“There is no question in my mind that USC is the best team in the country and may be the best team in the history of college football,” Harbaugh said Thursday at the Pac-10 football coaches’ annual media day.
Pete Carroll, as usual, demurs:
“You’ve gotta love Jim, huh? I’m glad he thinks that,” Carroll said. “There’s no way I would have any way of understanding what that’s all about.
“We’re just a bunch of guys trying to put together a terrific team, and we’ll see how far that takes us.”
UPDATE: Ivan Maisel is largely in agreement.
HT: Scott Wolf.
July 29th, 2007 at 8:28 am
[...] It’s not much of a stretch to say that most of the nation is utterly sick of USC by this point. Want proof that Troy is getting under the collective skin of college football? Why else would Les Miles (whose own LSU team looks, on paper at least, every bit as title-worthy as the Trojans) take some unprovoked shots at USC’s conference schedule? Why else would Jim Harbaugh appoint himself the Official Press Secretary of Trojan Football with his own equally outlandish comments? Why else would the star playmaker of another ranked power, DeSean Jackson of Cal, take his own cracks at the Trojans months before the two teams lock horns in Berkeley? (Actually, we know the answer to that one: Jackson’s mouth doesn’t have an “off” switch, even when he’s completely disappearing against the team the SoCal native claimed he was ready to show up.) [...]
August 3rd, 2007 at 8:21 am
[...] We think we speak for everyone when we say that it’s great having Jim Harbaugh and Jim Harbaugh’s Mouth in the I-A coaching ranks. Well, maybe not everyone. He already aroused the ire of USC fans by suggesting Pete Carroll was leaving after this season and clearly annoyed Carroll with his “greatest team ever” comments. [...]