o.j. mayo – Rush The Court

Pac-12 M5: 03.06.13 Edition

AMurawa — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:01:02 +0000

So, yeah, quickly, the top candidates for the head basketball coach at USC: something like Pittsburgh head coach Jamie Dixon, Syracuse assistant Mike Hopkins, interim head coach Bob Cantu and, um, former USC head coach Tim Floyd? Wait, run that last one by me again. Floyd is currently the head man at UTEP, a position he’s held for a few years after resigning from the USC gig (something about how he didn’t feel supported by then-USC athletic director Mike Garrett in the wake of allegations that guard O.J. Mayo accepted impermissible benefits from an agent). Floyd has long maintained a [...]

Does the NCAA Need Stronger Enforcement Mechanisms? Difficult Times Call For Radical Solutions…

Chris Johnson — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:31:32 +0000

Christopher Johnson is an RTC columnist. He can be reached @ChrisDJohnsonn.

The college athletic franchise has long championed itself as a strictly “amateur” system, with financial compensation for athletes standing as one of the cardinal sins behind an elaborate and unwieldy set of rules and regulations. The legislation preventing such illicit activity is diverse and wide-ranging, and several prominent athletic programs have been subjected to its punitive aptitude in the past decade. USC football received heavy sanctions in June 2010 including a two-year postseason ban and severe scholarship reductions as a result of a pay-for-play scandal surrounding former star running back [...]

USC Week: A State Of The Program Address

AMurawa — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 21:15:13 +0000

We’ve been all around the USC program in the past week, but we’ve got time for one more post. At the end of every week we like to take a step back and look at the overall state of the program – not just how the team performed last year or is expected to perform next year, but what the long term prognosis for the program is. And with USC, much like it has been with their basketball program for some time, the future is cloudy. As we pointed out in the first post of the week, it has been [...]

USC Week: Evaluating The Recent Past

AMurawa — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:33:50 +0000

It has now been 20 seasons since the USC Trojans last finished a season with less than 10 losses, 26 years since they earned at least a piece of the Pac-10 title and 51 whopping years since they won their conference outright (then known as the Athletic Association of Western Universities – or the Big Five). Compared to that history of futility, the recent past in USC basketball has been relatively successful. Between the 2006-07 and the 2010-11 seasons, the Trojans posted a combined 103-66 record, finished tied for third twice and never finished lower than a tie for fifth. [...]

USC Hoops Should Be Thanking Gerrity, Johnson, and Lewis

jstevrtc — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:36:54 +0000

USC received the official response from the NCAA regarding penalties to the men’s basketball team. Jeff Goodman from FoxSports.com posted a good succinct rundown of USC’s self-imposed penalties plus what the NCAA added today. The penalties as described below are paraphrased from his article, but you should check out his article by clicking the link above.

Was it worth it?

Here is how USC stuck it to itself in the middle of last season:

They ditched one scholarship from last year and this upcoming season, They reduced by one the number of coaches who could hit [...]

USC Sticks It To Itself

jstevrtc — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:26:15 +0000

Earlier today USC announced the self-imposed penalties to shield their football their basketball program, stemming from the whole O.J. Mayo/Rodney Guillory situation. Guillory, an events promoter in Los Angeles who seems to frequently be involved with high school basketball players making their way to college, helped guide Mayo to USC during Mayo’s recruitment, and allegedly acted as a bagman between a sports agency and Mayo with thousands of dollars of cash and merchandise finding its way into Mayo’s hands. You probably recall that former USC coach Tim Floyd was accused of greasing Guillory’s palm to the tune of [...]