OK, for the LAST time -

USC did not freakin' win the National Championship in 2004 as the caption on that picture indicates; LSU won it. The official national champion is the winner of the BCS Championship Game - as agreed upon by many influential groups of people including college football coaches such as Pete Carroll - and in 2004 the winner of that game was LSU, which defeated Oklahoma 21-14. Furthermore, USC won its only true national title in 2005, not 2003, as that caption indicates. Has the recession completely obliterated the need for fact-checkers and editors?

Anyway, the mainstream media's adoring obsession with Pete Carroll and his USC regime are typical of its biggest flaw: instead of performing its true task of passing on information, it instead creates a storyline (Pete Carroll's genius) and fits facts (USC's 2005 national championship) and non-facts (USC's 2004 "national championship," which should technically be listed as "USC's first-place finish in the 2004 AP poll" - and nothing more) to support that storyline.

So, mainstream media, for the last time, here are the facts: USC won only one official national championship in Pete Carroll's nine years there (2005); in 2004 it was awarded the top spot in the Associated Press writers' poll, but finished the season as the runner-up to LSU in the official national championship system. Therefore it is technically incorrect to state that Pete Carroll won two national championships during his time at USC. Is that really so difficult to grasp?

Oh, and here's one more fact: I am most certainly not an LSU fan; I am, however, a devoted fan of accuracy.