[SamAtoms1980]

Unfortunately, they might be right.  It will take a long time and many defeats for the University of South Central for them to take us seriously.

I don't know.  It could be that the best thing for Stanford when we play USC is for them to not take us seriously.  It pains me somewhat to say it, but that's how we've gotten a lot of our wins against them.  For instance, there's no way we beat them in 2007 if Pete Carroll had thought there was any danger that the Trojans would lose that game.  Have a look at his quotes from the post-game.

On the other hand, when we get big enough to disrupt their program significantly, that's when they've turned it on and gotten nasty, like when they won twelve in a row from 1979 to 1990.

[SamAtoms1980]

Unfortunately, they might be right.  It will take a long time and many defeats for the University of South Central for them to take us seriously.

I don't know.  It could be that the best thing for Stanford when we play USC is for them to not take us seriously.  It pains me somewhat to say it, but that's how we've gotten a lot of our wins against them.  For instance, there's no way we beat them in 2007 if Pete Carroll had thought there was any danger that the Trojans would lose that game.  Have a look at his quotes from the post-game.

On the other hand, when we get big enough to disrupt their program significantly, that's when they've turned it on and gotten nasty, like when they won twelve in a row from 1979 to 1990.