Trojans Should Have Used Better Protection

The NCAA has ruled that the athletic department at USC displayed a "lack of institutional control" over a five year span involving a number of violations in men's football and basketball and women's tennis. Among the penalties, the USC football program loses 30 football scholarships over the next three years and a post-season ban for the next two. They also vacate all wins from December 2004 through the 2005 season including their National Championship win against Oklahoma. And while all of this is falling down around Lane Kiffin, Pete Carroll is laughing all the way to the Starbucks (because he's in Seattle). Pete Carroll redefined "getting out of Dodge" when he left what may have been a career job for an NFL gig in Seattle. He knew shit was going to go down, so instead of dealing with a team that can't technically win anything, his biggest problem now is keeping Golden Tate out of the maple bars.