Updates from July, 2007

In its exhaustive 50 teams in 50 days survey of the best teams in college football, Rivals.com (a Yahoo property) selected USC as the nation’s #1 team. Most interestingly, Olin Buchanan of Rivals singles out players as best, underrated, and overrated on their respective units. (Offense: Best: Booty, Overrated: Byers, Underrated: Havili / Defense: Best: […]

The Carolina Panthers today signed their second-round pick, Trojan WR Dwayne Jarrett, to a 4-year deal worth a total of $3.825 million, $1.935 million of which is guaranteed. The Panther rook, who will be in training camp for the start of practices Saturday, is also eligible for a $225,000 workout bonus.
Center Ryan Kalil, another second-round pick of the Panthers from the Trojans, also reportedly […]

Jeff Miller of the Orange County register reports that at least one Pac-10 player, Cal’s elite junior WR DeSean Jackson, heard enough best-team-in-the-country talk in reference to USC at the Pac-10 media day:
I don’t know about all the talk… I mean, they lost all their receivers. They’re a great team, a great program. But separating them […]

ESPN has put together a committee of 15 writers to rank all 119 Division I football programs over the last 10 seasons, and USC has come out on top. With a record of 90-35, .720 winning percentage, 2 national titles, 5 conference titles, and a 4-3 bowl record, USC beat out #2 Ohio State, # […]

Scott Wolf of the LA Daily News is reporting that sophomore Allen Bradford, who jumped around from tailback, safety, and fullback in 2006 to fill team needs wants to stick to his preferred position of tailback in 2007:
One thing I regret from last year was the way I kept moving around…I want to stay at tailback…I want to […]

The Los Angeles Times’ Chris Dufresne cites respected college football analyst Phil Steele who recently put forth that the eight toughest 2007 schedules are those of Pac-10 teams, and the 6 toughest 2006 schedules were those of Pac-10 squads Stanford, USC, Washington, Arizona, UCLA and Oregon (with the SEC checking in with Tennessee 7th and LSU at 50th).  But according […]

A one-way dialogue that seemed to be confined to west coast media sources has gone national. Pete Thamel reports in the New York Times that new Stanford Coach Jim Harbaugh continues to offer his opinion of Pete Carroll and this year’s USC team: “They may be the best team in the history of college football.” Thamel references […]

We’ve rounded up some additional press coverage of the conference’s annual college football media event, held this morning at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel in Los Angeles.
What, you didn’t watch the entire three hour event? Find out exactly what the coaches had to say.
Pac-10 Coach and Player Quotes From 2007 Football Media Day (Official Pac-10 site)
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CSTV.com has published an interview between that site’s Steve Brauntuch and Trojan head basketball coach Tim Floyd. The coach answers questions about building up the USC program, recruiting, playing at the Galen Center, and coaching OJ Mayo. He also addresses the controversy surrounding his recruiting of junior high school players.
Coach’s Q&A: Tim Floyd (CSTV)

The Pac-10 held its annual Media Day this morning, with each coach (save Oregon State’s Mike Riley, who was attending a funeral) speaking to the press about the upcoming college football season.
Trojan head coach Pete Carroll–along with senior QB John David Booty–were the last to face the media. Carroll was his typically exuberant self, looking […]