It was brought up on the Cal board what a load of crap it was that somebody on ESPN would call USC a clown college like that. The fact of the matter is that NOBODY on ESPN would dare say something like that about an SEC school in a similar situation, and despite my exterior rivalry driven disdain for USC, SC is academically superior to each SEC school sans Vanderbilt. They'd be waxing on about tradition and how it's an aberration and that they'd be working hard on rectifying the situation.
Screw ESPN.
...and USC, of course.