USC allegations
Tim Floyd, O.J. Mayo and all that
USC offered up its own response Thursday to Tim Floyd’s resignation and the O.J. Mayo allegations with a pair of video statements from athletic director Mike Garrett and Todd Dickey, the senior vice president for administration.
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The predictable consensus on Tim Floyd’s resignation? He fell on the basketball sword to save USC’s football program.
That’s what happens when a one-paragraph letter lands on the athletic director’s desk and is accepted without a second thought. All that was missing was a return letter. “Thanks Tim, and enjoy the time off, Pete.”
The school – reeling from allegations of payments to O.J. Mayo from Floyd and the ongoing investigation of more alleged payments to Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush – certainly hopes the resignation carries some weight with the NCAA.
And, after all the turmoil clears, just who is going to want this job?
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Tim Floyd has had better springs. The cracks are starting to show. The boosters at Monday’s USC Coaches Tour 2009 got the unfiltered version.
"Kansas has two players who would have been NBA lottery picks, Cole Aldrich and Sherron Collins, and they are returning to school. Good for them. Our guys get an offer from Islamabad and they’re gone.”
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