U$C Basketball Takes It Like an Inmate

For those of you who have not heard the news, Mike "Sketch" Garrett decided to save his bff Pete "The Cheat" Carroll and impose sanctions on Kevin "Crazy" O'Neill's program (well, program is being used loosely). It's funny. The basketball team is looking more impressive than their football team did this past season as it swept the Arizona schools this weekend. So why sacrifice the basketball team to try to save the football team from Bushgate? Well, here's why. No one honestly cares about U$C basketball. Sure, like 10 students might, and maybe 200 when UCLA plays at the Warehouse (sometimes referred to as Galen Center). Yesterday's attendance from the pathetic game against ASU was 5,917 and 4,813 attended the Pac-10 opener against Sean Miller's Wildcats. Those numbers show the lack of support the U$C "family" has for its basketball program. 50% capacity just does not cut it. The football team in comparison brings in over 80,000 fans regularly, with probably 70% of it being bandwagon fans.

The bandwagon fans are really the key to this whole situation. Since they do not care about U$C basketball, it seems like a no brainer that that should be the program that gets punished to avoid the Lack of Institutional Control penalty the NCAA could theoretically impose on the athletic department. I mean, from a business end, this is absolutely brilliant. Why not punish the less profitable of the products? The monetary set backs will be minuscule and it will be easy to say that the athletic department is ethically correct and all that jazz. If anyone who is reading this thinks that I'm crazy and the only one who thinks this crazy notion, I would suggest checking the non-partisan view of those on ESPN and Fox Sports. Once again Trojans, and I will paraphrase a line said by one of your most famous alums in a movie, STAY CLASSY $C!