Comments on: Pete Carroll admits that, as to Reggie Bush, "something happened"

By: corruptncaa

corruptncaa — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:08:40 +0000

Interesting a reporter can write a story about USC wrongdoings when he himself lies in his articles. Reggie Bush’s car was not “new” as he claims, nor was it “tricked out” as he claims. It was a $13k 1996 Chevy Impala. (check the facts) It was tricked out AFTER Reggie declared for the NFL draft. I guess Reggie can’t break any rules, but an NBC reporter can lie and cheat for better ratings??? Was this article written by a professional reporter? Or a UCLA/Notre Dame student???

By: funi

funi — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:49:45 +0000

If you get caught cheating in college as a player or coach you should be suspended in from any fottball like you college! Including working on a tv show!

By: Stone

Stone — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:50:41 +0000

What’s the “cooking meth” comment all about? That’s a classless and tasteless bit of commentary, Florio. Are you insinuating that Carroll does crystal meth? Or that his parents do? What kind of a comment is that to make? You missed the mark on that one big time. You should have to apologize for saying crap like that.

By: edgy

edgy — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:19:21 +0000

toe-to-toe bird law says:
Some people just don’t get it.
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And if he hadn’t accepted the gifts, would those runs have not happened? Again, I’m not excusing him for his actions…

By: Derek Stephens

Derek Stephens — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:03:36 +0000

@ toe-to-toe bird law:
I think people get the severity of Bush’s infraction. What many people don’t get is why Pete Carroll is an automatic cheater for Bush’s own grown-up adult decisions.
I don’t hear anyone outraged that Rick Neuheisel is still employed in College football. Actually, he’s not just employed, he’s a coach of a major Div. I team (something that Florio says Carroll will never have the opportunity to do again because of this), after admitting to committing several recruiting violations and in his own words “cutting corners.”
However, after reading PFT’s numerous Pete Carroll-jabbing stories over the past weeks and months, I get it now. Florio simply hates Carroll, regardless of what he’s done. He’s actually pretty obsessed with him. Kind of funny, now.

By: smilergrogan

smilergrogan — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:00:59 +0000

i like steve miller’s line to the sheriff for this one…
ncaa sheriff looks in the car and says Is that you petey trojan carroll in a very deep voice, and petey says yes sir brother ncaa sheriff, and that’s your wife in the back seat of my car…
cause he’s a gangster… and he and the ncaa sheriff’s wife headed out to seattle…..
and everyone makes money but the bit players.

By: toe-to-toe bird law

toe-to-toe bird law — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:47:46 +0000

Some people just don’t get it. The fact that Bush accepted gifts and other forms of compensation as a student athlete automatically makes him ineligible. It would be the same as if he received academic probation for failing or not attending class. Both instances result in a player being ineligible for a game. So for all you mongoloids who don’t understand what the big deal about Bush’s situation is, just pretend he never went to school. The result is the same.

By: DualLeads

DualLeads — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:38:43 +0000

I’m confused – by reading all these posts, it seems Pete Carroll is more the “ex-coach of the USC Trojans” than he is the current coach of the Seattle Seahawks.
Get over it, everybody.

By: ClayMath52

ClayMath52 — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:36:12 +0000

Frickin Lame? Cooking Meth? This site has become nothing more than a Tabloid gossip site. Approach your opinions with a little professionalism.

By: edgy

edgy — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:50:35 +0000

I’m not going to excuse what Reggie did but Pete’s right, those runs would have still happened whether Reggie was getting paid or not (Did it hurt the guys at SMU — I don’t think so).

By: tryagain

tryagain — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:42:44 +0000

the people defending him are absolutely hilarious. it doesn’t matter if paying reggie enhanced his performance or not, it was still against the rules, thus it’s cheating. they got caught cheating so they get penalized. what is so hard to accept about that?
carroll comes across as a total and unbelievable moron with his comments. usc must have some minimum stupid and scheister requirement for football coaches.

By: Wartooth

Wartooth — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:33:43 +0000

The comments about ‘Karma’ kill me the most!
Bush took the money, and just got a Super bowl ring…How’s that for Karma!?
All you half wit’s hating on Pete for what these guys did behind his back is comical.
HE wasn’t paying ANYONE!
To think that a head coach at one of the biggest football university’s in the country would have time to personally monitor everything every player was doing while not playing the game is just asinine.
Pete was doing his job, and all of those winning season are a testament to that.
It was never Pete’s job to ‘babysit’ each and every player.
If players like Bush were taking money and other perks from people associated with agents, then thats on them.
Love him or hate him, Pete has proven him self to be a good coach, and weather that translates over to the NFL this time around is yet to be seen.
It’s pretty funny that all of this is about getting paid…Because thats what Pete did do.

By: WacktheQueens

WacktheQueens — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:19:54 +0000

Pete carol is a dirt bag!

By: -Slap-

-Slap- — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:18:52 +0000

This guy has always oozed slime out of every pore.

