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USC Recruiting Class 2008

USC signed 19 football recruits yesterday and they appear to be just what Pete Carroll ordered. Even though the 2008 class is not rated as highly as previous years, I believe that they will turn out to be just as significant in USC's continued domination of the Pac 10 and their continuing contention for national champioships.  Coach Carroll did not waste any more athletic scholarships on running backs or quarterbacks in 2008.  Instead USC loaded up on offensive and defensive linemen.   UCLA reaped a good recruiting class too, but it still doesn't come close to USC's class.  Poor baby Bruin bear cubs. It seems as if they will never get to USC's level.

BCS Matchups Are a Bad Joke

LSU and Ohio State deserve to be in the championship game despite the fact that Georgia and Southern Cal are better teams than the Buckeyes.  What is inexcusable it pairing Georgia with Hawaii and USC with Illinois.  Obvioulsy, Hawaii should have played Illinois, and Southern Cal should have faced Georgia. Hawaii and Illinois looked like lambs put in a lion's cage.  Why did the BCS selection process not pair Georgia with Southern Cal?!

Georgia and Florida Were Afraid of Southern Cal

I hope that the Georgia Bulldogs and the Florida Gators are proud of themselves for not having the intestinal fortitude to accept a Rose Bowl invitation for 2008. The Bulldogs beat up Hawaii, a junior college team from the lowly WAC, and the Gators couldn't even beat the hapless Michigan Wolverines.  Illinois lookes so bad in the Rose Bowl that it was a frank embarassment to the Rose Bowl Committee who selected them.  The Big 10 has never been weaker than it was in 2007-2008, yet the Ohio State "pretenders" got invited to the title game.  LSU will demolish the over-rated Buckeyes.  LSU deserves the National Championship, but the Georgia Bulldogs and the Florida Gators disgust me for being afraid to play the USC Trojans in the Rose Bowl.  If the SEC football teams are afraid of competition, why do they even bother to play football?

Big 10 Lame and SEC are Cowards

Many fools have cited tradition in the Rose Bowl matchup for Jan. 1, 2008 - USC vs. Illinois. The fact is that the Big 10 has never been weaker than in 2007.  At the end of the 2006 NCAA football season Michigan and Ohio State were unmasked as lightweights by USC and Florida respectively.  In 2007 the weakness in the Big 10 continues.  We Trojan fans are bored with the Big 10 teams with the exception of Ohio State who will play in the BCS championship game on Jan. 8, 2008.  The "Trojan Nation" wants to see our USC football team take on one of the elite teams from the SEC.  Pac 10 vs. Big 10 Rose Bowl tradition is outdated in the new BCS system!  The new rivalry should be Pac 10 vs. SEC in NCAA football - especially after LSU coach Les Miles shot his mouth off and called the Pac 10 weak and USC's strength of schedule "weak".  College football sportswriters call the SEC the nation's best conference.  Well, the nation's best conference should not be so afraid to play USC in a bowl game.  Georgia would rather play Hawaii, and Florida would rather play the "toothless" Michigan Wolverines.  Face reality SEC players, coaches, and fans; you guys all have big mouths, but when it comes to stepping out on the gridiron with the mighty USC Trojans you lack cajones and intestinal fortitude.

SEC Teams SCARED of Trojans

This is what the Los Angeles newspapers are reporting on December 3, 2007.

"The Rose Bowl was not allowed to select Georgia because of a rule that protected SEC teams from being selected once LSU went to the BCS title game. Florida was also not an option under that rule, which was passed when Iowa was selected in the 2003 Orange Bowl to play USC, which forced the Rose Bowl to select Oklahoma."

What does loumouthed LSU coach Les Miles think about this?  It's obvious that even elite SEC teams do not have the intestinal fortitude to step out on the gridiron with USC on New Year's Day.  I would have thought that  after all of the disparaging remarks about the Pac 10 made by SEC coaches at the start of the 2007 NCAA football season that they would welcome the opportunity to slug it out with the six-time champions of the Pac 10.  Now all of America can see the cowardice of the SEC as plain as day.  Too bad Oregon quarterback Dennis Dixon tore his ACL; otherwise, the Ducks would have probably administered a beating to LSU.  The Fighting Illini have a fine football team, but USC is going to annihilate them on Jan. 1, 2008.