So Pete Carroll and the USC are in some deep $#@!  Petey's super star running back Reggie Bush is reported to have been an ineligible athlete the last two seasons.  Here are a few of the dozens of questions I have....

Is it fair that if Pete Carroll quits once these monster sanctions are dropped that he will just move on to the NFL or another college coaching job while leaving his university in shambles?

I don't think so.  Coaches sanctions should follow them to at least their next college job.  If they can't head coach for a couple years than so be it.

If you were Carroll would you have turned a blind eye to all of Reggie's off field favors?

Maybe so but Carroll took it to a huge extreme.

I am shocked that Petey was letting this Ornstein and his other marketing/agent guys hang out in the locker room.  He had to know who he was and how much rule potential for rule breaking is imminent with an agent in the LOCKERROOM.

But that is just the begining.   Yahoo! reports that this Ornstein was on the sidelines during practice and even at GAMES!!!!  To me that just makes it all the more obvious that Carroll knew something scandalous was going on and turned a blind eye.

Obviously Reggie Bush and his family has to take the majority of responsibility, but I have to put a whale of alot more responisbility on the ol ball coach if he was letting these guys hang around the locker and the field.  This is far from a hear no evil see no evil approach.  This is "hey evil come to the game... chill in the lockerroom."

Here is a question... If Reggie Bush loses his Heisman, should Pete Carroll be stripped of the numerous coach of the year awards he earned the last couple years? My vote at the moment would have to be yes.

Last question?  If even half of these allegations are proven to be true and most importantly Pete Carroll and his staff were letting these guys hang around their players.  How hard should the NCAA penalize the school?

I think they have to be hit pretty hard.  At least three years without a bowl game.  Students should have the option to transfer without sitting out a year since it is not their fault, and you obviously have to drop a hard hammer on the scholarships.  ESPECIALLY if it si true that these agents were hanging around the field and lockerroom all the time.  If it was once or twice and Carroll kicked them out that would be one thing.  But it sounds more like they were around all the time.

Free rent for his parents?

A couple suits for his relatives?

Some free nights at hotels and plane tickets?

Reggie Bush got ripped off.  We are talking about one of the greatest college athletes of all time and this is all he got?  New Era Entertainment and USC got the steal of a century.  I am pretty sure Matt Leinhart was making alot more than that, and he would not have accomplished half of what he did without Reggie Bush.

So lets just call it like it is.  Indentured servitude for the University, the Entertainment company, and the Pac-10.  I am more appalled that this is ALL Bush was getting.  USC, NCAA, the Pac-10 and the NEE should all pay Bush what he was worth and give him a direct percentage of all the money he earned them in the National Championship games and Heisman hype etc.

If you want to suspend USC and take away schollies or whatever.  That is fine but don't take Reggie's Heisman.  If anything Reggie deserves TWO Heisman trophies not one.

Something about living in Seattle and watching the Mariners drown in last place in the worst division in the American League just really builds up an appetite for football.  

 I love the Seahawks and the Huskies football teams, but the great thing about football is that I can watch any team and be pumped about the game.  Last night I channel surfed between the Beavers pummelling of  Eastern Washington on FSN while Seahawks were running all over the Raiders on NBC!  The games really didn't matter one was OSU vs. EWU and the other was pre-season.  BUT IT WAS FOOTBALL!!!

So much better than watching the Mariners lose a real close baseball game in the regular season.  I love baseball.  I even try to go to the desert and catch Spring Training.  But when the season is over I am not shedding any tears and when my team is losing I start daydreaming of football real soon.  Football is special.  Hell I am not even sick of hearing about TO drama yet.

You don't get up early on Saturday to watch college baseball teams from all over the country play all day.

 If I started singing "Are you ready for some baseball" at work during a regular Monday, I am pretty sure everyone would just stare at me.  But we will get up Monday morning smiling on our way to work knowing that after the long day a football game between two teams we most likely could care less about are going to play each other.  Its football.

I have tickets for the Washington Huskies vs. super power San Jose St.  The two teams combined for a total of 5 wins last season. OUCH!!  I can honestly tell you I have been thinking about this game every minute of every day all week.  I have been losing sleep to see a couple of under achieving teams go at it.  Sure it is the season opener and I have hope for drastic improvement from last season, but really I am just fired up to see college football. 

