For Pete's Sake!

Pete Carroll may finally get caught with his hand in the cookie jar, courtesy of the indiscretions of Heisman Trophy winning RB Reggie Bush and his family. Unfortunately for Carroll, he's been the anti-Bob Stoops recently. Bob Stoops took the bull by the horns in dismissing starting QB Rhett Bomar (and possibly costing his Oklahoma Sooner a chance at the national championship) and starting OL J.D. Quinn. Carroll has shrugged off assault and battery charges, positive tests for steroids, and the Bush allegations. He said something preposterous about hoping that future players learn from the previous mistakes of current and former Trojans.

I'll admit, I'm smarter than the average USC Trojan football player (I don't know any of them, but I'm willing to subject myself to testing if someone wants to test me on my claim). So, there are certain things I know that some of them might not. An example of this is that finite difference approximations using a weighted Euler in time are second order accurate only if equal weight is given to the current and future times. Otherwise, it's first order accurate. But, I bet even the slowest of the Trojans can answer this question correctly: Is it okay to assault women, physically and/or sexually? The answer, obviously, is a resounding "NO!"

I don't know which is more stupid, the USC football players assaulting women or Pete Carroll hoping that future players will learn something from current players getting in trouble for it. I understand people will argue that charges were dropped and this or that. It is unlikely charges would have been brought against Sanchez if something didn't happen, and it's a shame that he, and other Trojans, are getting away with these types of acts because they are college athletes. The only thing worse is that Pete Carroll is choosing victories over shaping quality humans.