As a longtime reader of The Times, I usually enjoy reading Bill Plaschke. This morning's column about new USC basketball coach Kevin O'Neill had me halfway between laughing and wondering if Plaschke has been smoking something.
Let me get this straight: O'Neill is the "perfect hire" because he is willing to run into a burning building? I mean, if you're saving a child, fine, but the Trojans' athletic program, in its current incarnation, is more like an unapologetic arsonist who refuses to leave the house he has just torched.
