From The Sports Pickle: USC defends putting cupcake Ohio State team on its schedule
USC head football coach Pete Carroll bristled today over continued criticism about his team padding its early-season schedule with cupcakes, most notably last Saturday night when the Trojans took on an almost comically overmatched Ohio State team at home. “I realize that Ohio State is far from a national title contender,” said Carroll, “but not every game on the schedule can be against a great team. It’s just not possible. But playing a team the caliber of Ohio State helped us stay loose and work on some things for when we open conference play.” The Buckeyes, while consistently strong in their second-rate conference, have famously been destroyed whenever they venture outside of the Midwest. But Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel said he appreciated the chance to play the Trojans. “Games like this allow you to measure up against the top programs,” he said. “You kind of know going in that you have very little chance, but it’s a good experience. Many of our players had never been to Los Angeles before. They got to play on the same field as guys they see on TV. And now they’ll be sure to focus more on their studies now that they realize a future in football beyond college is a bit unlikely for them.” Carroll says he will consider future games against the Buckeye “I don’t want to just cast them aside simply because they are no good,” said Carroll. “They may not be as talented as us, as fast as us, or as strong as us, but believe it or not, that program has a lot of history in college football. They are kind of like Army in that way, and they should be allowed to remain in Division I football as long as they’d like to.”
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Yea that might be funny... as if.
From The Sports Pickle:
USC defends putting cupcake Ohio State team on its schedule
USC head football coach Pete Carroll bristled today over continued criticism about his team padding its early-season schedule with cupcakes, most notably last Saturday night when the Trojans took on an almost comically overmatched Ohio State team at home.
“I realize that Ohio State is far from a national title contender,” said Carroll, “but not every game on the schedule can be against a great team. It’s just not possible. But playing a team the caliber of Ohio State helped us stay loose and work on some things for when we open conference play.”
The Buckeyes, while consistently strong in their second-rate conference, have famously been destroyed whenever they venture outside of the Midwest. But Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel said he appreciated the chance to play the Trojans.
“Games like this allow you to measure up against the top programs,” he said. “You kind of know going in that you have very little chance, but it’s a good experience. Many of our players had never been to Los Angeles before. They got to play on the same field as guys they see on TV. And now they’ll be sure to focus more on their studies now that they realize a future in football beyond college is a bit unlikely for them.”
Carroll says he will consider future games against the Buckeye
“I don’t want to just cast them aside simply because they are no good,” said Carroll. “They may not be as talented as us, as fast as us, or as strong as us, but believe it or not, that program has a lot of history in college football. They are kind of like Army in that way, and they should be allowed to remain in Division I football as long as they’d like to.”
Well, that was just uncalled for.
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