Answerfest

Q: Recently, a number of former USC Song Girls tried out for the Laker Girls and the Clipper Spirit without much luck. In fact, one recent Song Girl -- whose name I will withhold so as not to embarrass her -- was cut during Laker Girls tryouts, then tried out for the Clipper Spirit a few weeks later and was, once again, cut. Does this not prove how far the Song Girls have fallen, when they once went from having quite a few former members in the 1980s and 1990s as Laker Girls -- including Dolly Zachary Rouse -- and other NBA and NFL cheer squads to not even being able to compete with girls from other schools when there is a level playing field?

There have been a number of former Trojan Dance Force members -- and also UCLA and even Cal State Long Beach girls -- who ended up as Laker Girls and members of other NBA and NFL cheer squads these past few years, but there has been a complete lack of successful Song Girls who have been able to make the cut on NBA dance teams throughout the country.

Former Dance Force members, as well as other USC coeds, have routinely made NBA cheer squads while former Song Girls have consistently been cut during the same tryouts. If this is not definitive proof that the best girls on campus are not chosen as Song Girls, what more proof is required?

A: Perhaps even more focus is necessary on this so-called selection committee, a bastion of entitlement.

Q: Did you see that Busted Coverage will be attending the USC-Ohio State game?

A: Can't wait to see the pictures.

Q: Why do you think that Chow took the ucla job-------to get back at PC or to keep his name in the public eye or?

A: The main attraction of the UCLA job was he could return home where his wife and some family are based. It was also an immediate job offer instead of sitting out a year or waiting for something to open up. And if he somehow beats Pete Carroll and Steve Sarkisian (who he actually remains upset with as opposed to Carroll) in the process, well, even better in his view.