last win a National Championship? early 90s?
How has a “basketball school” that has ZERO COMPETITION in their cross-town rival USC (and a WEAK Pac-12 conference that might get only TWO teams into the tourney) managed to become NATIONALLY IRRELEVANT for more than a few years?
USC basketball is bad but that is almost expected. Doesn’t mean I don’t root for them.
UCLA basketball doens’t have the tradition anymore that USC football does. And they claim to be a BASKETBALL SCHOOL?
Ouch.

Let’s talk baseball. USC is #23 in the current baseball poll, one spot ahead of #24 UCLA … kind of like the US News and World Report College rankings.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/baseball/story/2012-01-25/usa-today-espn-baseball-poll/52790710/1

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/27/local/la-me-rankings-20100827

Owns and mike pretty much covered it.

Fight on!

Sir Fartsalot, what is your take on whether we should hurry up and get out of Afghanistan?

@moron – “USC has continued winning Rose Bowls, national championships…” — they won ONE shared (1/2 title) title in 2003, and they were stripped from the other.

moron wrote: “USC had the excuse of sanctions and bowl ban…” —- What does being on sanctions have to do with the ability to win games? are all the 5-star players SUC has required to play in potato sacks? or with one arm tied behind their back? – what an idiot!!

moron wrote: “So what’s UCLA basketball’s excuse while playing in a TERRIBLY WEAK PAC-12 conference that will get maybe two teams in the tourney…????” — they are not very good this year, it’s that simple…as for excuse? our #1 scorer and #1 rebouder was kicked off the team for having a shitty attitude, do you think USC would have kicked off the teaam your top player in the team? I DON’T THINK THEY EVER WOULD! why, because SUC is a “win at all costs” screw sportsmanship, screw the players’ attitudes, screw any flaws, as long as these guys get wins for us.

moron wrote: “Any intellectual answer to why USC (a football school) can continue to be relevant through probation yet UCLA (a basketball school) can’t stay relevant in an AWFUL CONFERENCE?” — USC continues to be relevant only becaue the scholarhip reductions haven’t hit home, yet, but you will have a major drop off in success beginning in 2013 when the depth charts are depleted, unless of course all the recruits stay healthy and perform like SUC expected them to when they were recruited, and we all know that is just pie in the sky…as for UCLA basketball, we have one of the top recruiting classes coming in next year and if we get Shabbaz our season will jump through the roof, but even without him we will kick some major ass, just watch.

According to Marc Tyler SUC “breaks bread” for their players, of course they’re going to continue to have the top recruits!! USC does a great job in keeping it low-pro when paying their athletes…had Bush NOT refused to pay back the $600,000 ($300,000 to each agent) the world would have NEVER known how crooked and corrupt SUC truly is…SUC has learned their lesson, on how not neglect certain aspects of their “operation”, I’m sure that now they educate the agents as well as their players and players’ families, in order to keep their cheating program from getting the death penalty.

Cheat On though!!

Considering that the sanctions were used to recruit against USC, and that upperclassmen were allowed to transfer without sitting out a year, it’s pretty phenomenal that USC went 10-2 in its second year under sanctions. Also mental toughness on the part of the players, to play that hard knowing there wouldn’t be a post-season for them.

Of course, not everyone could cut it at USC. Promising players Markeith Ambles and Dillon Baxter were both released from the team.

At the end of the day, there’s only so much coaches can do. Ultimately, each student-athlete is responsible for him/herself, which even UCLA fans recognize: http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=12&f=1737&t=8745965

Sad day for UCLA when even the basketball fans are forced to join football fans in that familiar Bruin refrain: Wait until next year!

Your beloved campus is in a shit neighborhood. USC = gringos that like living in the bario (aka white trash)

Definitely ban alternate uniforms for crosstown game. USC/UCLA game is so unique, and getting back the tradition of both teams wearing their home colors is great. This game looks so great, and it needs to be moved back to a day game. Those white uniforms were terrible, and they weren’t even the correct blue color. UCLA should incorporate navy as a trim, like the Chargers did with their light blue uniforms, but not in place of “true blue”. I’m not a Bruin hater, and I actually like their uniforms. Their move to be more “uniform” with this true blue was a good move, since it was never baby blue like NC. I remember when Larry Brown got major heat when he changed UCLA’s uniform color to North Carolina baby blue.

@BruinRob, Jon’s point about transfers and player mentality (knowing the entire nation is virtually ingnoring them) was spot on.
And have you seen our depth chart the last 2 seasons? USC with a shortened roster beat a full UCLA roster 50-0. Enjoy that!

