Conquest Chronicles Links for 6/22 - Assessing the Damage of Bush/Mayo and other Pac-10 news
by Paragon SC on Jun 22, 2011 5:01 AM PDT
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Pretty busy day yesterday in the world of college football...
USC Football
Looking for the price tag on NCAA sanctions against USC's football and basketball programs - latimes.com
USC continues to haul in big numbers on the non-academic side but how have the athletic donations been affected. I think the jury is till out on it but I wouldn't be surprised if athletic donations and sponsorships start to decrease in the future.
Q+A with Joe Barry (Part 1) - The Orange County Register
Joe Barry found a large, framed photo of the Jan. 1, 1996, Rose Bowl in the bowels of Heritage Hall and promptly hung it on his office wall....
Eight more freshmen arrive on campus - ESPN Los Angeles
USC's 2011 recruiting class is starting to materialize more and more on campus. Nine players enrolled early and began taking classes in January.
Pac-10
Which Pac-10 school is most profitable? - The Orange County Register
Among the two major college sports, which is the most profitable school in the Pac-10? You’re not alone if Arizona was your fifth guess.
33 years of Pac-10 football history, records, bowls and championships - UAsports.net
Time to start a whole new book - We are less than two weeks away from the official start of the Pac-12. It will begin a time of increased excitement, exposure and prosperity for the conference.
UCLA football: Stanley Hasiak ineligible, will likely transfer - latimes.com
This kids playing career just can't get any traction - Stanley Hasiak’s on-again, off-again football career at UCLA has hit another bump. Hasiak, a highly recruited offensive lineman as a high school senior in 2009, is academically ineligible and is expected to transfer to a community college...
NCAA investigations
Oregon, Will Lyles, and the Slow Unraveling of a Scandal - Burnt Orange Nation
My friend Peter Bean has a pretty good take here - With Tuesday's news that the scouting reports the University of Oregon football program bought from Will Lyles were literally useless, the Ducks face a host of problems that look increasingly problematic.
Oregon releases more Will Lyles info -- and raises even more questions - Andy Staples
I would demand a refund! And how happy would Willie Lyles be to do that? - The University of Oregon's public records officer apologized for the omission. It turns out one booklet of outdated, possibly plagiarized information was not the only tangible product the Ducks' football program obtained for its $25,000 payment in March 2010 to Texas-based scouting service operator/alleged recruiting middleman Will Lyles.
Ducks' dated recruiting data: Honest mistake or mischief? - Dennis Dodd
Some are saying that Chip Kelly exploited a loop hole, must Ducks fans proud - Oregon claims the $25,000 it paid to Will Lyles was for recruiting information. Yet the data turns out to be woefully out of date, and Lyles is the mentor of a blue-chip Ducks signee. Dennis Dodd says things will get messier in Eugene.
Ohio St. scraps car sales probe after BMV, dealers reports - Dennis Dodd
tOSU is playing with fire here, you go ahead with the internal probe to show everything is on the up and up, the NCAA wants schools to put in the extra effort - Ohio State University on Tuesday dropped its review of car purchases by football players and family members after two separate investigations found dealerships made money on almost all of the sales.
Despite breathtaking NCAA allegations, UNC's Butch Davis may survive - Stewart Mandel
You watch, UNC will blame everything on Blake...who Butch Davis has know for 30 years - If you're an NCAA rules junkie, reading the Notice of Allegations handed down on North Carolina's football program Tuesday must be like unwrapping the latest iPhone.
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"Assessing the Damage of Bush/Mayo"
I wholeheartedly disagree with your headline Para!
Those two idiots where the vehicles that made our current plight possible, but it could have easily been any other two idiots.
Two words:
MIKE GARRETT
The worst Athletic Director (and university official) in the history of the University of Southern California! Let’s lay the blame at the feet of the person who owns it. In the history of college athletics, there never was and never will be a more lazy, sloppy, callous, arrogant, borderline mendacious, and downright stupid Athletic Director. PERIOD!
"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." - Joseph Stalin
U feeling Loco?
YES
Who--What--Slim Shady----the ncaa is after all the BS they are lying out----and just remember they will rewrite history every seven years after the fact.
by so.cal.native1952 on Jun 22, 2011 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions
While some of what you say about Garrett may be true...
…the primary reason that USC got hammered is because the NCAA is profoundly corrupt. The COI was made up of a malicious and unscrupulous group of people who, for a variety of reasons, wanted to take USC down. Perhaps Garrett didn’t play the best of politics with the NCAA, but I do not believe it would have mattered who was AD of USC…unless USC’s AD happened to be one of the NCAA’s good ’ol boys. The COI can do whatever it wants do, justified or not, and it does so with the full blessing of the NCAA.
