Mailbag: Pac-12 culture vs. SEC culture
There are a lot of good football teams out there as we head into 2011. Plenty of them are capable of winning every game. But the most challenging opponent for many top teams isn't the one on the opposite sideline. It's themselves. It's getting up for every game with maximum focus and preparation and not blowing one or two (or more) games to inferior foes. The most obvious example in the Pac-10 would be the most successful program of the past decade: USC. The Trojans should have won more than its two national titles under Pete Carroll. In fact, the only defeat USC suffered from 2002-2008 in which you could say the Trojans weren't significant favorites was to Texas in the national title game after the 2005 season. And they were favored in that game. Go through the schedules yourself . Further, I've also had numerous conversations with Pac-10 players through the years when they've talked about their team losing focus, taking a season for granted, partying too much, a locker room fracturing, etc. Those sorts of things happen everywhere in team sports, I just think they happen more in big city football out West than in the more insular enclaves in the Southeast. And I've lived long periods of time in both places, so I'm not just throwing mud at the wall here and hoping it becomes art. Tyrell from Salt Lake City writes : You were incorrect in regards to football profits last year for Utah. Utah was just shy of $5 million in profit ( you can find the numbers from the same Sportsbiz website ). That would have put them in ahead of a couple of PAC-10 schools, and considering they were receiving less than $2 million per year from the MTN West -- somewhat impressive. All that said, the new PAC-12 deal can't get here soon enough! Roger from The Woodlands, Texas writes : This was in Wednesday's lunch link regarding a [Publication name withheld] article: "Since the shakeout of last summer with Colorado and Nebraska's decisions to leave the Big 12 Conference, and subsequent frenzy that ultimately ended with only Utah joining CU in the Pac-10, word from several athletics administrators is that CU is having serious buyer's remorse. The splitting of divisions and even the playing of a league championship on home sites has been openly ridiculed within the new Pac-12. The conference in-fighting CU thinks it is leaving in the Big 12 has already ramped up at the Buffs' new home." Have you been hearing any of this? Are you holding out on us? L Wallace from Yuma, Ariz.Carroll College Football - News
Now without Tressel or Carroll lurking in the shadows of college football, USC and Ohio State have each began their own personal bounce-back. Out of the two, there is no question which lies in worse condition—the Trojans not only were stripped of
I hear the movies are pretty big in Los Angeles, too. When trying to sell college football tickets in a major media market, not having an NFL team is no panacea. Things are different at USC today, following the reign of Pete Carroll.
My first response is not anytime soon, at least not as college football is configured at present. If Larry Scott's grand vision of the Pac-16 had gone through, with Texas and Oklahoma among the Big 12 teams defecting to the Pac-10, things might feel
Gone are the glory days ushered in by the likes of Reggie Bush and Pete Carroll—mostly thanks to Reggie Bush and Pete Carroll. Southern Cal is a shell of it's former Pac10 dominating, national championship winning self. The sanctions levied by the
by Paragon SC on Jun 19, 2011 9:00 AM PDT in USC Football I can't say that I am really surprised but Pete Carroll has put USC in the rear view mirror. With one of the most storied and dominant runs in the history of college football severely tarnished
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A University of New Mexico football player who was arrested after wearing saggy pants on a plane at San Francisco airport insists in a video showing part of his exchange with authorities on the aircraft that his pants were up and he had done nothing wrong.
The San Francisco Chronicle obtained the video and a link to it was on the newspaper’s website Saturday.
“My pants are up sir,” a seated Deshon Marman tells the captain, who along with someone who appears to be a San Francisco police officer, is standing near his seat. “I’m not doing anything. I paid my fees, and I’m ready to go.”
The Chronicle said it obtained the three-minute video from a passenger who was sitting near Marman during Wednesday’s incident and did not wish to be identified.
What the video does not show is Marman‘s repeated refusal earlier to follow a boarding agent’s advice and pull up his pants, Elise Eberwein, a spokeswoman for US Airways, told The Associated Press on Saturday.
“When he was asked by our employee at the Jetway to please pull them up, that employee was told to pull them up for him,” she said. “And that exchange continued to the door of the plane.”
Marman’s pants were so low they were “exposing areas that most people would not want to see” and violating the airline‘s expectation that customers won’t dress offensively, Eberwein said.
Attempts by the AP to reach Marman were not successful. A call to his attorney’s office Saturday afternoon was not returned, and calls to listings for people with his mother’s name in San Francisco were not returned or went unanswered.
News reports have identified his attorney as Joe O’Sullivan and his mother as Donna Doyle.
Marman said in an interview with KGO-TV this week that his pants were slightly below his waist, and he was unable to lift them up because he had bags in his hands.
O’Sullivan told the Chronicle that nothing was visible once his client sat down.
“The issue should have been over,” he said.
Marman was arrested on suspicion of trespassing, battery of a police officer and obstruction after refusing to leave the plane on the captain’s orders, according to police. Police have also said he injured an officer while being taken into custody.
“He’s refusing to get off,” Eberwein said. “The captain’s thinking, ‘What if he refuses something else in the air?
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