Dorrell III: One of the "pansies"?

The most-discussed coach on Football Media Day was LSU's Les Miles, who said a few weeks ago that he’d love to meet USC for the national championship, but that LSU has a much harder road through the SEC than USC does facing schools like Washington, Stanford and UCLA.

So UCLA coach Karl Dorrell was asked if he appreciated being labeled as one of the "pansies from the Pac-10"!

"This is a competitive environment in college football and this just draws attention to the impression that this conference needs to continue to improve our reputation.

"For people to say there’s one school in this conference [USC] and there’s everybody else, we don’t like that impression. It makes us want to make us do our job better.

"Our measuring stick is the bowl games and I’m one of the teams who lost last year. We have to do a better job, me included, because I lost mine last year, to get the reputation and credibility of the conference up."

More to come from Pac-10 Football Media Day . . .