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Kick has an unreal leg...welcome to Westwood. Smart choice.

Don't mind Sandy...he's still pissed he couldn't even get into South Central U

Was wondering when you'd get here Sandy

Took a 1-11 program with EXTREMELY strict academic standards and turned it into a Rose Bowl contender with a Heisman candidate running back who has gone 2-1 against USC with both wins in their house including putting up the most points than any team has ever scored on USC in their history.

He is also bringing in very good recruits.

I'm sure his phone is ringing with quite a few job offers

No one is going confuse Harbaugh for a classy guy....but he has proven to be a hell of a coach and recruiter.

No way he stays at Stanford for long.
You can't bitter that a good coach opted not to stay at the University of San Diego...that's just insane.

I, like most other PAC-10 fans enjoyed seeing the bully get a taste of his own medicine. It's just competing till the end of the game Carroll! Isn't that what you preach when you throw deep in the 4th quarter already up by 40 points? Or when you go for it on 4th down with the game out of reach?

The Pac-10 showed it's mettle in the bowl season last year and carried the momentum into this year. Best conference in the country this year bar-none...and that makes Carroll's job a lot harder. He has spent years recruiting "me-first" type players who flex their muscles and pound their chests after meaningless plays. They have no concept of team and they are quitting on him...it is shocking to see.

I doubt he will be able to convince the elite players to come to USC and sit on the bench behind his favorites for much longer.

I will wait here to see if he replies to you

UNC...no surprise

Follow the blog of Barnes' signing here

http://scouthoops.scout.com/2/919170.html

Seems like UCLA is on the outside looking in on this one but boy would 2010 be a crazy year if he came out west.

Malcolm Lee
Jerime Anderson
Tyler Honeycutt
Drew Gordon
Tyler Lamb
Josh Smith
Harrison Barnes

Yikes! I'd book my Final Four tickets today.

Still, I don't like the one-and-done thing. It sucked watching Kevin Love knowing he was going to be gone. He's been a great spokesman and recruiter for UCLA but I still find it hard to root for him because there is no attachment. Same thing with Jrue Holiday. Winning with one-and-dones feels cheap.

He made it pretty clear at the end of his recruitment that it was down to UCLA, Cal and Arizona. No sure why Notre Dame is even mentioned here.

There is another big running back recruit, Anthony Barr, that has his final two down to UCLA and Notre Dame.


Anyway.....GO BRUIN! Rick Neuheisel is a recruiting monster. The turnaround on the field is close now....2010 and 2011 are going to be fun years.

He'll still end up at UCLA

Boy you come across like an elitist ****....way to combat the typical Ivy Leaguer stereo-type.

another stud in the long line of great UCLA big men...let's hope we can hold onto him for more than one year.

Rebuilding this year....back next year with a vengeance!

Out here on the west coast, we keep hearing that he is a UNC lock.
Although Howland poured it on during his official visit to UCLA last week.

I'm over the one-and-done thing...don't want anymore at UCLA.
It hurt bad to lose Kevin Love after one year and poor Jrue Holiday got absolutely blasted by spoiled fans for not living up to ridiculous expectations last year.

The way to do it is build a solid team that you can coach up over the course of a couple seasons. Leaders emerge and teams really gel within the system.

For anyone that cares...word has come out that this was not real. His facebook account was allegedly hacked. The father has released a statement saying he fully supports the coaches and the team and that these words did not come from him.

Now I know Colorado is the healthiest state in the nation...and I know there are good looking people there as I've been multiple times....but you are INSANE if you think that CU's campus has one-tenth the hotness to be found in Westwood...I-N-S-A-N-E

Anyway, not sure what the real deal with Scott is. If it's the injuries that have held him back, the coaches or his own head but he'll need to get past admissions at UCLA before we even find out. He wouldn't be the first transfer casualty to not make the grade. We had two good DT prospects (one from a JUCO and one from Ohio State) that were supposed to enroll this year but didn't make the cut.

Funny...I seem to remember UCLA being ranked #1 in the first BCS standings.

