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Here's a pretty upset reader's opinion today.
``(Urban) Meyer and (Nick) Saban are A-1 recruiters. I really don't see Peter Carroll winning anything big as long as they are around and as long as he refuses to hire a top-notch offensive coordinator.
``I can't stand this offense. All of the weapons are there to decimate these teams but (Steve Sarkisian) has no idea how to use them. It is frustration after frustration.
``If you want to see a good-looking high school team, tune in to Tesoro and Long Beach Poly on Saturday night. I'd much rather watch Tesoro than USC.
``I used to be concerned about the stories Carroll might leave. Now I don't care anymore. There's nothing to look forward to in USC football anymore.''
This letter is obviously from a "fan" who started following USC in 2002. Anyone who lived through the pain, frustration and absolute stupidity of the Robinson II/Hackett years has no problem with another 1 loss season. Have we lived up to unrealistic expectations every season? Surely not. But how quickly some of us forget the number of times we faced 1st and 35 due to a consecutive illegal motion and two offsides calls under Hackett and Robo. And let us not forget the well oiled machine under Reggie Perry and Smith in his final years. 1 loss and a Rose Bowl? I'll take it every time.
As for the moron that wrote this letter, have fun watching the high school game. Maybe you can even stand on the sidelines and bump knuckles with a 16 year old kid! Wow!
Oh, and one last thing left out from the email (above) was the salutation at the end of that horse dropping. Here it is:
"Yours Truly,
Scott Wolf"
I guess year after year of winning the Pac-10 and going to BCS bowls is just not enough for some people. Maybe those fans should switch their allegiance to Michigan or Auburn or Florida State - how well have those football "powerhouses" done lately? And then there's always football wannabe UCLA across town - that was sure one exciting offense designed by Norm Chow this past season, wasn't it?
Fight On, and may Pete Carroll coach the Trojans as long as he likes!
What a complete idiot! Hey, I'm not crazy about this offense either but NOBODY has had his success over the last seven years. How soon people forgot the past. SC was nothing for 20 years before Carroll came.
That letter is all bluster!!! Rah Rah Bite's mom would never even let him borrow the car to go watch saturday night high school football.
In case you forgot:
"Winless streaks of 13 years (1983–1995, including the 1993 17–17 tie) to intersectional rival Notre Dame and 8 years (1991–1998) to crosstown rival UCLA were unacceptable to many USC supporters. In 1998, head coach Paul Hackett took over the team, but posted an even more disappointing 19–18 record in three seasons. By 2000, some observers surmised that USC football's days of national dominance were fading; the football team's record of 37–35 from 1996 to 2001 was their second-worst over any five-year span in history (only the mark of 29–29–2 from 1956–1961 was worse), and the period marked the first and only time USC had been out of the final top 20 teams for four straight years."
I'll take PC anytime!
Scott-
Why did you feel this opinion was worthy of highlighting? "There's nothing to look forward to in USC football anymore" sounds like the ranting of a madman or a spoiled child. The 20-year era between JR1 and Pete Carroll's arrival was a dark period for true Trojan fans. Carroll restored respect to the program, and in turn, he deserves our respect. He also deserves our gratitude for 7 Pac-10 titles and 7 BCS games. Not to mention he has also made the USC football program fun, and personally, I love the Saturday mornings when I head over to the Coliseum and join in the celebration that surrounds our team. When I see them on TV, Meyer and Saban are as much fun as a trip to the dentist.
Is the team perfect? No. Is the reader whose opinion you felt it was so important to share with us perfect? Obviously, no. UCLA has, in my opinion, one of the greatest offensive coordinators in college football. It didn't help. Neither does this incessant bellyaching.
Enough with these whining posts.
Scott! The letter writer is soooo spot on!
signed, ND fan
LOL Trojan_SF, your mom was fun in the car last night !
Wow, that post of mine was almost as incendiary as the glare off of my bald head...
Well uninformed ridiculous opinions get major coverage on this blog.
Guy should stick to High School football.
Idiot. Go be a bama or gator fan if you think they're so great.
Real Trojan fans are more concerned about is the football program scheduling San Jose State and the basketball program bringing us Mayogate, Romeo Miller and the dude who took the cheap shot at Oklahoma's Blake Griffin.
Please note that if you consider a cupcake to be a home game against a non-BCS team (counting ND as BCS)- USC has only played 5 cupcakes since 2002. This is absurdly lower than other schools and four of them occurred during years that USC won at least a share of the title or played in the NC game. Hence when USC plays zero cupcakes their odds of going undefeated are slimmer.
None in 2002. BYU and Hawaii in 2003. Colorado St. in 2004. #16 Fresno St. in 2005. None in 2006. Idaho in 2007. And ZERO in 2008 (the year of USC's "weak" schedule).
Scott's favorite teams:
Florida- 17 cupcakes in the same span
Alabama- 21
LSU- 20 (4 this year)
Auburn- 17
Georgia- 14
Some "weak" PAC-10 teams:
Oregon- 12
Oregon St.- 13
Cal- 9
UCLA- 8
Then compare how many BCS bowl teams the MWC and WAC has produced vs. the Sun Belt and Conference USA during recent years.
Point being- if you want to "win anything" then perhaps you need to eat a few more cupcakes to avoid injuries and improve your confidence and overall numbers. Oh yeah, then you wash it down with SEC Kool-Aid.
Others:
Oklahoma- 13
Texas- 15
Texas Tech- 13
Ohio St.- 15
Penn St.- 14
The guy must be a Raiders Fan.
Hey Wolf-bag, you've finally met your whining bitch girlfriend. Maybe both of you can discuss all the things you dislike about SC football at Starbucks.
Later he can come over to your place and you guys can smell each other's farts. Silly Wolf-bag.
Dear Guy Who Sits Down To Pee -
Ubran lost to Michigan last year and Florida had 4 L's. Saban lost to LA-M last year and had a horrible record. This guy has the memory of a gold fish.
Our SEVEN straight Pac 10 titles, BCS games and 11 win seasons is unheard of in this day and age. The Trojan nation needs to take a step back and realize that yes, we all want national titles, but the reality is we're averaging one a decade and that's one of the top three in the nation. Titles are a rare thing, especially when you play in the Pac 10 and computers are involved.
This guy sounds a lot like the guy know one likes. A PMSing male. Help me. Help me in the name of Paul Hackett that I'm never a PMSing male like this guy.
That email was a collabrative endeavor by Rah Rah and Wolfee during a sleepover.
The Donkey is happy the "writer" of the letter will not be contributing to game day traffic.
The Donkey will also like to call Scott a scandalous bitch.
Gnossos and Trojan Stupid F*** are the same hermaphrodite