USC Has To Give It Back

by **RednBlue11** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 5:15 pm

http://deadspin.com/5809102/schools-tha ... o-fast-usc

and boom goes the dynamite.

The Bowl Championship Series just announced it will strip USC of its 2004 national title, the final ruling in the long strange Reggie Bush investigation. USC remains the AP National Champions, because the AP isn't stupid enough to pretend that there's a guiltless team out there. Congratulations, Oklahoma: you won/didn't lose/somehow never played in that Orange Bowl at all.

by **ponydawg** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 5:20 pm

RednBlue11 wrote:and boom goes the dynamite.

I had to watch it again.....so good and so bad.

by **RednBlue11** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 5:29 pm

skip to 2:15 for that golden nugget

by **smusic 00** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 5:57 pm

Now this billboard might be even more relevant.

by **HB Pony Dad** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 10:32 pm

RednBlue11 wrote:
Congratulations, Oklahoma: you won/didn't lose/somehow never played in that Orange Bowl at all.

Lest you have long term memory loss ...

USC won the 2004 national championship by beating Oklahoma 55-19 in the Orange Bowl to complete a perfect season.

BTW the following statement assuages my wounds...

"The BCS arrangement crowns a national champion, and the BCS games are showcase events for postseason football," BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock said in a statement. "One of the best ways of ensuring that they remain so is for us to foster full compliance with NCAA rules. Accordingly, in keeping with the NCAA's recent action, USC's appearances are being vacated.

"This action reflects the scope of the BCS arrangement and is consistent with the NCAA's approach when it subsequently discovers infractions by institutions whose teams have played in NCAA championship events."

by **RednBlue11** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 10:48 pm

what;s interesting to me is that technically the BCS could tell the NCAA to shove it, but they wouldn't.

and i don't know what you're talking about...that game never happened

by **HB Pony Dad** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 11:32 pm

RednBlue11 wrote:what;s interesting to me is that technically the BCS could tell the NCAA to shove it, but they wouldn't.

and i don't know what you're talking about...that game never happened

and I thought that only mrydel and I suffer from PSS (Pre-Senility Syndrome)! :shock:

BTW does anyone know if the Orange Bowl has requested the return of their crate of oranges? :roll:

by **ponyte** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 6:11 am

Wasn't the BSC suppose to give us the definitive champion? It was suppose to eliminate the split poll championship and insure the best two teams in the land played. It seems for the new century, it has been worse in its outcomes than the old system.

by **Junior** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 10:36 am

ponyte wrote:Wasn't the BSC suppose to give us the definitive champion? It was suppose to eliminate the split poll championship and insure the best two teams in the land played. It seems for the new century, it has been worse in its outcomes than the old system.

Well, it has definitively told us that USC is not the champion.

by **HB Pony Dad** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 10:42 am

Junior wrote:
ponyte wrote:Wasn't the BSC suppose to give us the definitive champion? It was suppose to eliminate the split poll championship and insure the best two teams in the land played. It seems for the new century, it has been worse in its outcomes than the old system.

Well, it has definitively told us that USC is not the champion.

Definitively?

Obviously not THEIR champion; still the APchampion!

Obviously ponyte is correct -split champions in 2003 (USC/LSU) and 2004 (USC/????). :roll: