Yes, it looks as if Scott Wolf's least favorite team, USC, had the fewest yards. Of course, the other teams did not have to play in a continuous rain throughout their games. But how is that relevant?

The next thing Scott will do is measure the relative offensiveness of USC's breath and body odor and declare something seriously amiss in the program because the players aren't using good deoderant or mouthwash.

As the late great Mark Twain wrote, there are three kinds of lies:
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics...

I'll take two one-hundred yard rushers in a game, anytime. "Out of context", stats don't mean squat. How many yards/rushing were erased, because of the stupid 161 penalty yards? Or, how many times did the defensive penalties keep the offense from getting the ball? USC (460) to UW (190) NYG. When is the "Don Rickles: Roast Troy Show" on, this week?

Nice how Scott throws out a stat out of context and tries to make something of it - slow day at the DN there? Did any of those other teams have two of their best O-linemen go down in the same play, during a rainy road game in Seattle? That would be a more fair apples to apples comparison.

We'll wait for it, Scott....

And look who gained the most yards. Are you really going to imply that ucla may be the best team of those four schools? Maybe ucla has no passing game and had to run.

Jeeze Scott, maybe the reason for this is that SC LOST TWO OFFENSIVE LINEMAN ON THE SAME PLAY, AND THE OFFENSE HAS NOT BEEN THE SAME SINCE! But of course a man of your superior intelligence must have figured that out....NOT!

This is an incredibly misleading stat. Each of those teams had more carries than the Trojans did. Not surprisingly, they got more yards that way. Ohio State averaged the same number of yards per carry as SC and ASU averaged only 0.3 yards more. Only their significantly higher number of carries placed their totals ahead of SC. UCLA, which had 12 more carries than SC, had an average of 0.8 yards more per carry. Of course, they played on their home field, it was on grass, and there was no rain.

I don't think this SC team is the caliber of the 2004 or 2005 squads either, but I wouldn't rely on misleading stats to prove it. Why do you?

So I guess this statistic means that UCLA and ASU are better than OSU. As most of us have found one statistic matters, W's.

Another lame blog entry. Another bit of misleading info just to take a dig at usc.

More SHADOW JOURNALISM from our favorite author. Scott "context is nothing" Wolf.

I'll just keep reposting my comments I wrote below about his reporting of sacks, because it's equally applicable again here. In every case, Scott leaves out more than he actually puts into his blog entries. Here, that USC lost 2 OLs on ONE FrickING play, it was raining, oh, and it was on the road.

And as is the case with the prototypical Scott Wolf version of gonzo-journalism, more of the story is left out than is actually included.
For example, in the 75% of the story that he left out is this little tidbit, all but 3 of Tuitama's pass plays began out of the shotgun. Wolf may be unfamiliar with the shotgun covering the Trojans due to the fact that USC is allergic to running that formation and will break out in a teamwide rash if it ever attempts it in a game, but nonetheless a key fact undisclosed.

Interestingly, Wolf never seems to forget to include bits of the story that give it context when seeking to discredit a positive statistic. Witness his parsing of Joe McKnights rushing stats from Saturday where he never once fails to include something like "of course, 59 of those yards came on one play, he was 12 for 16 yards otherwise."
Hmm, okay, how about including he lost 10 yards on a fumbled play as well if you want to contextualize his carries. Then he was 11 for 26. A paltry 2.4 a carry but about average for a boom-bust back like Joe. Add it all together, the good with the bad, 59 and -10 and you get the nice 70 plus yards, which is really all that should have been reported.

Scott Wolf, forging a new breed of journalism, where what isn't said is always more important than what is. I'm gonna call it Shadow-Journalism, with a respectful nod to the late Hunter S. Thompson.
Fear and Loathing in The Coliseum, indeed.

Once again, Scotty boy's being negative towards the team that he gets paid to cover. I love it when "journalists" bring up stats that are completely out of context. Way to go buddy...you're really doing a fine job. Your boss must be so proud, especially when he reads all of the negative posts about your blogs. It's funny how rare it is to see someone post a nice compliment about your "hard" work.

All I see from this is that Washington cant stop the run...