USC fans are fearing the cloak-n-dagger “Browns-move-to-Baltimore” style antics of Mr Pete Carroll as he “Signs-n-drives” outta LA!….Sure, Prater and maybe Baxter (a WR and an RB recruit, who are rated as the #2 and #3 overall recruits this year; Baxter reportedly likes Florida and Michigan as “alts”) might “re-open” their options because of this, but that’s small potatoes! THEY may leave (or seek options) maybe not ONLY because the Coach is making off with a ton of cash! (rumored to be approx. 7 million and nearly FULL control!), but because “there be” good reason(s) Pete couldn’t say no THIS time! P-E-N-A-L-T-I-E-S !!!!,…and if they have teeth; the end of USC domination as we’ve come to know it!
Riiiiggghhhtt!, there are NCAA people snoopin’ ’round them fertile football grounds now, and they may not leave for a little while this time! So much for the heroic, “The Captain always goes down with his ship”, saying, eh? Not when said ship can be replaced with 35 million in “G” dollars!
The NCAA couldn’t get any evidence on Reggie Bush before (they lack subpoena power, so they couldn’t make Bush spill any details), but the Bush trial just got green-lite, so the NCAA will get all the evidence they need from the public record of the trial. As much as I love conspiracy theories and the NCAA, for the most part it’s due to a serious lack of power in terms of evidence gathering. They need snitches to make a case, period. Things may be getting steamy for Carroll, and he might be leaving before his factory gets put on serious probation! Like 7 million wont ease his pain,….
The PAC10 and the NCAA had reasons to keep looking the other way, in the USC case. There is (or “was”) a void of good football interests in the far West (Go ahead, say it with me; East Coast Bias!…East Coast Bias!…); That is until recently (Oregon, aka: Nike U!) with the development of that team in Eugene (see Nike co-founder Phil Knight ). The colorful Ducks can take up the slack now, they have the funding, and a great Offense brewing up there. Typical to the Pac10 ways, though, they dont much bother with playing defense!
So, Pete’s skippin’ off to Seattle and staying a few steps ahead of the law…..can ya blame him? AND!,..after all, its NEVER the people who actually DO the bad things that EVER pay the price in these cases!…..Pete, Maye, Bush, McKnight (who declared for te NFL just now!) all got theirs!…Its just the school and the fans that get the groin shot and a vacation from “Bowling”!!!
Nice work Pete, enjoy your time resurecting the Seahawks!…..and, all that great coffee! Please keep us abreast of how that Colton Harris-Moore case is going!
Mark Sanchez says: THIS,..or, listen to him HERE
