![]() ![]() But of course, that, too, remains to be seen.Īs for speed, they may not have anyone quite as fast as Reggie Bush, but for all-around team speed, I believe this is the fastest squad that Pete Carroll has fielded. I don’t think they would fold like Oregon did last year when they lost Dennis Dixon. But the Trojans could weather a key injury here and there and still come out on the winning end of the score. Now that is not to say that they are all equal in quality. The Trojans are six deep at running back, nine deep at receiver, four deep at tight end, and four deep at quarterback. It definitely has the ability to withstand key injuries. What we do know is that Carroll’s current squad is deeper and faster than any other that he has had. No one really knows, but it might be as good as the 1972 squad, the best USC team of all time. Just as it was wrong for Wolf to look back at USC’s losses in previous year, it was just as wrong for Plaschke to look ahead and proclaim this to be Pete Carroll’s best team.Ĭould it be? Of course. The Oregon State game, a week from Thursday in Corvallis, will be the Trojans’ first Pac-10 game. We’ve only played two games and haven’t started conference play yet." When asked by a reporter if this was his best team, Pete Carroll said, "That’s risky business. In his Sunday column, Plaschke wrote that this was the best Trojan team of the Pete Carroll era. In this case, that title goes to Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times. So we go from the supreme USC critic to the supreme USC homer. Yet I believe it is equally wrong to project ahead. Should voters backpedal and look at games played in years past? Or should they concentrate on the games that have been played in the current season? ![]() He was also thinking about the upset loss to Oregon State in Corvallis two years ago. He was thinking about last year and the year before. No, that went to the Florida Gators, who didn’t even play.Īpparently, he felt that Florida extended a much better effort not playing than USC did in overwhelming Ohio State. So, Wolf voted USC for the Number Two spot? There was absolutely no comparison between the way the Bulldogs dodged a bullet against South Carolina and the way that USC manhandled Ohio State. Who knows what he is up to now, but the only way that this could get any better is if he were to do it again.The same Georgia Bulldogs that did not perform so well against the South Carolina Gamecocks.ĭid he even watch the Georgia-South Carolina game? It was Steve Spurrier's Gamecocks that fumbled the game away rather than the Mark Richt's Bulldogs actually winning it. If he hadn’t tried to return punts at practice, he might still be out there because they might not have noticed him.”Įven with how confusing and baffling that the whole situation is, you can’t help but be impressed with the man’s ability to pull off the stunt. “He must have been a cool customer in the McKay Center. “What gets me is the guts the guy had to just walk in like he belonged,” said the security source to Wolf. Nobody thought to question him, even though a homeless man was literally sitting next to them in a hot tub. If that’s not impressive enough, he blended in with the team well enough to enjoy a meal at the football dining facility without issue and shared a jacuzzi with other football players. In addition to his soccer field history, Wolf’s security source said that the man “slept for some time at a suite in the Coliseum.” That means he snuck into the McKay Center after he already had snuck into the team’s off-campus (historic) football stadium, made his way into the suites, and got some shut-eye… WITHOUT GETTING CAUGHT! We had a previous issue with him at the soccer field, so we knew who he was but he had never done something like this before.”Īs if fielding punts in a live practice isn’t crazy enough, Wolf uncovered some more details about the man’s imposter efforts. He also shouldn’t even be on campus with the COVID-19 restrictions. “That’s the question and the problem for me. “I’m not sure how he got into the McKay Center so easily,” a security source told Wolf last week. He tried to just walk off of the field and get away, but security got ahold of him not long thereafter. The homeless man made his way to the special teams station, joined the drill and started fielding punts before one of the staff members noticed him and got suspicious. After he ventured onto the gridiron, he took it one step too far, which ultimately led to him getting caught.
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