Dan Weber, Riverside Press-Enterprise

Pete Carroll started it. The USC coach took the first shot this week, at Oregon’s run-first quarterback, Dennis Dixon, whose big arm and quick feet have inserted him into the middle of the Heisman race as one of college football’s most dangerous offensive threats.  It wasn’t Heisman talk Dixon was meant to hear from Carroll amid all the praise. It was this: “It’s really important, when you play a quarterback that’s running the option, that you hit him,” Carroll said… continue