I couldn’t help it — I just had to vent. But you’re absolutely correct Paragon — there is no excuse at all for this. None. You’d of thought that Carroll and the staff would’ve learned their lesson last season. Nope. The Trojans were completely unprepared … I phoned a friend in Alabama early in the first quarter and said, “This game has Stanford written all over it.” Just a poor, poor effort. I’m just disgusted … I don’t know what else to say.
Two years in a row!!!! We’ve lost two years in a row to teams that were/are really, really, really bad football teams. We didn’t lose to Cal, we didn’t lose to Ohio St., we lost to Stanford and Oregon St. — no offense to either team, but they’re awful.
I’m just stunned. I can’t believe it. I really can’t. I don’t care if we go on to win 10 national championships, Pete Carroll will forever be remembered for losing two games to horrible teams. It’s like losing to Sacramento St. and Humboldt. Damn.

One good quarter and one good two minute drive of football aren’t enough to win the game.

As for what the rest of the season looks like, who knows? I think I’ve written this more than once, but perhaps this will get their attention for 8 of the remaining 9 games (I’m allowing for one more bizarre loss).

I’ll be curious to see what the breakdown is on the run-blocking that Oregon State was doing, in the same sense that I’ll be interested to see an assessment of why SC couldn’t run block consistently. Or keep the pocket intact. I guess speed really does kill.

Let’s try to keep things in perspective as it is only one loss. Yes, there is no good reson why USC should have lost this game, but the season is just beginning. I think this year will be a lot like last year wear a lot of teams lose multiple games and lose to teams they should not lose to. If USC can rebound from this loss then they can still have a great year, but they need to stay motivated and keep their eyes on the prize.

I will have more on that tomorrow

"I have a hard time understanding how SC has all this talent yet they can’t get up for this game or the coaches who can’t scheme against this OSU team. I mean come on Oregon St. lost to Stanford and got pounded by PSU. "

You have a great question, and I will give you the answer; Pete Carroll.

The guy is a very jolly, fun loving, amiable guy. He’s a terrific recruiter. He’s doing a great job trying to help kids in the inner cities. He’s also probably a wonderful husband and father.

But he is not, and never has been a good head football coach. He is a very good assistant coach, but in all of his head coaching stints, from the Jets to the Patriots to the 49ers to SC, he has terrific success for a time, but then his shortcomings begin to be exposed. Here at SC, he has had the most success, but the previous championships against Oklahoma and (I forget who they beat that one year) had a lot more to do with his assistant coaches than him.

I just hope the team can continue to have the success they have had, I’m also a New England Patriot fan, and I can tell you he ruined our team. We were so relieved when he left that he couldn’t leave fast enough. He means well, but he is not a head football coach.

In my opinion the only way SC can win another National Championship is if he finds better assistant coaches who can cover for his weaknesses. Unfortunately, Sarkisian is not one of those assistants.

Notice that after SC defeated Ohio State there was a lot of talk about going undefeated, about wondering if anybody could even get close, but then there was big BUT moment. I heard one or more college football analysts saying don’t get too hyped over SC. Why? Because, they said, Pete Carroll teams have a history of getting too cocky, overconfident, and careless. Voila tonight’s game!

Let’s be honest here. If, say, Urban Meyer, Rocky Mendenhall (BYU head coach), or Nick Saban had the kind of talent Carroll has here, what do you think the final score would have been tonight? Yeah, that’s right, USC 42 OSU 10. They are head coaches, and they make sure their teams are ready to play.

I have never seen a team kick USC’s ass as bad in the Pete Carroll era as it did in the first half 21-0 oh my! OregSU should definitely be proud of knocking off the number one team in the country. They played like a team with reckless abandon and they knew that they had nothing to lose it showed as they played their hearts out and left it all on the field.

That being said tonight’s loss is absolutely inexcusable, in no way should we have lost to a 1-2 team and let that true freshman run circles around our supposed number one defense. You can make excuses about our players being injured and what not but we do have one of the if not THE deepest roster in the country with 5-6 definite future first round picks there should be no reason we can’t fill in the holes and play at a high level. Sometimes it makes you wonder if it is the players fault for not playing up to their level or if it’s the coaches fault for not preparing them mentally and getting their minds out of complacency.

I LOVE Pete Carroll but why does he have to torture us so with these losses to pisspoor teams (sorry to OregSU fans but it had to be said) almost every year. One week we’re riding high and it seems like we’re invincible but then we fall flat on our faces.

From two weeks ago we were at the highest high and now we are at the lowest low. The only thing to do and WILL do is to look forward to next week against Oregon and show the country that we deserve to be one of the best teams in the country and that we are still a legitimate shot at the BCS championship game.

Tough loss, we will recover, OREGON PREPARE TO BE ROCKED!!

Well tonight we turned into SouthCentral HS I mean that was was was wronggg man totally a waste of my time. and I had to call USC a HS because we played LIKE WESTWOOD HS so I will be fair. Now it would just be dandy if we could win out, but they have to step onto the feild of battle and be ready or could end up 2-10.

If you notice I am riding up hill and kind of tough one with my ex behide me on a 100mile ride in Solvang area. This were you find out if you have enough to bring it something the USC football team DID NOT HAVE PERIOD

I think he needs to be benched or used less. Sarkisian is too in love with McKnight but the production just doesn’t match the performance or expectations. How many times in the last two years have we been burned by Sark getting too cute with McKnight when either Stafon or CJ was gashing the opposing team? McKnight gets flustered far too easily and really should not have been back out there with his confidence as low as it was.

The Beavers were not stopping Stafon on the ground. On one drive we ran it with him twice up the middle for good gains and then pulled him for McKnight and some stupid drive killing play. Stafon’s numbers would look even better if not for two holding penalties.

I’ve never gotten into the whole “who should be our TB” thing before, but I think going forward that McKnight’s role needs to be reduced. He’s not Reggie Bush, he won’t BE Reggie Bush and frankly every team in the Pac 10 knows how to stop Reggie Bush plays now and since McKnight doesn’t have that something extra they’re going to be all over him.

And if I ever see another direct snap to McKnight I’m going to kill Sark myself.

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