
USC's athletic programs have been getting rightfully shit-winded by all of this O.J. Mayo mess in the last couple days (and, before that, Reggie Bush) but it'll be tough to find a more comprehensive list of the school's indiscretions during the Pete Carroll/Tim Floyd eras than the one put together by Bruins Nation.
Sure, the site is unapologetically anti-USC, but it is rather alarming to see how deep and descriptive this list actually is. Here are some of the highlights from the 46 incidents the blog has pulled together just from a little Google-searching:
• On March 3, 2004, Winston Justice was arrested on suspicion of felony assault with a deadly weapon. On June 15, 2004, Justice pleaded no contest to exhibition of a replica firearm. Justice was sentenced to 60 days of electronic monitoring and three years' probation. Justice was also suspended for two semesters by USC's student affairs committee after his arrest.
• On December 4, 2006, former USC stand-out, and former Rams rookie, tight end Dominique Byrd was arrested for allegedly hitting a bar patron in the face with a drinking glass. Byrd was charged with second- and third-degree assault and armed criminal action. He was released shortly after posting a $25,000 bond. In early May, 2008, Byrd was scheduled to go to trial in St. Louis Circuit Court on felony charges of assault and armed criminal action stemming from the nightclub scuffle in December 2006. In March 2007, he was charged with DUI in California. In October 2007, he pleaded no contest to the DUI charge and received three years' probation. In May 2008, Byrd was released by the Rams.
• On May 6, 2008, it was announced that USC's men's basketball team was the only major athletic program in the Southland penalized with scholarship losses as the result of a poor performance in the NCAA's academic progress rate. The Trojans were penalized in part because Lodrick Stewart, Nick Young and Gabe Pruitt stopped attending class after the 2007 season, and because three players transferred within the same season. USC's APR score of 804 was 121 points below the minimum-acceptable mark, and stemmed from various academic problems, including Gabe Pruitt's academic ineligibility for the fall 2006 semester, and his ineligibility again following the spring 2007 semester. USC served the penalty during the 2007-08 season.
And so on, and so on, and so on...
Maybe Charlie Weis was actually referring to USC when he made his questionable remarks at that Notre Dame alumni dinner a few weeks ago. If so, well, he might have actually had a point.
Pete Carroll, Tim Floyd, USC And Scandal [Bruins Nation]
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What, he couldn't find an Assassins jersey?
I thought Nick Lachey was more of a Leinart guy
As an Eagles fan, I wish Winston Justice would have gotten life.
That story about Pete Carroll playing dice in the alleys of South Central makes more sense now.
Where have you gone Ricky Bell? Oh shit, sorry man... How about Mario van Peebles instead.
What are the chances O.J. Mayo leads NCAA investigators on a high-speed chase in a white Bronco when they find out he really did take all that money after his denials?
Early line: 27-1.
(1) I don't think this sort of thing is isolated to USC at all, much as it pains this ex-Bruin to say that.
(2) That picture sums up USC perfectly.
O.J. Simpsons's UCLA jersey.
Charlie Weis couldn't hold Pete Carroll's jock. Even with the help of Hoodlums and thugs...
@Gourmet Spud: i'm still on the lookout for OJ's orange county prison jumper
Justice was sentenced to 60 days of electronic monitoring...
two months is a long time to have to wear a hollywood sock
May 15, 2008: Guy In Replica O.J. Jersey is arrested for date rape.
By the wya...I can top that picture (though it's a description, not another pic). I swear on my life this is true...
About 4 years ago I'm walking ino court in Memphis. I'm standing in an atrium at the courthouse right before they open the courtrooms up, and across the open space I spot a guy wearing a football jersey (into court mind you...clearly not a bright individual). At that point I pretty much dectuple-take...because this cat is wearing an O.J Simpson Bills throwback.
That's balls...
How could they forget when Pete Carroll murdered LenDale White by throwing him off the top of a building?
C'mon, who hasn't been pissed off with the bottle service at a club and thrown a glass at a patron?
/Misses the Side Door, instead of the cheesy Pepper Lounge.
