Carroll confident USC will avoid major penalties

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I didn't realize USC was under investigation for so many different infractions.

Carroll confident USC will avoid major penalties:

LOS ANGELES -- Southern California coach Pete Carroll said emphatically Monday he doesn't think the Trojans will have to forfeit games or lose a national championship.

"With the little bits I have, no. I'm not concerned about that one bit," Carroll told The Associated Press. "I'm more concerned with helping the process and making sure everything comes to the front.

"I'm confident that's not where this is going. The information that I have thus far, I don't think that's going to happen at all."

Carroll's teams went 48-4 during the last four seasons and won national championships in 2003-04. The Trojans were shooting for a third national title last season but lost to Texas 41-38 in the Rose Bowl, snapping a 34-game winning streak.

The program suddenly came under scrutiny beginning with allegations April 23 concerning the living arrangements of Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush's family near San Diego, and other charges that could be deemed as extra benefits.

The Pacific-10 Conference and NCAA are investigating. Should Bush be ruled ineligible, forfeitures are a possibility. And should it be determined he was ineligible in 2004, the national championship USC won that year could be impacted.

"To me, it looks like somebody's out to get Reggie's money, a classic case of people trying to create some kind of opportunity based on another guy's good fortune," Carroll said. "I don't know all the facts. I don't know that there is something wrong here."

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