FIGHT ON!!

so will ucla’s basketball’s big drug issue about to become public through SI be addressed or obfuscated by our wonderful ucla contributors? i might take drugs just to stay awake whenever ben howland speaks. what a dynamo!

It amazes me how many SC fans accept mediocrity and humiliation from Bozo the Coach when we were a dropped basketball under the hoop from beating eventual NCAA runner up Michigan State and making the Sweet 16 for the second time in three years.

Building a basketball team is light-years easier than creating a winning football team.

Get 3 studs and 5 role players, and alakazam or whatever, you have a team contending for a national title.

Overall, pretty good points, ftfo2009! UCLA would go absolutely CRAZY with joy of USC ever lost 50-0. But we’re USC. Not UCLA.

AUUUUUUUUUUUU-WOOOOOOOOOOOOIII!!!!!!!
Fight on!

@Globe, if you really lived in Omaha you would know UCLA had a baseball program, they’ve been to Omaha the past two years…troll on though!!

@Jack, Bruins are NOT gay, you want some gay action? call SUC owns, or NOBS, or Monopoly, they are as gay as a 3-dollar bill, sorta like you.

Enjoy those tiny little tickling your @$$.

BruinRob, your use of the phrase “troll on though” makes me think that you misunderstand it’s actual meaning. But I think it’s cute that you think you know how to use the internet.

BruinRob,

UCLA was not in the College World Series last year. Where do you get your misinformation?

We were gonna go to the tournament
Until we got high

We were gonna win the Pac 12
And then we got high

Our coach is such a joke
And we don’t know why. Why?

Because we got high.
Because we got high.
Because we got high.

@ftfo2009, it’s about UCLA. Read SI.

Why don’t you tell me
what Howland’s doing wrong?

Why don’t you tell me
where you hid the bong?

Don’t light one without me!

[Visual: hold your fake doobie in the air.]
U C L A smokes.

Well they kicked him out of the program after starting multiple fights with teammates. Have they kicked off the players responsible for the rampant drug use? Have they removed the boosters who are providing limo rides to the team?

Rob, with his extolling the virtues of the 50-0 loss as well as the school’s lackluster responses to Howland’s shortcomings, reminds me of the child who walks into a room filled with manure and shovels for hours convinced there must be a horse nearby.

@trOJanFamily wrote: “Well they kicked him out of the program after starting multiple fights with teammates”.

Kicking Reeves Nelson off the team for fighting is more than USC had ever done…must I remind you how Steve Smith a USC WR broke Dominique Byrds Jaw in the USC locker room?? and how last year Lutui broke the jaw of one of your RBs jaw during conditioning after running a 40 yard dash?? must I remind you how O.J. Mayo broke the jaw of a team mate who happened to be the son of one of the USC coaches, I belive it was the kid that skipped his senior year from H.S. to play for USC, he’s a black kid who had an Italian accent, I can’t remember his name…in ALL THREE of these incidents NONE OF ABOVE REFERENCED INDIVIDUALS EVEN GOT DISCIPLINED from their coaches, in fact in the O.J. Mayo incident it went days unreported until word leaked out…so stop your bullshit non-sense, because you know you will get hammered each time, when you conveniently try to make UCLA an institution that tolerates crap, when in fact it is just the opposite.

trOJanFamily wrote: “Have they kicked off the players responsible for the rampant drug use?”
Really??? UCLA has repeatedly suspended players for violations of breaking team rules
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/12/sports/la-sp-ucla-football-20101013 …and those violations include but not limited to drug use, which could include marijuana, or other. Does USC even test their players??? I SERIOUISLY DOUBT IT!! “rampant drug use”? really? please enlighten me, post a link to support you accusation of “rampant drug use”, I can’t wait to see, you foolish jackass…if you want to talk about rampant drug use in our campuses, uh, do the Ting brothers sould familiar to you? their dad, was providing steroids to the trOJan team…and does the incident in which the USC assistant getting into a car accident sound familiar to you? he was the one directly involved in juicing up the USC players…and what about Taylor Mays? he had 20 inch arms at USC, and within 5 months after graduating his arms resembled those of a skinny H.S. player, hummmm I wonder why??…what about Brian Cushing?? that dude was juiced up since his H.S. days, and all thru college, did you ever not see his “bitch tits”? thank you for the opportunity to make an ass out of yet another dumbass trOJan, YOU.

Sincerely,
BruinRob, the #1 fan of the UCLA Bruins, Defending Pac-12 South Division Champions.