Sporting News: Cal's Coaching Staff Rated #1 in Pac-10

(Note from Editor: This article from the Press-Enterprise, an L.A. paper, primarily discusses yet another USC cheating scandal, but it also mentions Cal)

 

Three Possible Outcomes for Jarrett

By DAN WEBER

The Press-Enterprise

The decision didn't surprise the USC football program that wide receiver Dwayne Jarrett had received extra benefits as Matt Leinart's luxury apartment roommate and would have to apply for reinstatement before next season. But the timing of it did. "We're aware that the NCAA has deemed this to be a violation of the extra benefit rule," USC sports information director Tim Tessalone said Friday, after admitting that USC had no idea the NCAA would go public with its Thursday statement. The NCAA ruled that the living arrangement for Jarrett, a junior All-America wide receiver, that had both Jarrett and Leinart contributing their NCAA scholarship allowance of $650 a month toward the apartment's $3,866 rental fee with the rest made up by Leinart's father, Bob, was not permissible. "The information submitted by the University of Southern California regarding the living arrangements of the two football student-athletes represents a violation of NCAA extra benefit rules," the NCAA statement said.

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The Sporting News lists Carroll as the Pac-10's top coach but drops the Trojans staff to No. 2 in the league behind Jeff Tedford's Cal coaches.