USC Football Post-Game: (South) East Coast Blahs

Shortly after our 50-14 beat down of the Arkansas Razorbacks football team last night – so much for revenge factors – I heard what should be the last from the SEC fan with the misguided take on the east coast bias. Following a few exchanges and a worthless comment from an ugla fan (something about the gutty little bruins “doing well” this season) the semi-intelligent argument ended with a cheap and sudden thud:

We hear the Trojan point of view every week at church. It sounds like this. blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blahblah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blahblah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blahblah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blahblah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Has anyone else noticed you can't spell sucks without U S C.

So ... with any intelligent parts of that discussion thread apparently done, I turned to today’s post-game coverage. For people out east, that means the New York Times, which of course covered last night’s “not so golden” domer win as if South Bend were in the Meadowlands. But, we can’t complain really, because USC is recognized as a national powerhouse by the Times, which means they had to have a staffer in Fayetteville to cover the Trojans.

Coverage in the Times – that is, the Los Angeles Times – was par for the course. Bill Plaschke’s column was unabashed, as usual. But, what I’ve really enjoyed reading lately is Scott Wolf’s blog for the Los Angeles Daily News. Sometimes a few of his posts are identical to some of his daily reports for the paper, but you can tell he looks for an angle on things that is different than the Times …

A First Thought
… here’s what I think is one of the most important things I heard after the game.
USC coach Pete Carroll told his offensive assistants to open up the offense at halftime, which explained why quarterback John David Booty started throwing to wide receivers Dwayne Jarrett and Steve Smith in the second half.

"I was encouraging the (assistant coaches), saying `let's go.’ We were playing safe early on,'' Carroll said.

Wolf’s reputation as the “scourge of the Internet message boards” is interesting, too.

Well, USC Football 2006 is off to a relatively standard start – meaning we beat a supposedly good team from a major conference at their house by 36 points. How spoiled are we? It’s good to be a USC Trojan.

We Are SC! We are 1-0. Here come those crazy Huskers. Can’t wait to see what Callahan thinks he can pull on us.
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