Why Josh Shaw Story Happened

2014 USC Football Team Photo Day. #Fighton

So what led to USC’s current predicament regarding the saga of Josh Shaw?

What created this is the bloated aspect of the program that bludgeons fans into submission with clutter. Football is secondary to a mindset that always rewards self-promotion. This is the curse of the Pete Carroll Ripsit blog. Especially without Carroll.

Instead of worrying about winning the football game, it’s the slickest video or craziest stunt that gets more attention. Who cares about beating Fresno State, Will Ferrell was at practice. Don’t worry about the graduation rates, fans can pay $1,500 to run on to the field with the team. And watch it all from their ground-level suite.

This is the attitude that quickly produces the Josh Shaw article on a web site. How did he get to Palmdale so quickly from Salute to Troy on Saturday night? Who cares? We can get national media coverage with this heroic tale. And maybe sell movie rights too!

75 thoughts on “Why Josh Shaw Story Happened

  1. yes yes, Mr. Wolf. the media…the damn media!!! all the University cares about it is getting information on stupid blogs. i mean who would use a blog!!! idiots. i hate them. we have to stop these media bastards who are taking information and posting it on blogs and..and…websites…and…interwebbing thingies. why can’t football just be played on green grass, in front of non-cavorting idiots who don’t read blogs. i am on your team.

  2. i am now searching for blogs, as instructed, and i will write strongly worded letters on typewriters, demanding that these blogs stop existing for the good of us and for the University, which uses these vile information-whores to their evil advantage.

  3. wait. i just searched “USC” and “blog” on AskJeeves (my favorite search engine) and, somehow, your site popped up. don’t worry, you weren’t first; rather, you were far down the page — below a blog sponsored by the brown strips of grass people.

  4. WELL PUT, wolfman!!! it takes a true MASTER to see things in their most elemental form! this is a trOXan CULTURE problem!!

    lots of people were questioning Shaw’s story at the beginning, but HH IGNORED the red flags!!

    #FoolMeTwice

    • Wait a minute — on Monday Wolf just posted the same press release material that everyone else was using. He wasn’t posing his questions until the next day, when everyone else was questioning the story.

  5. are you blog??? nooooooooo i say no. you are an oasis of information. you and i, together, hate Cavorting Idiots who go to football games to drink and…stuff. we hate brown strips of grass. we hate painted grass. there is nooooooooo way that you are involved in spreading this evil information around the web.

  6. copy and paste….wow Wofle….you have sunk to a new low…..IF THAT’S POSSIBLE.

  7. It’s undeniable that USC football is a mess, and has been a mess for quite a while. Across town, UCLA’s Jim Mora is running a tight ship, with laser-sharp focus heading in to Saturday’s game. At USC, all everyone is talking about are scandals and rumors. To be sure, Pete Carroll is the one who started the culture of cheating, crime and sleaziness. Makes me wonder why so many Trojan fans still worship the guy. He destroyed USC football and it loooks like not even nice-guy Sark can revive the program.

    • Funny you choose the term tight ship. He has forced players to walk the plank to make room for recruits. Very SECish. Wanna bet there are just enough players that “choose” to leave allowing a full recruiting class?

  8. you are a man who only reports on football. you would NEVER EVER and infinity post a story about things unrelated to football. you would NEVER do that. you are focused on what really matters: quiet, un-Cavorting Idiot, green-grassed football.

  9. i searched AskJeeves again. there was a story, apparently written by someone with your name. the story talked about helmets and christmas and uniforms and nikes and stuff. who would write about these things???? these things are unrelated to football and totally unacceptable. are these stories written by the brown-grass people, trying to frame you????

  10. “bloated”?… “bludgeons”?…….”submission”?…. Wow, Wolf…. did you finally dust off your thesaurus?…. do I sense some pent up hostility?……don’t look now, but your anti-elitist sentiment and inferiority complex is showing…..

