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Football: More fallout from USC-UCLA game

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There continues to be debate among high school coaches about the actions of USC Coach Pete Carroll and UCLA Coach Rick Neuheisel at the conclusion of their game last week, and the latest comes from Los Angeles Contreras Coach Pete Carrion.

Carrion writes, ‘As a high school coach in charge of molding our future leaders of tomorrow, I have to say Pete Carroll got it wrong. The CIF’s motto is ‘Victory with Honor.’ He just made my passion of instilling strong moral character values in my players that much harder.

‘Regardless of the timeout that UCLA took, Coach Carroll should have taken the high road. Does he realize that he has one of the most popular college football teams in the nation and all of our young, impressionable high school football players will think that it’s OK to pile up the score and then dance around like a fool afterward. Did you see him looking around for validation of his decision? He can’t even look himself in the eye, but he can at [Stanford Coach Jim] Harbaugh.

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‘It didn’t surprise me at all. As a head coach of an NFL team, I seem to remember him giving the ‘choke’ sign to the kicker of an opposing team after a miss before a national TV audience.’

-- Eric Sondheimer

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