I seem to remember Cade McNown, Skip Hicks and DeShaun Foster making them pretty relevant when they were part of the longest winning streak in the history of the rivalry.

Let me destroy your argument yet again.

You don't need to point to anything that Chow has down since he left USC as proof of anything. He has had two stops:

1) Tennessee Titans - NFL experience is not in the same league as college (literally!). The vast majority of coaches who make the switch don't perform. He was with the Titans for three seasons. In his second season, the Titans made the playoffs. Afterwards, Chow was fired for not believing Vince Young was an NFL QB and saying as much...that is common knowledge. Since then, it has been demonstrated beyond doubt that Vince Young is not an NFL QB. Although he was able to single-handedly defeat a USC team that had two heisman winners in the BCS title game.

2) UCLA - A team that is in complete overhaul on offense. A team that had two senior QB's go down to career ending injuries before Chow's first season started and resorted to an emergency JC transfer who had to play behind a decimated offensive line. In the second year, the team has first time starters at QB, RB and every offensive line position...including multiple true freshmen garnering significant playing time. I defy you to find a college offense that has performed well with that makeup in the last 30 years.

You're admission of the great players and teams Chow coached BEFORE he ever got to USC makes my point for me. He was regarded as a great college mind before anyone ever heard of Pete Carroll. That is why Pete Carroll went after him with USC money..because of how he developed Young, McMahon, Detmer and Rivers. Chow proved it further with the development of Palmer and Leinart, who became college legends running his offense.

Your faulty logic of USC's winning percentage since he left leaves out the fact that the first two seasons of Chow's tenure were also Carroll's first two years....i.e. USC was rebuilding itself and going through growing pains. Why don't you compare the winning percentage once the talent was amassed?

Kiffen and Sarkisian had no such rebuilding job as they inherited the juggernaut that was created during those years...yet they were never able to replicate the success despite having the most talented team in the nation for multiple years. Chow was the ONLY one who had USC go undefeated and win a BCS title and the ONLY one who had USC QB's win Heisman trophies.

Kevin Craft was never meant to be more than an emergency option who was thrust into the starting role on an offense with no talent. Kevin Prince is a redshirt freshman who has played in 5 college games and is throwing to, handing of to and being protected by freshmen. Why don't we wait and see what happens.

Even the staunchest USC supporters pine for Norm Chow as his successors have repeatedly failed to live up to expectations.

Saying "NFL caliber talent" is totally meaningless when you are talking about competing IN THE NFL! And if your definition of failure is not winning the Superbowl...then 31 teams fail every year in the NFL.

The Titans made the playoffs in Chow's second year. They fired him because he told them Young would never be the kind of player to execute his offense. They chose the high draft pick over the OC...not the first time that has happened.

Maybe you don't remember Pete Carroll's or Nick Saban's illustrious NFL careers...try looking it up. Suffice it to say that the college game is totally different.


And what an astute observation in noticing that UCLA football is struggling after the team was left with nothing by a terrible coach and recruiter. Your facts fail your again. Kevin Prince was a 3-star recruit according to both Scout and Rivals and is currently a redshirt freshman who has started FIVE games (he was out with a broken jaw for two games)...maybe we should revisit how he is performing when he has at LEAST one full season under his belt.

The other high level recruits that UCLA has had since Chow got here are freshmen, redshirt freshmen or sophomores right now. The offense has first time starters in at least seven positions and many true freshmen are getting significant playing time.

Your ridiculous arguments are worthless.

Maybe if you lived in California and were friendly with the guy....yes.

Moreover, if you were black and said that to your black friend...would it be racist?
What if you said it to someone who was asian?

I don't know how it could be any clearer that it wasn't a racial insult in this context.

Correct...and in this CONTEXT, the word carried no racial meaning.
Maybe people don't realize but Randal Carroll, the player who tweeted it, is black.

Does that add any perspective?

HAHA

I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact that Chow was there in the two early years that USC was rebuilding, right?
Pete Carroll lost a game 10 miles from his campus in which he had TWO HEISMAN WINNERS PLAYING ON THE SAME TEAM. HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN!?!

How many times do you have to get owned on this site before you stop trying?