  11. “bludgeons fans into submission with clutter”. well put, sir. i have noticed this clutter too!!! i have been bludgeoned. ouch. it hurts. why doesn’t the university just play quiet football on green grass in cardinal uniforms with non-christmassssssyyy helmets. we must end the clutter. that is your mission. you never clutter. you clean. you clarify. you Wolf-ify.

  12. Bite me Scott. You are responsible for committing all the sins you accuse USC of committing. I am a loyal Bruin and your trolling disgusts me. I can’t imagine how much it pains USC fans to know that they have such a scrub running their blog.

  13. This one sentence in your post describes this blog perfectly: “Football is secondary to a mindset that always rewards self-promotion.” You “self-promote” this blog daily with non-football posts…brown grass, suites behind the end zone, helmet colors, Lane Kiffin. And you’re rewarded, quite handsomely I might add, with a loyal following of trolls that eat your non-football blather up. Practice what you sanctimoniously preach, or pipe down and just do what you’re paid to do: cover football.

  14. The two biggest hypocrites on this blog are the Ugly Bucket and Scott

    Ugly because he uses his ‘lying through his teeth’ approach to giving Wolf accolades for his “incredible journalism skills,” and Wolf for lowering himself to yellow journalism status.

    • awwww, L.J., why the long face??? you ain’t havin’ no FUN!!

      remember your Nixon: “those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them back. and then, you DESTROY yourself”

      you’re DESTROYING yourself, man!!! go down to China Town and show them HOW IT’S DONE!!!!

      #MadWhiteGuy

  15. as Racist Siete’s world (and team) fall apart, over in Westwood, all is nuts and cake!!! peace and harmony!! Natl Champeen predictions and Heisman talk……i feel SO ALIVE!!!!!

    i really DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
    (spinning wildly looking up at sky, holding hands out)

    #XtremeBliss

    Mora, must chortle himself to sleep EVERY night watching Siete fall to pieces!!!

  16. Scotty’s last stand. I have to applaud taking a stand but wow you sound like Anthony Brown, just bitter cause other people know how to play the game better.

  17. Coach O could of motovated Shaw to get to Palldale from Salute to Troy that night, but Haden wanted a guy he could take to the countryclub.

    • One more time for those of you who have trouble understanding. Coach O lost to the ruins and domers. He may have survived losing to the little gutties, they are an occasional nuisance, but a second consecutive loss to ND was not acceptable,

        • I don’t hate him; I love the coach. I wish he had stayed and been the highest paid asst. in the FBS; but I understand he couldn’t. His pride is part of what made him what he is. I think he’s one of the best coaches in college football and is the best closer in recruiting. I hope one day, if he doesn’t get the HC job he wants, he may return.

      • Second consecutive loss to the Domers? Coach O was only interim coach for half a season. It was a miracle the team didn’t fold after that ASU massacre and that fantastic Stanford win showed what he could do regularly if he had the horses post-probation.

        • You misunderstand me. USC’s 2nd loss. Coach was having a great run, if he had won the ND game PH would have almost had to of given him the job. Because of those two loses I think Haden would have got hammered if he gave O the job.

  18. ” We can get national media coverage with this heroic tale. And maybe sell movie rights too!” Is this some back handed comment about the Louie Zamperini movie? Cheap shot Scott. You really have hit a new low.

  19. Not a ton of thought behind that mini-rant, Scottie. You seem shocked that they allow gambling in this establishment, as they say. Keep trying, my friend.

  20. I think they must of throw your resume in the can when you applied. Did you get the “better qualified candidate” letter Scott?

  21. Hope the LA Daily News isn’t paying Scotty professional wages for amateur journalism.

  22. Scott – you are a fat, lisping, gay, worthless writer for a fourth rate newspaper. Even you should be embarrassed by this entry.

  23. Great article Scott. Another kid from the ghetto corrupted by the unrealistic hype of the ” Troy Nation”. Josh will most likely end up in the NFL due to the demand for large/fast defensive backs. His career will be short, and he will end up poor with many illegitmate children, from multiple women. The ” Josh Shaw Story” will be a great 30 for 30.

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