Both USC and UCLA had absolutely excellent recruiting off seasons, UCLA finished at #12 (ESPN), #7 (Scout) and #8 (Rivals); topping the Trojans once. With USC at #10 (ESPN), #7 (Scout), and #2 (Rivals); it is the closest the two teams have been for over a decade. You can still say that USC has the edge, but UCLA has obviously ... 3Feb2010 |
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With national signing day less than 24 hours away, it is time to take stock of the Trojans prospect for fielding a quality class of recruits for the 2009-2010 high school football season.
The loss of Pete Carroll as head coach of the Trojans has affected this years class but not to the extent that it was feared prior to the ... 2Feb2010 |
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Recently I visited the house that John Wooden built, UCLA's Pauley Pavilion, as I've done several times a year for the past few years.
However, it was not to watch a basketball game - shockingly enough, considering that with its 11 national championships, hoops are to Bruins the way football is to crosstown enemy USC - iconic in UCLA lore.
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The one thing USC fans feared with Pete Carroll's departure was the effect it would have on this year's recruiting class.
Would there be a backlash from the verbal commitments who have already pledged to USC? What about those who were considering the Trojans but have yet to decide? Would they still cross USC off of their list?
Ummm...no and no.
With the ... 26Jan2010 |
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I was afraid this might happen, the way the basketball teams from UCLA and the University of Southern California have been playing of late.
I was afraid that the edge that the Trojans' guards and forwards had over their Bruin counterparts would lead to a convincing USC victory in Pauley Pavilion this past Saturday.
I was proved to be right, as the ... 18Jan2010 |
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Now that the mid-way point in the basketball season has arrived for the UCLA Bruins, three words best describes coach Ben Howland's team:
Youth. Inexperience. Mediocrity.
After starting the year 2-6 with losses to Cal State Fullerton and Long Beach State (of all people!), the Bruins have gone 5-3 since that horrendous beginning, including 2-2 in the Pac-10 conference.
It was a foregone ... 11Jan2010 |
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On the cusp of the end of the Pete Carroll era at USC, it is now time to move on to the next chapter.
With the recruiting season winding down and Trojan verbal commits dropping like flies, it is imperative that Mike Garrett, the USC athletic director, act rapidly and with conviction.
Hiring a big name head coach is only part of ... 10Jan2010 |
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Now that ESPN is reporting that Pete Carroll has indeed accepted the offer by the Seattle Seahawks to become their next head coach, it is time to look at the legacy that Carroll leaves behind at USC.
Over the last nine years, Pete Carroll has turned in a sterling 96-19 record for the Trojans along with one BCS championship and two ... 9Jan2010 |
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ESPN's Chris Mortenson is reporting that the Seattle Seahawks, who just fired head coach Jim Mora, are targeting USC head coach Pete Carroll to fill the newly vacated position.
Those same rumors have Carroll requesting USC assistant head coach Jeremy Bates join him in the Pacific northwest.
According to one source, in regard to Carroll leaving the Trojans for the head coaching ... 8Jan2010 |
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Dear Jackson Jeffcoat, Jordan Hicks, Christian Jones, Hayes Pullard, et.al.,
Have you read the news coming out the NFL regarding their defensive rookie of the year award?
Brian Cushing, the overall #15 pick of the Houston Texans, has just been awarded this prestigious award celebrating his 134 tackles, two forced fumbles, four interceptions and five sacks.
Cushing, a veritable tackle machine, will also ... 6Jan2010 |
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Let us be honest and face facts: The first decade of the 21st century was a mediocre one for the UCLA Bruins football program.
Being a loyal alumnus and a dedicated member of Bruin Nation, that was a difficult thing to say. But it's also the truth.
This program has had three coaches over these past ten years, including the current one, ... 6Jan2010 |
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Now that the cap has been put on this disappointing 2009 Trojan football season, it is time to look to the future.
And that future begins on Feb. 2 when high school football players sign on the dotted line to play for their new colleges in 2010.
For USC, if the verbal pledges they have already received mean anything, some critical questions ... 5Jan2010 |
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Hey folks, here's the link of my analysis of the 2009 Bruin football team that I just published on Bleacher Report.com. Feel free to check it out and tell me what you think.
Oh, and Happy New Year! 4Jan2010 |
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Today it was announced by USC athletic director Mike Garrett that the Trojans would self-impose sanctions resulting from NCAA infraction violations stemming from former coach Tim Floyd's illegal payments to a USC booster that had ties to former Trojan OJ Mayo.
These sanctions include the forfeiture of all wins in the 2007-2008 season, Mayo's only year with the Trojans and, more ... 3Jan2010 |
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Well, this was unexpected.
No, check that. This was unimaginable.
Even for first year Trojan coach Kevin O'Neill who said, "If you told me at the beginning of the year we would have an eight game winning streak, I would have told you that you were crazy."
Consider us all candidates for the loony bin.
USC won their eighth game in a row by ... 3Jan2010 |
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It was not looking good for the UCLA Bruins in our nation's capitol yesterday.
The temperature at Washington D.C's RFK Stadium was 32 degrees with a wind chill factor of 19 and 20 mile-an-hour winds; plus the field was frozen, making it difficult to get footing.
And on top of everything else, the Temple Owls, playing in their first bowl game since ... 30Dec2009 |
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On a day when Urban Meyer shockingly stepped down from one of the nations premier college football programs, Pete Carroll took steps to return USC as one of those top teams.
In a sometimes driving rain, USC beat Boston College 24-13 in the Emerald bowl at AT&T park in San Francisco.
Boston College, who had overachieved all year, was only a missed ... 27Dec2009 |
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The Trojans got a very nice Christmas present today when it was announced that George Uko had given USC his verbal pledge for the upcoming season.
Uko, a 6'4," 297 lb. monster of a defensive tackle, is ranked as a "Five-star" recruit by Scout.com.
George Uko, who prepped at Don Antonio Lugo high school in Chino, Ca., has been something of an ... 26Dec2009 |
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There is an ominous sound being heard by the PAC-10 opponents of USC.
Orchestrated by Mike Gerrity, the recently eligible point guard who is making the Trojans his third stop, that sound is beginning to reach crescendo level.
For UNLV, who came in with a sterling 12-1 record, they just want the noise to stop.
Led by Marcus Johnson's 19 points and 9 ... 26Dec2009 |
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Amidst the rubble of a disappointing 2009 college football season, the USC Trojans will try to pick up the pieces against a game Boston College Eagles team Saturday in the Emerald bowl.
For the first time in seven years, the Trojans will be participating in a non-BCS bowl game.
There is precedence for such an occasion.
Pete Carroll's first year with USC, in ... 24Dec2009 |
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Excellent analysis of Dodgers roster for 2010: http://yallkiltit.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/dodgerblast-spring-training-roster-analysis/ 
I was with the UCLA Alumni Band; I sat in the 4th row of the box seats, a few rows ...
Joey, your right, but what were you thinking was going to happen? whats your point here? you called every UCLA ...
I was at that game as well. Where'd you sit? 
Murshed Zaheed aka Nestor is a government employee and if you google his name you will find it is many ...