By: USCheaters

USCheaters — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:14:15 +0000

Wow. You U$C apologists are amazing.
U$C was forced to vacate their wins for a reason…they cheated repeatedly. People say, “the free cars didn’t win those games…”
No. But those free cars did get players to come to U$C to play.
U$C fans: your team cheated. Now take your medicine, and shut up.

By: aligreene

aligreene — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:04:05 +0000

poor kid rich kids if your a dominant player you will get perks,regardless of your economic status,matt leinart you think he took public transportation when he needed to go somewhere,he didnt want for nothing at sc,mike williams too and some of the studs on defense,the NCAA should stop trying to foolus in believing this is a amateur sports division 1 college ball isnt amateur

By: andy reid's belt

andy reid's belt — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:00:57 +0000

I hear even Bill Belichick thinks this guy is a cheater

By: mad555

mad555 — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:56:27 +0000

“As to why it’s cheating for players to get paid by someone not directly connected to the program, it becomes a helluvalot easier to recruit the best of the best players if word gets out among the recruits (and surely it will) that you can go to USC get cars and money and houses and no one from the school will give you a hard time about it.”
Again you are really reaching on this point. For one it did get out, it always does. B. No one in the right mind would actually tell a recruit, “Hey if you come to USC and play good somebody will pay you.”

By: JAJ

JAJ — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:54:15 +0000

Who is Steve Carroll?????

By: TimTheEnchanter

TimTheEnchanter — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:44:11 +0000

“For example, when Bush showed up with a new “tricked out” Chevy and was required to fill out paperwork, he failed to complete the portion of the form regarding how it was purchased — and no one followed up on the omission.”
The NCAA should use this description as part of the definition of “Lack of Institutional Control”.

By: WhoDeySood5

WhoDeySood5 — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:36:31 +0000

Steve Carroll is a bigger P.O.S. than a Roethlisberger/Haynesworth/Vick sandwich….can not believe he’s not going to get in any trouble for tarnishing that program

By: imissmydeadspin

imissmydeadspin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:32:33 +0000

Have fun Seattle. but on the bright side, you’ll get the next 3 first picks in the nfl draft

By: Jaxeagle

Jaxeagle — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:26:49 +0000

@tk1966 this is true, but based on his New England track record I was trying to be somewhat kind.

By: Mike Florio

Mike Florio — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:19:56 +0000

As to why it’s cheating for players to get paid by someone not directly connected to the program, it becomes a helluvalot easier to recruit the best of the best players if word gets out among the recruits (and surely it will) that you can go to USC get cars and money and houses and no one from the school will give you a hard time about it.

By: prefab sprout

prefab sprout — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:09:16 +0000

Pete Carroll is a world class douche.
But even if you give him a pass on Reggie Bush ( and most won’t) he has no excuse for breaking NCAA rules by hiring Pete Rodriquez as a special teams coach (USC already had the max number of coaches allowed) and trying to hide him as a “consultant”. That was 100% ALL Pete’s doing and that little incident was a big part of why the NCAA dropped a hammer on the school.
Of course the fact they have a complete incompetent masquerading as “Athletic Director” ain’t helping either…..

By: EGOutreach

EGOutreach — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:35:41 +0000

Wow. Just wow. Why do we still cover Carroll? He’ll be out of the NFL soon enough.

By: Patsfan1776

Patsfan1776 — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:35:26 +0000

I know my dad actually had to go to work each day to pay for the house. Was his dad working every day??? Also, there is no way the compliance department had these players fill out the forms themselves and if they did not check them. They have people taking tests and doing homework for these players but they let them fill out compliance forms by themselves and not check them. Makes no sense. Pete knew.

By: TommyMac

TommyMac — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:08:55 +0000

- “Yes, they did it. And they beat programs with players who weren’t cheating — or, at a minimum, that didn’t get caught.”
This made all of those kids on that team better and stronger than any other team! What jackass thought of that? Whether Bush took money or not had nothing to do with winning or losing the games that the team itself played. Sometimes I seriously think you jackleg reporters are complete idiots.

By: mad555

mad555 — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:05:48 +0000

I really could care less about NCAA football because it is just as silly as the ufl, cfl, and arena league, but the fact that you say they beat programs with players who weren’t cheating — or, at a minimum, that didn’t get caught. As if Bush taking a house and a car had anything to do with THE TEAM’S on-field performance is laughable. You are trying to fit a square peg in a round hole there mikey. There is no correlation.

By: burntorangehorn

burntorangehorn — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:41:40 +0000

Carroll’s not a complete fool, so “willful ignorance” is the best argument that I could possibly accept from him.
As far as the claim that the compliance department was overmatched and staffed with only one person, that in and of itself is evidence that USC lacked institutional control. A school as wealthy as USC could have afforded a full and competent compliance staff, but chose not to do so. Bowling Green probably has several people dealing with compliance; you don’t think USC was willfully ignoring compliance issues by intentionally understaffing that department?