Pete Carroll had his usual opening remarks, but let’s just start here with where that F-bomb was dropped last week.

They told me the reason that the catch was okay and the play was overturned again was that a defensive player made contact with the ball before the receiver caught the ball, which is not the rule. It didn’t make sense to me at the time. I could have challenged that and said `no it was not’, the defensive player did not touch the ball…maybe had an attempt at a third go around. Any player that touches the ball makes the next receiver a legal receiver, an eligible receiver. But what I was told on the sideline was not that. And then what I was really upset about was you have to have conclusive evidence to change it and to see what happened on that film to find out if the defensive player did touch that ball, it’s ridiculous. You can’t tell. I can stop the action and show you. You can’t tell. So if that was the basis, as I was told, which I don’t think that was accurate either, what I was told on the sideline… so it was just a lot of stuff that was happening and unfortunately it took 14, 15 minutes.

And let me say this about instant replay since you’re not asking. That’s the ultimate example of why you don’t have instant replay. We had 94,000 or whatever we had there, sitting on their hands for almost 15 minutes waiting for a replay. I know that the league office would say that that should have been handled in a minute and a half or a minute and twenty seconds. They could have easily done it had they seen the ball tip. But it still remains that the game stopped and it stopped for a really long time and that’s just not okay. That’s not the way this game was ever designed to be played. Sports in general weren’t designed to be played that way. There’s a human element that I love in all phases whether it’s the performers or the officials, let the game roll. They scored the touchdown anyway. So I continue to be a jerk about it and be an advocate against it and I’m never going to probably to win that thing.

On how Emmanuel Moody being out changes things:

It won’t change much. We’re real happy to play C.J. Gable and Stafon Johnson is right there ready to go too. It was just a matter of choosing the times and what play calling. C.J. will get a lot more work and Stafon steps up a notch. I said a while back, we’ve played enough games with the young guys. We don’t feel like their young guys anymore. So we’re not concerned about it at all. C.J. has been very consistent, very tough, scoring well and really good and effective inside the 10-yard line. He went out and got his chances and he’s catching the ball fine and his assignments are improving and all that so we’re going to play with him like he’s an experienced player. Chauncey should be back. We’re going to rest him today. Wednesday, Thursday, we’ll get him back in there. We expect him to play.

On Jeff Tedford being in his head:

…We know the call and they know you and you know what they know and they know what you know and all of that. It’s really fun for us, in this preparation. There is some actual personality involved with this now…

On whether he’d like to see Tedford move on to the NFL:

It would be a great thing yeah. I think he’s primed. I think that there’s a lot of teams that want to talk to him. I’m sure that you won’t hear much about it but there’s a good chance that there’s four or five teams already talking to him under the table. (crowd laughs) I’m kidding you Jeff.

And from the quarterback guru, coach of the Bears, Jeff Tedford.

On what it means to be playing for a chance to play in the Rose Bowl:

…To know that we’re playing a great football team as USC, USC is playing excellent right now. They’re as good a defensive football team, I think, as there is in the country. No question about it. They’re doing an excellent job but it’s nice to be playing for a conference championship this late in the year…

On whether he gets special tips for preparing or going against Pete Carroll:

No, not at all–I have a great deal of respect for Pete and he does such a great job. They’re always very difficult to prepare for. They’re the most difficult team that we play obviously…

Pete Carroll, Jeff Tedford Talk About Saturday’s Football Game [USCtrojans.com]