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USC is a football school. Period.

I guess they're not a baseball school, a track school, a swimming school, a tennis school, a water polo school, a golf school...heck, I think that SC is even good at women's rowing, not to mention women's soccer.

I wonder though, why we don't have softball...anyone know?

Yes, USC is "good" at women's rowing. If you call winning every event it entered at the Head of the American regatta a few weeks ago--in pairs (rare for USC which prefers coxed 4s and 8s), coxed 4s, and novice coxed 8s--and consecutive national championship appearances "good." Women's soccer is pretty good, too. Two years ago, when the team struggled a bit and didn't make the national championship tournament seems like an aberration. sure, the team hasn't gotten past the second round, but to get there as consistently as USC has is an achievement in and of itself.

Why isn't there a softball team? Well, there's a club softball team that has won the national club championship a few times (including a couple years ago when every game in the tournament was called on the run rule in USC's favor). You'd think USC would have a softball team, considering perennial powers UCLA and Cal. Technically, in terms of softball, it's the Pac-8, because one of the Washington schools doesn't offer it either. Chalk that up to Title IX, which is responsible for the casualty of men's rowing. For the record, the men's rowing team is just as "good" as the women's team.

Thank you A. for that. I was being sarcastic, but facts are always great motivators in the quest for truth.

about title ix though, why are there 10 women's but only 9 men's sports at SC? Is it # of athletes/scholarships or is it # of sports? Of course there is also the proportionality aspect of the law as well, but...well we could go on and on about title ix and never get anywhere.

The Pac-10 does not include two different schools for softball? I know they do for wrestling, actually 6 different teams...Cal Poly SLO, Davis, CSU-Bakersfield, CSU-Fullerton,Portland ST, and Boise St. UCLA, USC, Arizona, CAL, and Washington, and WSU do not have teams. Though they probably should. Too many athletic teams are cancelled instead of established because of title ix. "That's all I have to say about that."

Displaced Trojan:
Nobody is disputing that. What is your point? What about baseball, women's basketball, water polo, women's and men's volleyball(sp?), etc.? Do the championships in those sports count or NOT? It is obvious that you have a definite narrow mind toward the other sports. DO you know that Duke has a very good lacrosse(SP?) program in addition to their prestigious basketball program? WHY can't USC have a chance at a piece of the pie? By the way these four USC players are considered 2008 first round choices by nbadraft.net: Jefferson, Young, Mayo and Pruitt which means this team has a very good chance to go ALL the way to the finals. Doesn't this team deserve the support of the students, former alumni and fans?
Thank you