Peter Carroll = Gary Crowton?
 

The USC football team is in the parking lot of the Valley River Inn in Eugene, OR running through some plays. And this is 4 hours prior to their game with Oregon State. It appears they just flew in to Eugene for the game tonight in Corvallis.

Let's hope they have the same results as Crowton had. Go Beavs!

Appears that way or do you know that they actually did? I don't think USC is that stupid and it is very common for teams to do a walk through in the parking lot of the hotel they stayed at the night before. And if they flew the day of the game, wouldn't they fly into Corvallis?

Don't worry. Peter Carroll will have his team ready.

He may not have Reginald Bush nor Matthew Leinart anymore, but he has a decent team this year.

Fight on!

That's a typical SC pregame activity; they flew into Eugene last night.

Peter Carroll told Exie: "You better get out of here.....it's 'bout to get hectic!"

Then exie was like, "how are these guys successful?"

lol!! War Time......Let's take it outside! War Time.....Let's take it outside!

For some reason that post cracked me up. Good job, Triplet Father.

Did you check out the latest SI (with Yankee Stadium on the cover)?

Has a nice 3-4 pager on SC, including more detail of their pre-game rituals at the downtown Marriott. People taking of their shirts and pounding their chests, players doing MMA moves on each other to get pumped up, etc.

And Rey's War Time chant.

Maurice Simmons....whoops!

And if they flew in the day of the game, would they need a hotel?

USC was not taking this game seriously.
 

They were screwing around in the hotel parking lot. Screwing around in the pre-game. Very, very smug. Some came through the Beaver tunnel to the boos of the OSU fans. They thought they could merely show up and win.

Other observations:

1) Stadium was NOT sold out.
2) Fans around me were very very vulgar. Yelling things I had not heard since high school days. Worst was a lady behind me. At half time I put on my BYU cap. One guy even apologized. I said, no problem, I hear similar things on Cougarguard.
3) Rodgers is unbelievable. USC overpursued and thus gave #1 plenty of opps to gain yardage.
4) OSU was pumped from the beginning.
5) BYU replay personnel could learn some lessons from the lowly OSU replay officians. They actually showed replays more than once.
6) Loud.
7) People looked like they were dressed as pumpkins on Halloween night. Impressed that almost everyone wore orange, regardless of how horrendous it looks.
8) Loud. No one sat down for 3 1/2 hours.
9) One USC couple sitting in front of me. Guy looked like Pete Carroll's brother, Jim. They left their seats at half-time.

Not a bad way to spend an afternoon/evening.