Big Win
Why is today's sweep at the dual meet so significant? Because USC should really never beat UCLA in track and field.
Because track scholarships are often split in half, it costs an athlete much more to go to USC and makes it much harder to sign recruits and field a deep team for meets like today.
USC defeated UCLA for just the second time in the past 15 years in the women's meet and third time in 15 years on the men's side.
``The dual meet was one of the things when I came here I wanted to rekindle,'' USC track coach Ron Allice said. ``I don't think we've ever had a team compete like this in the dual meet.''
Huge win. Two Words: Ron Alice.
Holy objectivity! Scott, you sometimes do surprise.
No bout adoubt it. When the NCAA cut rides, ostensibly to gain parity, our track and baseball teams were kicked in the nads. In days past, no school came very close to being what we were. Football has had and currently has a position high on the mountain, but nowhere near our past track and baseball domination. That is just something we will have to deal with. Baseball has caused gastritis and track has done disturbing things to my colon.
All I can say about the current state of affairs is, 'Wow!' Can't compete in distance runs worth a fig but it boils down to two words (as aptly stated by GoTroyGo)...Ron Alice.
Perhaps Napoleon will get his head out of his anal orafice and do something about baseball...it is the least he can do after his biased running of Gillespie out of the program who would have been gone long before had he not won an NC. I will grudgingly admit that he did the right thing with the Pillsbury Doughboy but the jury is still out on Coop for the lady hoopsters.
Thanks for the straight up reporting Scott. I usually enjoy your takes, however the flipside is that much has to be taken with a grain of nacl.
Scott,
You understand this concept very well in track. Now apply it to baseball and you will perhaps understand how Mike Gillespie can go from USC to Irvine and be so successful. Heck, it might even turn on a light bulb for you to see how ridiculous your snotty little posts about the baseball team are.