Real USC-UCLA Rivalry Is for Most Clever Letter

After observing the gutty little Bruins’ attempt to beg their way into an alliance bowl bid based on their “nine consecutive victories” (six over teams with losing records, one soon-to-be ex-top-25 team, one without its starting quarterback, plus 0-2 vs. top-10 teams), it appears that Bob Trumpy has been more than vindicated in saying that USC is the only football school in Los Angeles.

One could only imagine the incredible boon to the local McDonald’s of New Orleans with the influx of 10,000 ravenous, free-spending Bruin fans fresh off their $499 Pac-10 sponsored charter flight-vacation packages.

NICHOLAS G. TONSICH

San Pedro

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What an embarrassment. How humiliating. The Pac-10 has to come in to bail out the Bruins. The Pac-10 has decided it needs to subsidize Bruin fans so they can afford to attend an alliance bowl. I think all of Southern California should join in the effort and phone in their contributions to 1 800 POOR UCLA.

MIKE HANKINS

Santa Ana

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On Wednesday, Randy Harvey suggested that UCLA’s sending only 3,000 fans to a bowl game was an embarrassment. It is no more embarrassing than the zero Trojan fans who will attend USC’s bowl game this year.

DAVID ALLEN TYAU

Pasadena

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UCLA has beaten USC in football seven years in a row, yet every year USC out-recruits UCLA for the incoming high school All-Americans. This raises two questions:

1. What is wrong with UCLA recruiting?

2. What is wrong with USC coaching?

W.H. MATHEWS

San Diego

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I was very upset by the Bruins’ basketball loss to North Carolina. Then I remembered: Hey, we’re a football school!

P.J. GENDELL

Beverly Hills