The mere fact that Garrett’s attitude is widely cited as an explanation for the NCAA’s actions is evidence of their corruption. The primary purpose of infractions/sanctions is to mainatin a level playing field…and how can that happen when there is one set of penalties for programs the NCAA ‘likes’ and a different set of penalites of programs it doesn’t. There is no greater threat to the integrity of sport than the NCAA (National Competitive Advantage Allocator). You might as well let the refs call each game differently depending on where they went to school and who they root for. If they don’t like you, they call holding penalties on half the plays. If they like you, they never call it. This is exactly how the NCAA handles enforcement.
Yes, I agree to all you are saying. But...
Most of us have been around long enough to know exactly what the NCAA is all about. They are as corrupt an organization as there ever was. Furthermore, there were clear signals that they would take their revenge on USC if given the opportunity.
Now, Mike Garrett knew all of that; so why, please, why the f*ck didn’t he run his department like you and I run our own businesses? Oh, and I’m not even talking about Reggie here.
The real killer was the lazy attitude towards the management of proven cancers like Guillory and Ornstein, an unwillingness to say NO to a few of PC’s and Floyd’s more hare-brained whims, and above all the sloppy records keeping at the grass roots level. From parking permits to long distance access codes, Mike Garret didn’t have any f-ing idea of what was going on. And he was already on probation?
As some guy on The Peristyle said when I presented this argument; all Iron Mike cared about was having a luxury box at every away game.
I’m all for a little arrogance as long as it can be backed up. Mike Garrett talked way too big for a guy that was floating on a raft that was bound with duct tape, bailing wire and chewing gum. He practically begged our enemies to unleash their fury on us. Presented with the opportunity on a silver platter, it’s no mystery that they acted on their worst instincts.
Mike Garrett was absolutely, positively, and incontrovertibly the worst and most disastrous athletic director in the history of USC. Garrett alone crashed USC’s Gulfstream of a football team into the side of a mountain because he was only concerned about the selection of booze in the galley.
"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." - Joseph Stalin
U feeling Loco?
by M. AGRIPPA on Jun 23, 2011 12:44 AM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
I'll rec this also.......
Can’t disagree, when one is in charge, you better know what everyone is doing.
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again
-R. Zimmerman
Gary Klein is just an idiot, the money will always come to USC.
Unlike his paper which teeters on the bows of bankruptcy he better be careful he might be applying for a job at USC.
Who--What--Slim Shady----the ncaa is after all the BS they are lying out----and just remember they will rewrite history every seven years after the fact.
by so.cal.native1952 on Jun 22, 2011 10:08 AM PDT reply actions
It’s a wonder that such a clown can draw a paycheck at any “serious” news organization. That said… Plaschke, Simers, Dwyer? EESH!
"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." - Joseph Stalin
U feeling Loco?
Ahh.................for the days of
the Herald Examiner and Messrs, Durslag, Furillo, Krikorian and Malamud. Am I leaving anyone out?
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again
-R. Zimmerman
Ya know? Sometimes it’s really good to be an “experienced” citizen.
"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." - Joseph Stalin
U feeling Loco?
Yes experienced -- except on a CV -- experienced w/o the years
Conflicted idea, concept etc…. oh we moved on from the NCAA -
by trojanarchitect on Jun 22, 2011 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions
That was a great paper I delivered it and went to HS with the Furillo's
Who--What--Slim Shady----the ncaa is after all the BS they are lying out----and just remember they will rewrite history every seven years after the fact.
by so.cal.native1952 on Jun 22, 2011 11:30 PM PDT up reply actions
So true, the article itself is garbage.
He clearly has no idea how bowl money works to make the statements he does. USC didn’t lose any money and won’t this year either. The only thing they lost money wise was the Pac10 expense check and that usually doesn’t cover all the costs. Now they do lose the extra practices and prestige, but then he didn’t even mention that. As for donations, USC just got a huge one to endow the AD position and many of the scholarships in the drive to endow the entire department. At least it was nice of him to point out the McKay Center, another basket of money raised after the Bush fiasco. Oh and his point about recruiting couldn’t be more wrong.
by ev on Jun 22, 2011 1:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Eh, I like Gary
I met him once at a USC practice but didn’t know who he was until after we had talked USC for ten minutes. He’s a solid beat writer.
"I have a commanding voice." - Ed Orgeron
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