You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy!™
Talk radio’s constant blather that USC football is swirling around the drain. If Talk radio and Yahoo Sports ruled the world, then the Trojans would be in the Bastille bathing in human excrement and gargling with goat spit.
Thankfully, talk Radio is little more than digital diarrhea that keeps the commercials from bumping together.
The talk is the NCAA is going to strip USC of a national championship because of something that might have happened 5 years ago.
Of course we all know that talk is cheap. Talk radio talk is cheaper.
But the blathering also contends that if USC is stripped of their national title, then the AP number 2 team in 2005, the Auburn Tigers should be retroactively made number 1.
HUH?
Yeah, I’m sure that War Eagle nation is clamoring for a national championship trophy, 5 years after the fact, based on a huge what if. Instead of a crystal football to put in their display case, why not just send them a big golden ASTERISK, because that’s all it will ever be worth.
Stripping USC of a championship trophy 5 years later? That’s like walking up to your ten year old, saying good morning son, then spanking him for breaking a cookie jar when he was 5.
He’s going to look at you like you are crazy. And you know what? you are!
Where does it end? Do you reward your other child with a gift certificate to Baskin Robbins because 5 years ago, she helped sweep up the cookie crumbs.
Here’s the smoking gun that has every sports radio talk show host this side of Dan Patrick at half mast in a pair of UnderArmor:
In 2005, Reggie Bush, while still in college, allegedly had contact with a sports agent. That agent allegedly set up Reggie Bush’s parents in an expensive home.
It’s not like Reggie Bush’s mom was high hurdling over line backers and rolling into the end zone. It’s not like his dad’s new expensive zip code had any bearing on Matt Leinert getting pushed into the end zone at South Bend.
It’s a terrible connect the dots investigation put together by gerbils with too much time on their hands.
5 years has passed. Reggie is a saint. Pete is a Seahawk. Time has steadily moved forward, while this investigation has stopped for a potty break at least a dozen times in a pay toilet known as the internet.
If the allegations against Bush are true, it violates all kinds of NCAA rules. The problem is, when does the statute of limitations on something like this run out?
Outside of homicide, you can commit any crime in this great country of ours and simply hide for 7 years and you are Scott free.
It’s called statue of limitations.
The NCAA should get themselves a copy of the handbook.
I have a buddy who got a DUI in L.A. he moved out of state and said I’ll deal with the DUI later. That was 20 years ago. He still has the DUI arrest on his record, but they can’t prosecute him for it any longer. He just has to live with the shame of being a drunk driver who got away with being a drunk driver.
And so it will be for USC. Five years is long enough to cast aspersions and level allegations of what might be and could be. Five years is put up or shut up time.
If you have proof then show it.
“S*** or get off the pot,” so they say.
If the allegations are true, and if the NCAA can prove it, they could strip the university of scholarships, National Titles, and Bush could lose his Heisman trophy.
Do you think Mr. Bush has any cares?
“None, just whatever happens, happens,” Bush said when asked his thoughts about possible sanctions. “What I’m really focused on is where I’m at right now, where I’m at with the Saints’ team right now, and so just really looking toward the future.”
I guess it is easy to say this when you have 30 million dollars in the bank and you have a very cozy relationship with Kim Kardashian’s booty.
But it certainly makes you wonder what Pete Carroll knows and when he knew it.
Carroll of course left college football’s premier coaching position to take the head post of the Seattle Seahawks.
Did he leave to fill the void in his coaching heart? Or did he get out of town like a stage coach bandit knowing that the law was right on his tail?
From the Starbucks Capital of America, Carroll tells reporters the NCAA was always asking him what he knew. He said OJ Mayo and Bush are at the heart of the investigation. But all in all, Carroll doesn’t think much will come of this.
“I’d be surprised if there are,” Carroll said.
So put that in your morning coffee and smoke it sports talk radio!
And that is crazy.