Tuesday, November 29, 2011

The injustices of PAC-12 Commissioner Larry Scott against USC.

The 5 injustices Mr. Scott has inflicted on USC in 2011:

  1. Reprimanded Matt Barkley for out-of context comments about Vontaze Burfict.  Then, as if to insult Barkley, Burfict didn't receive any punishment for getting caught by the cameras, during the ASU-USC game pointing fingers (taunting) at Barkley at the line of scrimmage.
  2. Cut USC off from playing for the PAC-12 championship, even though no player on the team was around when Reggie Bush was at USC, thereby granting a 6-6 UCLA squad that just lost to USC 0-50, the opportunity to play for the conference championship.
  3. By cutting USC off from playing for the PAC-12 championship, prevented Barkley from playing in front of a national audience, the weekend before the Heisman ballots were collected.
  4. Changed out the referees during the off-season, only to end up with referees who would end up discussing before a game how they would target one USC player (with prejudice) -- notable on a late 4th quarter call that would alter the outcome of the game.  Later, Mr. Scott followed up that injustice by giving that player a 1/2 game suspension.  This, despite these types of hits allowed in the SEC.
  5. Even after changing out the referees, bad calls continued to plague USC (and the PAC-12 in general).

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