Russ, you're dead wrong on Bush's work ethic. It apppears the talking heads are now being believed for every word that comes out of their mouth, when they don't have answers to what riddles them.
Reggies has worked out EVERY summer with LadanlianTomlinson since his HS senior year, whose workout regimen is legendary. RB claims for the first 2 years, he nearly puked daily. He was ALWAYS the hardest worker while at SC, and many of the younger players say that greatly impacted them.
Granted, Lendale has always been lazy...but he came to us like that. Some guys just don't have the work ethic. My gawd, just look at how much he blew up this last offseason...going into his second year.
I wont go on to defend or deny the other guys, since the Pro guys regularly comment on the pace and intensity of USC practices. After all, does a well produce both bitter and sweet water?
Seems to me if PC were so laid back that he produces lazy players, he wouldn't be sending on the Troy Polamalu's, Lofa Ttupu's, Carson palmers and Mike Pattersons to the NFL, no?
As far as saying that his success is strictly related to recruiting better players...baloney. If that were the case, we should expect to see Texas in more than 2 BCS games under Macks tenure. Also, it would be hard to say that SC was all that more talented than OU, who sent on 11 players the next year to the NFL from a team that was annihilated on the field by SC.