Pete Carroll Does Not Suffer Prank Callers Gladly

Monday’s media conference call with USC coach Pete Carroll took a turn for the worse about 20 minutes in, when a prankster posing as a blogger got the floor to himself, and then didn’t even bother to be funny.

Pete Carroll Crank Call

(Artist rendering of Carroll’s reaction to conference call prankster)

Making things more painful was the fact that whoever was supposed to be moderating the call seems to have fallen asleep at the switch, and didn’t catch on to what was happening until after Carroll had already bailed on the call (but not without taking a dig at THE Ohio State University first).

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