USC football's in trouble

[OumaFan]

ESPN's reporting a 2 year bowl ban (), loss of scholarships (not out yet, I've heard 20 over 3 years which is big) and forfeitures (who cares really.)

That's pretty rough, and I say that as a fan of a team that excels at cheating.

In the end the scholarships are the biggest deal, long term wise, and 20 over 3 years, if that's true, is a bigger deal than what it sounds like. It takes a while to recover from that and rebuild depth.

I could have put this on the college football thread but this probably deserves its own for how bad the penalty is and how big USC is.

[OumaFan]

NCAA hands USC two-year bowl game ban, major scholarship reduction in football - latimes.com

More than 20 scholarships And "limited recruiting contacts" is a possibility, not even sure what that exactly entails but it doesn't sound good. This screams lack of institutional control, you can't get much worse than these penalties without getting the death penalty.

[amat]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

that is all.

[amat]

Really though FUCK USC and there huge legions of fairweather fans. I mean it's not even a problem right now since USC sucked last year. They don't get to see Matt Barkley is another bowl game, that's excellent. I bet half these clowns who root USC will now become UCLA fans or something.

Now we know why Carrol left, what a prick. I'm glad he came into the 9ers division to suck though! This is great, how excellent.

[OumaFan]

I thought you might like this.

This sounds actually worse than ours was.

Because I really enjoy a good meltdown I googled USC football forums and found this wearesc.com place, just fantastic fantastic stuff.

One thread title I especially liked: "Its time for the USC power brokers and lawyers to bring down the NCAA."

[amat]

Hahah quite a few Cal/UCLA fans in there uniting. There's also a thread on the South Carolina democratic gubernatorial candidate? I don't know. I might be at wearesc for a few hours...

I like how they are blaming Bush. I always liked Bush even though he went to USC, now I know why

[CFH]

What did they do?

On a related note, as a Canadian I find the American exuberance for College/University sports utterly baffling.