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Thanks For Choking Again Trojans
Published by MoonDog on September 26, 2008
Dear Coach Carroll:
Didn’t you see my post from yesterday? Didn’t you tell your players that I’ve been talking about how talented and great your team is?
USC QB Mark Sanchez Under Pressure Against Oregon State
I spent the better part of the day writing about how your team was dying to face an SEC opponent in the BCS national championship and now this.
You promptly take the field in Corvallis Thursday night and lose to an Oregon State team that got mauled by Penn State just two weeks ago 45-14. All that talent, all the potential and all the talk of waltzing to the BCS title game just went down the toilet.
Frankly, I’m really more upset over the loss than you are because your Trojans made me look foolish.
I really believed the overwhelming talent you possess was easily enough to win the Pac 10. In fact, your team had the easiest path of any potential national title contender and you lose to the Beavers – and badly too.
Forget about that late touchdown to make the score close; your team got dominated by Oregon State.
They held the ball more than 15 minutes longer than you did, more than doubled your team’s rushing yardage and didn’t turn the ball over while your mighty Trojans coughed it up twice.
I’ll bet the first call you receive to offer their condolences is Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel, who certainly understands what it feels like to suffer an embarrassing defeat.
I can hear Tressel now, saying, “Pete, thanks so much for losing. Maybe now MoonDog will stop making fun of me and my team and start picking on you.”
Tressel would be right, the Trojans have officially supplanted the Buckeyes as the most talented failures in the land.
I can understand Ohio State’s defeats a lot better than I can your teams’ losses over the past three seasons.
The Buckeyes lost to superior SEC teams in the past two BCS title games and got smoked just a few weeks ago when your Trojan team pounded them in Los Angeles.
Oregon State LB Greg Laybourn Got The Game Deciding Interception to Seal The Beavers Win Against USC
But you lost to Oregon State, a team that didn’t have anywhere near your talent. Last season you lost to Stanford 24-23 – at home no less – against a team that would win only four games.
In 2006 you lost to UCLA 13-9 with a national championship berth within your grasp. Every year we talk about how great your team is and for the past three seasons you’ve choked against decidedly weaker competition.
Sure, you can stand in the locker room talking to your players as they hang their heads, telling them how great they are and how it’s not over, how they’re not out of it.
Yes you are. You’re out. Done. Finished. The season is over.
The polls and the BCS standings are going to reflect your one loss to a team you should have beaten by three touchdowns.
Teams like Georgia, Florida, LSU, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri and yes, even Ohio State are going to be there at the end of the season, competing for college football’s ultimate prize.
And where will you be? Playing in the Rose Bowl against a 9-3 Big 10 team with nothing more than a big paycheck to show for it.
So thanks for making me look like an idiot Pete. As if I needed any help. But there is one good thing to take from this loss.
Jim Tressel is going to sleep like a baby tonight.
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cowboyjoe on Fri, 26th Sep 2008 07:30
One of these days, losses like this will end all talk of Pete Carroll returning to the NFL.
Rupert on Fri, 26th Sep 2008 08:32
I can’t believe this! That frosh was pretty incredible. I wish they would have let that play go where his helmet got ripped off his head.
MoonDog on Fri, 26th Sep 2008 08:42
OSU made USC look bad for the entire game, with the exception of 10 minutes in the third quarter when the Trojans cut the lead to 21-14.
The Beavers did everything well except that blocked kick they had in the 4th qtr.
I may be wrong but I can’t help but think USC has an overconfidence problem. They’re so much more talented than everyone they face, and they’re constantly told how great they are.
You can’t help but wonder if that doesn’t effect them.
I think Carroll is a decent coach, I just think the players by into the hype. Next thing you know, say bye-bye to the BCS title.
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GoPurple on Fri, 26th Sep 2008 21:38
Overconfidence, big time. We’ve seen it from other good teams too; this is just the latest example. What I think happens is that every time the 19-22 year old kids turn on a computer or TV they are hearing how great they are. Add to that the coach showing film of (in this case) Oregon State getting blown out of the water by Penn State, and the kids look at that and think “we can beat these guys in our sleep”. Tough teams with a streetfighter mentality can SOMETIMES gut their way through such games; in this case USC isn’t, and didn’t. The interesting parlor game would be to guess who ELSE USC chokes against this season. Stanford? Washington?
In the meantime I hope that my Sooners can avoid the same affliction during their games; last year they struggled mightily against a really bad Iowa State team. I think Bob Stoops’ mistake that week was showing his Sooners game film of the Cyclones…
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