//St. Louis reference that East Coaster don't care about
Maybe it is a "Dress as your Favorite Athlete/Criminal" themed party. The guy in the Bengals jersey is Chris Henry.
He totally thought it was a Jessica Simpson jersey.
/kicks lifeless pedestrian in the crotch
Not pictured: On senior night, all football players gave each senior song girl a commemorative pearl necklace.
USC is clearly the strongest basketball program in the Southland, though.
USC is SO trying to be the new Miami
Nice hand gesture. Guess Vince Young made you his bitch for life.
My friend had a shirt that he bought on the streets of LA.
On the front: "First OJ, now Kobe..."
On the back: "that's it no more white girls."
I miss that shirt.
That tailgate needs more jorts.
Pete Carroll recruited Bart Simpson back in 2000 for publicity purposes predating Tim Floyd and Little P.
/thought a reference to a 19-year-old show would be hip.
It looks like he's celebrating a cavity search just out of the picture.
Linda Tripp sure is making a strange pose.
Hey dumbass, you're supposed to wear the tracking device on your ankle, not your wrist!
/any number of dumbass's alumni (theoretically)
You can practically smell the Axe Body Spray, can't you?
That jackass in the Simpson jersey is going to regret that picture in 20 years when it foils his bid for congress.
Shortly after posing for this picture, Chris Carrabba would go on to pen "Screaming Infidelities."
@ltwinslow: If only USC had it's own version of the 7th Floor Crew we could have a revival of an East Coast/West Coast rap war.
Is this the story where we can post pictures of SC fans acting douchey? I guess the hand gesture is standard issue.
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By the way, there is no greater context to this picture. Apparently the guy just rolls around to tailgates with a 69 sign.
That Bruins Nation list is actually incomplete - they left off Fred Davis' attempted coup in Grenada, the time that Troy Polamalu burned down the Shrine Auditorium, and of course most embarrassingly the time that LenDale White sank the Queen Mary.
That guy is just signalling that he and his girlfriend are looking for another guy interested in a "devil's three-way."
@DCTrojan: Don't forget Matt Leinart sparking the Hindenberg...
I would like to see additional charges filed against the USC players that raped the Illini in last year's Rose Bowl.
@FiddlingWhileJimRomeBurns is the anti-Christ according to B...: I was going to write that one off as accident - I mean, after the whole poking Paris Hilton incident, little Matty shoots out flames at the most inconvenient times.
@FiddlingWhileJimRomeBurns is the anti-Christ according to B...: That was a legitimate accident though - post Paris Hilton, little Matty shoots fire at all sorts of inopportune moments.
I am such a master of this comment function it's not even funny. Will this get me entry number 47 on the master list?
@Carlton_Whitfield: Yeah, but at Broseph U the women don't mind: [waynediego.blogspot.com]
Even Mark Fuhrman realizes that there's some chicanery going on at Condom U.
@Greek McPapadopoulos: still trying to figure out if I should be offended or complimented by this:
"I didn't think it would be a big deal, considering that my own school had its fair share of school pride--everyone had at least a few pieces of Dartmouth clothing in their wardrobe--"
Sounds like USC is one giant Beta (r.i.p.) house. great.
How is having Snoop on the sideline anything other than awesome? Notice there was no mention of Will Ferrell being on the sidelines, even though he stole millions of dollars from people who paid to see Semi-Pro.
@jwaves2007:
Yeah, that's exactly why I don't wear my Ray Lewis jersey any more.
@Johnny LaRue: I wouldn't be offended. USC just takes school spirit to a completely obnoxious level, which makes other schools seem far more reasonable. Of course, Green with white/grey is much more subtle than freakin' Maroon and Burnt Gold.
I think that BruinsNation entry is either funny, or ironic- they just hired Rick Neuheisel, did they not? Anyone ever heard of a guy named Jeramy Stevans? And he's not even the worst to come out of that dude's program...
I didn't know Homer played at USC.
@KittyLitterKing: Even this St Louisan doesn't get the reference.
@Bullet_Tooth_Tony: Let me assure you that they do not mean that list in irony.
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