From: alexc@pollux.usc.edu (Alex Campbell)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.college
Subject: Re: Trojan News Vol#1
Date: 17 Aug 1992 09:58:49 -0700
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In article <l8tskjINNe1q@spica.usc.edu> valdis@spica.usc.edu (Valdis Kalejs) writes:
>blah, blah, blah 
>
>blah, blah, blah
>  
>  Noted the following Highlights while the team was being introduced:
>
>1. Change at Q.B.: Rob Johnson has been announced that he will be the starting
>                   Q.B. for the Trojans over last year starter Reggie Perry.
>
>2. "Bomb Squad": That is the new name given to this years group of receivers
>                 touted as one of the best receiving corps in the nation.
>
>3. New Haircut: While being introduced to the crowd, junior center Matt Butkis,
>                (son of Hall-ofFamer Dick Butkis), flashed is new mohawk which
>                resembles a trojan helmet. When saying that his father had not
>                seen the new hairstyle yet,Tom Kelly (voice of the Trojans,and
>                M.C. of the event) replied "I can imagine that it will be an
>                unique father-son chat when he does"....
>


Matt Butkus is only on the team because of his father. I was in a mickey-mouse
class with him and several other players -- he was the laughingstock of the 
athletes



>4. Comeback Kid?: A standing ovation was given to junior center David Apolskis,
>                  who is back after sitting out the entire year in 1991 due to
>                  cancer surgery...
>
> Stay tuned for the detailed scouting report comming out in the next edition...
>
>
>You cant argue with tradition, ITS GREAT TO BE A USC TROJAN!
>
>Valdis R. Kalejs
>
>
>* USC Football Goals
>
>1. Play each game showing class and sportsmanship
>2. Earn A USC Degree
>3. Beat UCLA and Notre Dame
>4. Go To The Rose Bowl
>5. Win A National Championship
>


Where did you get these goals? Only 3,4,5 are applicable to the USC football
team and the athletic program in general. I'm a huge 'SC fan but athletes
here are completely protected from having to do any academic work. I have
been in many classes with athletes and they are implicitly encouraged by
professors to do the minimum. Atheletes at USC, for the most part, are
here for one reason -- to play sports. They are not here for academic reasons.
I am speaking about the marquee sports -- basketball, football, volleyball.
Some of the athletes in the money-losing sports are concerned about their
education. 

Valdis (Lazlo) please tone down your enthuisasm. USC has a great tradition.
However,  they are coming off a terrible season, they have the toughest
schedule in the country, and they have a QB who hasn't taken many snaps in 
a game situation. I really don't expect them to do well.  In addittion, 
they have been the most penalized team in the Pac-10 for three out of the
last four years (erasing Goal #1 of your 5 Goals). Larry Smith has shown
that he must be the biggest thing at 'SC, not the players (see his feuds
with stars Marinovich, Ricky Ervins, and Mazio Royster). In addition, Smith's
recruits have not turned out that well. 

I would love to see 'SC do well. But I don't think it's going to happen.

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