Conversely I went to the Red Sox vs. Mariners game last week.  Good game.  M's won!!  But the only time I thought about that game was on my way to it and I was wondering if I was going to be able to find free parking?  I did.  I have a small car.  Saves gas and usually finds free parking.

That is the difference between football and baseball.  One we enjoy because we are sportsnutts.  The other we can barely live without.

"Are you ready for some football?"

Outstanding citizen, leader, and humanitarian Albert Belle sentenced to three months in jail.

Why?

He loved too much.  Some may say it is weird to use your money on expensive GPS tracking devices in order to know wherever your ex-girlfriend is at all times.  I say that is true love.

Some say it is childish to call your ex-girlfriend and hang up everytime she awnsers.   Is a childs heart not the purest?

So what he showed up outside her house and followed her all over the country.  I know of some very rich musical artist who made a lot of money singing things like "ain't no mountain high enough to keep me away from you,"  Then when someone actually shows that kind of fortitude and love and what do they get? Three months in jail.  What is this world coming to? 

I just hope his ex-girlfriend is proud of what she has done.  I hope she sleeps well at night.  Will see if she comes crawling back to the charming Albert after no one else pays her so much attention.

As for Belle.  Jail didn't keep Mary Kay Laterno away from her beloved I doubl it will slow down Belle.

Remember the "I am Tiger Woods" commercials that Nike ran in the late 90's.  All kids from different races and even some adults playing golf and saying  "I am Tiger Woods" over and over.  A nice twist on the "Wanna be like Mike" commercials Nike did a decade earlier.  I only have one problem with them.

It is FALSE advertising.  Those kids are not Tiger Woods.  You people reading this are not Tiger Woods!  Phil Mickleson, Vijay Singh, David Duval, Ernie Els, Jim Furyk, and Sergio Garcia are not Tiger Woods.  I AM NOT Tiger Woods.  It does not matter how much anyone practices or plays or how much TWG (Tiger Woods Golf) gear they wear. 

Only Tiger Woods is Tiger Woods.  And Tiger Woods is goods. 

In his career he has won 12 majors trailing only Jack.  He wins 25% of the tournaments he plays in.  And he knows how to make adjustments.  He has changed caddies, swing coaches, and his swing altogether.  He has changed from Titleist gear to all Nike.  He has found true love by way of a Swedish bikini model and still had the energy to keep winning golf tournaments.

Most impressive he dealt with the stress and pain of losing his father.  Taking time off and missing the cut at the U.S. Open.  No one would have blamed Tiger if the rest of the year he took off or if he continued to play poorly.  It would have only made sense and only kept him human.  Surely after missing the cut at the U.S. Open we saw how difficult taking time of in such a precise and punishing game is on even the top athletes.  We expected him to make progress in the final two majors but not run away with them.

But Eldrick is not human.  He is part man part Tiger.  He not only wins the British Open but wins another little tourney to warm up for the next major. Then in the PGA Championship, a tournament that had as many as ten people tied for first place on Saturday, Woods runs away from everybody on Sunday and snags another Major.  Tiger Woods is on his own planet. 

At times different golfers have tried to challenge Tiger.  At first it was Ernie Els who famously took 2nd place to Tiger in 3 majors in a row.  Than David Duval went after him before dissapearing.  Young Sergio chased him in 1999 only to still be majorless 7 years later.  Phil Mickleson has gone after Tiger twice in his career and was his biggest threat heading into this years U.S. Open only to choke and be a non factor in the last two majors..  Vijay Singh made things interesting for awhile but his prime just came at too late of an age. 

We keep trying to come up with rivalries for Tiger, but not even the entire field is a worthy rival.  Tiger Woods only real rival is Tiger Woods.  He really can only beat himself.  And I am not talking about the kids in the commercial who SAY they are Tiger Woods.  I am talking about the guy who wears the red golf shirt on Sunday's and makes every other person in the world stop for a second, stare, and say the first thing that comes to mind, "He is Tiger Woods."