And any Trojan fan who still claims the 1964 win is just being dishonet. And, OK, so you get the 1974 slaughter, though there are a lot of rumors surrounding it, and it was, after all, in the middle of your worst probation era. But then, it was also Pat Hayden, whom I respect, and who remains the one bright and honorable standout in USC football; finally, an honorable AD.
After all, aside from Hayden, USC players were not really students during the 70's. In fact, of the 81 teams placed on probabation by the NCAA, USC ranks 2nd only to SMU. Why is that?
I'll see your "Bush push" and raise you "The Spot" (1989).
What do you mean our players were not students? Of course they were. It's true that none of them were taking graduate coursework in international relations, so none of them were my classmates, but I had classmates who knew team members.
Pat Hayden? Don't know of him. You're probably confusing him with Tom "We are all Vietcong" Hayden, who was a Wolverine.
Probation? A lot of schools have gotten away with much more skulduggery.
Fight on!
Deconstruct the Domers!
As you walk through the USC campus toward the Coliseum, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, with his right hand raised in the air, and Bishop Matthew Simpson, an influential official of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the nineteenth century, are gazing down upon you from atop Bovard Auditorium--named for George Finley Bovard, a Methodist preacher who became the school's president.
