USC officials are angry that USA Today revealed Lane Kiffin’s top 25 ballot because the established guidelines say the ballot will only be revealed at the end of the season.
But Kiffin’s logic for voting USC No. 1 raises questions.
Here is his quote to USA Today: “We have less players than everybody else. So looking at it from the outside, I wouldn’t (vote USC No. 1). Did I? Yeah, I did. That’s not based off of 75 vs. 85.
“That’s based off of Matt Barkley, T.J. McDonald and Robert Woods and Marqise Lee. When everybody has the same record, I can’t go into a meeting with our players and have them say, `You put that team and that team ahead of us.’ That’s why I did that.”
So here are two questions:
1.) If ballots were confidential, Kiffin’s players would not find out if he selected USC No. 1.
2.) Isn’t the integrity of Kiffin’s ballot compromised if he voted based on fears of what his players thought?
