You're not a nice person, are you? Every time a poster has said anything remotely negative about your precious Trojans and the Pac 10; or has even the slightest difference of opinion about college football than you, you rip into them, spewing ad hominem attacks and insults.
Well I'm a better person than that. I wish you and your family a happy and joyful New Year, and hope everything goes well for you. Dominus vobiscum.
Bartender, I apologize for the harshness of my response to you yesterday, and I appreciate your comments. But for the last couple years, I have watched the posts on this site continually denigrate USC, their streak, their championships, the league they play in, and on and on, and I decided this year that I had had enough, and was going to respond.
USC's program had been drifting into mediocrity for better than a decade when Pete Carroll took over five years ago. What he has done is incredible, and he has done it with class, positive energy and innovation. Texas' Mack Brown openly and repeatedly admits that he has gone to school on Carroll's approach and in the past two years has changed his own, to the Texas program's benefit.
In their last 49 games, USC has a triple overtime 3-point loss at Cal, and a last second 3-point loss to Texas this past week. Before the Cal game loss three seasons ago, their most recent previous loss was a one-point overtime loss at Washington State. So when you write that Virginia Tech would have EASILY defeated USC if only the brilliant Marcus Vick wasn't in his usual jailbird mode, that, like much of the criticism USC takes, is absurd. No one has 'easily' beaten these guys since Carroll showed up five years ago. And if anybody could/would have done so over that stretch, it certainly wasn't going to be Marcus Vick, with his track record. If you want to focus on 'overrated', you might start there.
Hope you had a Happy New Year and that 2006 is a good year for you.