Power Shift
An interesting change took place this week. The announcement that Tim Floyd resigned and the university response to the NCAA investigations came from the administration and not the athletic dept.
This dovetails with an item we had last week that USC president Steven Sample was upset over the allegations regarding men's basketball and shows Sample is now taking a more hands-on role with the situation.
Yoda-like insight, Wolf does have.
Sample of things to come hmmmm?
herh herh herh.
If you're referring to Dickey and Garrett's statements and video, then how can you not notice that Garrett is from the athletic dept?
That's the most encouraging news I have heard in a long time. Sample has spent several decades making SC a top rated institution, and I'm sure that he doesn't want to retire with the idea hanging in the air that SC is sacrificing its integrity to field good teams.
Garrett is way beyond his depth. His fingerprints were all over the OJ Mayo situation, and if the accusations against Floyd are true, it's rather hard to stand on the sidelines and say that he wasn't involved.
It was reported that when Mayo wanted to come to SC, the penultimate meeting to arrange Mayo's arrival occured in Garrett's office. One has to wonder whether Garrett made it sufficiently clear that there would be no monkey business and OJ and all his people would have to toe the line. Apparently not with the reports that Guillory had virtual free reign.
It would be difficult to show Garrett the door at this point, but if Sample is taking over, I wouldn't want to be on Garrett's continued tenure.
The problem with the basketball program in the last ten years has been Garrett he just can't get out of the way. They don't have to let him go just find a way to control him, or let PC take over as AD and FB coach.
Brandon Martin for AD!
I thought Wolf's statements were the peak of asinine until I read the responses to them here. Exra props to Yoda, who continues to show almost every day that "special" folks really can learn to use a keyboard.
So, Wolfie, the two statements released by the University were NOT responses to the NCAA's investigation, they were responses to the blowback from some really dumb commentary by idiot sports reporters like you.
Furthermore, it wasn't the administration that commented, it was both the administration and the athletic department.
And Sample isn't now taking a more hands-on role, as you suggest, but rather, if you'd actually paid attention to the statements or done your job as a reporter at any point in the last four years, it's the VP of Administration who's been heading the investigation for USC.
This only makes sense, of course, to anyone smarter than a chipmunk (sorry, Yoda, but that excludes you), because it wouldn't be proper for the athletic department to be conducting an investigation that includes its own conduct.
damn FLOYD must have been paid a hell of alot of money to be taking all the rap for SC. Freaken funny how sc acts sooon freaken innocent!