FW: [NU Sports] USC vs. UCLA

[Jim Bendat]

Yes, SC has grown in academic standing under Sample, but that's not really the issue when it comes to athletes. The term "student-athlete" applies a lot more to UCLA than it ever has at a place like SC.

All of us who went to NU were in dorms with athletes and took classes with athletes. The same is true at UCLA, but rarely so at SC. Unless, of course, you're a female SC student, taking a ballroom dancing class with Matt Leinart.

Jim B. 

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Abrahamson, Alan (NBC Universal)" <Alan.Abrahamson at nbcsports.com>
>Sent: Feb 5, 2010 9:16 AM
>To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
>Subject: FW: [NU Sports] USC vs. UCLA
>
>Not to play the part of USC partisan, which I'm not, but we live in
>something of an SC enclave and the university has made enormous strides
>in the last 15 years under president Steve Sample. It's now regarded by
>many who choose to look past the easy stereotype of what it used to be
>-- a football school, no more -- as a first-rate academic institution.
>
>Seriously.
>
>There is a lot of very positive energy at USC right now. There is a
>perception that UCLA is having issues owing -- as with all the
>University of California schools -- to the state's budget woes.  
>
>My wife, my brother and my sister-in-law are all graduates of the UCLA
>law school BTW. 
>
>If things had worked out just a little bit differently, the new
>Northwestern president, Morty Schapiro, might well be president right
>now at USC. He was a senior dean at SC before going on to Williams and
>then to Evanston.
>
>And now over to you, Mr. Bendat, to make a case for UCLA.
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
>On Behalf Of mlinhardt at netzero.com
>Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 5:27 AM
>To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
>Subject: [NU Sports] USC vs. UCLA
>
>USC football: Lane Kiffin says Trojans 'waste time' recruiting players
>who choose UCLA
>The LA Times
>http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2010/02/usc-football-lane-ki
>ffin-recruiting-ucla-rick-neuheisel.html
>
>Maybe somebody who knows LA better can tell me the difference between
>UCLA and USC.
>
>Both are semi-academic schools as with both it is possible to get the
>highest quality of education, but neither are known to "force" it on
>their otherwise party-centric student body.  They are close
>geographically.  About the only difference I can see is that UCLA has
>much better basketball tradition and USC has much better football
>tradition.
>
>Beyond coaching personality why would a recruit chose one over the
>other?
>
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