Bigger Weekend Douchebag: Pete Carroll or Rick Neuheisel?

Unless you were passed out from overeating on Thanksgiving, you missed an exciting weekend in sports. And by exciting we mean, damn, Tiger’s wife went Chris Brown on him…But we’ll get to that later.

Every Monday on Guyism, we take a look at some of the worst blunders, coaching moves, and general athlete douchebaggery of the weekend and give you the reader a chance to vote.

Today, we look at USC coach Pete Carroll and UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel.

Usually, we like to examine two completely separate incidents of douchebaggery but this one was too juicy to pass up. With less than a minute left in the USC-UCLA rivalry and USC up two touchdowns, the game seemed well in hand. USC kneeled the ball and everyone thought the game was over. But then, for some odd reason, Rick Neuheisel called timeout. Far be it for me to speculate as to why he called the timeout knowing his team couldn’t win the game, but I digress. Coming out the timeout USC called for a deep pass that resulted in a touchdown. Pete Carroll, who just recently questioned Jim Harbaugh’s Stanford Cardinals running up the score on him, didn’t mind rubbing some salt in the Bruins’ wounds.

But that’s not why Pete Carroll is a candidate for BWD. Its the riled up celebration he started after the touchdown. Similar to that of a little league team taunting an opposing team’s pitcher after slapping him around.

Rick Neuheisel looked stunned at the pass call but he’s got no one else to blame but himself. USC was content on a 2 touchdown victory and was ready to go home.

Two incidents, same game. Who’s the bigger culprit?

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