HBO's Andrea Kremer grills Pete Carroll for info about Reggie Bush

[Dpantherman]

Give credit to “Real Sports” correspondent Andrea Kremer: She did not lob a bunch of softballs at former USC coach Pete Carroll during an interview set to air on the HBO show Wednesday (9 p.m. ET/PT).

Andrea Kremer: “Reggie drives a pickup truck. Now, all of a sudden, in his sophomore year, he’s driving this supped-up, bigger time–”

Pete Carroll: “Have you ever seen the car?”

Kremer: “Yeah. So, you saw — you saw him in the car.”

Carroll: “It was a Chevy.”

Kremer: “Did you ever ask him about it, though? Did you ever ask him where he got the money for it?”

Carroll: “I think I could recall kidding him about the kind of car he … chose to buy, at the time. … It was kind of an old-fashioned, ‘nice-looking’ car.”

Kremer: “But the bottom line is still, how did he get it?”

Carroll: “That was all worked out. They took care of that. There’s a process that the school has to go through to meet compliance standards. And they did that. They did it.”

Voice-over: “They” are USC’s internal investigators. But according to the NCAA, “they” did nothing of the sort. No investigation at USC … no paperwork filed for months … and even then, after Bush left BLANK the key question — where the car was purchased — no one followed up.

Carroll: “At that time, there might have been one person running the compliance office. I think there’s seven now.”

(Note: According to the infractions report, “The compliance director at the time … reported that there were only two compliance staff members at the institution for most of his tenure and it was ‘just myself for a couple of months.’ “)

Voice-over: But it wasn’t just the car. Carroll also says he never got suspicious when Bush’s parents moved into a nice new house after getting evicted from their old one.

Kremer: “Did you have any idea about how Reggie Bush’s parents were living?”

Carroll: “Of course not. When you are growing up, Andrea, did you have any idea of your parents’ mortgage situation? Think about it. None of us knew. We don’t know. I couldn’t tell you now how my mom and dad paid for their house.”

Kremer: “But this is your best player with the most to lose.”

Carroll: “It’s easy for you to ask these questions in this manner right now. Matt Leinart was our best player. He was the Heisman Trophy winner. This was Reggie just emerging. He started for the first time regularly his junior year. He was sharing time. He was another one of the guys.”

Voice-over: But Bush wasn’t another one of the guys. Even in his sophomore year when the NCAA says he started receiving gifts from sports agents, USC’s own media guide called him “college football’s most exciting player.” Bush’s success should’ve led USC to heighten its compliance efforts, and as far as the NCAA was concerned, that never happened.

Kremer: “Did you wanna know? Did you think you turned a blind eye to anything?”

Carroll: “No, you have to want to know because that’s what the world is all about. Compliance runs your life in college sports. You screw it up, you lose it. ”

http://www.ocregister.com/sports/pete-257561-carroll-credit.html

[MadHatter]

Carroll knew.....

That is the only reason that he jumped ship back to the NFL....because he know that USC was in deep poo for his actions/lack of actions.

Problem is that Carroll SUCKS as an NFL Coach. I give him two years until he is back in the NCAA.

[jasonluckydog]

Reggie Bush should be banned from the NFL

[SCMunnerlyn1]

Reggie Bush should be banned from the NFL

my life would be complete:D

[jasonluckydog]

They should ban Brees too.

[CharlotteBeer.com]

The media will always find a way to continue talking about Reggie Bush.

[Mr. Scot]

Andrea Kremer is one of the better football journalists out there, and she does a pretty good job of making Carroll squirm here.

[ChucktownK]

[OneBadassCat]

what?!?!?

Look, Id like to see the Saints continue the tradition of NFL top dawg to missing the playoffs as much as any other NFCS fan but banning Bush is just ridiculous.

NCAA rules infractions should not be able to affect NFL players unless they include criminal activity and only then through a court of law.

Sarcasm

[Matt Foley]

Give Carroll some credit. It would be very easy to avoid that interview altogether and say "I have nothing to say about that other than the NCAA is full of it."