Back atop AP rankings, USC may have thrived from being scrubbed clean CBSSports.com
By Dennis Dodd | Senior College Football Columnist
Aug. 18, 2012 4:28 PM ET
Probation has been a good look for USC.
You have to admit that now. The Trojans’ anointment as the AP’s preseason No. 1 clinched it. Short of winning a national championship the last two years, we wouldn’t have written or talked about them this much if they weren’t on probation.
There would be no cries of injustice in June 2010. There would be no hill to climb, no comeback to make, no “plan” developed by Lane Kiffin to keep the Trojans competitive. No overachievement to celebrate.
Matt Barkley would have had an easier time heading to the NFL. Even USC’s quarterback himself has to admit that now. What is it he was calling the 2012 season? Unfinished business.
A dynasty most likely would have continued without the NCAA penalties, but where’s the breaking news in that? Instead, USC breaking bad has become a modern miracle in coaching, roster juggling, recruiting and talent acquisition. In a backdoor, twisted kind of way, USC has almost benefitted from having gone on probation for Reggie Bush’s misdeeds.
You have to admit that now.
The program has been scrubbed clean.
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