USC Love Affair Over?

by Laughing Stock on Nov 21, 2008 3:11 PM PST Comment 17 comments

One of the strangest articles I have read in the past couple of weeks:

It seems the college football world has simply lost interest in the Trojans. It's like they've been eating the same flavor ice cream for five years and they're ready to try something new. USC's own fans are suffering a similar apathy.

"The fans have seen this play out before the past few years," said Abraham. "Oregon State was like the last straw. Fans were like, 'I'm sick of losing to teams that aren't all that good.' "

It seems the public's blind faith in Carroll and his stockpile of five-star recruits simply isn't there this year. The mileage he earned from that 34-game winning streak in 2003-05 has finally worn off.

The prom queen's still pretty hot, but there are a couple of new girls on the scene that everybody's talking about.

Wow, I guess I really don't know what to say. I enjoy reading Stewart Mandel's mailbags from time to time, but an article about how the media doesn't like USC anymore? I guess the point of the whole thing eludes me.

Is Mandel trying to criticize Pete Carroll for being outspoken about the BCS? If so it seems a little hypocritical as I did not hear anyone make any remarks about Les Miles laughable "we didn't lose a game in regulation" angle he was working last year.

Is he trying to say that Pete Carroll is overrated? I guess he lost me in the part where he paired "blind faith" along with "stockpile of 5 star recruits" and "34 game winning streak".

Is he trying to say the fans are spoiled? Please, are there actually fans of other teams actually enjoy losing to "teams that aren't all that good" (or even teams that are all that good)?

Oh well Stewart. Probably no BCS title game this year, so I guess us poor SC fans are just going to have to settle for being consistently among the top teams in college football year after year and go to another one of those high paying BCS bowls.

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I saw this and just shook my head

I prefer being under the radar and because SC was, in my opinion, over exposed you are now seeing a backlash…

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by Paragon SC on Nov 21, 2008 5:50 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

What does anyone expect?

Our matchups this season, for circumstances completely beyond USC’s control, have not held national interest since Ohio State. All of the other BCS title contenders have had at least one other team in their conference with similar resumes and aspirations. It has been frustrating looking at this years schedule and realizing that after Oregon State, playing the games on our schedule was a national afterthought. But whatever – every season is different.

by socaljml on Nov 21, 2008 7:32 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

agreed...

The Pac-10 is down this year and unfortunately we go down with it…

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by Paragon SC on Nov 22, 2008 4:53 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm not sure...

… the Pac 10 really is all that down this year. The Washington schools are terrible and the Arizona schools both lost a game to a middling MWC school. But other than that, it seems to me that Pac 10’s problems are more a side effect of tough non-conference scheduling than actually being bad.

by drothgery on Nov 23, 2008 9:03 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

You mean the Mountain West?

The Pac-10 is 1-6 this year against the MWC.

The reality is there are 4 teams that would ordinarily finish last, two that should be near the bottom, and 3 that should be about 5th. The fact that this year’s Oregon State could get through with one loss is pathetic.

by SuperBruinMan on Nov 23, 2008 2:08 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

The record vs. the MWC looks bad...

… but it’s a lot less bad than it looks at first glance.

Arizona lost at New Mexico. That’s definitely a bad loss.
Arizona State lost to UNLV. Same deal.

But the rest of the games pretty much played out how you’d expect; the teams that are much higher ranked by pretty much any subjective ranking or computer ranking won.

Cal crushed Colorado State.
Oregon State lost at Utah. Again, top 10 team, and on the road.
Stanford lost at TCU. A top 15 team.
UCLA lost at BYU. A top 20 team.
Washington lost to BYU. Still a top 20 team.

And as for Oregon State… they lost a game they shouldn’t have (to Stanford) and won they shouldn’t have (vs. USC). Flip those, and you’d have a team that has only lost to top-10 teams on the road. No reason they shouldn’t get through the Pac 10 with 1 loss.

by drothgery on Nov 23, 2008 7:03 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

fuuck the banwagon people

I’ve been a USC fan since 1965 and I am always happy with Rose bowl appearance, who cares about fans that jump on the banwagon. We are SC and will always give it are best, the BCS is bull and i wish college football would go back to regular bowls. I really miss New Years day of watching all bowl games, the bowls would start about 10 in the morning and go till 9 at night that was great.

I really don’t care about being # 1, I just want to watch great football games and it has turned into a bunch of BS.

Paul D. Kelley

by so.cal.native1952 on Nov 21, 2008 9:07 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

I remeber those days too...

that is the way it should be, not spread out over a week.

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by Paragon SC on Nov 22, 2008 4:54 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Only themselves to blame.

SC had a cake walk schedule after The Ohio State game and yet they still found a way to screw it up. The PAC-10 is having a DOWN year and USC still lost to someone!!! In a down year SC should run the table no problem.

The media is right to ignore SC. This year their resume is pretty weak.

by USC on Nov 22, 2008 7:33 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

look who's back with a new screen name...

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by Paragon SC on Nov 22, 2008 7:36 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

What the heck are you talking about?

Listen dude the Bevs. are a very good ball team, and if you want to talk about cupcake schedule I didn’t any 1aa teams on any pac-10 Schs.
I mean the CIDITAL what the heck is that a football school,TT played E. Wash. & U Mass,Texas—-Florida Atlantic, UTEP,Rice,OkLa. Chattanooga and 14pts.to wash., Alabama—-W. Kentucky—-Ark State.

I know we had Wash. St. and Wash. but they happen to be in conference, those teams above were out of conference and scheduled by ADs. So put that in your Bottom and smoke it.

Paul D. Kelley

by so.cal.native1952 on Nov 23, 2008 5:53 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Whoa slow your roll

First off I’m not a fan o the SEC. Secondly I was pointing out the obvious. USC had nobody left on their schedule to boost them back up if they lost. Problem is THEY LOST!

Stop whining and start winning. Enjoy the fact you will receive a BCS Bowl.

by USC on Nov 23, 2008 5:52 PM PST reply actions 0 recs