MORE ON USC INFRACITONS
MORE ON USC INFRACITONS
Posted by Keith Arnold
"An internal Pac-10 conference report found that a unnamed head coach was found in violation of NCAA rules for having a consultant on staff to attend practices and games.
While he wasn't named in the report, a little birdie tells me his name rhymed with Tweet Merrill.
The Los Angeles Times reports that while the coach will remain nameless, the findings mesh quite nicely with a Times report from last summer than reveled Pete Carroll employed Pete Rodriguez to "monitor practices and games throughout the 2008 season, in apparent violation of NCAA limits on the number of coaches each team may hire."
Shockingly, a USC spokesman wouldn't confirm or deny Carroll's involvement in the new report.
"We're choosing not to discuss the issue," James Grant, an assistant Vice President of USC told the Los Angeles Times.
The findings released say that the head coach was given a letter of admonishment and a rules review session. Keeping the head coach's name anonymous isn't that out of the ordinary, as the reports are often used as teaching tools for athletic departments within the conference.
What remains to be seen is whether this violation, on top of Reggie Bush's mysterious out-of-court settlement last week, as well as the thousands of pages of documents presented at the NCAA infractions committee meeting will be enough to drop the guillotine on the Trojan athletic program and AD Mike Garrett"
