Leave Harbaugh Alone

I turn on the radio and hear Mike Greenberg of Mike & Mike talking about the "incident" that occurred this past weekend towards the latter end of the Stanford and USC game. Leading USC 48-21 Stanford and coach Jim Harbaugh decided to go for two, and increase the lead that much more. Undoubtedly so, many people are upset that they were running up the score, and rubbing it in on the Trojans.

Give me a break. You played a team that punched you in the mouth, ran all over you, and you lost. If you do not want them to have a chance to run up the score then stop them. People a few years ago, maybe even Greenberg (though I am not sure if he did, so I am not saying he did) were saying that if you want the Patriots to stop scoring then stop them.

Harbaugh probably did not really expect that much of a backlash from the attempt, or maybe he did, I don't know. Either way I have no problem with it, and to be honest, as fluffed and fake as it may sound, I think his explanation was not half bad.

"We felt there was an opportunity to punch it in and make it a four-score game, plus a two-point conversion," he said. "We wanted to be full-throttle the entire game. ... It felt like we were going to get it; that's why we did it. Credit USC for stopping us.

"Had I known they weren't going to score any more points, had I known we were going to score another touchdown, I probably wouldn't have done it. I didn't have that luxury at the time."

Let's not act like USC has never seemingly run up the score either, and maybe Harbaugh just was not a fan of the losses he had endured to USC thus far in his career. USC has dominated the PAC-10 in recent years, and have had their fair share of blowouts, just ask Washington St. about their recent loss to the Trojans 69-0.

Personally I think it was about time somebody sent a message to the Trojans. This makes two wins in three years for Harbaugh against USC, maybe he knows something that not everybody else does.